Allison M. Beese

Allison Beese received her bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Penn State. She then worked as an engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory before entering graduate school. She earned her masters and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a graduate student, she worked in the Impact and Crashworthiness Lab, where she focused on experimentally measuring and computationally modeling the multiaxial deformation and fracture of advanced high strength steels. As a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Nano and Micromechanics Lab, she performed research on materials ranging from carbon-based fibers and sheets to biological cells using a range of techniques including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based testing methods in situ a transmission electron microscope (TEM).  She joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State in 2013, and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

This faculty member is associated with the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) where a multitude of perspectives and cross-disciplinary collaboration within research is highly valued. Graduate students in the IGDP in MatSE may work with faculty members from across Penn State.