The Penn State College of Engineering’s Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats.
Content Administrator
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats.
Displayed in Steidle Building Atrium showcase on the first floor.
Undergraduate and graduate students can enter by:
Who: The MatSE Day Contest is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State.
What: To enter the contest, students are to take selfies at their favorite place on campus and post their photo to their public Instagram using the hashtag #MatSEDay.
When: Between April 1 and April 11, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
Where: Penn State University Park campus
Why: To increase excitement for Penn State MatSE Day, bring awareness to the Penn State MatSE Instagram account, and to have a chance a winning a really cool prize!
Other stuff: Students will only be entered into contest once, but they may post as many photos with #matseday as they want to. On a daily basis, students will be logged on a spreadsheet. At 4 p.m. on April 12 at the conclusion of MatSE Appreciation Day a winner will be chosen at random from all entries.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is administering a $46.4 million, four-year research project to develop and test a whole blood product that is storable at room temperature and can be transfused to wounded soldiers in the field within 30 minutes of injury
Alumnus Walter Moorhead, president of Product Evaluation Systems, Inc. (PES), will present the 2023 Richard E. Tressler Lecture at 3:05 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in 111 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus. Moorhead’s lecture is titled “Materials science and engineering — materials lab intern to lab owner.”
Mauricio Terrones, Evan Pugh University Professor and Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, and professor of chemistry and of material science and engineering, has been named the new George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Head of the Department of Physics at Penn State, effective July 1. Terrones succeeds Nitin Samarth, who has served as head of the department since 2011.
From fiber optic cables to smartphones, glass is playing a major role in emerging technology. To learn more about how glass will shape future society, we spoke with Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral candidate at Penn State, who is studying with John Mauro, Penn State’s Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Kirchner is lead author and Mauro corresponding author on a recent review article on the unique properties of glass published in the journal Chemical Reviews.
Additive manufacturing technology, also known as 3D printing, provides the opportunity to create customized medical devices. However, the capabilities to design and print the smart, flexible materials this type of equipment requires remain lacking, according to researchers at Penn State and The University of Texas at Austin.
Penn State held a Town Hall meeting recently to discuss internal strategies around semiconductor technologies and taking on a key role in partnering with other universities and industry centered on the U.S. government’s CHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors) and Science Act, which was signed into law on Aug. 9, 2022.
The David Ford McFarland Award for Achievement in Metallurgy was established in 1948 by the Penn State Chapter of the American Society for Metals (now ASM International) to honor graduates of The Pennsylvania State University who have honorably distinguished themselves in some field of metallurgy. The award was named in honor of Dr. David Ford McFarland—former professor and department head. Read more