January 2006

Aman Haque Receives NSF Career Award - Aman Haque, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a five-year, $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program. Read full story here. (1/06)

Alumni Making News:

Former Penn State student appearing in Animal Planet’s New Reality Series, Chasing Nature - Leslie Oley, a graduate student at Stanford will be one of four graduate students to appear in Animal Planet’s new reality television series, Chasing Nature. Oley received her Bachelor of Science from Penn State’s mechanical engineering program in 2004. To film the new series, Oley traveled along with four other Stanford engineers, David Lu, Alfonso Pulido, and Mark Bianco, to Royal National Park in Australia.  Read full story here. (1/06)       

Ross T. Thomas Moving Up in the Nuclear Engineering Industry - (NucE - M.S. 72 & Ph.D. 78) has been named the Chief Technical Officer for BWXT Services, Inc. of Lynchburg, VA.  Read full story here. (1/06) 

Cofounder of Learning Factory receives award from The National Academy of Engineering - John S. Lamancusa, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Cofounder of the Learning Factory, along with colleagues, Jens E. Jorgensen, Lueny Morell, Allen L. Soyster, and José Zayas-Castro received the Bernard M. Gordon Prize -- a $500,000 award issued annually that recognizes innovation in engineering and technology education -- "for creating the Learning Factory, where multidisciplinary student teams develop engineering leadership skills by working with industry to solve real-world problems." Read full story here. (1/06)

 

Garry Settles, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory has won the Visualization Society of Japan's SGI Award for Excellent Visualized Image in 2005.

The photo (Left), "Full-Scale Schlieren Visualization of Supersonic Bullet and Muzzle Blast from Firing a .30-06 Rifle," was featured in the Journal of Visualization, Volume 8, as well as in the January-February issue of American Scientist. The image was shot with the assistance of Lori Dreibelbis, manager of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory.

This is the second award Gary has recieved from the the group. The Visualization Society of Japan honored Settles with its Tsuyoshi Asanuma Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Flow Visualization in August 2004. (1/06)