February
2007
Two Mechanical and
Nuclear Engineering faculty have been selected
to receive PSES awards for 2007 - The
awards recognize outstanding contributions, research,
teaching, advising, and service in the College
of Engineering and are sponsered by the Penn State
Engineering Society. The awards will be presented
at the annual Awards Ceremony to be held at Kunkle
Activities Center at 1:30 p.m. on March 30, 2007. Read
full story here. (2/07)
'Flyin Lions' Participate
in NASA Reduced Gravity Flight Opportunities Program -
Penn State's "Flyin Lions" will travel
to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for a week
to fly and conduct experiments in plasma physics
on NASA's C9-B reduced gravity aircraft, otherwise
know as the "Weightless Wonder" aircraft. The
Flyin Lions team is part of the Student Space Programs
Laboratory (SSPL) that supports space-related projects.
The team is made up of seven engineering students
from different diciplines. Read
full story here. (2/07)
Nuclear Studies
Mushroom at Regional Schools - Article
from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, includes
quotes from Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Larry Hochreiter. Article takes
a look at the growth of the nuclear engineering
field. Please visit the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review website
at: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_493073.html
MNE Professor,
Alok Sinha, Authors New Book - Alok Sinha
has authored the textbook "Linear Systems:
Optimal and Robust Control", CRC/Taylor
and Francis Press, 2007. This book serves as textbooks
for two PSU graduate courses: Linear Systems and
Optimal Control (ME 555) and Robust Control (ME/EE
566). The publisher's website for this book is: http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=9217&parent_id=395&pc
Professor
Ken Kuo Elected ASME Fellow - Professor
Ken Kuo, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Director of the High Pressure Combustion
Laboratory has been elected as an ASME Fellow.
Kuo has been recognized for his work with combustion
of solid and liquid propellants for propulsion
systems, and as the Director for the High Pressure
Combustion Laboratory he has created vibrant and
productive laboratory investigating the use of
propellants for applications ranging from rockets
to airbags. Professor Kuo (Ph.D. from Princeton,
1971) has a professional career of 38 years: 4
years at AiResearch Company and 34 years at Pennsylvania
State University. He is an expert in combustion,
rocket propulsion, ballistics, and fluid mechanics. He
has directed more than 75 research projects, edited
eight books and authored one, has won 6 Best Paper
Awards, and delivered an invited Von Karman Lecture.
Professor Kuo has supervised 40 Ph.D., 77 M.S.,
12 Honored Undergraduates, and guided advanced
research for 17 Post Docs." (2/07)
$500,000 gift creates
Everett Professorship in Department of Mechanical
and Nuclear Engineering - James ''Lee''
Everett III, a Penn State mechanical engineering
alumnus and a former director of the Lockheed Martin
Corporation, has designated $500,000 from the Lockheed
Martin Directors Charitable Award Fund to endow
a new professorship in the Department of Mechanical
and Nuclear Engineering. Read
full story here. (2/07)
Asok Ray Selected
to Receive "Most Cited Paper Award for the
journal Signal Processing" - Asok
Ray, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
has been selected to receive the "Most Cited
Paper Award for the journal Signal Processing" for
the article "Symbolic Dynamic Analysis of
Comoplex Systems for Anomaly detection". Paper
selections for this award are based on the highest
number of cities received for all journal articles
published between the years 2004-2006." Read
full story here. (2/07)
The College
of Engineering will be holding "Graduate
Recruitment Weekend" March 2 -
4, 2007, with the College wide kick off activity
on Saturday, March 3 starting at 7:45 a.m. -
9:00 a.m. at The Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom. Read
full story here. (2/07)
