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News

September 2011

  • Penn State awarded $1.2 million from the Department of Energy for offshore wind power. Read>>

August 2009

  • Wastewater produces electricity and desalinates water. Read >>

July 2009

  • Douglas Call and Bruce Logan are the 2009 recipients of the First Place Montgomery-Watson-Harza Consulting Engineers / AEESP Master’s Thesis Award. Read>>
  • Students travel to Europe to observe sustainable energy approaches.
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  • New energy policy geared toward savings and conservation. Read >>
  • Methane eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'. Read >>
  • Tesla electric vehicles to recharge at Penn State during cross country tour. Read >>
  • Three Penn State engineers to receive 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Read >>
  • Sustainable bioenergy project has global launch. Read >>
  • Bahnfleth named a vice president of ASHRAE. Read >>
  • OPP releases water quality report. Read >>

June 2009

  • College names new head of industrial engineering departmen.t Read >>
  • Engineering students complete community projects in Africa. Read >>
  • MNE welcomes two new faculty members. Read >>
  • Electrical engineering professor Suman Datta, was an invited speaker at the First International Symposium on Graphene and Emerging Materials for Post-CMOS Applications. Read >>
  • An embedded microcontroller design project by EE Seniors was recently selected as one of three finalists in the Freescale FTF Design Challenge. Read >>
  • Dr. Ravi Ravindran named the interim head of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Read >>

May 2009

  • Informational report to the University’s Board of Trustees acknowledges Penn State’s response to the challenge of sustainability. Read >>
  • Mid-Atlantic Watershed Atlas launched, the atlas is both a data search engine and collaborative tool for highlighting hydrologic research throughout the Mid- Atlantic. Read >>
  • Architectural engineering professor Michael Horman travelled to Australia to study the project delivery of high performance “green” buildings. Read >>
  • Student team enters Green Energy Challenge. Read >>
  • Environmental engineer Logan wins water award. Read ››
  • Engineers head to Alaska to explore the ''ignore-osphere''. Read ››
  • Electrical engineering professor, Craig Grimes, addressed members of Congress and their staff on the means to use solar energy for conversion of carbon dioxide into chemical fuels. Read >>

April 2009

  • Center to investigate plant cells for better biomass fuels. Read >>
  • Penn State first to join EPA’s Sustainability Partnership Program. Read >>
  • Reducing water footprint can positively impact global water crisi.s Read >>
  • Origins of sulfur in rocks tells early oxygen story. Read >>
  • ‘Natural’ nitrogen-fixing bacteria protect soybeans from aphids. Read >>
  • Penn State Decathlon team ready to make Natural Fusion a reality. Read >>
  • Penn State Builds a Biodiesel Refinery. Read >>
  • Automotive challenge to feature advanced vehicles, solar home. Read >>
  • Anstrom Recognized by Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. Read >>

March 2009

February 2009

  • Architectural engineering seminar to focus on greening the use and reuse of building materials. Read >>
  • ConocoPhillips, Penn State launch 2009 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize. Read >>
  • Wagener named associate editor of hydrological journal Read >>

January 2009

  • Naughton Lecture, Turbulent Inflow to Wind Turbines Read >>

 

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