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FALL/WINTER 2021 Vol 35 No 2 Contents
4 10 The Dean’s Message
4 Building toward the future News & Notes
5 Over $10 million awarded to Penn State for energy center
5 Penn State to lead $30 million university research alliance
6 Trustees approve plans and funds for part of engineering expansion
6 Mechanical engineering breaks ground on innovative undergrad lab
6 New industrial engineering space to invigorate learning
7 Engineering professor named a a a a a fellow of of of the National Academy of of Inventors
7 Researchers receive Hall of Fame award for seminal paper on on smartphone security
7 Engineering department head elected vice president of ASM International
7 Engineering professor named Consortium to to Combat Substance Abuse director
7 Associate director
of global program innovation joins college 8
Engineering professor named Microscopy Society of of America president-elect
8
Newly established director
for international engineering student support named 8
Four faculty named to 2020 ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list
9 In Memoriam: David Geselowitz who contributed to artificial heart development dies
9 In Memoriam: Remembering Gifford Albright first architectural engineering department head 9 In Memoriam: Engineering mourns death of aerospace engineering’s Michael Micci
Celebrating 125 Years
10 We We We Are Because We We We Were 16 The founding
18 The first dean
22 The fire and the future 24 The dawn of discovery 26 The educational legacy 28 The next steps
EDITORS:
Megan Lakatos Ashley WennersHerron
WRITERS:
Christie Black Miranda Buckheit Samantha Chavanic Mariah Chuprinski Erin Cassidy Hendrick Andrew Krebs Jeff Mulhollem Tessa M M Pick Jeff Rice Tim Schley Sarah Small Gabrielle Stewart and Ashley WennersHerron
GRAPHICS & DESIGN:
Kate Myers
VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY:
Chuck Fong Paul Hazi Tyler Henderson Kate Myers
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS:
Andrew Krebs ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS:
President Eric Barron Executive Vice President and Provost Nicholas P Jones Harold
and Inge Marcus Dean of the College of Engineering Justin Schwartz Senior Associate Dean Anthony Atchley Associate Dean for Education Peter Butler Associate Dean for Research George Lesieutre Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion Tonya Peeples Associate Dean for Innovation Chris Rahn Assistant Dean for Academic Support and Global Programs Christine Masters Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation and Accreditation Tom Litzinger
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