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MEssagE FrOM THE INTErIM HEadDear SEDTAPP students, friends, and colleagues:Welcome to the spring 2010 edition of SEDTAPP News!At Penn State, we believe that engineering education shouldprepare students for the competitive, global workplaces of thefuture. In this tough economic climate, it is especially importantfor students to graduate with practical engineering experiencethat will enable them to contribute quickly and in a meaningfulway to the goals of their future employers. To this end, weencourage our students to get involved in engineering projects,starting in their first year and continuing throughout theirundergraduate education. Within SEDTAPP and more broadly,within the College of Engineering, there are many opportunitiesfor students to engage in exciting projects that impact ourworld, including those offered through our Engineering Design,Engineering Leadership Development, and Engineering Entrepreneurship programs.In the Engineering Design Program, first-year students begin their engineeringeducation by immersing themselves in a client-driven project, often sponsored byan industry partner, through the EDSGN 100 Introduction to Engineering Designcourse. At University Park alone, approximately 1,000 first-year students participateeach year in this engineering design challenge, with the best teams from each sectionof the course presenting their design to the sponsor and a panel of external judges.In two honors sections and one non-honors section of the course, students workin collaboration with their peers in Singapore, Spain, and France on internationalindustry projects, which helps them to develop both their technical skills and theirintercultural competence. In their first-year seminars, as well as through a newsummer abroad program, students have the opportunity to learn about and studyengineering in China. Upper-level students in Engineering Leadership Developmentcourses engage in multi-national design challenges in countries as far away asHungary and Morocco. Students in the Engineering and Community Engagementcertificate program are also making a real difference in places like Jamaica, ElSalvador, and Kenya, where applications of their engineering skills are enhancing thelives of local people. Through the Engineering Entrepreneurship program, studentslearn how to channel their talents to create innovative ventures, products, andservices to compete in the global marketplace. A number of enterprising Penn Statestudents have already created several successful companies.Through all these engagements, our students, faculty, and staff—in partnershipwith industry and international partners—are at the heart of curricular innovationin the College of Engineering. We invite you to follow and, more importantly, getinvolved with our efforts to produce world-class engineers who are leaders in designinnovation and entrepreneurship. It is truly our partnerships—and our engagementwith them—that strengthen our programs and enrich all that we do.SEDTAPPwww.sEdTaPP.PsU.EdUThe School of Engineering Design,Technology, and ProfessionalPrograms (SEDTAPP) delivers effectiveengineering education through active,collaborative, project-based, andprofessionally oriented classroomexperiences. SEDTAPP offers a varietyof programs that partner faculty,students, and industry in the study ofreal-life engineering problems. Ourprograms teach students to solvereal-life problems with innovativesolutions. In addition to our first-yearengineering seminars, SEDTAPPoffers three key programs at PennState’s University Park campus: theEngineering Design Program, theEngineering Entrepreneurship Minor,and the Engineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor.Publication andContact InformationadMINIsTraTIVE CONTaCTsSven BilénInterim Head, School of Engineering Design,Technology, and Professional Programs814-865-7580 / sbilen@psu.eduMatthew ParkinsonDirector, Engineering Design Program814-863-9079 / parkinson@psu.eduPhilip BoyerInterim Director, EngineeringEntrepreneurship Program814-863-1550 / pgb10@psu.eduRichard SchuhmannWalter L. Robb Director of EngineeringLeadership Development814-863-9074 / rxs34@psu.eduAndrew LauCoordinator, EngineeringFirst-Year Seminars814-863-9075 / andylau@psu.eduEdITOrKatie Cuppett (kec210@engr.psu.edu)wrITErsKatie Cuppett (kec210@engr.psu.edu)Curtis Chan (cxc273@engr.psu.edu)Victoria Currier (vzc1@psu.edu)Kate Khoury30Sven BilénCONTrIBUTOrsPenn State LivePenn State Outreach MagazineLaYOUT aNd dEsIgNPenn State Multimedia & Print Center54 Awards56 Honors theses and certificate recipients57 Partings58 Promotions and newcomers59 Announcements60 Departures2 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010Penn State is committed to affirmativeaction, equal opportunity, and the diversityof its workforce. This publication is availablein alternative media on request.U.Ed. ENG 10-80 MPC10577461 School directorySPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 3444Engineering Design4 Kenya eco-village6 Reflections on humanitarian engineering7 Anaerobic digester project8 International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering8 Engineering and Community Engagement Certificate9 The China experience11 Nano-Rama12 Center for Research in Design and Innovation13 The Devon Era14 New course on “systems design”15 Engineers explore ‘’ignore-osphere’’16 Engineering design in Singapore18 In the spotlight19 France Industry Tour20 German engineer lecturers on international engineering21 Computer-aided design at Penn State22 Harnessing the sun and the wind25 Engineering Design Certificate Program26 Students travel to Frank Lloyd Wright sites27 Solar Decathlon27 Lau contributes to energy code28 Solar Racers28 Zero Energy Homes29 International programs: Engineering DesignEngineering Entrepreneurship30 Innovating the developing world31 Milking the Rhino32 Penn State takes third at idea-to-product competition33 E-SHIP students continue collectable magnet business34 E-SHIP student launches business in Silicon Valley35 Entrepreneurship competition35 Class pitches business plans to local bank36 Entrepreneurs bring experience to the classroom37 I2V and AI2V workshops held at Penn State38 Gaelen Entrepreneurship Speaker Series40 Live case studies: Rockland Manufacturing41 Faculty, student create iPhone applications42 Alum Spotlight: Jared Mazzant43 International programs: Engineering EntrepreneurshipEngineering Leadership44 Mondialogo: An intercultural dialogue and exchange47 Walter Robb gives $1 million gift to leadership program48 Graduate student spotlight: Dave Vargas49 Undergraduate student spotlight: Caitlin Zankowski50 ELDM sets engineering leadership example for MIT51 International programs: Engineering LeadershipSchool News52 Lau celebrates 25 years at Penn State53 Grants

Engineering DesignEngineeringDesignProgramwww.edp.psu.eduThe Engineering Design Program (EDP)is based on the concept of integratedengineering design: the integration of theideas, disciplines, people, and resourceswithin engineering and beyond that arenecessary to achieve optimal design solutionsfor products, systems, processes, andservices. Strengths of the EDP include designmethods, systems design, design for humanvariability, design cognition (decision making),global design with worldwide partners,innovative design, service engineering, andclient-based design project experiences. TheEDP offers courses for all levels, from anaward-winning first-year design course tograduate-level courses.Engineering design is an essential skill for allengineering disciplines. Design permeatesall aspects of an engineering project byencouraging preplanning, considerationof the parties that the design could affect,environmental impact of a design, and manyother facets. Used properly, engineeringdesign can make an end product that providesa creative, economically engineered solution.Humanitarian Engineering:Students design and build eco-villagefor children in KenyaThere are more than 300,000 “street children” in Kenya, Africa—those whoare either orphaned or those whose parents don’t have the means to carefor them. Some of these children are fortunate enough to find their way tothe Children and Youth Empowerment Centre (CYEC), an orphanage locatednear Nyeri, Kenya, which provides a safe haven, food, and shelter for them.Unfortunately, 95 percent of these young people end up back on the streets—nearly always without possessing any marketable skills that would give thema chance at a better life.instead of going back onto thestreets with little hope of that betterlife, there could be another option:one where the children could live ina sustainable environment—an ecovillage—andlearn essential skillssuch as growing their own foodand mastering technologies thatwould assist them in starting theirown businesses. Upon exiting theorphanage, the children wouldnot only be able to use these skillsto sustain the eco-village,but they would givethem a competitiveadvantage in themarketplace in orderto gain employment.Photos:Miranda HitchcckStudents in one section of EDSGN452 Projects in CommunityService Engineering under thedirection of Assistant Professor ofEngineering Design Thomas Colledge,are working to build such a place—aneco-village that provides shelter,education, and skill training for thestreet-dwelling children of Kenya.In spring 2009, 31 students in the classdesigned nine separate, appropriatetechnologies and then integratedthese technologies into a larger systemconstituting the eco-village. These subsystemsincluded enhanced agriculturalproduction, biodiesel production,alternative energy, appropriate housing,wastewater treatment, water sourcingand treatment, a merry-go-round pumpsystem, master planning of the villageitself, and educational components foreach of the subsystems. Together, thesesubsystems worked with and off ofone another to create an infrastructuresystem while providing learning anddevelopment opportunities for theCYEC residents. These types of projectsfall under a broader array of effortstitled “Essential Design.” EssentialDesign is one of the thrusts of theHumanitarian Engineering and SocialEntrepreneurship initiative (see www.engr.psu.edu/hese).While designing the eco-village,cultural issues were also taken intoconsideration. The students in thecourse were required to take a onecredit,concurrent seminar with theMashavu and WishVast project teams(see page 30 for story) to ground themin the basics of humanitarian design,user-centered design for extremeaffordability, social entrepreneurship,systems thinking, travel and fieldwork,and related issues for technologybasedsocial ventures in developingcommunities.During the summer of 2009, 15 of thestudents from the spring offering ofthe course traveled to Kenya for threeweeks to implement their projectsand test the viability of the designs aswell as the cultural acceptance of thetechnologies. The teams constructedtheir various subsystems at the CYEC.The Penn State teams worked inpartnership with the CYEC and theJomo Kenyatta University of Agricultureand Technology.Many of the teams found success in theimplementation of their projects. Theagriculture team constructed a hightunnelgreenhouse with a drip-irrigationsystem for growing vegetables, whichhas proven to be especially useful inthe off-season. The water pump teamsuccessfully installed a pumping system.The pump, which has a merry-go-roundon top and is connected to a treadlepump underneath, allows childrento play on the merry-go-round whilepumping water for agriculture, drinkingwater, showers, and cooking.Other successful projects included thewater project, which culminated inthe construction of a water catchmentsystem and associated filtration device;the alternative energy project, whichresulted in a bicycle that generateselectricity to charge cell phones andother small devices; and the biodieselproduction system, which utilizes canolaseed as a feedstock to produce biodieselas a fuel.Some projects proved to be a bit tooambitious given the time and resourceconstraints but were modified toaccommodate the need. For example,the housing team had anticipatedconstructing a house from rammedearth in the three-week period; insteadthey built a rammed earth structureused as a latrine.“It was OK to fail,” said MeghanHoover, a senior from the College ofAgricultural Sciences and a Community,Environment, and Development major.“The housing team got there and therewasn’t the time and manpower tocomplete the project, but they still cameout with something really productive atthe end.”“We can come up with really greatdesigns here, but the question waswhether we were going to be able toimplement them in Kenya,” addedmechanical engineering graduatestudent Tara Sulewski. “Some projectswere good, and some projects weren’tas successful, but it was a great learningexperience and [opportunity] to workinternationally, actually implementingour design solutions to make the lives ofothers better.”Over the next year, the students,instructors, and partners plan to scaleup the efforts and continue this ongoingproject, finding more grant money andmodifying the classes to accommodatenew technologies. Hoover and Sulewskigave an estimate of about five to sevenyears before the village would reach itsfull potential. Once it is established,it may be used as a model that can bereplicated throughout Africa.For more information about the ecovillageproject, visit the HumanitarianEngineering and Social Entrepreneurshipwebsite online at www.engr.psu.edu/hese and the Children and YouthEmpowerment Centre online at www.cyec.net.4 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 5

Engineering DesignMy perspective:Reflections on HumanitarianEngineering and SocialEntrepreneurshipBy Thomas Colledge, P.E.Many engineering students of this generation seekopportunities to apply their academic training andengage the world by “doing”—not merely studyingin a classroom, attending seminars, or even simply traveling towitness conditions in other countries. They seek to apply theiracademic training to make a difference.According to the recent College Board and Art & ScienceGroup Student Poll survey, most students recognize that theiruniversity education can—and should—prepare them to makea difference in the world. Eighty-three percent of universitystudents felt that a college education should “prepare themfor a career or profession.” But nearly as many students feltthat a college education should also enable them to a) acquirevalues, habits, and skills that prepare them for many differentopportunities (70 percent), and b) be exposed to new ideas,knowledge, and intellectual challenges (74 percent). However,few engineering students recognize the enormous challengesand responsibilities they will inherit, given that nearly halfof the world currently earns less than $2 per day— and thatin 30 years that estimate jumps to two-thirds of the world’spopulation. Most also do not recognize the tremendous needaround the world for sustainable infrastructure development(energy, water, wastewater, housing, agriculture) and jobcreation through innovative product design—and thepolitical, social, and economic ramifications of such. Theseresults bring into contrast the twin goals of higher education:a training ground to prepare students to enter a competitiveworkforce, and a place and time and freedom to exploreoneself and the world of ideas.From a professional development standpoint, the NationalAcademy of Engineering suggests that engineering educationshould emphasize the development of students as emergingprofessionals and educated citizens, “equally at home withsocietal concerns as they are with technical issues.” Suchan approach is also reflected in the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET)’s Engineering CriteriaOutcomes as well as Penn State’s World-Class Engineercriteria. Thus, it is suggested that students be immersedin engineering design and practice, incorporating societal,economic, and cultural concerns in the design process,as early and as pervasively as possible. The major tool forimplementing this educational vision is the curriculum.The question becomes how to incorporate new, effectivepedagogical models into an already crowded curriculum inorder to achieve these educational goals.One opportunity for students who seek rigorous, technicaltraining while concurrently broadening their education toinclude cultural, political, and economic concepts relevant toengineering design is through participation in HumanitarianEngineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) projectsand efforts.Humanitarian engineering may be defined as “designunder constraints to directly improve the well-being ofunderserved—or marginalized—communities.” What ismost distinctive about this type of engineering is its targetedaudiences. Humanitarian engineering places strong emphasison the cultural and economic contexts of engineeringsolutions that impact the poor, the marginalized, thedisenfranchised, and those who lack the means to addresspressing problems. As such, training for one who participatesin Humanitarian engineering seeks to emphasize history,politics, economics, sociology, and language as well as rigorousengineering basics and entrepreneurship. Humanitarianengineering addresses many of the needs expressed by theNational Academy of Engineering, ABET, Penn State’s World-Class Engineer, and industry.Social entrepreneurs pioneer innovative and systemicapproaches for meeting the needs of the marginalized, thedisadvantaged, and the disenfranchised—populations that lackthe financial means or political clout to achieve lasting benefiton their own. Distinct from a business entrepreneur who seesvalue in the creation of new markets, the social entrepreneuraims for value in the form of transformational change that willbenefit disadvantaged communities and ultimately society atlarge.HESE at Penn State allows students opportunities to make adifference in the lives of others while concurrently preparingthemselves to be better engineers. HESE provides studentsopportunities to engage and assess communities; defineproblems; and design, construct, and implement sustainablesolutions—all while collaborating with their host partner(s).A well-designed initiative in HESE permits a culturally basedapproach to design followed by the actual implementation ofdesign solutions.The enthusiasm and drive of engineering students toparticipate in HESE projects has resulted not only in abetter trained engineering student, but also has improvedlives of people in numerous communities around the world.Participation in such projects, including associated travel,has been consistent over the past eleven years with hundredsStudents wrap up anaerobic digester project in JamaicaIn 2004, Assistant Professor of Engineering Design ThomasColledge received a grant from the U.S. Department ofAgriculture to embark on a five-year project to reduce energycosts for poultry farmers in Jamaica. Poultry farming is an importantbusiness in Jamaica, but it requires a lot of energy to keep poultrycoops cool on hot days, and electricity is expensive.In order to tackle this problem, Colledge teamed up with theUniversity of Technology in Kingston, Jamaica, to design and buildanaerobic digesters to break down poultry manure and convert itinto methane, which the farmers use to power air conditioners andfans for the coops.During the course of the project, more than 50 Penn State andUniversity of Technology students traveled to each other’s countryto work on the project. The results of the five-year collaborativedesign project were the construction of benchtop-scale andpilot-scale anaerobic digestion systems at both universities.of students traveling to project sites located in El Salvador,Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Belize, andEcuador. It is the application of academic training andthe development of leadership and project managementskills on such projects—along with the benefit to thehost communities—that motivates and energizes studentparticipation. Whether it is designing and building a bridgefor double amputees in El Salvador, providing a water sourcefor agricultural production in Kenya, or developing a businessusing cell phones to monitor the health of people in Tanzaniawho have never seen a doctor, it all makes one proud toproclaim, “We are PENN STATE!”For more information about HESE, please visit www.engr.psu.edu/hese or contact Thomas Colledge at thc100@psu.edu.These prototypes were then used to determine the optimalperformance of a digester using poultry manure as a feedstock toproduce methane, which was fuel for an engine generator for theproduction of thermal and electrical energy.The project, which concluded in November 2009, resulted innumerous published articles and awards and, most importantly,has resulted in the construction of a full-scale system operating ata farm in Jamaica. The system utilizes the energy produced by afive-kilowatt diesel generator to lower operating costs for the farmowner, thus making the farm more competitive—all while reducingpollutant loading on nearby water bodies.For more information about the conclusions of this project andfor details about current Humanitarian Engineering and SocialEntrepreneurship projects, contact Thomas Colledge at thc100@psu.edu.6 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 7

Engineering DesignUpdate: InternationalJournal for ServiceLearning in EngineeringThe International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering(IJSLE) seeks to nurture service learning in engineeringas a distinct body of knowledge. A primary purpose of thejournal is to foster inquiry into rigorous engineering designand research and to direct those efforts to service-relatedprojects. The examination of cultural appropriateness and itsinclusion in design and research efforts is emphasized alongwith the application of appropriate technologies. Focus isalso placed on associated service learning pedagogy and thedissemination of project results.The International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering(IJSLE) has updated its name to reflect better its missionand focus. Journal Editor-in-Chief Thomas Colledgeexplained that the title International Journal for ServiceLearning in Engineering: Humanitarian Engineering andSocial Entrepreneurship provides more clarity about thejournal’s focus on three broad areas: service learning,humanitarian engineering, and social entrepreneurship. In allcorrespondence, the IJSLE title will be maintained, but thetrailer will be used in the title in the future.The journal’s Web site—www.ijsle.org—has been updated andenhanced using Open Journal Systems (OJS) to make it easierfor authors to submit and track the status of the review of theirmanuscripts. OJS is a journal management and publishingsystem that has been developed by the Public KnowledgeProject to expand and improve access to research.Engineering and CommunityEngagement CertificateProgramEfforts have recently been undertaken to broaden the poolof subscribers and authors to the journal, expanding themission to include not only student projects and facultymentorship of such projects, but also of practicing engineerswho engage in similar work as well as social entrepreneurswho deal with appropriate technologies and processes.Collaboration in marketing the journal is on-going withthe following organizations in support: American Society ofMechanical Engineers , Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers, Engineers Without Borders, EngineeringProjects in Community Service, Engineering World Health,Environmental Protection Agency’s P3 program, NationalCollegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, Jimmy andRosalynn Carter Foundation, and UNESCO’s Mondialogoprogram.The Engineering and Community Engagement CertificateProgram at Penn State provides the academic home forstudents who desire to gain skills and experience in leadingdesign/build teams to help solve problems of marginalizedcommunities. The certificate program serves to providestudents with the academic framework to incorporatecoursework into their degrees, which not only countstoward their degrees, but concurrently broadens theirexperience with communities and assessment of thosecommunities, resulting in the design, construction, andimplementation of appropriate solutions. The certificateprogram emphasizes academic preparation in communityengagement and cultural background along with a focuson appropriate technologies, project management, andeconomic sustainability, culminating in the host countrydesign/build project.For more information, please contact Thomas Colledge atthc100@psu.edu or visit www.engr.psu.edu/hese.The China experienceStudents participate in new study abroad programDuring the first summer session of 2009, the Collegeof Engineering and Penn State Education Abroadlaunched a new, three-week summer abroad programin China. Students of all disciplines had the opportunity totake ENGR 197A Impact of History, Culture, Society, andEnvironment on Engineering Design in China. The threecreditcourse, taught by Instructor in Engineering DesignXinli Wu, fulfilled requirements in social and behavioralsciences and international cultures for engineering studentsand counted toward general education credits for students inother majors.From May 18 through June 5, fourteen students traveled tomajor engineering project sites in Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai,Hangzhou, Huangshan, and other locations.The course was designed to help students understand someof the current challenges of globalization and the impactof cultural issues on design and technology. As China hasbecome one of the major players in engineering, science, andtechnology, many U.S. and foreign industries have made hugeinvestments and business affiliations in China. The status andactions of the Chinese economy have a major impact on theeconomies of other countries.With this in mind, the course sought to expose students tothese various issues and global dynamics. Additionally, manyemployers value and recruit students who have internationalPhoto: Xinli Wuexperiences and have some understanding of internationalcultures—especially, and increasingly, Chinese culture. Thecourse enabled students to learn Chinese history and culture incontext.“While in Beijing, I learned that textbooks, classes, and moviescan teach you a lot about a different culture or landmark halfway around the world, but going to see it in person can teachyou things that are impossible to learn through a textbook orin class,” said mechanical engineering sophomore Greg Brulo,who participated in the course.The course will once again be offered during the first summersession of 2010. While in China, students will visit majorengineering projects such as the Forbidden City, the GreatWall, the Olympic Village (including the Bird’s Nest stadium),the Three Gorges Dam, the Terra Cotta Warriors, the longestbay bridge in the world, and other sites in China.Students will also visit the cities of Chongqing, Xian,Shanghai, Hangzhou, Dalian, and Huangsha as well as theGeneral Electric (GE) Shanghai facility, which is the largestGE complex in the world. They will learn how GE conductsbusiness in China and the adjustments to Chinese culture thatAmerican companies need to make.For more information about the course, visit www.engr.psu.edu/xinli/ENGR197 or e-mail Xinli Wu at Xinli@psu.edu.8 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 9

Engineering DesignWhat the students have to say…Our tour guide in Beijing was Dunkin. Dunkin was his Americanname, which was easy to remember because of Dunkin’ Donuts.When we were in Tiananmen Square he told us, “This squarecan hold one million people—one million Chinese people! NowAmericans are much bigger, so maybe 750,000 Americans.” He madeus all laugh.—Greg Brulo, sophomore, Mechanical EngineeringAs a business student, I really cherished this great opportunity to goto China, my home country, to learn the impact of history, culture,society, and environment on engineering design in China. It was abrand-new topic for me as a finance major. Throughout this course,I gained knowledge on engineering design in China, realized theadvancement of engineering design on people’s daily lives, andclearly saw the development of Chinese economy.—Wanlinyi He, sophomore, Business AdministrationI was able to experience ancient and modern engineering first hand.While touring the country, we were able learn how Chinese history,culture, society, and environment played a role in engineering designboth in the past and today.—William Finney, sophomore, Civil EngineeringSponsor ENGR 197If you or your company is looking for a way to help educate students on theimpact of globalization, please contact Xinli Wu at Xinli@psu.edu for moreinformation about sponsoring this course. Your sponsorship will greatlybenefit both our students and your company!The ENGR 197 class joined other Penn Statestudents doing internships in China for a hikeup the Great Wall.Photos: Xinli WuThe Chinese truly take pride in their work. If something needs to bedone, you can be certain that it will be completed swiftly. Whether it’sthe Three Gorges Dam or an entire city preparing for an expo, therewill be thousands of people working on it. This is why companiessuch as Boeing, Armstrong, and GE are able to thrive in China. Withmany people willing to work and the economic rise of China, globalopportunities are now being given to many companies.—Cesar Moreno, sophomore, EngineeringSince my return from China, I have faced many questions aboutthe trip, including, “So what did you learn while in China?” It is byfar the most difficult question to answer and is, of course, the mostfrequently asked. I was able to experience and learn so much whilein China that, when asked…I like to respond with, “Which day?”Each day of the class was so full of information and splendor thatthe question is a legitimate and necessary part of fully answering aperson’s inquiry.—Will Land, junior, Mechanical EngineeringFor some time, my plans have been to go into the corporateleadership realm of the commercial aviation industry. Never,however, did I imagine that I wanted to concentrate on theinternational realm of business—that was until my travels outside ofthe United States, specifically China, refocused my life plans.—Stephen Dobosh, senior, MeteorologyNANO-RAMAThrough training and education,Penn State aims to steernanotechnology research anddevelopment toward world changefor the betterA cancer patient is injected with a microscopic vehicle thatsafely delivers a potent drug directly to cancer cells. A footballplayer pulls on his lucky pair of socks, unwashed for tenstraight games, yet surprisingly odor-free. A college studenteats a week-old portion of leftover sushi and does not getsick.All of these scenarios may soon become a reality asnanotechnology—basically, the science of building objects atthe nanometer scale, or 100,000 times thinner than a humanhair—becomes an increasingly popular field.“Nanotechnology is expected to play a key role in the nextindustrial revolution,” said Stephen Fonash, director of thenew Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge(NACK) Center at Penn State. NACK, funded in September2008 with a grant from the National Science Foundation(NSF), supports the development of two-year nanotechdegree programs across the country, offers professionaldevelopment programs for secondary teachers to becomenano-literate, and develops and delivers worker educationprograms.In Pennsylvania, more than 500 students from partnercommunity and technical colleges have completednanotechnology programs at Penn State, and nearly allof them have found nanotechnology jobs in more thanninety firms, ranging from pharmaceutical to photovoltaicscompanies.“Not only students but also industry personnel must have abetter understanding of nanotechnology and its far-reachingimplications if they hope to take advantage of the competitiveopportunities becoming available,” added Fonash.The nanometer scale is100,000 times thinner than ahuman hair.To Market, To MarketIt’s the ethical implications of nanotechnology that ledPenn State faculty Richard Doyle (English), Mark Horn(Engineering Science and Mechanics), and RichardDevon (Engineering Design) to develop and deliver anNSF-sponsored undergraduate course in which studentsexplore how nanotechnology is researched, designed, andcommercialized. Students in the class work in teams andcollaborate with nanotech researchers to create scenarios fordesign commercialization and social impact.Although nanotechnology is radically transforming our livesin wonderful ways, some health and safety analysts worryabout how nanoparticles will behave in our bodies and in theenvironment.“We need to think systemically about how these technologieswill alter our lives,” said Doyle.In fall 2009, Doyle, Horn, and Devon hosted what they referto as a “town hall on nano” with students who took the classin spring 2009, plus interested researchers and members ofthe community, to discuss nano research and how it mightaffect people and the environment.“It is important that not only students learn about thesetechnologies, but also that researchers and policy-makerslearn from the collective deliberations of students focusingtheir attention on this burgeoning field,” said Doyle. Thestudents’ scenarios will be shared with researchers in ongoingWikibooks on nanotechnology.—Penn State Outreach Magazine, Fall 2009Visit www.outreach.psu.edu/news/magazine/CurrentIssue to seethe entire issue!10 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 11

Engineering DesignEngineering Design Program launches newCenter for Research in Design and InnovationThe Devon Era: A shift in design leadershipThe School of Engineering Design, These faculty and other faculty hires have transformed theTechnology, and Professionaldepartment from a good department of general engineering intoThe Engineering Design Program is pleased to announce on artistry, craft, and craftsmanship; designing productPrograms would like to thanka nationally competitive home for engineering design faculty,offering full-time tenured positions in engineering design. Thesethe launch of the new Center for Research in Design andfamilies; designing for human variability;Richard Devon for his enormousnew hires are now teaching graduate courses in engineeringInnovation. The center will focus on research in multidisciplinarydesign and innovation, involving faculty from systems optimizationDesign Program and to SEDTAPP.digital fabrication;contributions to the Engineeringdesign, have established a research center in design, and areconsidering a master’s degree in engineering design to beEngineering, Arts and Architecture, Liberal Arts, and theSmeal College of Business. Assistant Professor and Director ofusing evolutionaryalgorithms; and crossdisciplinaryestablished in the near future. There are currently more than adozen faculty—tenure track and fixed term—teaching engineeringcreativity:design courses in the program.the Engineering Design Program Matthew Parkinson is theRichard Devonfounding director of the center.smart products forAs Assistant Professor of Engineeringtomorrow.Design and Mechanical Engineering Matthew Parkinson assumes In 2003, Devon was named and became the first director of theMost disciplines practice some form of design, but in orderthe directorship of the Engineering Design Program, and asnewly established Engineering Design Program. At his initiative,to create truly effective solutions, people must be trainedin its practice. This training involves the mastering ofIn 2008 and 2009,the center organizedProfessor of Engineering Design and former Director RichardDevon steps down from the position, the program ushers in aseveral faculty in other departments also became affiliated with theprogram.technical knowledge and skills in the context of human and a National Sciencenew era. Through the years, Devon led the Engineering DesignSince its creation, Devon has been instrumental in the program’ssocietal issues as well as an in-depth exposure to different Foundation-sponsoredProgram through a lengthy developmental period and into angrowth and development. Several upper-division engineeringcommunities of practice and the concepts, techniques, and workshop series on interdisciplinary design and instructionalinstitutionalized program with a bright future.design courses have been formed by Devon and other designtools each uses to understand phenomena and to create discipline. The objective was to capture, codify, share, andfaculty, which have allowed for the creation of the Certificate inFrOM Eg 50 TO EdsgN 100solutions.propagate instructional experiences and philosophies onEngineering Design, of which Devon is the coordinator, in 2008. Heinterdisciplinary graduate design education across the nation.In the 1980s, John Brighton, who was dean of engineering at the also established the Engineering Design Program as the home forThe Center for Research in Design and Innovation bringstime, encouraged the use of design projects in a course titled EGThe outcomes are a documented characterization of designhonors theses in engineering design.together diverse faculty and leverages, integrates, and expands50 Engineering Graphics. The goals of the course were to helpas a discipline that can be taught, along with curriculara wide range of ongoing interdisciplinary design researchmotivate the students and teach the fundamentals of engineering. Devon established several partnerships with other programstemplates that can be adapted for local use by institutionsat Penn State. Some of the specific areas of scholarship are:and universities, including summer abroad short design coursesnationally. The long-term outcome will be the training ofIn the early 1990s, the College of Engineering received fundinginnovation in design, design decision making, automatedfor honors sections of EDSGN 100 in Singapore and Spain anddesign instructors who approach design—both research andfrom the National Science Foundation (NSF) to form thea non-honors program in France. All are at elite universities. Heconcept generation, design for human variability, designteaching—as a discipline.Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Engineering pioneered the use of virtual teaming since 1998 and does it in allorganization, product family design, systems design,Education and Leadership (ECSEL). ECSEL, which continued for his EDSGN 100 classes and his 400-level global design classes—visualization, and remote design collaboration.The center organizes a speaker series and sponsors Americanten years, promoted the use of design throughout the engineering with seven different countries so far. He has also created aSociety of Mechanical Engineers Design Engineeringcurriculum, and design projects became an integral part of EGThese areas of research are integrated by two themes: humanpartnership with the School of Theatre for the production of specialTechnical Conferences. It also hosts the annual Iron Lion50, which was soon renamed ED&G 100 Engineering Design andcontexts and design technologies and tools. Human contextseffects.Design Challenge, a week-long design competition heldGraphics. The initial design projects in the late 1980s and earlyinclude cognitive science and social science bearing on designduring the summer that requires participants to design and1990s were mostly centered on performance in competitive games Devon’s other initiatives include actively piloting several projectswork. Design tools include design languages, design methods,build a working prototype by the end of the event.and were motivational in nature.for EDSGN 100, often with companies overseas. He was the U.S. PIand computer-aided design technologies.and principal author of PRESTIGE, a Fund for the Improvement ofFor more information about the Center for Research in DesignDevon recognized the need for a genuine engineering designPostsecondary Education-funded international consortium of sevenSeveral upper-level undergraduate courses and graduateand Innovation, visit www.design.psu.edu or contact directorexperience and petitioned for real design projects and a formal universities in the U.S. and Europe from 2003-07 that sent almostcourses are offered through the center, including coursesMatthew Parkinson at parkinson@psu.edu.design curriculum. This was the beginning of a new era—the100 students on global programs, and hundreds more particpatedtransformation of a single course into the Engineering Designin virtual cross-national teams.Program.Devon is a 2003 recipient of the ACE/AT&T Award: TechnologyBill Dowell, director of research at seating and furniture company Herman Miller,THE dEVON Eraas a Tool for Internationalization and was part of an eight-personInc., visited Penn State in November 2009 to lead a presentation on the design andBy 1997, Devon began using the first edition of Ulrich & Eppinger’s winning team for the national Boeing Engineering Educator'sdevelopment process at Herman Miller, research into the “Arts of Daily Living,” andProduct Design and Development (now in its fourth edition) as the Award for Industry Driven Design in 1998.the office of the future. In his position, Dowell leads a multifaceted research team thatcore material for the methods of engineering design used in ED&Gexamines and evaluates Herman Miller products as they are developed, conducts marketMost recently, Devon, along with professors Mark Horn100 (now called EDSGN 100). This approach gradually spreadand business analysis, and explores future trends. He led the research effort for Herman(Engineering Science and Mechanics) and Richard Doyle (Englishamongst the other faculty.Miller's Aeron chair by examining the components of subjective comfort and methods forand Science, Technology, and Society), received NSF funding for apressure mapping. Recent work has included studies of seating behaviors, anthropometry,That same year, Devon assumed the chair of the faculty search course on the design of nanotechnology. He will also be pursuingtrends in facility management, and the future of technology in the workplace. The Centercommittee, rewriting the job description to emphasize a search for the development of Google Apps as the computing platform for hisfor Research in Design and Innovation sponsored the event, and Assistant Professorexcellence in national searches and a focus on engineering design. course as a Teaching and Learning for Technology Faculty FellowMatthew Parkinson coordinated the event.The resulting hires were Sven Bilén in 1999, Gül Kremer andfor Penn State Information Technology Services in spring andMadara Ogot in 2001, Matthew Parkinson in 2005, and Cari Bryant summer 2010.12 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010Arnold in 2007.SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 13

Engineering DesignGraduate course exposes students to systems designThe Engineering Design Program once again offered itsinterdisciplinary graduate course, EDSGN 597C SystemsDesign during the spring 2009 semester.Systems design is an engineering field that encompasses aset of processes for defining and developing a system thatsatisfies requirements specified by a user. Just as the fieldof systems design draws on many disciplines to developcomplex systems, the Systems Design course brings togetherstudents from various engineering and technical backgroundsand gives them an overview of systems engineering design,methodology, management, tools, integration, and operationfor both large-scale and small-scale systems. The curriculumfocuses on the integration of various fields and the refinementof systems engineering skills needed to design systemssuccessfully. The course aims to prepare students for careersat systems-focused companies and agencies such as LockheedMartin, Boeing, BAE Systems, General Electric, NorthropGrumman, Raytheon, and NASA.“The ability to design complex systems is a critical one fortoday’s engineers to possess,” said Sven Bilén, associateprofessor of engineering design, electrical engineering, andaerospace engineering and the developer of the course. “Itis also important that they become systems thinkers, sincea systems perspective will be necessary to solve the complexchallenges facing us in the 21st century.”The Systems Design course covers such varied systemsengineering topics as requirements analysis, benchmarking,systems architecture, systems testing, and the connectionbetween verification and validation. To reinforce theseacademic concepts, the students also work on a real systemsdesign project. During the spring 2009 semester, the courseproject was Mashavu, a telemedicine system designed forThe importance of systems designuse in the developing world (see pages 30-31). Mashavu isa complex venture that has diverse users and stakeholders,hardware and software sub-systems, and numerous potentialapplication scenarios. It operates both alongside and withina number of larger systems that form the context for theventure.“The Systems Design class worked on the Mashavu systemfrom a systems perspective and developed comprehensivedocumentation to enable the organic growth of Mashavu andfacilitate the design of the system over multiple iterations,”said Khanjan Mehta, Mashavu leader, research associate, andaffiliate faculty in SEDTAPP.In addition to working on the Mashavu system, Bilénillustrated the concept of “practicing what you preach,”spending three weeks launching rockets—great examples ofcomplex systems in and of themselves—in Alaska (see storyon opposite page) during the spring 2009 semester. Duringthat time, he taught the Systems Design course remotely viaAdobe Connect, a Web-based video conferencing programthat is used frequently at Penn State to connect its employeesand collaborators across long distances. Although severalstudents in the class commented that they got a little tasteof the future of education, Bilén observed that, “curiouslyenough, the students all wanted my camera turned on so theycould see me, but none of them wanted to turn on theirs!”Although the course is currently offered every other year, withits next offering planned for spring 2011, student demand issuch that SEDTAPP plans to offer it on a yearly basis in thenear future.For more information about the EDSGN 597C Systems Designcourse, or to learn about project sponsorship opportunities, pleasecontact Sven Bilén at sbilen@psu.edu.“[The course] introduced us to concepts and principles that are critical to breaking down complex engineering problems into smaller,surmountable pieces. As a course dealing with real-world, big-picture engineering, the Systems Design class has proven to be especiallyrelevant to my early industry experiences.”—Erik Davidson, master’s student, Electrical Engineering“The mix of classroom academics with practical experiences added a valuable new dimension to the learning process. Having spent a longcareer in industry, I can attest to the value of learning systems design.”—Robert Capuro, a Penn State electrical engineering graduate with 43 years of systems engineering and systems design experience atHoneywell Aerospace and Defense. Capuro served as co-instructor, lecturer, and mentor for the spring 2009 Systems Design course.“The Systems Design course has given me significant insight into what it actually takes to produce a fully functioning system or product.The course showed me that, in order to be successful, one must have a firm understanding of the complete life cycle of the system as wellas how each element of the system, down to the smallest component, interacts with all the others.”—Tom Tyson, master’s student, Electrical EngineeringTop, right: Blastoff! Photo credit: NASAAbove, top: The rockets traveled eighty-sevenmiles into the aurora-lit sky. Photo credit: CraigHeinselmanAbove, middle: Associate Professor Sven Bilén andthe rocket (encapsulated in Styrofoam) try to keepwarm in the minus-twenty degree weather. Photocredit: Jack MitchellAbove, bottom: Thirty-five-foot, two-stage TerriorOrion rockets were used to collect informationabout the Turbopause. Photo credit: Sven BilénEngineers head to Alaska toexplore the ‘’ignore-osphere’’Sven Bilén, associate professorof engineering design, electricalengineering, and aerospaceengineering, and Jack Mitchell,professor of electrical engineering,spent three weeks in Fairbanks, AK,preparing and launching NASA rocketsinto the upper atmosphere.The purpose of the experiment wasto collect information about theTurbopause, the layer of atmospherethat exists at an altitude of about100 kilometers—an area too high forballoons and too low for satellites tomeasure.“The region between 50 and 250kilometers altitude is sometimesreferred to as the “ignore-osphere”because it is very difficult to makemeasurements there,” said Bilén. “Byunderstanding what happens in thatregion, we get a better understandingof how the Earth couples to the Sun.”“All the models on global warmingmake certain assumptions of what thatcoupling process is. Getting better datais important—you’d like to have moreaccurate numbers so you don’t makewild assumptions.”In order to collect the data, Bilén,Mitchell, and scientists from all overthe country traveled to the Poker FlatResearch Range, which is located 30miles north of Fairbanks, early in thespring 2009 semester. During thecourse of their stay, they assembled,tested, and launched four rockets—35-foot, two-stage Terrior Orions—thattraveled eighty-seven miles into the sky.All four rockets were equipped with amechanism that released a fluorescinggas into the atmosphere to measurehigh-altitude winds. Two rocketswere equipped with an instrument,designed by the Leibniz-Institute forAtmospheric Physics, that containeda filament that was used to ionizegases in the atmosphere, allowing theneutral gases to be measured on grids.In addition, a highly sensitive nose-tipprobe sensor element had the ability tomeasure electric current in picoamps—the equivalent of 1-¹² amps. (Forcomparison, the amount of electriccurrent in a standard light bulb is oneamp.) Charlie Croskey, professoremeritus of electrical engineering,designed and built the instrument.The rockets were launched in a series toobserve trending. The first three rocketswere launched within 30 minutes ofeach other, and the last rocket waslaunched within 50 minutes after thethird rocket.Gerald Lehmacher of ClemsonUniversity, who is the principalinvestigator for the experiment, notedthat the “instruments worked well.”The “Turbopause team” is now in theanalysis phase and will be interpretingdata and writing journal articles overthe next year. Bilén made a goodexample of his rocket-launchingexperience with his spring 2009graduate systems design class (seeopposite page).—Katie Cuppett14 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 15

Engineering DesignAbove: Singapore at night. Photo by Nick Bugos; Right: Penn State and National University of Singaporestudents participated in an engineering design summer course in Singapore. Photo by Li SiweiHonors students learnengineering design in SingaporeIn May 2008, the National University of Singapore (NUS)Department of Mechanical Engineering launched anengineering design summer abroad program.Eight Penn State students and ten NUS students collaboratedduring the two-week program, attending interactiveclassroom sessions, working on a group project, andvisiting companies to learn about product development andregulation.Penn State students earned three credits for taking the 46-hour “Global Product Design and Development” course atNUS. The course was unique in its creation of cross-nationaldesign teams. It included units on design and culture andon industrial design, neither of which are taught at PennState and so provided a useful complement to designcourses at Penn State. The course served as a sequel to thespring offering of EDSGN 100H Honors Introduction toEngineering Design.“The main focus [of the course] was on the importance ofpreliminary engineering design,” said David Whapham, aPenn State junior who participated in the program. “I hadtaken a course like this my freshman year, but what I foundwas that I had actually overlooked a lot of these fundamentalengineering principles as I had progressed through myengineering studies.”“The biggest lesson I learned is that, as engineers, wealways take a problem and start on a solution withoutreally performing a thorough analysis of the problemitself. The professors did a great job of slowing down theproblem-solving process to help us fine tune our strategiesfor determining not just a solution, but the best possiblesolutions.”Many students also expressed the importance of experiencinga different style of learning and teaching as well as workingwith students from a different cultural background.Above, top:Studentsshop at an open-airmarket place outside ofBankok.Above, bottom: NickBugos poses for a photowith a monk at a templein Kanchanaburi.Below, right: Wendy Yuposes with a lemur at theSingapore zoo.Photos by Nick BugosBelow: Phuket BeachPhoto by David WhaphamIn addition to the academic courseworkand cultural experience in the classroom,the program afforded students the uniqueopportunity to visit and explore SoutheastAsia, exposing them to other Asian culturesand broadening their world view. Five of thestudents traveled to Phuket, Thailand, for aweek and to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a daytrip where some of them visited an NUS teammate’s home.“I tried not to say no to any opportunity to trya new experience or explore a new aspect of theculture—except for the occasional night whereI found myself having to choose working onCAD projects over going out,” said Whapham.During their international excursions, thestudents explored islands, went snorkeling, ateexotic cuisine, watched a Muay Thai boxingmatch, relaxed on the beach, went Bungeejumping, and scoped out the night life—all at areasonable price.“Visiting Thailand and Malaysia was amazinglyand surprisingly inexpensive,” said first-yearstudent Wendy Yu. “My plane ticket toThailand was $20.The Schreyer’s Honors College; the Collegeof Engineering; and the Engineering DesignProgram in the School of Engineering Design,Technology, and Professional Programsalso provided financial support for studentsparticipating in the program.“With the travel grant from the [Schreyer’s]Honors College, it ended up being comparableto the cost of taking a course at University Parkand was much more exciting,” said Nick Bugos,a Penn State junior.The ultimate takeaway for the students wasan unforgettable experience that allowedthem to gain a skill set that is becomingincreasingly more advantageous to engineeringstudents. Having an international mindset andexperiencing engineering through the eyes ofanother culture allows students to gain an edgein the global economy and prepares them fortheir career after graduation.“[The trip] definitely inspired me to travel moreand see the world when I graduate,” said Bugos.“If I hadn’t done the course in Singapore, Inever would have felt comfortable to go off onmy own and do that, and I doubt I would haveever thought to buy a plane ticket to literally theopposite side of the planet to see what is there.”In the summer of 2009, the NUS program wasopened up to other students from BrighamYoung University, based on the success ofits first trial offering to Penn State students.Parkinson, who taught the spring 2009 offeringof EDSGN 100H, contributed to the courseagain this past summer and will do so again insummer 2010. Students from Peiking Universitywill also join the program, helping to strengthenties amongst the universities.The NUS program was sought as a counterpart to the FranceIndustry Tour (see page 19) that follows the traditional falloffering of EDSGN 100H. Penn State Engineering DesignProfessor Richard Devon was involved in the creation ofboth the France and the NUS programs. NUS ProfessorsWong, Yoke San and Loh, Han Tong taught the newNUS course, and Penn State Engineering Design ProfessorMatthew Parkinson delivered several lectures.“The most valuable part of my experience was interactingwith the NUS students,” said first-year student Elise Wagner.“It was amazing to see how many different ideas we came upwith while working on designs for our project, and I learnedso much about the importance of teamwork and leadership.I think all students on both ends got a lot out of the programjust by learning about each other’s cultures.”In November 2009, Penn State hosted three visiting deans from the National Universityof Singapore to strengthen the partnership between the two universities and to discusscollaborative opportunities. From left: Professor of Engineering Design Richard Devon;Professor Chew, Yong Tian (Mechanical Engineering Department Chair); ProfessorWong, Yoke San (Head, Manufacturing Division, and Director, Laboratory for Concurrentcontinued on page 6Engineering and Logistics); and Professor Lim, Seh Chun (Deputy Dean, College of16 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 Engineering, and former Mechanical Engineering Chair).SPRING 2010 | SEDTAPP NEWS | 17

Engineering DesignSummers by Design:France Industry Tourin the spotlight…First-year engineering students took the stage as they performed their skits—completewith technical, highly engineered special effects—as part of EDSGN 100H, the honorsintroduction to engineering design. For their final project for the course, the studentswere required to design and build interactive props for their performances.The performances featured scenes from Harry Potter, Matilda, Mary Poppins, Castaway,and an original screenplay about Zombies. Special effects included a self-scribing piece ofchalk, easy-to-shatter pottery, a bottomless carpet bag, a stormy airline flight, and a selfrockingchair.Formerly taught by Engineering Design Professor Richard Devon, the course will continueto be taught by Assistant Professor Cari Bryant Arnold.In May 2009, seven honors students from the fall offering ofEDSGN 100H Honors Introduction to Engineering Designwent on the tenth annual—and final—France Industry Tour(FIT) with the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT),Université d’Artois, in Béthune, France.Since it was established in May 2000 by Richard Devon, theFIT has sent about ten students each year from the precedingfall offering of EDSGN 100H. In the class at Penn State,students formed cross-national teams with their peers atIUT, doing projects provided by companies in France andthe U.S. and placing students at both universities in directcontact with each other. Once the Penn State students arrivedin France, they met their French teammates and touredindustries in and around Béthune. Sven Bilén, RichardDevon, and Jean Landa Pytel took turns traveling with thestudents and teaching classes at the IUT.The FIT students were hosted by the IUT Béthune. Thestudents were supported each year with travel grants fromthe Schreyer Honors College, and non-honors students weresupported by the College of Engineering. For seven yearsthrough the umbrella program Alliance by Design, Alcoasupported some of these students (and many other studentsin other countries) to stay for summer internships that werearranged by the IUT.Following their week-long stay in Béthune, the Penn Statestudents ended their trip with a weekend in Paris at their ownexpense. Most of the students continued touring France andEurope for one or two weeks after the program, resulting in arich and inexpensive global experience.Instead of taking the FIT this summer, the fall EDSGN100H class at University Park has formed a new collaborationwith the Technological Campus of the University of Navarrabilingual engineering school in San Sebastian, Spain.An early-summer design course is being established for2010, with Cari Bryant Arnold leading the program andaccompanying students on the trip.As it has been done in previous years, students in the springEDSGN 100H class will again travel to Singapore to meetwith their peers at the National University of Singapore.Matthew Parkinson oversees the program.A similar, but non-honors, program is planned to takestudents to École Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France, insummer 2010.In their own words…Students react to the France Industry TourIt was a great opportunity that took me to a country and a culture that Iprobably never would have gotten the chance to experience otherwise.The tour offered something for pretty much every branch of engineeringand was presented in a fun and informative way. My favorite tours wereArcelorMittal, the acoustics building, and the PVC plant because theyoffered in-depth and informative guides and tours. Meeting the Frenchstudents that we collaborate with was also exciting and stimulated new andlasting friendships. I am still in contact with my French friend to this day.Additionally, the students that I went over with have become closer friendsthan they were in class. This trip was through and through a great andeducational experience.—Ryan Lani, sophomore, Biomedical Engineering, FIT 2009Photos by Richard Devon, Ryan Lani, and Meghan Trahey.France was an eye-opening experience. I had never been to Europe before.I was lucky enough to get to see the smaller aspects—Béthune—and thelarger ones—Paris. The industry tour was full of variety, from Herta toArcelorMittal. This trip gave me a unique perspective on a culture differentfrom the United States. This was a fabulous experience. I am so glad to havebeen given this wonderful opportunity. I definitely would do it again. Il étaitmagnifique!—Meghan Trahey, sophomore, Civil Engineering, FIT 200918 | SEDTAPP NEWS | SPRING 2010SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 19

Engineering DesignGerman engineer returns as guestlecturer on international engineering“It’s just not enough tobe a good engineer;you need to be a goodengineer with theadditional ability tomanage internationalteams or manageprojects in othercultures.”—Peter OlfsPeter Olfs, senior director emeritusand former head of corporatecommunications international forSiemens AG in Munich, Germany,has returned to Penn State to givea seminar to the first-year honorsEDSGN 100H Introduction toEngineering Design class. While here,Olfs also lectured to many other classesthroughout the University, includingbusiness, German, and capstone design.Olfs, an annual guest of theEngineering Design Program andan adjunct associate professor ofengineering, has been conductinghis seminars on internationalcommunications in engineering since2004. While at Penn State, Olfs runstwelve to fifteen classes, includingcapstone engineering classes inelectrical and mechanical engineeringand a German business class.During his seminars, which he presentsat several universities in the UnitedStates and Germany, Olfs encouragesstudents to gain internationalexperience, noting its importance inglobal business environments.“Most companies insist that the peoplehave international experience becausethey want to access the internationalmarket,” said Olfs. “When you look atthe market, the number of businessesthat are only national in scope iscontinually shrinking. Businessesare constantly becoming moreinternational—even if only because aninternational competitor shows up.”In line with the Engineering DesignProgram’s global initiatives, Olfsrecommends that students participatein international opportunities, such asstudy abroad programs or internshipsabroad.“I feel it is very important thatuniversities discuss these opportunitieswith first-year students as early aspossible, because when we discuss themwith sophomores, we already have onefewer year,” he said. “The world is alittle more international every day.”While at Penn State for his week-longvisit, Olfs discussed international andcultural topics and did activities withstudents, teaching them about realworldglobal engineering practices. Hegave students insight about challengesand strategies while working in globalsituations.“What I took away as far as whatwould help me in the future wouldbe just being a little more observantabout what’s happening both withengineering and with culture in otherareas,” said first-year engineeringstudent Dan Slotcavage. “You have tobe very knowledgeable about multiculturalaspects of engineering as wellas be a good engineer.”Computer-aided design at Penn StateCATIAThrough generous sponsorship support from Boeing, Penn State is able to offerthree courses in CATiA, Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional interactive Application.CATiA is a high-end CAD software application used by many professionals andengineering companies, including Boeing.CATiA instructor Xinli Wu (far left) invited guest speakersfrom Boeing, sponsor of Penn State’s CATiA program, tospeak with his class. Kevin Porter (second from left),Rick Bruce, and Don Hicks talked about how they useCATiA software in their work at Boeing.in EDSgN 496C CATiA V5 Fundamentals and Applications, students learn the fundamentalsof part, assembly, and shape design; digital mock up tools; and parametric design basics. Theyalso explore digital mock-up workbench tools in order to learn building and optimizing variousmechanism models. For reverse engineering exercises, each student must reconstruct a partfrom a 3D scan model and also construct and optimize a selected machine or mechanismmodel.in EDSgN 497K Engineering Design and Analysis with CATiA, the first part of the coursecovers the fundamentals of CATiA V5 in solid modeling, part design, and assembly design,prototypes via rapid-prototyping, and design documentation. The second part of this coursecovers the basic finite element analysis capabilities in CATiA V5. Students learn how toquickly generate a finite element model for surface and/or solid parts and how to performanalysis using the finite elements method with CATiA V5. Two design projects are assigned,and online design portfolios from each student are required during each semester. For moreinformation about the course, please visit the course web site: www.engr.psu.edu/xinli/EDSgN497K/index.html.EDSgN 498B CAD Based Finite Element Modeling, is designed to introduce thefundamentals of finite element modeling concepts through the use of commercial softwarefor real-world problems. This course emphasizes evaluation and verification of numericalsolutions.For more information on these courses, please contact Andras Gordon (EDSGN 496C) at axg17@psu.edu, Xinli Wu (EDSGN 497K) at Xinli@psu.edu, or Ivica Smid (EDSGN 498B) at smid@psu.edu.SolidWorksThe Engineering Design Program offers a courseon Solidworks, a mid-level mechanical CADproduct from the same manufacturer as CATiA.Happy Valleyin EDSgN 496A Solidworks Fundamentals,students learn the methods and techniquesnecessary to become proficient in the applicationof Solidworks to engineering design and analysis. This course covers all of the topicsnecessary to pass the Certified Solidworks Associate (CSwA) exam. The CSwA is aSolidworks corporate certification exam covering basic theory, drawing theory, part modeling,advanced part modeling, assembly modeling, and model analysis. Several advanced topics,including weldments, sheet metal, and finite element analysis, are also covered.User GroupCATIA courses sponsored byin addition to the academic course on Solidworks, students also have the opportunityto participate in the newly formed Happy Valley Solidworks User group, a network ofSolidworks users who meet several times a year. User group meetings feature technicalpresentations in engineering design and analysis using Solidworks.A Penn State student team attends a Happy ValleySolidworks User group meeting. Meetings are free, andall are welcome to attend! Photo: Randall BockThe Happy Valley SolidWorks User Group is a dues-free network open toall students, professionals, and community members interested in enhancing their SolidWorks skill set. Visit www.hvswug.org to learn more about the user group and to view upcoming meeting times.For more information about sponsoring or joining the Happy Valley SolidWorks User Group, please contact Randall Bock at rgb@psu.edu.20 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 21

Engineering DesignHarnessing thesun and the windFirst-year engineering students collaborate with clientsponsors to develop alternative energy solutionsMOsT INNOVaTIVE dEsIgN awardBEsT ENgINEErINg dEsIgN awardAbout client-sponsored designSince the inception of the of the clientsponsorshipprogram in 1999, first-yearengineering students in EDSGN 100Introduction to Engineering Design havepaired up with industry and client sponsors todevelop engineering solutions for a variety ofproblems while learning the fundamentals ofengineering design.Students in the course are grouped ininterdisciplinary teams involving studentsfrom all types of engineering majors, eachadding their expertise to the developmentof the solution. While emphasizing creativityand innovation, students develop engineeringdesign skills in communication, customerneeds assessment, concept generation,information gathering, ethics, and teamwork.Throughout the semester, the students learnand practice the iterative design process, aninvaluable tool for future engineers.Once the final project is completed, projectsolutions and prototypes are presented ineach section of EDSGN 100. Section winnersare announced, and those section winnersare entered into the College of Engineering’sStudent Design Project Showcase. Awards arepresented for best engineered design, bestdesign process, most innovative design, andbest design communication.Through the EDSGN 100 final project,students gain a wealth of experience in theengineering design process and learn howcompanies develop solutions to engineeringproblems. The clients also benefit from theproject, gaining new insight and experiencinga refreshing take on a real problem. Throughthe final project, clients may identify studentsfor internships and future hire. Past clientshave hired student interns and full-timeemployees from the pool of students whoworked on their client-sponsored designproject.As alternative energy solutions are increasingly in demand, Penn State’sEngineering Design Program partnered with client sponsors to providecutting-edge opportunities for first-year engineering students in EDSGN100 Introduction to Engineering Design to learn firsthand about alternativeenergy and the design process.In fall 2008, Borton-Lawson, an engineering designcompany founded in 1988 by Penn State graduates,sponsored a design project requiring students to research,design, and model a component of the Natural Fusion solarhome, Penn State’s entry in the 2009 Solar Decathlon.The Solar Decathlon is a biennialinternational competition foruniversity students and facultyto design, build, and operate ahome powered by the sun. The event is sponsored by the United StatesDepartment of Energy to advance the use of solar energy.For the final EDSGN 100 project, the students were assigned a scenarioin which they were contracted by Borton-Lawson and Penn State’s SolarDecathlon team to design and prototype a piece of their concept homethat is powered exclusively by the sun. The home must provide enoughsolar power to perform all the functions expected at home, such as washingclothes, running the dishwasher, powering computers, and maintaining acomfortable temperature.Students had four design options. The first was to build a nexus (technicalcore) that would combine all the major services of the house (kitchen,bathroom, laundry, and mechanical room) in a modular unit that canbe manufactured in a factory. The second option was to build integratedphotovoltaics. The third option was to design an aesthetic solar clothesdryer, and the fourth involved finding the most effective uses of solar energyto provide natural light inside the house during the day.Winners of the fall 2008 Student Design Project ShowcaseBEsT dEsIgN COMMUNICaTION awardThe team of Meir Galimidi, Lecie Houston,Tom Wardrop, Nikoli Semanderes, andMelanie Milhouse (under the instructionof Assistant Professor of Engineering DesignThomas Colledge) ) designed a sustainable showerfor the Natural Fusion solar home. The team’sobjectives were to conserve water and energy.The design contained a gravity-powered alumfiltration system, as well as a steam-capturing system and energy-efficientwater heater.The team of Jeff Jesiolowski, Tyler Artz, Dan Butvinik, andByron Pierce (under the instruction of Assistant Professorof Engineering Design Thomas Colledge) recognized theinefficiency of standby power that is generated by unusedAC adapters that are left plugged into the solar home. Theteam’s design eliminated the wasted energy by modifying theadapters with an on/off switch. An adapter was designed toonly turn on if a device is plugged in.BEsT dEsIgN PrOCEss awardThe team of Steven Bates, AmandaMcCloskey, Megan Jurewicz, andMatthew Masarik (under the instructionof Engineering Design Instructor Brett Ulrich) designedan eco-friendly clothes dryer that is aesthetically discrete,cost effective, and minimizes energy usage. The dryer, in theform of a cedar cabinet, featured white desiccant panels toabsorb moisture and a fan for air circulation. It also had stepsand shelving for easy access and usage; stainless steel rodswith predetermined spacing on which to hang clothes fromstandard clothes hangers; and a concave ceiling, sloped floor,and collection chamber to remove condensation.The team of Mike Vashlishan,Jayson Krepps, Greg Cohen,and Pat McDonough (under theinstruction of Assistant Professorof Engineering Design Denise Bauer) created a nexus toimprove the efficiency of the solar home. The team tookprice, effectiveness, and functionality into considerationwhen designing their component.A word from the sponsor: Borton-Lawson“The Solar Decathlon project was an amazing opportunityfor Penn State students not only to gain real-life engineeringexperience, but to do so while developing scalable energysolutions. Borton-Lawson was extremely impressed with theeffort that the first-year engineering students put forward. Wefeel that students find the industry sponsorship of these projectsto be extremely relevant, as it gives them an understanding ofwhat they will be doing as engineers when they graduate.“It was exciting to observe the student teams as they quicklylatched onto the project’s theme and began to provideinnovative and energy-efficient design concepts for daylighting,harnessing of solar power, and mechanical systems for the solarhouse. It is my hope that these students will take their newlyacquired engineering skills and seize opportunity in their futuredesigns to help continue producing energy-efficient productsand processes.“It is with a great sense of pride, and our privilege, to help guideyoung engineers to realize that their future energy-efficientdesigns can make a difference to continue development andfoster a better life for villages, cities, or even entire countries.”A.J. Speicher Jr., P.E.Senior Mechanical Engineer, Borton-Lawsonaspeicher@borton-lawson.com22 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 23

Engineering DesignDuring the spring2009 semester, firstyearengineeringstudents worked on behalf of client sponsor ConstructionSpecialties, Inc., a manufacturer of architectural products, todesign an architecturally appealing, building-integrated windenergy generation system.The primary objective of the project was to integrate andapply wind energy generation technology into commercialbuilding types, successfully enabling new product growthwhile advocating clean energy production.Student teams had to consider a variety of factors and forcesdriving the building-integrated wind energy market whiledesigning their models: the green building movement,skyrocketing energy prices, building energy retrofitting,reduced dependence on foreign oil, growing interest andawareness in renewable energy, increased governmentincentives, and improved technologies.Winners of the spring 2009 Student Design Project ShowcaseBEsT dEsIgN COMMUNICaTION awardBEsT dEsIgN PrOCEss awardThe team of Ravi Shah, Lindsay Corey,Lindsay Augusterfer, and Alex Chappell(under the instruction of AssistantProfessor of Engineering Design Elizabeth Kisenwether)were inspired by dorm life to create the Green Triangles, adorm building that uses wind as a supplemental source forelectricity. Sectioned into three triangles, the dorm buildingis designed to optimize the way wind flows around it. Thetriangles, which are connected by sidewalks, are separated bytapered gaps that force incoming wind to speed up. PacWindSeahawk vertical-axis turbines embedded in the walls andAeroVironment horizontal-axis turbines on the uppercatwalks harvest energy from this wind.MOsT INNOVaTIVE dEsIgN awarddesigned for use at retail outlets such as Wal-Mart, Target,and Wegmans. The team’s project addresses the profitabilityof the turbine, taking into consideration such issues asaesthetic appeal, opportunities for consumer growth, andminimal maintenance.BEsT ENgINEErINg dEsIgN awardThe “Wind Cowboys” team of NathanNalevanko, Chris Hong, Scott Langsdale,and Joe Tombasco (under the instructionof Assistant Professor of Engineering Design MatthewParkinson) modeled their turbine blade design after asycamore seed using the biomimicry technique. Multipleturbines would be placed on the perimeter of the rooftop(s)of the building, and a roof would be erected over these fansto give the impression that the level was just another floor ofthe building. This system would be most effective on highrisebuildings due to higher speed winds at higher altitudes;however, it could be implemented on many other types ofstructures. Recycled materials, such as plastics, could be usedto make the lightweight blades of the wings.Become a sponsor of first-yearengineering designSupport EDSGN 100 Introduction to Engineering Designcourses at Penn StateIf your organization is looking for a unique way to impact first-yearengineering design education at Penn State, consider sponsoring anEDSGN 100 design project.why do we run a client-sponsored design project?➤ Students find sponsored projects to be extremely relevant; it givesthem an understanding of what they will be doing as engineers whenthey graduate.➤ Sponsored projects tend to be multidimensional and highlyinterdisciplinary, allowing us to include a broad range of practicaltopics such as economics, management, customer needs,benchmarking, decision-making, and ethics.➤ While many projects have emphasized product design, we havealso done component design, service and system design, andprocess design projects.what are the benefits to your organization?➤ Exposure of your company or organization to approximately 450students each semester. The project may also be used in corporateand University press releases and publications.➤ Prolific idea creation, with market value, that is documented in theWeb reports of more than 100 four-student teams. These teams tackleyour design problem and document the entire design process, fromcustomer needs assessment, concept generation, and selection todocumented final design model or prototype.➤ Early identification of students for internships and future hire.Past sponsors have hired student interns and full-time employeesfrom the pool of students who worked on their client-sponsoreddesign project.To discuss your interest and possible projects, please contact:Sven BilénDesign Projects Coordinator213 Hammond BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802E-mail: sbilen@psu.eduPhone: 814-863-1526The team of Tommy Monda,Andrew Redding, Alex Romba,and Stephen O’Neill (under theinstruction of Engineering DesignInstructor Xinli Wu) designed the“Molino” wind energy turbine, emphasizing architecturalappeal, easy attachment to buildings, efficiency, affordability,durability, and innovation. The model features a housingcover, which protects the turbine from weather, funnelsthe up-draft to create more power, and is welded to thegenerator and curved so that weather precipitation does notaccumulate.The team of Aaron Farnsworth, GregMcIntyre, and Steven Nath (underthe instruction of Engineering DesignInstructor Brett Ulrich) developed a wind generation systembased on the marketing aspect of using a wind turbine tocreate a green image for a company. Their product wasEngineering Design Certificate offered at Penn StateThe Engineering Design Certificate, offered through theEngineering Design Program, recognizes the completion of nineadditional credits of interdisciplinary design courses and projectexperiences beyond the required engineering design courses.The certificate emphasizes the application of new design methodsand learning new interdisciplinary applications of design, whichinclude:• Design for sustainability• Innovative design• Integrated product and system design• Design for human variability• Humanitarian engineering• Global design• Affective designThe Engineering Design Certificate involves integrating at leasttwo distinct fields of knowledge to help students gain an edge inthe industry.For more information about the Engineering Design Certificate, visitwww.edp.psu.edu/designcertificate or contact Richard Devon atrdevon@psu.edu.See the list of Engineering Design Certificate recipients onpage 56.24 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 25

Engineering DesignInspired bynatureStudents travel toFrank Lloyd Wright sitesPhotos: Benjamin FehlSketch: Ji Won ParkEach semester, students in EDSGN 130 ArchitectureGraphics and CAD taught by Engineering Design InstructorBenjamin Fehl, visit two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famousarchitectural sites, both of which are located only a few hoursfrom Penn State.Wright, who is recognized by the American Institute ofArchitects as the greatest American architect of all time, isfamous for his innovative design concepts and his leadershipin architectural movements.The first Wright building the students visit is Fallingwater,which was built in Bear Run, PA, in 1937. It is famousfor its organic architecture, incorporating a waterfall in itsdesign. It was built for the Kaufmann family, who owned theKaufmann's department store chain. In 1963, the propertywas donated to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and,since then, has attracted nearly six million visitors.Just a few miles from Fallingwater is another one of Wright’sbuildings, Kentuck Knob. Also known as the Hagan House,after the owners for which the house was designed, theresidence was completed in 1956. Kentuck Knob is one ofWright’s “Usonian” homes, characterized by its small, singlestoryappearance and use of native materials. In 1986, LordPeter Palumbo of London, England, bought the propertyand, in 1996, opened the private residence to public tours.The focus of EDSGN 130 is to help students developdrawing and drafting skills and techniques that are requiredfor a successful architectural engineering career. Emphasizingvisual communication, the content of the course is centeredon houses in design and structure.Visiting the Wright buildings provided a perfect opportunityfor students to hand sketch the buildings, capturing thestructural details. By visiting these two architecturallysignificant buildings, students expand their depth ofknowledge of the built world.“Field trips are an immersive educational opportunity,” saidFehl. “This allows students to connect the skills they havedeveloped during the semester with documenting two sitesdesigned by a premier architect.”For more information about EDSGN 130, contact BenjaminFehl at baf120@psu.edu.Sponsor EDSGN 130EDSGN 130 needs sponsorship support to continue taking studentsto the Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Not only does the trip inspireour next generation of architectural engineers, but it also provides apractical exercise and unique learning opportunity at two of America’smost treasured architectural sites. If you would like to help supportthis trip, please contact Sven Bilén at sbilen@psu.edu or 814-863-1526.Solar Decathlon teammakes Natural Fusiona realityNatural fusion is what powers the sun, so it’s fittingthat Penn State’s 2009 Solar Decathlon team—oneof 20 nationwide that competed in October onthe National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the top solarpoweredhouse—would dub its entry Natural Fusion. Butfor the Penn State team, the name was a concept aimedat building an energy-efficient home featuring the holisticintegration of elements across all aspects from design toconstruction.“Natural Fusion was born out of the idea of building anintegrated house and using things that have been used foryears but in a new way,” said Thomas Rauch, team memberand media liaison. “It’s redefining the engineering and thecross-disciplinary educational and design processes.”The idea touched everything the team did. More than 120team members from every academic college at Penn State,including students, staff, and faculty, worked on the project.In fall 2008, nearly 500 first-year students in EDSGN 100contributed their ideas to the design (see pages 20-21). Theproject team worked closely with industry to create the houseand to implement the technologies that made it energyefficientand sustainable.Design began in 2008 when Penn State was accepted to theDepartment of Energy-sponsored competition for the secondtime. (Penn State’s MorningStar took fourth place in 2007.)Then the team worked hard on the competition-maximum,800-square-foot house, installing the photovoltaic solarpanel array and all the other technologies and amenities thatcreated the solar-powered, energy-efficient, and green home.Rauch said the work of the Solar Decathlon team and itsFor the last several years, Pennsylvania has had a state-wideresidential building code that includes construction requirementsintended to reduce energy use in homes. To help Pennsylvaniabuilders comply with the code, the Pennsylvania Housing ResearchCenter (PHRC), housed in the College of Engineering, has worked ondeveloping practical alternatives that are:• Simpler to build and easier to enforce• More rational and flexible• Focused on Pennsylvania in terms of climatic and other conditions• Equivalent to the provisions of the International EnergyConservation Code (IECC)Natural Fusion just prior to leaving for competitionPhoto: Andrew LauLau contributes to Pennsylvania residential energy codecollaboration with industry could very well change how thenation views solar-powered technology.“We had a really great collaboration with industry wheresome of the products we used have never been seen before,”Rauch said, noting that the competition requires all productsused in the houses be commercially available, but does notprohibit new technology from being unveiled for the firsttime. “In a couple of cases, nothing like them had everbeen seen before. Our work with industry was absolutelyinstrumental.”Although Natural Fusion finished in 14th place in 2009, itdid have several residential, commercial, and industrial offersto purchase the Natural Fusion competition house after theSolar Decathlon competition. The team sold the house toBayer Corporation in Pittsburgh, one of the sponsors, tobe installed at their corporate site for use in marketing andongoing research.“Even though the 2009 team did not finish as highly as the2007 team, their design was better in some ways, includingworking closely with a manufactured housing firm to spurcommercialization, and working effectively as a team witheven more disciplines involved,” said Andrew Lau, associateprofessor of engineering design, who was an advisor to boththe 2007 and 2009 teams.For more information on Penn State’s Solar Decathlon team,visit solar.psu.edu. For more on the Solar Decathlon, visitsolardecathlon.org.—Adapted from Geoff Rushton’s article on Penn State LiveAndrew Lau, associate professor of engineering design, has workedwith the PHRC to develop and analyze the proposed alternatives toensure that any options considered result in no more energy usethan allowed by the code. Lau uses his many years of experiencein modeling building energy use, along with the industry-standardcomputer energy simulations, to support this effort. In addition to hismodeling knowledge, Lau served on the code review committee forthe IECC from 1998 to 2000.To download a copy of Pennsylvania’s Alternative Residential EnergyProvisions, visit www.engr.psu.edu/phrc.26 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 27

Engineering DesignFirst-year engineering students mentored localmiddle school students during the annual SolarChallenge held at University Park.PHOTO: NICK BUGOSZero-Energy HomesCenter develops middle school curriculum ondesigning energy-effi cient homesPenn State’s Center for Sustainabilityhas developed a new curriculumon zero-energy homes designed forgrades six through eight, to help educateand inspire the next generation to makesmarter decisions regarding energy use athome and in the future.The project team, led by Associate Professorof Engineering Design Andrew Lau,was commissioned by the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Environmental Protectionto develop the curriculum, which was firstpresented in May 2009 at a state-wideteacher workshop, Zero-Energy Homes: CanYour Students Get Us There?, held at PennState.“The material was well-received by theteachers,” said Lau. “The Center for Scienceand the Schools at Penn State asked us topresent another workshop in January 2010.”The curriculum, which will be distributedthroughout Pennsylvania, consists of fourmodules, each of which includes a lessonand a series of activities. The first module,Solar RacersThe one-credit engineering first-year seminar, “Solar Racers,” taught by AssociateProfessor of Engineering Design Andrew Lau, is based on the successfulmiddle school program, the Junior Solar Sprint. Student teams compete to buildand race small-scale photovoltaic-powered vehicles.Many learning goals are achieved through the development of the prototypes:team building; introduction to engineering; increased confidence; and the use ofengineering analysis, testing, and design.Solar Racers makes a great topic because of the many relevant issues that first-yearstudents can understand, including renewable energy, vehicle physics, electricalcircuits, team work, experimentation, material selection, design processes,mathematical analysis, and computer tools like spreadsheets and equation solvers.The use of knowledge and techniques from various courses and subjects helpsdemonstrate the application and integration so uncommon in the traditional firstyear of engineering. Students in this seminar also serve as mentors for local schoolchildren who build similar cars.“Sustainability and ZeroEnergy Homes,” introducesteachers and students to theproblem and defines keyterms, such as sustainabilityand zero-energy homes.Module two, “How Do Homes Use Energy?”takes a closer look at energy use withinthe home, examining key components ofthe system such as appliances, lights, andelectronics; heating and cooling systems;and domestic water heating.In module three, “Solar Technologies,”the use of solar energy resources andtechnologies is explored. Activities forthis unit investigate components such asphotovoltaic cells and solar water heaters.Module four, “Designing a Zero-EnergyHome,” brings together all the knowledgelearned from the previous three modules forapplication in designing a home that useslittle energy and obtains any energy that isneeded from the sun.“Home energy use in the U.S. accounts forabout 21 percent of our total energy use,”said Lau. “Clearly, teaching young people toappreciate this and then to empower themto imagine a home that uses no net energyis critical to a sustainable future.”Future spinoffs of this project will includea new first-year seminar based on thiscurriculum that Lau will develop for PennState engineering students.For more information about this project,contact Andrew Lau at asl1@psu.edu.SingaporeFirst-year engineering students in EDSGN 100HHonors Introduction to Engineering Design havethe option of participating in a course add-on thefollowing summer; students may take a two-weekdesign course the following May-June at theNational University of Singapore. The sequence isworth three credits. Optional touring in southeastAsia is available. Assistant Professor of EngineeringDesign and Mechanical Engineering MatthewParkinson (parkinson@psu.edu) teaches thecourse.ChinaTwo international opportunities are availablein China. The first is a three-credit, three-weeksummer course based in Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian,Huangshan, and other locations throughout Chinathat enables students to learn Chinese history andculture on site in China. Students in ENGR 197Impact of History, Culture, and Environment onEngineering Design in China participate in fieldtrips to major engineering projects in China. Thesecond opportunity for education abroad in Chinais a summer internship. Students spend threemonths in Beijing, Tianjing, Changsha, Dalian, andvarious locations conducting research projects forprofessors at universities or working as internswith companies. The internship is worth one credit.Engineering Design Instructor Xinli wu (xinli@psu.edu) coordinates both programs.SpainStudents in EDSGN 100H Honors Introduction toEngineering Design may choose to participate ina two-week program at the Technological Campusof the University of Navarra (Technun) in SanSebastian, Spain, following their course at PennState. The three-credit design course includespractical labs, a design project, and field trips.Assistant Professor of Engineering Design andMechanical Engineering Cari Bryant arnold(crbryant@psu.edu) teaches the course.FranceÉcole Centrale de Nantes, a top French engineeringschool, will host Penn State students for thefirst summer design academy in summer 2010.The three-credit course, offered to EDSGN 100students following their course at Penn State,will provide two weeks of courses, practical labs,and a design project, in addition to exposing thestudents to design in France and Europe. Professorof Engineering Design richard devon (duf@psu.edu) will lead the course.I N T E r N a T I O N a L P r O g r a M s28 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 29

EntrepreneurshipEngineeringEntrepreneurshipMinorwww.e-ship.psu.eduThe 18-credit Engineering Entrepreneurship (E-SHIP) minorcombines technology and business to create entrepreneursand innovative leaders. E-SHIP shows students of any majorhow to use their unique skills to become innovators in today’sglobal business climate.E-SHIP students complete the minor with an “entrepreneurialmindset,” meaning they are more creative, better at handlingambiguity, better at teamwork, and see themselves as productleaders much more than when they entered the minor.Students in E-SHIP will start their own in-class businesses.Many pursue these businesses, developing them furtherin other E-SHIP courses. The E-SHIP curriculum and facultyhelp the students understand how to protect and leverageintellectual property, including such tools as patents,trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.E-SHIP also encourages development of intrapreneurial skills.Intrapreneurs use creativity, innovation, and decision-makingskills within existing companies. Many of our intrapreneurialgraduates are known in their organizations for their versatilityand business skills.Some E-SHIP graduates have gone on to start their owncompanies and have sold ideas to existing corporations.To learn about these success stories, please visitwww.e-ship.psu.edu.Innovating theDeveloping WorldSocial entrepreneurship projects implementedin AfricaMashavu and WishVast are two on-going humanitarianengineering and social entrepreneurship projectsoffered through EDGSN 452 Projects inCommunity Service Engineering. These two projects, led byEngineering Design Affiliate Faculty and Senior ResearchAssociate Khanjan Mehta, involve students in hands-onengineering design and entrepreneurship activities in theclassroom and are implemented in Africa during the summer.MashavuMashavu: Networked Health Solutions for the DevelopingWorld is a cell-phone–based system that connects doctors allover the world to patients in developing countries. Mashavustations are located in remote areas with little access to medicalcare and limited transportation. Each station is equipped withbiomedical devices to collect health information such as height,weight, temperature, blood pressure, and lung capacity. Thesedata are then uploaded through the cell phone and laptopsystem onto an online portal where medical volunteers reviewthe information and advise the patients accordingly.In summer 2008, Mashavu had its initial run in Tanzania. PennState students traveled to the Good Hope Orphanage, wherethey—and their Mashavu stations—were well received by thecommunity. The project continued during the 2008-2009academic school year as the Mashavu teamed geared up forsummer 2009.In the spring 2009 offering of the EDSGN 452 course, moreAbove: Mashavu station,Photo: Khanjan MehtaLeft: WishVast system,Photo: Khanjan MehtaOpposite page: Mashavustation reading, Photo:Khanjan Mehtathan 90 students worked on the Mashavu project. Fifteen ofthose students traveled to Kenya for three weeks to test thebiomedical devices in Nyeri, Kenya, located about two hoursoutside of Nairobi.Along with Mehta, two other faculty members traveled toKenya to work on the project: Peter Butler, associate professorof bioengineering, and Margaret Slattery, assistant professor ofbioengineering. Butler, the primary collaborator in the Mashavuproject, had his students work on biomedical devices in class.“We got excellent validation again on everything in Kenya,”said Mehta. “We tested out all of the biomedical devices, whichwas really the focus besides testing the network as a whole.”In 2010, Mashavu plans to collaborate with various entities inKenya, preparing for an eventual handoff to industry. The teamis also very busy fundraising and writing grant proposals.To learn more about the Mashavu project, please visit www.mashavu.com.Milking the RhinoStudents devise innovative solutions inspired by documentaryIn November, Penn State students of all disciplines participatedin the inaugural Milking the Rhino: Innovative SolutionsShowcase. The competition, which required students to submitthree-minute video pitches, was based on Milking the Rhino, anaward-winning documentary that explores how past conservationefforts in Africa have disconnected indigenous people from theirtraditional way of life. A screening of the documentary, presentedby originator and co-producer of the film Jeannie Magill, was heldprior to the showcase.The pitches were rated by an interdisciplinary, five-memberWishVastWishVast: Building Trust and Social Capital Using Cell Phonesis an entrepreneurial venture, also based in Africa, that utilizesthe existing cell phone infrastructure and availability of cellphones—even in rural areas—to help build trust and socialcapital through networking via text message.In most developing countries, incoming text messages are free,while outgoing text messages cost a small fee. The WishVastsystem, which consists of a cell phone strapped to a netbook,is an economic solution that allows for mass text messaging.Similar to the setup of a listserv, a user sends one text messageto the WishVast system, which then sends messages to thoserecipients who choose to use the system. Instead of individuallytext messaging 100 people, each with an outgoing-text fee, onemessage is sent to WishVast and distributed to 100 people—and the sender is only charged for one outgoing text message.With this technology, users can also give ratings, much as onewould to sellers and buyers on eBay. If a person seeking to hiresends a message through WishVast, he or she would be able tosee employment ratings of respondents through the technology.Another way to use WishVast would be to notify others ofcurrent market prices of a good so that sellers can make themost profit.Having tested the WishVast model in summer 2009, the groupof about nine students and Mehta are busy publishing scholarlypapers and recruiting students for the project. Business studentsin Finance Instructor Greg Pierce’s business administrationclass are writing a business plan for the venture, and the team isdetermining how to commercialize it.For more information about the WishVast project, visit http://sites.google.com/site/thewishvastproject.For more information about the Mashavu and WishVast projects,contact Khanjan Mehta at khanjan@psu.edu.expert panel based on the teams'understanding of the context and theproblem; the quality of their solutionwith specific emphasis on innovation,economic sustainability, andpotential for large-scale impact; andthe quality of their video pitch.Pitches may be viewed on YouTube,www.youtube.com, under thesearch terms “Milking the Rhino."Cover: Kartemquin Films30 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 31

EntrepreneurshipPenn State team takesthird place at idea toproduct global contestBuzby Networks, Penn State’s entry to the 2009 Idea toProduct (I2P) Global Competition, took third place and a$2,500 prize in the contest’s Technology EntrepreneurshipSociety Global Championship round. The I2P GlobalCompetition was held in October at the University of Texas inAustin, TX.The Buzby Networks team consists of electrical engineeringgraduate students Erik Davidson, Erik Weir, and DanielWeiss and former acoustics master’s student Nicholas Platt.Advisers for the team were Sven Bilén, interim head of theSchool of Engineering Design, Technology, and ProfessionalPrograms, and Elizabeth Kisenwether, assistant professor ofengineering design and former director of the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Minor.Weir, who is Buzby Networks’ executive product manager, andBilén attended the competition.The I2P Global Competition is an early-stage technologycommercialization plan competition that invites universityteams from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin Americato enter their commercially viable product ideas. Studentteams compete for more than $50,000 in prizes and a chanceto enter the Global Moot Corp Competition, the “Super Bowlof World Business Plan Competition.”“The competition gave Buzby Networks a forum in whichto refine its pitch to investors and gain visibility and supportfrom an unbiased group,” said Weir.Buzby Networks developed an indoor Real-Time LocatingSystem (RTLS), which is similar to indoor GPS. The productwas initially created for use in the eldercare market segmentto help track and locate confused and wandering dementiapatients in a facility, patients in emergency situations, criticalassets and equipment, and direct care providers.Similar tracking systems exist, but Buzby Networkshas developed a patent-pending RTLS that gives thema competitive edge. The product consists of a routerinfrastructure, mobile microchip tags for tracking, andgraphical user interface PC software that shows positioning.It has two-meter accuracy and will never provide an incorrectlocation. The system uses ZigBee wireless technology.To date, Buzby Networks has secured more than $200,000in grants from the National Collegiate Inventors andInnovators Alliance and the Technology Collaborative. Thecompany plans to use the prize money from the I2P GlobalCompetition win to help purchase critical software needed fordevelopment, such as LabVIEW.Buzby Networks is currently pursuing contract-engineeringfor hardware development; the software and algorithm arebeing developed using internal efforts. The company expectsto have a commercially viable product in the middle of 2010.Buzby is currently fundraising through grant opportunitiesincluding those through state- and government-run programs.Buzby Networks also plans to enter business plan competitionsusing a business plan written for them by Penn State businessstudents in BA 301H Honors Finance taught by financeinstructor Gregory Pierce.“For the student teams, the I2P Global Competition is allabout education,” said Bilén. “The feedback provided to BuzbyNetworks will prove extremely valuable to them as they moveforward in their entrepreneurial efforts.”More information, pictures, videos, and results of the I2P GlobalCompetition may be found at www.ideatoproduct.org/globalonline. For more information about the program, contact SvenBilén at sbilen@psu.edu.Photo: I2P & Faculty Innovation CenterE-SHIP studentscontinue collectablemagnet businessStudents create magnets to show Penn State prideGreg Kester, Nichole Lopes, and Carlos De La Rosaneeded to form a working company for their final project ofan engineering entrepreneurship course. Although their firstinclination was to use their engineering backgrounds to createsomething elaborate, simplicity won out in the end.“We were coming up with all these grand ideas,” said Lopes.“But one of the things we learned from all of our previousprojects was that simple sells.”Since the company’s conception, Lopes, a 2007 supplychain and information systems graduate and manufacturingmanagement masters student, and Kester, a 2008 industrialand manufacturing engineering graduate, have taken thebusiness to the next level.The group formed PawZmatic, creating magnets centered onthe football schedule and timeless images of Penn State life.“We looked downtown and there wasn’t anything reallyphoto-based; everything was logo or animation. So wedecided to take pictures from inside the stadium to fill thatmarket niche,” explained Kester.However, taking the pictures proved to be more involvedthan just a simple point-and-shoot. The group had to getapproval from the Collegiate Licensing Corporation (CLC)before they could feature any images associated with PennState. The process took more than a year.“It was the number-one roadblock,” said Kester. But,according to the group, the process was well worth thetrouble. “It legitimizes the product to have the CLC logobehind it. It makes it seem more real.”In addition to the costs associated with licensing, findingthe funding for the rest of the expenses proved a formidablechallenge. “The entrepreneurship program helped us withsome things, but we paid for the majority out of our ownpockets,” said Lopes.Lopes is optimistic that her confidence will soon be rewarded.“PawZmatic is close to breaking even,” she smiled.In addition to seeing their hard work pay off in the financialsense, the PawZmatic members are excited to move on tothe next phase of their business. They are hoping that theirtimeless photographs will become a series of collectibleitems for students and alumni, with one photograph thatwill represent a given year. They also are looking to developbeyond football to include academic calendars and the PennState IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon.But with one member having already graduated and left thearea, and the other two recently receiving their degrees, thefuture is wide open. The group is considering donating thecompany to the Engineering Entrepreneurship program toallow other students to participate in running and growing abusiness. The profits would go toward scholarships.“If we’re able to have current students benefit from runningthe business, like a student club, that would be awesome. Ithas the real-world feel. There are a lot of things that aren’tclassroom-based that you have to get through,” Kester said.Life lessons come often in college, and the process of buildingPawZmatic was no exception. One lesson learned? “There isno reason for self-doubt,” Kester said.“Being able to have confidence in something you came upwith and being able to communicate that with other people isa core value that I learned from this process,” he said.This confidence in the product was justified, as the group cannow see tangible results of its hard work when they go in tostores downtown and see their magnets. And even with somesnags along the way, the benefits far outweigh the hassles forthese students.“If you don’t believe in what you are doing, how are yougoing to get someone else to? This has been a nice, constantreminder of that,” Kester said.PawZmatic magnets can be found in downtown State Collegeat the Student Book Store, the Clothesline, Lion and Cub,Lions Pride, McLanahan’s, Old State Clothing Co., andRapid Transit Sports.—Kate KhouryTo learn more about PawZmatic, visit the company Web site atwww.pawzmatic.com.32 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 33

EntrepreneurshipE-SHIP student launchesbusiness in Silicon ValleyAlex Mann, a 2009 finance graduate and engineeringentrepreneurship minor, can feel good in this economyknowing he has job security. That is because Mann, abudding entrepreneur, has successfully conceived his ownbusiness and secured funding for the venture—right out ofcollege.Mann founded AM Analytics, a social media and marketintelligence platform that aggregates information about aclient’s brand by tracking live conversation through mediaoutlets such as Twitter and Facebook, during his senior yearat Penn State.AM Analytics creates an analysis of not only what is beingsaid, but also what the catalyst is, why the user feels that way,where the users are from, and why it matters. The data arethen used to generate a visual representation of the analysisthrough charts and graphs, which the client may use torecognize and track trends to allow for more targeted andefficient marketing.“If you’re in the fashion industry, for example, a lot of yourstrategy is going to be guessing at the next hot trends,” saidMann. “If you guess right, you’re going to be successful.If you guess wrong, you’re going lose a lot of money onmisdirected marketing.”“But what if the fashion industry could track trends beforethey tip into the mainstream?”Through the service offered by AM Analytics, clients cansee what their consumers are saying, where they are from,and what they are talking about for the season. One featureof the platform includes a generated map that displays theconcentration and spread of trends in cities and across theUnited States, helping marketers and advertisers target theirefforts.In August 2009, Mann announced that his company hadsuccessfully secured funding through Berkeley Ventures, astartup accelerator that offers access to mentors and advisers,introductions to investors, incubator space, connections todId YOU KNOw?The Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor has its own incubatorprogram, the Lion Launchpad, which is funded through angeldonors. Want to get involved and inspire the next generation ofentrepreneurs? Contact Elizabeth Kisenwether at exk13@psu.edu.local talent and resources, and a year round program to helpthe companies grow.Mann said that his company’s funding will be in the form ofa customized program, including a cash stipend, legal work,advisory, and office space.Securing this type of funding is a huge feat for AM Analytics.According to an article in the Daily Collegian, ChrisDoner, executive director at Berkeley Ventures, said that theincubator has received “between 300 and 400 requests forfunding, but only about ten to 15 companies have actuallyreceived assistance.”“It was confirmation that someone else believed in this asmuch as I did,” said Mann in the Daily Collegian article.“Money talks...that’s idea validation.”Now a Penn State alum, Mann is a star graduate of theEngineering Entrepreneurship Minor and an inspirationto his peers. The advice he would share with other studentshoping to start a business?“Go do it.”“Ideas are cheap, and many students have them,” he said.“However, most are too afraid to chase their ideas becausethere is this predisposition that they will fail miserably.The college system tells us that the only path is to get a jobworking for someone else after they graduate. But, it doesn’tneed to be that way.”“There are a lot of problems in our country right now, andthey’ll ultimately be fixed through entrepreneurs and theirideas. If at any point there was the opportunity to make acareer out of a passion and the intent to fix a problem, it’snow.”For more information about AM Analytics, visit the companyonline at www.amanalytics.com. To follow Mann in hisentrepreneurial journey, visit his Web site: www.alexjmann.com.Engineering Entrepreneurship CompetitionStudent devise and pitch innovative solutionsAs part of ENGR 407 Technology-based Entrepreneurship, students are given the opportunity to exhibit their innovative solutions toreal-world problems at the annual Engineering Entrepreneurship Competition. A panel of judges critiques the student teams and awardsprizes to the top solutions.FALL 2008First Place: Go NowGo Now is an innovative marketing company that utilizes textmessaging to give restaurants and bars the ability to instantaneouslytarget their desired customers through a database for each client and"24/7" text message capabilities. It also allows customers to receivetexts about promotions and deals by joining the database through theGo Now Web site and by accepting standard text messaging fees.Second Place: SportsGuidesSportsGuides plans to create travel guides for college towns withincollege sports conferences, starting with the Big Ten. These guideswould include information contributed by residents and experiencedtravelers that is not otherwise available to traveling sports fans.Third place (tie): eCanvasThe eCanvas is the all-in-one learning solution for college students. Itorganizes all learning materials into a sleek, lightweight device. Withthe feel of a textbook and the technology of a laptop, the eCanvasrepresents a paradigm shift in the way students learn.Third place (tie): Collaborative FurnitureCollaborative Furniture creates furniture combinations. The company'sfirst product, the Chable, is a desk and chair combination capable ofcreating different-sized tables as needed depending on the size of thegroup. With this product, organizations will be able to both save andearn money by utilizing their existing space more efficiently.SPRING 2009Information for this semester is unavailable.Students in the spring2009 offering of ENGR497A, the EngineeringEntrepreneurship capstonecourse, went beyond theclassroom to present theirfinal projects. Instead ofpresenting to their instructorand peers, the students wentstraight to the funding source:the bank. Students presentedtheir ideas and businessplans to First National Bankin downtown State College,PA, for a unique, real-worldexperience. Frank Koeinstructed the course.FALL 2009Winners:RADeeRRADeeR is a post-market detectionsystem marketed to middleclassindividuals to decrease thestaggering amounts of deer-carcollisions each year. RADeeR usesa combination of simultaneouspulsations of thermal and radardetection to pick up objects in thepath of the moving vehicle, which willthen alert the driver of those objects.PowerUsThe flagship product of PowerUs is theGravGen escalator retrofit. The GravGen takes any previously installeddown escalator and retrofits it to harness the gravitational potentialenergy of elevated human mass. The process involves the removalof the old drive motor, and the installation of the transmission/clutchbox, low-power starter motor, sensing and monitoring equipment,and the generation unit. This system is analogous to the drive/generation equipment present in a wind turbine. These systemsutilize active breaking under varying loads to maintain a constantspeed of the tread assembly. The entire system will cost the customerapproximately $23,000 to install as a retrofit and will save over $7,690per year, based on an average 25-foot escalator and electricity cost of$0.15 per kilowatt hour.34 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 35

EntrepreneurshipBishoff Entrepreneurs-in-Residence:Bringing entrepreneurship experience to the classroomEach semester, the engineering entrepreneurship minor invites a technology entrepreneur into the classroom as the Bishoff Entrepreneurin-Residence.This individual spends several days observing classes, advising young entrepreneurs, and challenging students withinnovative projects.The Entrepreneur-in-Residence program is named for and underwritten with an endowment by E.V. Bishoff, who was a Pittsburghnative and long-time supporter of Penn State engineering. The program contributes to the engineering entrepreneurship program’smission to develop new entrepreneurs and creative thinkers through innovation, leadership, and project-based coursework.Spring 2009Paul DomanicoFall 2009Paul Domanico, founder andmanaging partner of Innovalyst,spent the week of April 5-10 sharinghis entrepreneurial experienceswith engineering entrepreneurshipstudents as the Spring 2009 BishoffEntrepreneur-in-Residence.Domanico has more than twenty yearsof experience in drug discovery, technology development,and executive management with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont).From 2000 through February 2007, Domanico was vicepresident for technology development for GSK Research andDevelopment in the United States. Under his leadership,six innovative technologies were commercialized. AfterBruce Shook, president and CEO ofNeuronetics, Inc., visited Penn Statefrom October 6-9 as the Fall 2009Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence.Shook has 25 years of experience inthe medical device industry. Mostrecently, he was president and CEOand a director at Neuron Therapeutics,a venture-backed companyBruce Shookdeveloping a drug/device productfor treatment of central nervous system disorders. Prior toNeuron Therapeutics, Shook was president of AbiomedCardiovascular where he successfully obtained premarketapproval for the first FDA-approved ventricular assist deviceand built a direct sales and marketing team to market theproduct. Prior to Abiomed, Shook was employed at Cordisleaving GSK, Domanico founded two companies. His latestis Innovalyst, LLC, a life science advisory company with apioneering business model. Innovalyst helps companies shapebusiness strategy, catalyze the development of innovations,and accelerate commercial success. Innovalyst also managesICAN, an Intellectual Capital Advisory Network.Domanico serves on several scientific advisory boards. He isa lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Kenan-FlaglerBusiness School’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He wasa member of the governor’s task force on nanotechnologyand North Carolina’s economy. Domanico holds a Ph.D. inchemistry and a bachelor’s degree in pre-medicine from PennState. He received his post-doctoral training in molecularbiophysics at DuPont.Corporation where he was involved with the development ofcardiac pacing and anti-arrhythmia products. Shook servesas a director for SurgiQuest and Cardiac Concepts, bothprivately held medical technology companies, and for thePenn State Research Foundation.Neuronetics, Inc. is a privately held medical devicecompany focused on developing non-invasive therapies forpsychiatric and neurological disorders using MRI-strengthmagnetic field pulses. It is the first and only company tohave a non-systemic and non-invasive depression treatmentcleared by the FDA for patients who have not benefitedfrom prior antidepressant treatment. Based in Malvern,PA, it is the leader in the development of transcranialmagnetic stimulation therapy, a non-invasive form ofneuromodulation.Workshops prepareattendees for"invention to venture"Invention to Venture (I2V), a one-day workshop on thebasics of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship,was hosted by the Penn State Entrepreneurs Network and theCollege of Engineering at University Park on Oct. 24, 2009.The workshop, which was intended for undergraduateand graduate students, faculty/staff, and communitymembers, included presentations focused on technologyentrepreneurship, opportunity assessment, venture capital,marketing, intellectual property, business plans, and relatedtopics.Speakers at I2V included experts with national stature,local technology entrepreneurs, and a number of Penn Statestudent startups. Gavin McIntyre (co-founder of EcovativeDesign), Shabbir Dahod (CEO of TraceLink and venturepartner with FirstMark Capital), Ujjwal Gupta (co-founderof Watermelon Express), and Pat McNamara (marketingguru) were some of the speakers at the conference.Workshop participants explored technology entrepreneurshipfundamentals, discovered how to turn an innovative productidea into a new technology venture, heard success stories,and networked with other participants and speakers at theconference.Watermelon Express, a Penn State student startup andsponsor of the event, gave away standardized test preparationsoftware to all participants free of cost.The I2V workshop was held in cooperation with the NationalCollegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)and sponsored by RatnerPrestia and the University ParkAllocation Committee.Following I2V, the College of Engineering and Smeal Collegeof Business hosted the Advanced Invention to Venture(AI2V) workshop from Nov. 20-23, 2009, at University Park.The intense four-day workshop was open to student teams,faculty, non-academic-affiliated venture teams, and corporatetechnologists who committed to starting a company and werestriving to define and articulate the market value of theirtechnology and the best strategy for commercialization.Participants conducted critical and strategic thinking abouttheir ventures with assigned mentors and coaches who areaccomplished entrepreneurs in industry. AI2V instructors,coaches, and mentors helped participants to formulate plansto raise money, recruit team members, and further developtechnology.AI2V provided a more thorough review of the subject matterwith hands-on exercises that made the materials pertinentto each participating team’s venture. Limited class size andhand-picked mentors and speakers provided startups aunique venture acceleration opportunity.AI2V is a world-class venture accelerator workshop that hashelped advance early-stage startups and shorten their timeto market, with proven results. Participants have called it thesingle most important turning point for their startups.AI2V was sponsored by Penn State in conjunction with theNCIIA.To learn more about Invention to Venture, visit www.psu-i2v.com. Videos of the I2V conference talks are available at www.engr.psu.edu/i2v. To learn more about Advanced Inventionto Venture, visit www.invention2venture.org/advancedi2v orcontact Khanjan Mehta at khanjan@engr.psu.edu.36 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 37

EntrepreneurshipGaelen Entrepreneurship Speaker Series bringsworld-class entrepreneurs to Penn StateThe Norbert and Audrey Gaelen Entrepreneurship SpeakerSeries was established in fall 2008 through a generousendowment from Norbert and Audrey Gaelen. The speakerseries features three speakers each semester. The first twospeakers are sponsored by the Engineering EntrepreneurshipMinor and the third speaker is sponsored by another college,such as the Smeal College of Business or the College ofAgricultural Sciences.Norbert Gaelen, a 1947 industrial engineering graduate, isone of the College of Engineering’s most generous donors.His previous gifts include student funding for the Norbert P.Gaelen Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Scholarshipas well as the foundational endowment for the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Minor in 2000, the Gaelen Endowment forEngineering Entrepreneurship and Leadership.Fall 2009Speaker:Igor JablokovCEO, Yap, Inc.Presentation: “The origins of Yap, Inc.: How do youstart a company in an industry filled withloud mouths?”Sep. 24, 2009Founded in 2006, Yap pioneered the world’s first automatedspeech-to-text platform. It reached wide acclaim for its workin curbing texting while driving when Yap was selected as afinalist in Silicon Valley’s first ever TechCrunch event, oftenreferred as the “American Idol” of the technology industry,followed by being named North Carolina’s Early StageCompany of the Year in 2007.Yap has assembled a world-class research and developmentteam focused on audio semiconductors and speechrecognition. Their staff members helped create market leadingproducts such as Apple’s iPod, IBM’s ViaVoice, and Nuance’sDragon. The company’s technologies provide the foundationfor innovative analytics, messaging, search, translation,and voicemail services for commercial or governmentapplications. Sample customer applications include IM+ forBlackBerry and iPhone, which uses Yap’s platform to convertyour speech into instant messages, and YouMail, whichconverts your incoming voicemails into text for you to read.The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and isventure financed by SunBridge Partners and Harbert VenturePartners. For more information, visit www.yapme.com.Igor Jablokov has served as Yap’sCEO since its inception. He isconsidered a speech technologypioneer, especially focused onhuman–computer user interfaces onmobile devices. Prior to co-foundingYap, Jablokov served as programdirector of IBM’s multimodal andvoice portal groups and was anIgor JablokovExtreme Blue mentor. During histenure there, he led his team tocreate the world’s first ever speech-enabled Web browser.Jablokov has more than a dozen patents issued or pending inhis field and was named an industry luminary by the editorsof Speech Technology Magazine. He holds an undergraduatedegree in computer engineering from Penn State and anMBA from the University of North Carolina.Speaker: Paul HowesPresident and CEO, Inotek PharmaceuticalsPresentation: “Innovating in health care with no revenue!(From big pharma to the world of venturefundedbiotech)”Oct. 12, 2009Paul HowesPaul Howes joined InotekPharmaceuticals in September2008 as the company’s presidentand CEO and as a director. InotekPharmaceuticals is a Boston-areabiotechnology company thathas developed new drugs for thetreatment of glaucoma and elevatedintra-ocular pressure, retinal diseases,and irritable bowel disease in the preclinicaland clinical phases of testing.Howes has more than twenty years of commercial strategy,product development, and sales and marketing experience inpharmaceuticals and medical devices, with a recent focus inthe field of ophthalmology. Prior to joining Inotek, Howeswas president of the Americas region for Bausch & Lomb,with leadership responsibility for the United States, Canada,Latin America, and South America across Bausch & Lomb’svision care, surgical, and pharmaceuticals business segments.Prior to joining Bausch & Lomb in 2003, Howes spent theprevious sixteen years in various senior management roles atMerck & Co., Inc. This experience included roles as executivedirector of hospital marketing, vice president of sales andmarketing for specialty products, president and CEO of theDuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, and presidentof Merck Frosst Canada, Inc. Prior to Merck, Howes spenteleven years at Price Waterhouse Canada.Howes is a graduate of Harvard College and earned his MBAfrom York University in Toronto, Canada. He is a memberof the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants andcurrently serves on the board of Prevent Blindness America.Speaker: Rick GrazziniExecutive Director, GardenGenetics, LLCPresentation: “Entrepreneurship in the agriculturalsciences: small business opportunities inplant breeding and genetics"Nov. 11, 2009Rick Grazzini’s career path hasbeen a journey from being a highschool biology teacher followinghis graduation in 1975 from PennState (B.S. Biology), to startinghis own seed company followinggraduation in 1980 from PurdueUniversity (M.S. Plant Breeding),and culminating as co-founder andRick Grazziniexecutive director of GardenGeneticsin 2007.Upon receiving his Ph.D. in Genetics from Penn State in1993, Grazzini initially served as director of marketingand as quality assurance manager for Centre AnalyticalLaboratories in State College, PA. The company focused onproviding analytical services to the crop protection industry.In 1997, he ascended to vice president, and, in 1998, hebecame president of Centre Analytical. In 2001, he acquiredownership interest and renamed the company ExygenResearch to better reflect the transitioning of the company. In2006, Exygen was acquired by MPI Research, and Grazziniserved as executive director during the integration of Exygeninto the MPI corporate structure.In 2007, Grazzini returned to his plant breeding andfloriculture roots. He co-founded GardenGeneticsin Bellefonte, PA, serving as its executive director.GardenGenetics focuses on commercial plant breeding,developing new varieties of ornamental, edible, andmedicinal plants. The company also extends expertise tovarious segments of the plant industries as a contract researchorganization.Spring 2009Speaker: John GannonGeneral Partner, SunBridge PartnersPresentation: “Career evolution and success factorsfor startups”Feb. 24, 2009John Gannon is a founder andgeneral partner of SunBridgePartners (www.sunbridgepartners.com) with an investment focusin aerospace and power. He cofoundedSunBridge Partners andits predecessor, Equitek Capital,and has played a key role inboth firms’ development andJohn Gannoninvestments, including EclipseAviation, Embedded Planet, AlienTechnology, Flarion, the New Media Group, and ThinBattery Technologies.Gannon began his career as an engineer with General ElectricAstro-Space Division, working as a propulsion and orbitspecialist on the Defense Satellite Communication Systemsatellite program. Working in the design, construction,launch, and on-orbit operation of an advanced constellationof defense communications satellites, Gannon experiencedthe challenges of working on high-technology projects tomeet the most rigorous, long-term requirements.Following work at General Electric, Gannon earned hisMBA from the University of Chicago and began a seven-yearperiod of work in the field of currency derivative trading.He worked for Merrill Lynch, NationsBank, and then asa director in the currency trading group of Barclays Bankin London. At Barclays, Gannon managed the Global AsiaPortfolio of currency derivative products. This expertise hasdirectly enabled him to design models to carry out valuationsof SunBridge Partners portfolio companies.Gannon received a B.S. in aerospace engineering from PennState in 1989 and an MBA from the University of Chicagoin 1993.38 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010 Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 39

EntrepreneurshipCompanies and students collaborate on“live case studies”SEDTAPP faculty member, student createiPhone applicationsMMost companies have real problems—and theyneed real solutions. In a unique attempt to solvethese problems, central Pennsylvania companieshave been partnering with the Engineering Entrepreneurship(E-SHIP) Minor to present “live case studies” to the studentsin ENGR 310 Entrepreneurial Leadership providing awin–win scenario for both the company and the students.Instead of students discussing conventional case studies,in which a problem is presented and a solution has alreadybeen determined, E-SHIP students are challenged with a livecase study, whereby they must devise the solution to a realcompany problem. The company benefits by tapping into afresh, new resource for innovative ideas and solutions.The live case study takes place over approximately ten days.The entrepreneur or business leader comes to class to introducethemselves and their business and to describe a current, veryreal problem that’s keeping them awake at night. The presenterprovides enough information to approximately six teams perclass to have the students understand the challenge, but not layout the path to a solution.The teams work on the live case study, gathering information,asking questions, forming possible solutions, and developinga ten-minute slide presentation outlining their suggestedsolution, including assumptions, justifications, and data. Thefaculty member serves as a mentor and presentation coach andsets the expectations high for quality of the students’ solutionsand presentations.After ten days, the entrepreneur or business leader returns tohear each team’s ten-minute presentation and conduct a threeminutequestion-and-answer session, with the expectation thatthey will ask probing questions about the team’s presentation,assumptions, and recommendations. The entrepreneur orbusiness leader ranks each team’s performance, which directlyaffects their grades.myAntro-Basic ApplicationAssistant Professor of Engineering Design and Mechanical EngineeringMatthew Parkinson created a free iPhone application to help users understandanthropometry, the measurement of the size and proportions of the humanbody, as it relates to ergonomics and human factor assessment in engineeringdesign.myAnthro-Basic estimates body segment lengths using a simple techniquecalled "proportionality constants." These are the average ratio of a given bodysegment length to stature. Users can enter a stature (height) in millimeters orselect from some predefined percentile values taken from two populations.Since two people of the same height are not required to have exactly thesame arm, leg, and other segment lengths, this is a helpful tool for exploringrelationships.For more information about myAnthro, visit www.myanthro.org or contact MatthewParkinson at parkinson@psu.edu.Live Case Study: Rockland Manufacturing CompanyIn fall 2009, the E-SHIP Minor partnered with RocklandManufacturing Company, based in Bedford, PA. RocklandManufacturing produces attachments for various constructionmachines, including dozers, excavators, loaders, graders, skidsteers, beach cleaners, and forklifts.The problem keeping company president Dan Schaffer up atnight—and the problem the E-SHIP students attempted to solve:How can Rockland Manufacturing leverage all of its internalengineering and manufacturing capabilities and capital equipmentto expand business and establish new customers?After hearing the team presentations from one section of ENGR 310in early October 2009, Schaffer was so impressed that he returnedin late October to have the second section of ENGR 310 implementthe top four “live case” recommendations from the first section.As the E-SHIP Minor received positive feedback from all thestakeholders in the live case study project, including students,faculty, and company participants, ENGR 310 will continue tochallenge students with more live case studies in the year ahead.For more information about the live case study projects, or if yourcompany would like to bring a live case challenge to the ENGR 310classes, please contact Philip Boyer at pgb10@psu.edu .CATA Bus ApplicationRoman Sandoval, a computer engineering major and engineeringentrepreneurship minor, created a clever and technologically progressivesolution to navigate the Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) Bussystem in State College, Pennsylvania.Sandoval created the CATA Bus iPhone application, available for purchase atthe iTunes App Store, as an easy alternative to CATA’s Ride Guide. Users canaccess bus schedules and detailed maps and obtain information about the busroutes, loops, and links. The application provides real-time bus information.For more information about the CATA Bus application, visitromansandoval.com/cata-bus.html or www.catabus.com.40 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 41

EntrepreneurshipNew E-SHIP grad shareshis experience with the minorJared Mazzant, a May 2009 aerospaceengineering and engineering entrepreneurshipminor graduate, found a successful start tohis career immediately following graduation.Mazzant was hired by Dresser-Rand, a globalsupplier of rotating equipment solutionsmainly for the oil and gas industry. Heis currently enrolled in Dresser-Rand’sEngineering Management AccelerationProgram, a five-year rotational program thataims to train the next generation of upperlevelmanagement in house.As a brand new Penn State alum, Mazzantis eager to share his experience with theEngineering Entrepreneurship Minor andhow it has helped him reach success in hisprofessional life.Why did you choose to do the E-SHIPminor?I chose the E-SHIP minor for a few reasons.I definitely wanted to set myself apart fromother graduates in my major. If you taketwo similar resumes, a minor can makethe difference between starting your careerand moving back to your parents’ place.Additionally, I have plans in place to getmy MBA in the near future, and a businessrelatedminor seemed to be a great place toget my feet wet. Finally, I’ve always thoughtthat I would eventually want to own my ownbusiness, and this was a great way to evaluatewhether or not I really want to do it.What was the most valuable thing youtook away from the program?It’s hard to say one thing is “most valuable”because there is so much great stuff packedinto eighteen credits. The one thing thatstands out the most, though, is the abilitynot to think like an engineer. As engineers,we have the tendency to think logically andrationally with right and wrong in mind. Agood entrepreneur has that business thinktankmentality. A career is not always aboutthe numbers and the science; soft skills,business skills, and the ability to apply processand product innovation techniques are justas important. The constant brainstormingand discussions on innovation and thinkingoutside the box in the E-SHIP minor reallyflex a part of the brain that does not always getstimulated in the engineering curriculum.How has the E-SHIP minor helped youafter graduation? At your job?I can honestly say that I believe I would notbe working at this job if it were not for theE-SHIP minor. As an aerospace graduatespecializing in rocket propulsion and orbitaldynamics, I do not really fit in with all ofthe mechanical engineers at this two-billiondollar-plus,turbo-machinery company.However, during the interview process (asDresser-Rand was looking for future leaderswith more than just good technical skills anda high GPA) I was able to use my improvedpresentation skills, creative adventures, andbusiness plan and finance knowledge from theminor to really impress some people. I spenteighty percent of my weekend-long interviewusing and talking about things from theminor.What advice would you give toprospective and current E-SHIPstudents?As engineering students coming frombackgrounds in physics, calculus, engineeringmechanics, and the likes, the E-SHIP classeswill not challenge you if you do not letthem. Pour yourself into the minor and itsactivities. Try to destroy the other teams in thecompetitively graded portions. You will getso much more out of the course load if youtake it upon yourself to challenge everyone(including yourself and your professors) andeverything they say. Don’t be afraid to ask why,and be ready to be put on the spot. The minoris an absolute blast and a great experience.East AfricaTwo international opportunities incorporatingengineering design, humanitarian engineering, andengineering entrepreneurship exist in Africa. SeniorResearch Associate and Engineering Design InstructorKhanjan Mehta leads two semester-long projects withan additional three-week trip to East Africa in earlysummer.The first project, Mashavu: Networked HealthSolutions for the Developing World (www.mashavu.com), is a humanitarian design and socialentrepreneurial venture in East Africa. Mashavuenables medical professionals around the worldto connect with patients in the developing worldusing modern technology and communicationsinfrastructure. Trained operators at Mashavu stationsin developing communities collect essential medicalinformation from patients on a regular basis. Webservers aggregate this information from variousMashavu stations over a cell phone link and provideit on a Web-based portal. Medical professionalscan view the patient’s information and respondto the patient and the nearest doctor(s) with theirrecommendations. Students participate in this projectthrough EDSGN 452 Projects in Community ServiceEngineering or EDSGN 497C Design of DevelopingCommunities.The second project, WishVast: Building Trust andSocial Capital Using Cell Phones, is a cell phone-based social networking platform that harnesses thepervasiveness of cell phones in African countriesto build trust, optimize resource utilization andsupply chains, connect people and expand theirsocial networks, facilitate peer-to-peer trade, andhelp people emerge from poverty. The WishVastteam works with a diverse set of non-governmentalorganizations and governmental and industrypartners in East Africa to test the system and identifythe best application scenarios and revenue models tocommercialize WishVast. Students participate in thisproject through EDSGN 452 Projects in CommunityService Engineering or EDSGN 497C Design ofDeveloping Communities.For more information and for ways to get involvedwith these projects, contact Khanjan Mehta atkhanjan@engr.psu.eduI N T E r N a T I O N a L P r O g r a M s42 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 43

LeadershipEngineeringLeadershipDevelopmentMinorwww.eldm.psu.eduThe Engineering Leadership Development Minor(ELDM) helps develop the leadership and businessskills necessary for success in today’s globaleconomy. ELDM students hone non-technical skillsas they lead teams, build networks, and help othersthrough hands-on, socially relevant leadershipprojects. The minor creates a transformationalenvironment in which students acquire theknowledge and skills essential for self-realization,understanding others, and being aware of their placein the world.As the world moves to a global economy,tomorrow’s engineers will need to be as comfortableworking with peers in Cairo and China as they arewith those in Cincinnati and California. The ELDMprogram has a strong basis in socially relevantentrepreneurship and international studies,which introduce students to the ins and outs ofinternational business. Through these real-worldprojects, students gain real-life leadership andproject management experience while making apositive impact on the world. ELDM projects spanthe globe from local improvement projects in StateCollege to building a school in Cambodia.Mondialogo: Anintercultural dialogueand exchangePenn State and Moroccan students collaborateon international engineering projectEighteen Penn State students and thirteen Moroccanstudents from École Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs cametogether in spring 2009 to form “Team Amerocco,”an international group of students with a passion for culturalexchanges and a drive to improve the world though engineering.Eleven of the Penn State students were from the EngineeringLeadership Development Minor (ELDM) capstone class,ENGR 497 Leadership, Innovation, and 21st Century ResourceChallenges, taught by Assistant Professor Richard Schuhmann,director of the ELDM, and seven students from Engineers for aSustainable World assisted the ELDM students with backgroundliterature research. The ELDM students collaborated with theMoroccans as part of the Mondialogo program, an initiativesponsored by Daimler and the United Nations Educational,Scientific, and Cultural Organization to promote interculturaldialogue and exchange.In the Mondialogo program, studentsfrom universities around the world collaborate andcommunicate with other universities on a team projectthrough the Mondialogo online community (www.mondialogo.com). These international teams competefor the Mondialogo Engineering Award, which is given tothose participants who best achieve the organization’s goal ofpromoting intercultural dialogue and cooperation betweeneducational engineering institutions in developing anddeveloped countries.Team Amerocco explored stove designs for their Mondialogoproject. According to the team’s project abstract, the WorldHealth Organization estimates that more than three billionpeople around the world use solid fuels for their energyneeds, which oftentimes produces indoor air pollution. Thispollution, which ranges from carbon monoxide to particulatematter, is the cause of nearly three percent of global diseases.Recognizing the need for clean and safe fuel burning in ruralareas of Morocco, the team set out to create an efficient,solid-fuel-burning stove design, while also taking culturalimplications into account.For the first part of the semester, the American and Moroccanstudents shared ideas over the online Mondialogo platform,which is equipped with message boards and chat features. Thetwo groups also communicated through Skype, an Internetbasedvideoconferencing, phone, and chat service, and throughthe College’s Polycom system.Above top, clockwise: Team Amerocco in Chellah, photo by Mike Ducker; hostfamily in Rabat, photo by Gopal Nadadur; stove design presentations on the finalday of the program in Rabat, Morocco, photo by Albert Besse.Opposite: A religious procession through Saleh, a town across the Boureg RegRiver from Rabat, Morocco, photo by Albert Besse.Over their spring break, the eleven Penn State ELDM studentstraveled to the capital city of Rabat to meet their Moroccancounterparts. Team Amerocco spent one week togethertraveling to remote areas of the Moroccan countryside to assessthe viability of their ideas—in both a functional and culturalcontext—and to refine their stove designs.These “field challenges,” designed to help the students get abroader picture of the disadvantages of the existing stoves,proved to be much more than an engineering exercise. Theseday-long excursions gave the Americans and Moroccans achance to bond and learn about each other’s cultures.“Morocco is incredibly different from the United States, butwe made some very close friends and learned so much abouteach other and each other’s cultures,” said Matt Yeamans, aMay 2009 mechanical engineering graduate with minors inELDM and engineering mechanics. “We asked some reallypersonal questions about their way of life and had a great opendialogue about all aspects of their way of life and ours.”44 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 45

LeadershipHassan II mosque in Casablanca,photo by Steve GarguiloIn preparation for their immersion into an Arab culture, thePenn State students learned about Islam and studied Darija,the spoken Arabic language in Morocco. The course alsoprepared them to talk about their own beliefs and politicalviews, which required some introspection on the part of thestudents.“We were prepared before we went there to expect to beasked certain kinds of questions,” said Gopal Nadadur, amechanical engineering graduate student. “We were toldto be really comfortable with our religious beliefs and to beprepared to talk about what you believe and why you believein it. So we really had to learn our own religions and our owncultures well before we went there. We did a self analysis.”While in Morocco, the students discovered a differentrepresentation of Islam than that which is often negativelyportrayed in American media.“Undoubtedly, the most interesting thing I took awayfrom the Moroccan culture is their devout following ofthe Islamic religion,” said Mike Ducker, a May 2009mechanical engineering and ELDM graduate. “Nearly all ofthe Moroccans we met were Muslim and deeply dedicatedthemselves to the religion. It was an experience in itselfsimply learning more, hands on, about the Islamic religion,its background, and its people.”“At the root of this religion is hospitality and kindnesstoward strangers, and all the Americans certainly experiencedthese aspects exhibited by the Moroccan students and otherMoroccans we met along the way, helping to make theexperience for us even better overall.”During their stay in Morocco, the Penn State students livedin the Old City with Moroccan host families, many of whichspoke very little English. The students ate with, socializedwith, and even learned new bathing techniques from theirhost families.“Visiting hamam with my host family in Rabat was literallygetting dunked into a pool of culture,” said Steve Garguilo, aMay 2009 information sciences and technology and ELDMgraduate, about his visit to the hamam, a public bathingfacility that is much like a wet version of a sauna.“You had to scrub yourself with oil and soaps and soak in thesteam,” said Nadadur, who shared the same host family asGarguilo. “The showers that I take these days are like—I’mnot really clean after this!”In addition to the engineering and cultural exchanges, thestudents gained something of perhaps even greater valueto their lives: friendships. After spending an entire weektogether, the students became very close.“My favorite part of Mondialago was having the opportunityto meet and really get to know our peers at ÉcoleMohammadia d’Ingénieurs,” said Garguilo. “Getting thechance to live and work with people from the Moroccanculture gave me wonderful new insights and enabled me tomake new friends for life.”Through the Mondialogo project, the Engineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor continues its commitment to globalengineering initiatives, promoting cultural education, andpreparing students for careers in the global marketplace.“The knowledge and experience gained through this projectwill be continually applied throughout the rest of my careerand the rest of my life,” said Garguilo. “Knowing that peoplehave different world views and different experiences is soimportant when working on global teams, and understandinghow to best work in these situations to effectively leveragetalent and diversity is also very important.”“I will always think back to my wonderful experiences inMorocco when I commence work on global teams. I hope tocontinue this type of work and especially travel for the rest ofmy life.”—Katie CuppettFor more information about the Engineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor, visit www.eldm.psu.edu. To learn moreabout Mondialogo, visit www.mondialogo.com.Photo: Matt YeamansWould you like to sponsor futureofferings of the Mondialogo project,provide travel grants for students, orcontribute to other ELDM activities?Please contact program director RichardSchuhmann at rxs34@psu.edu.$1 million gift endowsdirector of leadership minorA $1 million gift fromWalter and AnneRobb of Schenectady,New York, will endowthe directorship of theEngineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor.The new endowmentwill be calledthe Walter L.Robb Director ofEngineering LeadershipDevelopment, and theinaugural holder of theWalter L. Robbdirectorship will beRichard Schuhmann,an assistant professor who currently heads the minor.“Walt Robb has been a friend to the Engineering LeadershipDevelopment program since its inception, providing theessential guidance and wisdom that has brought the programworld recognition,” Schuhmann said. “This endowment willenable the program to grow and enhance existing programsand to stay innovative in a rapidly changing world.”Schuhmann began teaching environmental engineeringat Penn State in 1998 and has also taught courses in theScience, Technology, and Society program. He was appointeddirector of the leadership development minor in 2005.Schuhmann’s professional experience includes mappingsubmarine hazards and archaeological sites, underwaterexcavation, building wooden boats, and providing offshoresupport for seismic petroleum exploration. He also is aprivate environmental consultant specializing in modeling thefate and transport of chemicals in the environment.Robb is a 1948 Penn State chemical engineering graduateand a management consultant and president of VantageManagement Inc. A native of New Bloomfield, PA, he is oneof the University’s most generous donors. The Robb familyhas endowed two scholarships at Penn State, as well as a chairfor the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering.Robb is a founding member of the College of EngineeringLeonhard Center Advisory Board and served on theUniversity’s Alumni Council during the construction of theHintz Family Alumni Center.In 1987, he was given Penn State’s Distinguished AlumniAward, the highest recognition the University can bestow onits graduates.Robb served 42 years at various positions at General Electricbefore retiring as its senior vice president for corporateresearch and development in 1993. During his tenure, hereceived a dozen patents relating to his work in permeablemembranes and separation processes and led GE’s medicalimaging business into a $1.6 billion enterprise with morethan 10,000 employees globally.Robb was honored in 1993 by President Bill Clinton withthe National Medal of Technology for his leadership in thecomputer tomography and magnetic resonance imagingindustry. He also served on the council of the NationalAcademy of Engineering.Today he serves on the boards of Celgene and MechanicalTechnology Inc., and is an investor and director of tenstartup companies.—Curtis ChanRichard Schuhmann, assistant professor and director of the EngineeringLeadership Development Minor, will become the first director to hold thetitle of the Walter L. Robb Director of Engineering Leadership Development.Walter Robb, a 1948 chemical engineering alumnus of Penn State and one ofthe College of Engineering’s most generous donors, endowed the directorshipwith a $1 million contribution to the program.46 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 47

LeadershipGraduate student spotlight: Dave VargasDave Vargas, an August2009 graduate of thecivil and environmentalengineering master’s program,is in a leadership category all hisown.Having traveled the world andworked extensively in Moroccothrough the EngineeringLeadership Development Minor(ELDM), Vargas has cultivatedDave Vargasa passion for internationalendeavors and cultural learning experiences. It is also throughthe minor that he was able to perfectly match his master’sthesis, Rainwater Harvesting: A Sustainable Solution toStormwater Management, with the goals of the ELDM.“It’s not just the fundamentals of engineering that you needto understand,” explained Vargas. “You need to understandengineering design in a global context while being aware ofcultural, social, and environmental issues.”Vargas explained that the mission of the ELDM is to exposestudents to many different aspects of engineering, includingengineering in a global context, engineering that can help thehuman condition, and engineering for a sustainable future.“Engineers need to be passionate that, through the creative useof their skills, they can improve human lives,” he said.For his thesis, Vargas assessed rainwater harvesting—thecollection of rainwater for non-potable uses, such as irrigationor flushing toilets—as a sustainable solution to stormwatermanagement. His thesis abstract notes that “it is becomingincreasingly important to better utilize the limited amountof available water resources as global population growth andclimate change are forecasted to increase water stresses such asflooding and drought.”Vargas anticipates that water management will become anincreasingly important issue, especially in the developingworld.“Water is a major reason for war or conflict,” said Vargas.“International water management is going to be the key to apeaceful future in this world.”For his master’s degree, Vargas worked under his thesis coadviserand Director of the ELDM Richard Schuhmann. Hewas also a research assistant for Schuhmann and has taughtseveral courses for the minor, taking the students abroad toMorocco and Hungary through the courses’ embedded travelprograms. He has also led students working on projects inJamaica, Peru, the Amazon, and Cambodia and has attendedconferences in Malaysia and Mexico.“Having the experience of taking students and travelingabroad, seeing their reactions, and seeing them becomeglobally aware and open up their eyes to the world was just socool,” said Vargas, who has visited more than twenty countries.“There have been students we’ve taken to Morocco who hadnever left Pennsylvania. They come back and they’ve seen theworld.”Since graduating, Vargas has moved to Mexico City wherehe started a rainwater harvesting company called “SolucionPluvial” (Rainwater Solutions), of which he serves as president.The company designs and installs complete rainwaterharvesting systems, which promotes water independence inMexico City.“We are here watching a city of 22 million people run out ofwater,” said Vargas. “We have a sustainable solution that isenvironmentally conscious and culturally sensitive.”In addition to running the company, Vargas is also workingwith a non-governmental, non-profit organization, serving asproject coordinator of a project called Isla Urbana, in whichrainwater harvesting systems are installed in a low incomeneighborhood in Mexico City—an area where families gomonths without water.To help fund this project, Vargas is also starting a non-profitorganization based in the United States called the TemoFoundation that will fund projects that are helping to buildsustainable communities, starting with Isla Urbana.The Isla Urbana project seeks to install a rainwater harvestingsystem in each of the 500 households in the neighborhood,eventually building a sustainable, urban, water-managementmodel through the use of rainwater harvesting in lowincomeneighborhoods—a model that could be replicated indeveloping areas all over the world.“I am trying to change the world,” said Vargas. “And whatbetter a way than by filling up Mexico City with rainwaterharvesting systems!”Did you know?During the month of April in 2009, recent civil and environmentalengineering master’s graduate Dave Vargas initiated a “TurbanAwareness Month” to raise awareness of the use of turbans in Arab andMuslim cultures in order to dispel negative associations and to counterdiscrimination and intolerance.Undergraduatestudent spotlight:Caitlin ZankowskiVery few college students have the opportunity tolead thousands of people in a multi-million dollarfundraising effort.Caitlin Zankowski is one of the few.Zankowski, a senior studying industrial engineering andengineering leadership development, was selected to be the2010 Overall Chairperson for the Penn State IFC/PanhellenicDance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropy in theworld.The dance marathon—most commonly referred to asTHON—raises money to help fight childhood cancer. Studentvolunteers raise money throughout the year by canning, pledgebooking, and sending letters to family and friends to ask fordonations. The fundraising culminates in a 46-hour, “nositting,no-sleeping” dance marathon.In 2009, more than 300 organizations, 700 dancers, 3,300coordinators, and 15,000 student volunteers participatedin the event. More than $7.4 million were raised for theFour Diamonds Fund, which assists children treated at PennState Hershey Children’s Hospital and their families throughsuperior care, comprehensive support, and innovative research.According to the Daily Collegian, Zankowski’s previousTHON experience includes serving as a member of therules and regulations committee in 2006, a captain of theCaitlin Zankowskivisited the PeruvianAmazon as part of herELDM course.committee in 2007 and 2008, and overall committee chair in2009.In addition to chairing the largest student-run philanthropyin the world, Zankowsli balances a full engineering courseload and is very involved with the Engineering LeadershipDevelopment Minor (ELDM).In 2009, Zankowski participated in an eight-day trip to thePeruvian Amazon, a joint effort between the ELDM and theCenter for Amazon Community Ecology. While in Peru,Zankowski and five other ELDM students did an initialassessment of copal resin—sap from a Burseraceae tree—andhow this non-timber product could be made more profitablefor the Bora people of the Ampiyacu River region.After returning from the Amazon, Zankowski had a wealthof first-hand knowledge that she applied to the project inher “International Entrepreneurship and OrganizationalLeadership” class. In the course, ELDM students form virtualteams with economic students in Budapest, Hungary, andwork on real-life, socially relevant projects around the world.In this case, Zankowski worked on the copal resin project withthe Bora people.“Zankowski’s leadership skills are already positively affectingpeople from Peru to Pennsylvania,” said Richard Schuhmann,director of the ELDM. “She is a great example for Penn Stateand for the Engineering Leadership Development Minor.”48 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010 Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 49

LeadershipELDM sets engineering leadershipexample for MITIn preparation to launch its new $20 million Bernard M.Gordon-Massachusetts Institute of Technology EngineeringLeadership Program (ELP), MIT released a white paperreviewing the engineering leadership programs fromaround the world to identify examples of global goodpractice. Information was collected during interviews withinternational experts in engineering education and directorsof established engineering leadership programs; more thanseventy individuals were consulted and more than fortyprograms were investigated.Penn State’s Engineering Leadership Development Minor(ELDM) led the list of four case study examples of goodpractice in engineering leadership education highlighted inthe report.The report cited the ELDM as a good example of a “programwith a strong focus on global engineering leadership.” Thecase study provided an overview of the program structure andfocus of the minor.The ELDM, which is offered within the School ofEngineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs,helps students of all disciplines—not just engineeringmajors—develop the leadership and business skills necessaryfor success in the global economy.The minor focuses on honing non-technical skills throughteam leadership, building networks, and helping othersthrough hands-on, socially relevant leadership projects.ELDM is well known for its successful projects andcollaborations with business students at Corvinus Universityin Budapest, Hungary, and engineering students at ÉcoleMohammadia d’Ingénieurs in Rabat, Morocco.In the class International Entrepreneurship andOrganizational Leadership, students collaborate virtuallywith their peers from Hungary on socially relevantentrepreneurship projects around the world. Followingexam week in May, the ELDM students travel to Budapestto give their final presentations at Corvinus University. Thisclass provides an academic understanding of organizationalleadership in a global engineering business environment andthe opportunity for hands-on application.In the class Leadership, Innovation, and Global ResourceChallenges, students participate in a semester-long course atPenn State with a spring break trip to École Mohammadiad’Ingénieurs in Rabat, Morocco. Students study leadershipand innovation primarily in the context of water resourcemanagement and engineering with their Moroccan peers.The teams work together to complete real-world, hands-ontechnical and cultural field challenges.In addition to the Hungary and Morocco courses, the ELDMalso offers global engineering leadership projects throughthe minor’s introductory Individual Leadership Experience.In this self-directed, hands-on course, students practicetheir leadership skills while working on real-world projects.Students in this class are currently working on projects withoutcomes in Cambodia, Benin, Morocco, and Pakistan.“Students in our program learn about themselves and cometo understand and become friends with others from verydifferent cultures; they know their place in the world and canwalk confidently,” said Richard Schuhmann, director of theELDM. “Our aspirations are for them to become innovativeand effective leaders of character.”Similar to Penn State’s ELDM, MIT’s Bernard M. Gordon-MIT ELP seeks to educate the next generation of leadersthrough “project-based learning, extensive interaction withindustry leaders, hands-on product development, engineeringleadership labs, and authentic leadership challenges andexercises.To view the MIT white paper, visit web.mit.edu/gordonelp/elewhitepaper.pdf.For more informationabout the EngineeringLeadershipDevelopment Minor,contact directorRichard Schuhmannat rxs34@psu.edu, orvisit the ELDM Website: www.eldm.psu.edu.HungaryStudents in ENGR 497B International Entrepreneurshipand Organizational Leadership, collaborate virtuallywith their peers from Hungary on socially relevantentrepreneurial projects around the world and thengive final presentations at Corvinus University inBudapest, Hungary, following exam week in May.This class provides an academic understanding oforganizational leadership in a global engineeringbusiness environment and the opportunity for handsonapplication. The course includes a one-week trip toHungary in addition to the semester-long course. Thecourse is worth two credits, and the trip to Hungaryis worth one credit. It is co-taught by Walter L. RobbDirector of Engineering Leadership Developmentrichard schuhmann (rxs34@psu.edu) and Instructorin Engineering Design andras gordon (axg17@psu.edu).MoroccoStudents in ENGR 497D Leadership Innovation andGlobal Resource Challenges, take part in a semesterlongcourse at Penn State and take an embeddedtrip to École Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs in Rabat,Morocco. Students study leadership and innovationin the context of water resource management andengineering with their Moroccan peers during springbreak. The teams work together to complete real-world,hands-on technical and cultural field challenges. Thetwo-credit course is taught by Walter L. Robb Directorof Engineering Leadership Development richardschuhmann (rxs34@psu.edu).CambodiaStudents in ENGR 493 Individual Leadership Experienceare required to work on an approved individual projector internship to practice the leadership skills developedthrough the Engineering Leadership DevelopmentMinor. Students in this course work toward buildinga school in Cambodia. The semester-long project,supervised by Walter L. Robb Director of EngineeringLeadership Development richard schuhmann(rxs34@psu.edu), is worth one credit and is taught inPenn State classrooms.JamaicaStudents in ENGR 493 Individual Leadership Experienceare required to work on an approved individual projector internship to practice the leadership skills developedthrough the Engineering Leadership DevelopmentMinor. Students in this course work on Mustard SeedCommunity projects, which are based in Jamaica. Thesemester-long project, supervised by Walter L. RobbDirector of Engineering Leadership Developmentrichard schuhmann (rxs34@psu.edu), is worth onecredit and is taught in Penn State classrooms.I N T E r N a T I O N a L P r O g r a M s50 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 51

School NewsLau celebrates25 years at Penn StateAndrew Lau, associate professor of engineering design,associate director of the Center for Sustainability, and directorof engineering first-year seminars, reached 25 years of service inhis career at Penn State. On April 9, 2009, Lau was presentedwith a rocking chair and a plaque to recognize his tenure at theUniversity.Lau received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineeringfrom Penn State in 1977. After working as a design engineerfor five years in residential solar research and application,he went on to pursue a master’s degree, also in mechanicalengineering, from the Solar Energy Lab at the University ofWisconsin, Madison, in 1983.In January 1984, Lau returned to Penn State and beganworking as an associate professor in the Energy TechnologyProgram at Penn State Harrisburg. At Harrisburg, he served asprogram coordinator of Mechanical Engineering Technologyand helped form and direct the Honors Program. In 1999,Lau joined the School of Engineering Design, Technology,and Professional Programs at University Park as an associateprofessor of engineering design and as the director of theEngineering First-Year Seminars program for the College ofEngineering.During his time as a Penn State faculty member, Lau hastaught various engineering and engineering technologycourses, including those in engineering design, mechanicalengineering technology, and engineering first-year seminars.He has contributed to the College’s efforts to incorporate ethicsinto the curriculum, and in 2003 he received the GE TeachingExcellence Award for those efforts.g r a N T sParkinson receives NsF CarEEr awardMatthew ParkinsonMatthew Parkinson, assistantprofessor of engineering design andmechanical engineering, has beennamed a recipient of the NationalScience Foundation (NSF)'s FacultyEarly Career Development (CAREER)Award. The prestigious NSF CAREERAwards provide five years of fundingfor researchers. They are designed tosupport junior faculty who have shownexceptional promise in teaching andresearch.Parkinson received a $400,000 award for his project titled“Foundation of Designing for Human Variability.”Parkinson serves as the director of the Center for Research inDesign and Innovation and the OPEN Design Lab. Parkinson’swork combines rigorous design tools such as optimization, robustdesign, and statistical modeling with human-centered fields suchas ergonomics, human factors, and biomechanics. His currentefforts focus on the allocation of adjustability, vehicle safety, andthe development of adaptive medical devices.NsF award #0846373CarEEr: Foundations of designing forHuman VariabilityThe research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development(CAREER) award is to provide a theoretical foundation for definingdesign targets and conducting design assessments to improvethe design of products, tasks, and environments, enablingaccommodation of populations that are increasingly diverse.Bryant arnold receives NsF funding throughamerican recovery and reinvestment actNsF award #0928644Enhancing Creativity with a Conceptgenerator - Evaluation and Team TrainingThe research objective of this award is to provide substantive andempirical evidence of the ability to enhance engineering designcreativity through the use of a computational concept generatorpaired with team training support. The research activities willidentify the strengths and weaknesses of concept generators forengineering design and advance a repository of existing designknowledge to help produce innovative new solutions. In addition,a novel gaming-style iPhone application will be researched to helppopulate the design repository with diverse design solutions viauser-entered, user-policed, and user-rated data that will supportthe concept generator. Finally, the research team will produceand validate team training protocols designed to stimulateindividual creativity within a team-based design environment thatwill accompany the concept generator in order to synergisticallycultivate innovative solutions.Kremer receives NsF grant to improve ideacreationprocessGül KremerGül Kremer, associate professor ofengineering design and industrialengineering, has received fundingfor research to examine the TRIZmethod, a systematic approach forthe generation of innovative designsto seemingly intractable problems;freehand sketching; and technologyenableddesign journaling in order toimprove the idea-formation process forundergraduate engineering students.Kremer received $346,944 for her project titled “SystematicIdeation Curriculum Effectiveness Investigation & Deployment toEnhance Design Learning.”Above: Andrew Lau accepts a plaque and rocking chair for his 25 years ofservice and dedication to Penn State. He is pictured with Dhushy Sathianathan,former head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and ProfessionalPrograms; Andrew Lau in 1974 as a Penn State sophomore (taken in front of theWest Halls) and at present day.Since 2004, Lau has been the associate director of the Centerfor Sustainability at Penn State. In 2007, a team of students ledby Lau and other faculty successfully designed a 100-percentsolar-powered house that placed fourth out of 20 schools in theU.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.The School of Engineering Design, Technology, andProfessional Programs would like to congratulate and thankAndrew Lau for 25 years of service and dedication to PennState.Cari Bryant ArnoldTeam Training.”Cari Bryant Arnold, assistant professorof engineering design and mechanicalengineering, has been awarded a grantfunded under the American Recoveryand Reinvestment Act of 2009.Principal Investigator Bryant Arnoldand Co-Principal Investigators TimothySimpson and Samuel Hunter wereawarded $350,000 for their projecttitled “Enhancing Creativity with aConcept Generator - Evaluation andIn 2007, Bryant Arnold was the recipient of a $38,000 NSF grant(award # 0742693) for her collaborative research, "VOICED - AVirtual Organization for Innovative Conceptual EngineeringDesign."NsF award #0920446CCLI Phase II: COLLaBOraTIVE rEsEarCH:systematic Ideation Curriculum EffectivenessInvestigation & deployment to Enhancedesign LearningIn this project, three methods are being examined to determinetheir impact on improving the ideation performance ofundergraduate engineering students. The first method is TRIZ,which is a systematic approach for the generation of innovativedesigns to seemingly intractable problems. TRIZ was firstdeveloped in Russia and is based on the analysis of thousands ofpatents that illustrate numerous solution patterns from diversedisciplines. The second method of ideation being explored in thisproject is freehand sketching and the third method is technologyenableddesign journaling.52 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 53

School Newsa w a r d sa w a r d sParkinson wins SAE TeetorEducational AwardThe Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE) International, a professionalorganization dedicated to advancingmobility engineering, has selectedMatthew Parkinson, assistant professorof engineering design and mechanicalengineering, as a recipient of the 2009SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.Established in 1953, the Teetor Awardrecognizes outstanding youngMatthew Parkinsonengineering educators and providesthem the opportunity to connect with practicing engineers intheir fields. Ralph R. Teetor, for whom the award is named, was aformer SAE president who believed that engineering educatorsare the most effective link between engineering students and theirfuture careers.A member of Penn State’s engineering faculty since 2005,Parkinson’s research expertise is in rigorous methods forthe design of artifacts for use by people, including areas likebiomechanics and biomedical design, ergonomics, rehabilitationengineering, motion modeling, and prediction and mechanicaldesign. Parkinson was recently granted a National ScienceFoundation CAREER Award for a project titled, “Foundations ofDesigning for Human Variability.” The project’s objective is toprovide a foundation to improve design for the accommodationfor diverse populations, such as the elderly and the disabled.In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate-level coursesat Penn State, Parkinson is active in publishing and presentingat professional conferences. He also serves as director forboth the Center for Research in Design and Innovation andthe OPEN Design Lab. Parkinson holds a doctoral degree inbiomedical engineering and a master’s degree in industrial andoperations from the University of Michigan. Parkinson holds amaster’s degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham YoungUniversity.This is not the first award Parkinson has received from SAEInternational. In 2008, he received the Lloyd L. WithrowDistinguished Speaker Award and in 2007 received the Excellencein Oral Presentation Award at the SAE Digital Human Modelingfor Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition. In 2005,SAE presented Parkinson with the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award foroutstanding paper in mobility engineering for 2003.Since its inception, the Teetor Program has provided more than800 engineering educators the opportunity to develop closerrelationships with practicing engineers.—Victoria CurrierParkinson receives 2009 PSEASOutstanding Teaching AwardMatthew Parkinson, assistant professor of engineering designand mechanical engineering, has been awarded the 2009 PennState Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) Outstanding TeachingAward.Each year, the PSEAS honors those nominated by colleaguesand students for their work, research, teaching, service, andadvising. The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes and rewardsoutstanding engineering educators for excellence in teaching andfor contributions to the art of teaching—those faculty memberswho demonstrate a strong commitment and interest to theeducation of students.The PSEAS is an alumni advisory board that works closely withdeans, faculty, and students in the College of Engineering topromote and improve the program at Penn State.Mehta wins entrepreneurshipeducation awardKhanjan MehtaIdeablob.com contest.Khanjan Mehta, senior researchassociate and affiliate faculty, hasbeen recognized for his achievementswith the 2008 Innovation in TeachingEntrepreneurship Award.He is one of just two professionals inthe United States to win the Advantasponsoredaward.Mehta is the only instructor to havetwo students win $10,000 each in cashseed money for outstanding ideas in anIn 2006, he was one of two U.S. delegates chosen by UNESCOand Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) to help establish aninternational ESW organization.Mehta’s other notable honors include being featured as a guestadviser on Ideablob.com and receiving a 2008 W. LaMarr KoppInternational Achievement Award.Kremer invited to inaugural symposium ofelite engineersGül Kremer, associate professor ofengineering design and industrialengineering, was selected toparticipate in the National Academy ofEngineering’s Frontiers of EngineeringEducation (FOEE) inauguralsymposium, held Nov. 15-18, 2009, inHerndon, VA.The event brought together engineering faculty members in thefirst half of their careers who are developing and implementinginnovative educational approaches in a variety of disciplines. Itencouraged participants to share ideas, learn from research andbest practice in education, and leave with a charter to bring aboutimprovement in their home institution.The 49 participants were nominated by fellow engineers or deansand chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants.The program focused on effective ways to ensure that studentslearn the engineering fundamentals, the expanding knowledgebase of new technology, and the skills necessary to be an effectiveengineer or engineering researcher.“In our increasingly global and competitive world, the UnitedStates needs to marshal its resources to address the strategicshortfall of engineering leaders in the next decades,” said EdwardF. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, and chairman ofthe first FOEE. “By holding this event, we have recognized someof the finest young engineering educators in the nation and willbetter equip them to transform the educational process at theiruniversities.”Bilén selected as associate fellow by AIAASven Bilén, associate professorof engineering design, aerospaceengineering, and electrical engineering,and Farhan Gandhi, professor ofaerospace engineering, have beenselected as associate fellows by theAssociate Fellows Upgrade Committeeof the American Institute of Aeronauticsand Astronautics (AIAA).Sven BilénTo be selected for the grade ofassociate fellow, an individual mustbe an AIAA senior member with at least 12 years of professionalexperience in their field and have been recommended by aminimum of three AIAA members who are already associatefellows.Bilén and Gandhi were honored at the AIAA Associate FellowsDinner on Jan. 4, 2010, at the Orlando World Center Marriottin Orlando, FL, as part of the 48th AIAA Aerospace SciencesMeeting. They were among the 195 AIAA members selected tobecome associate fellows in 2010.SEDTAPP faculty, students receive KoppInternational Achievement AwardRichard Schuhmann, Walter L. Robb Director of EngineeringLeadership Development, received the faculty W. LaMarr KoppInternational Achievement Award.Established in 1995, the award recognizes faculty and staffmembers who have contributed significantly to the advancementof the international mission of theUniversity. It is named for the latedeputy vice president for internationalprograms.Schuhmann shared the award asa co-recipient with Judith F. Kroll,distinguished professor of psychology,linguistics, and women’s studies in theCollege of the Liberal Arts.Richard SchuhmannSchuhmann’s teaching and researchactivities have formed sustainable relationships between studentsand faculty overseas and in the United States and have createdprograms that engage Penn State faculty and students withpeople in developing communities around the world.Along with Schuhmann's faculty award, Steven Marshall andEric Sauder, both undergraduate mechanical engineering majorsand Schreyer Honors College scholars, have been awarded thestudent W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award.The award recognizes one graduate student and oneundergraduate annually who has contributed significantly tothe advancement of theinternational mission of theUniversity. Marshall andSauder are co-recipientsof the 2009 undergraduateachievement award.Marshall and Sauderdeveloped and helped Steven Marshall and Eric Sauderlead a long-terminitiative to provide an international, immersive, collaborative,multidisciplinary, active-learning experience in Jamaica forstudents from engineering, business, and the social sciences.Mustard Seed Communities, a faith-based nonprofit organizationbased in Jamaica that works with mentally and physicallydisabled young adults, approached Penn State in 2007 for helpin developing a residential community for their constituents. Theproposed site, called Jacob’s Ladder, is in a remote area of centralJamaica’s Blue Mountains. Penn State hopes to develop solutionsthat promote sustainability and increase the quality of life forthe residents and workers at Jacob’s Ladder. Associate ProfessorAndrew Lau and Assistant Professor Thomas Colledge wereadvisers of the project.Marshall and Sauder also participated in a three-week study tourof Jordan—where they took keen interest in learning the languageand being immersed in the culture—and also have visitedTanzania, Australia, and the Sovereign Nation of the Ojibwe Tribe.Gül Kremer54 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010 Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 55

School NewsA W A R D SH O N O r s T H E S E SP a r T I N g sMehta wins Perez Student Advocate AwardKhanjan Mehta, senior researchassociate in electronics and computerservices and SEDTAPP affiliatefaculty, was awarded the LawrenceJ. Perez Memorial Student AdvocateAward by the Penn State EngineeringAlumni Society (PSEAS). The awardrecognizes an engineering adviser whodemonstrates a deep commitment tostudents and education. Recipients ofKhanjan Mehtathe PSEAS awards were nominatedby colleagues and students for theirwork, research, teaching, service, and advising. The PSEAS is analumni advisory board that works closely with deans, faculty, andstudents in the College of Engineering to promote and improvethe program at Penn State.C E R T I F I C A T E R E C I P I E N T SEngineering Design CertificateAndrew S. Baranak, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2009Michael Creighton, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2009Gloria G. King, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2009Jared N. Fern, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2008Shelley Palazzolo, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2008Engineering and Community EngagementCertificateSteven F. Marshall, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, December2008Eric M. Sauder, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, December 2008Baranak, A. S. (2009). Utilizing traditional packingmethodologies to examine human variability designproblems. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Adviser: MatthewParkinson)Fromuth, R. C. (2009). Predicting anthropometric segmentlengths from population stature and BMI. UndergraduateHonors Thesis. (Adviser: Matthew Parkinson)King, G. G. (2009). Disproportionate disaccommodation ofsubpopulations based on anthropometry. UndergraduateHonors Thesis. (Adviser: Matthew Parkinson)Graves, K. (2008). Design of solar energy system for usein remote locations. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Adviser:Thomas Colledge)Katz, E. (2008). Development of education module:Surveying andtopographic map construction.Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Adviser: Thomas Colledge)Marshall, S. F. (2008). Sustainable design and constructionof a library for disabled children of Jamaica. UndergraduateHonors Thesis. (Advisers: Andrew Lau and Thomas Colledge)Sauder, E. M. (2008). Development of an appropriate solarand wind hybrid charging station for electric vehicles indeveloping countries. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Advisers:Andrew Lau and Thomas Colledge)Tang, C. J. (2008). Design for Six Sigma: An application inelectrical engineering. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Adviser:Sven Bilén)Becker, J. D. (2007). A structured approach to communityrevitalization: Adapting existing models to break downbarriers within communities. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.(Adviser: Richard Schuhmann)Gardner, K. (2007). TRIZ: An application in electricalengineering. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Adviser: SvenBilén)Garneau, C. J. (2007). A comparison of methodologies fordesigning for human variability. Undergraduate HonorsThesis. (Adviser: Matthew Parkinson)Klinetob, S. (2007). A trickling filter design for an alternativewastewater treatment system in rural Kentucky.Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Adviser: Thomas Colledge)Ritchey, S. T. (2007). Relay incubator: Creating anundergraduate incubation program at the PennsylvaniaState University. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. (Advisers:Richard Schuhmann and Elizabeth Kisenwether)Shedd, R.D. (2007). Inspiring entrepreneurship andeconomic development through incubators. UndergraduateHonors Thesis. (Advisers: Elizabeth Kisenwether and RichardSchuhmann)Dhushy Sathianathan, head ofthe School of Engineering Design,Technology, and Professional Programs(SEDTAPP), has accepted the positionof associate dean of academicprograms in the College of Engineeringat the California State University, LongBeach, effective Aug. 24, 2009.Sathianathan first came to Penn StateDhushy Sathianathan as a mechanical engineering graduatestudent in 1984. He earned his master’sdegree in 1986 and his Ph.D. in 1990, while teaching classes parttime. In 1991, he assumed a tenure-track faculty position at theUniversity. He was appointed head of SEDTAPP in 2002, followingthe retirement of former head Wayne Hager.As head of SEDTAPP, Sathianathan provided leadership forengineering and engineering technology programs at PennState campuses throughout the Commonwealth as well as forthe Engineering Design, Engineering Entrepreneurship, andEngineering Leadership Development programs at UniversityPark.Sathianathan has been actively involved in engineering educationinitiatives since 1994. He has led several National ScienceFoundation-funded initiatives, particularly focused on studentretention, to enhance engineering education. He is the co-founderof the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program and the Center forEngineering Design and Entrepreneurship at Penn State. Mostrecently, he has helped implement the new Center for Researchin Design and Innovation that will support an interdisciplinarygraduate program in design studies.During his time at Penn State, Sathianathan has served as theChair of the Penn State Breazeale Nuclear Reactor SafeguardCommittee, Chair of the Faculty Senate–University PlanningCommittee, and Chair-elect for the Engineering TechnologyCouncil in the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE).He has received the Boeing Outstanding Educator Award, theBoeing Welliver Faculty Fellow Award, and the ASEE DOWOutstanding Faculty Award for his work in engineering education.The School of Engineering Design, Technology and ProfessionalPrograms would like to thank Dhushy Sathianathan for hisdedication, leadership, and friendship over the past 25 years andwish him the best of luck at the California State University, LongBeach.T r a N S I T I O N SJanie Burns, administrative supportand finance assistant, retired onJune 29, 2009, after 19 years ofservice to the School of EngineeringDesign, Technology, and ProfessionalPrograms.Burns started working in thedepartment, formerly the generalengineering department, as a parttimestaff assistant in 1990. In 1991,Janie Burnsher position took a full-time status andgrew into the major financial position it was at the time of herretirement.Jetta McClenahan, formerly a staff assistant for the department,has assumed Burns’ former position.In her retirement, Burns plans to volunteer with various charitiesand organizations as well as continuing to volunteer on the Boardof Directors at her church. She is especially looking forward tospending more time with her five grandchildren.The School of Engineering Design, Technology, and ProfessionalPrograms would like to thank Janie Burns for her many years ofservice and friendship and wishes her the best of luck in the yearsto come.Elizabeth KisenwetherElizabeth Kisenwether, assistantprofessor of engineering design,has stepped down from the positionof director of the EngineeringEntrepreneurship (E-SHIP) Minor.Kisenwether, who has been the directorof the minor since it was founded in2001, will continue to teach engineeringdesign and will be working with theCollege of Engineering to broadenentrepreneurship education acrossPenn State.Philip Boyer, instructor in engineering entrepreneurship, willassume the position of interim director of the E-SHIP Minor.Richard DevonRichard Devon, professor ofengineering design, has stepped downfrom the position of director of theEngineering Design Program. AssistantProfessor of Engineering DesignMatthew Parkinson will assume theposition of director of the EngineeringDesign Program. For the full story, seepage 13.56 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010 Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 57

School NewsP r O M O T I O N sN e w C O M E r sA n n o u n c e m e n t sSven BilénSven Bilén, associate professorof engineering design, electricalengineering, and aerospaceengineering, has been appointedInterim Head of the School ofEngineering Design, Technology, andProfessional Programs (SEDTAPP)following the departure of DhushySathianathan, who took an associatedean position at the California StateUniversity, Long Beach.Bilén has been a faculty member in SEDTAPP and electricalengineering since January 2000 when he joined the College ofEngineering as an assistant professor. He received his bachelor’sdegree from Penn State in 1991 and went on to the Universityof Michigan where he received his master’s degree and then hisPh.D. in 1998.Bilén has received the Lawrence J. Perez Memorial StudentAdvocacy Award, the Penn State Engineering Alumni SocietyOutstanding Advising Award, and the Ruth and Joel Spira Awardfor Excellence in Teaching. He is a member of the AmericanSociety of Engineering Education, the Institute of Electrical andElectronic Engineers, and the International Council on SystemsEngineering. Bilén is a licensed Professional Engineer.Thomas Seybert, associate professorof engineering at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, has been appointed directorof Engineering Technology andCommonwealth Engineering.Seybert has been a faculty member atthe Wilkes-Barre campus since January1996. He received his bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees and his Ph.D. in civilThomas Seybertengineering from Penn State. He hasmore than 28 years of teaching andresearch experience at Penn State Beaver, University Park, andWilkes-Barre.In 2002, Seybert received the Penn State Engineering AlumniSociety Outstanding Teaching Award. He is a registeredProfessional Engineer.Matthew ParkinsonMatthew Parkinson, assistant professorof engineering design, has beenappointed director of the EngineeringDesign Program (EDP) as ProfessorRichard Devon steps down from theposition.In addition to directing the EDP,Parkinson is also the director of theCenter for Research in Design andInnovation and the OPEN Design Lab.Philip BoyerJetta McClenahanN e w C O M E r sJohn CorrellPhilip Boyer, instructor in engineeringentrepreneurship, has been appointedthe interim director of the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Minor as formerdirector Elizabeth Kisenwether stepsdown from the position.Boyer has been teaching in the E-SHIPMinor at University Park since 2008.Prior to joining the faculty at PennState, Boyer was the founder and chiefoperating officer of Pilgrim’s Oak, Inc.Jetta McClenahan, formerly a staffassistant for the School of EngineeringDesign, Technology, and ProfessionalPrograms, has moved into the positionof administrative support and financeassistant following the retirement ofJanie Burns.John Correll joined the EngineeringDesign Program in spring 2010 as aninstructor for EDSGN 100 Introductionto Engineering Design. After yearsin the aerospace industry at theNaval Surface Warfare Center andBombardier Aerospace, he attained histeaching certifications in physics andsecondary mathematics. He has taughtat the high school level, working in theState College Area School District and astate-wide charter cyber school.Ronald Johnson joined the EngineeringDesign Program in spring 2010 as aninstructor for EDSGN 100 Introductionto Engineering Design. Johnsonworked for nine years for Supelcoin Pleasant Gap, PA, providingengineering and managementsupport in both their gas and liquidchromatography business sectors. Healso worked for seven years at FirstRonald JohnsonQuality Nonwovens in McElhattan,PA, where he was responsible for allaspects of maintenance, engineering, and operability of a highspeednonwoven (SMMS) line.Christina RagerLee GornyHeather DaleChristina Rager joined the School ofEngineering Design, Technology, andProfessional Programs as a part-timestaff assistant for the Toys ‘n MOREstudent retention program. Toys ‘nMORE is a new program made possiblethrough a $2.4 million NationalScience Foundation grant to improveretention rates of students in thescience, technology, engineering, andmathematics fields over the next fiveyears.Lee Gorny joined the EngineeringDesign Program in fall 2009 as aninstructor for EDSGN 100 Introductionto Engineering Design. Gorny iscurrently a post-doctoral studentat Penn State’s Materials ResearchInstitute. He has worked with associateprofessor of engineering designAndrew Lau on the Solar Decathlonand has also taught courses inmechanical engineering.Heather Dale joined the School ofEngineering Design, Technology,and Professional Programs as a staffassistant. Dale previously worked atthe Penn State Dairy Alliance as anadministrative support assistant. Shehas assumed Jetta McClenahan’sformer position.Frank Koe joined the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Minor in spring 2009as an instructor for the engineeringentrepreneurship capstone course.He will again join the EngineeringEntrepreneurship Minor as aninstructor in spring 2010.In addition to being engaged inongoing entrepreneurial activities andFrank Koeserving as adjunct professor at theUniversity of Memphis, Koe was theformer director of the Executive MBA program at New JerseyInstitute of Technology and associate director of the BerkleyCenter for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stern School of Business, NewYork University.Adam and Rachel HackenbergKristin and Domer SmeltzerAdam Hackenberg, networkadministrator for the Centerfor Engineering Design andEntrepreneurship, married RachelElizabeth Strouse on May 23, 2009.The couple was married at St.John’s Lutheran Church in Millheim,PA, and celebrated their receptionat the Nittany Country Club inMingoville, PA. The Hackenbergsspent their honeymoon at SandalsDunn’s River Villaggio in Jamaica.Congratulations, Adam and Rachel!Kristin K. Witherite, daughter ofadministrative support assistantDebra Witherite and her husbandGeorge Witherite, married DomerO. Smeltzer on July 11, 2009.The wedding took place at theSprucetown United MethodistChurch, a small country churchin Potter Mills, PA. The reception,held at the Centre County GrangeFairgrounds in Centre Hall, PA,had more than 200 family andfriends in attendance. The Smeltzershoneymooned in Williamsburg, VA.Kristin is the youngest of Deb’s three daughters. She and hernew husband are both employed at Penn State in Food Services.Kristin is the assistant manager at Pollock Dining Commons,and Domer is the warehouse stock clerk at Housing and FoodsServices. Kristin and Domer currently reside in Spring Mills withtheir three beagles, Ben, Annie, and Sam. Congratulations to thehappy couple and to the proud parents!Senior financial assistant Jetta McClenahan and her husband,Terry, became proud grandparents on March 7, 2009. Theirdaughter, Trista McClenahan, andHerminio (Camilo) Bautista Antunezwelcomed their first child, EmmelinaGrace Antunez. She was born at5:03 a.m. weighing six pounds,fifteen ounces and measuring twentyinches in length. Emmelina goesEmmelina Grace Antunez by the nicknames Emme, Mami,and Mamasita. She is also thegranddaughter of Rodolfo Bautista José and Julieta AntunezBautista. Congratulations to Jetta and her familly on their littlebundle of joy!58 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010 Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 59

School NewsSchool DirectoryD E P a r T U R E SInterim HeadFacultyVytas Pazemenas passed away onOct. 23, 2009, from cancer at the ageof 71.Pazemenas graduated from Penn StateVytas Pazemenasin 1961, earning a bachelor's degreein electrical engineering. He went on to pursue his master’sdegree in electrical engineering from the University of SantaClara. He was born in Lithuania, served in the U.S. MarineCorps, and has been an avid sailor for more than thirty years.In 1994, Pazemenas founded the Aubrey Group, anengineering company that provides complete medical productdevelopment and manufacturing services, from productconcept development to turn-key manufacturing. Pazemenasdeveloped more than 50 medical devices, including productsfor DNA identification, cardiac surgery, minimally-invasivesurgery, dental imaging, infusion pumps, at-home monitoringsystems for congestive heart failure patients, and telemedicineNadine Barrie SmithPenn State mourns the loss of alumnus,entrepreneur, and dear friendsystems.College mourns passing ofNadine SmithNadine Barrie Smith, associateprofessor of bioengineering andSEDTAPP affiliate faculty, passedaway on April 2, 2010, as the result ofan accident.Smith, 48, joined the Penn State faculty in 1999. Her researchfocused on therapeutic applications of ultrasound and itscombination with diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging.She was a lead researcher at the Therapeutic UltrasoundApplications Laboratory and taught courses in bioengineering,including BIOE 450W Senior Design.Throughout her time at Penn State, Smith made significantcontributions to medical research.Smith worked on a team that developed a prototype for anultrasound insulin delivery system that can be worn as a patchon the body and is a less painful and invasive alternativefor insulin administration. She also worked with a team todevelop a potential cure for melanoma that is a safer and moreeffective way of targeting cancer-causing genes in cancer cellsBefore founding Aubrey Group, Pazemenas held key positionsin several leading medical device companies. He holds fivepatents: three in sensors and signal processors and two ininfusion pumps.In fall 2008, Pazemenas and his wife Cathy visited Penn Statefor him to be the inaugural speaker in the Norbert and AudreyGaelen Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. His talk was titled “APenn State Engineer-Entrepreneur's Story: Experiences withCalifornia Start-Ups.”Pazemenas will be remembered for his great dedication andcommitment to Penn State, especially to the College ofEngineering and the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor.He was a powerful example of how an engineer can transitionto a successful technology entrepreneur. He will be dearlymissed by all.without harming normal tissue.She was a dedicated teacher and adviser and guided studentsthrough various research projects and design competitions.She co-headed a student project to help people withdisabilities that received a $125,000 five-year National ScienceFoundation grant in 2008.Smith was on sabbatical leave from the University for the2009-10 academic year, in order to identify research projectsfor Penn State graduate students who will be enrolled atDelft University in the Netherlands and author a textbook onmedical devices.Smith received her doctorate in electrical engineering andbiophysics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1996 and was a Radiology Fellow at HarvardMedical School.She is survived by her husband, Andrew Webb, professor ofbioengineering. She will be dearly missed by her College ofEngineering and Penn State families.FacultySven BilénAssociate Professor, Engineering Design, ElectricalEngineering, and Aerospace EngineeringInterim Head, School of Engineering Design, Technology,and Professional ProgramsCoordinator, Client-Driven Design ProjectsChief Technologist, Center for Space Research ProgramsE-mail: sbilen@psu.eduRobert BeauryInstructor, Engineering EntrepreneurshipE-mail: rjb34@psu.eduPhilip BoyerInstructor, Engineering EntrepreneurshipInterim Director, Engineering Entrepreneurship MinorE-mail: pgb10@psu.eduCari Bryant ArnoldAssistant Professor, Engineering Design and MechanicalEngineeringE-mail: cari.arnold@psu.eduThomas ColledgeAssistant Professor, Engineering DesignCoordinator, Engineering and Community EngagementCertificate ProgramCoordinator, Student SupportE-mail: thc100@psu.eduJohn CorrellInstructor, Engineering DesignE-mail: jfc175@psu.eduRichard DevonProfessor, Engineering DesignCoordinator, Engineering Design Certificate ProgramE-mail: rdevon@psu.eduWesley DonahueAssociate Professor, Management DevelopmentE-mail: wed105@psu.eduRenata EngelProfessor, Engineering Design and Engineering ScienceAssociate Dean for Academic Programs, College ofEngineeringE-mail: rengel@psu.eduBenjamin FehlInstructor, Engineering DesignCourse Chair, EDSGN 130/10E-mail: baf120@psu.eduAndras GordonInstructor, Engineering DesignE-mail: axg17@psu.eduRonald JohnsonInstructor, Engineering DesignE-mail: rwj10@psu.eduElizabeth KisenwetherAssistant Professor, Engineering DesignE-mail: exk13@psu.eduJohn KlingerInstructor, Engineering DesignE-mail: jmk43@psu.eduFrank KoeInstructor, Engineering EntrepreneurshipE-mail: ftk2@psu.eduGül KremerAssociate Professor, Engineering Design and IndustrialEngineeringE-mail: gkremer@psu.educontinued on next page60 | SEDTAPP News | Spring 2010 Spring 2010 | SEDTAPP News | 61

School DirectoryFacultyAffiliate FacultyStaffStaffandrew LauAssociate Professor, Engineering DesignCourse Chair, EDSGN 100Director, Engineering First-Year SeminarsJohn LamancusaProfessor, Mechanical Engineering and EngineeringDesignE-mail: jsl3@psu.eduKatie CuppettWriter/Editor and External Relations CoordinatorE-mail: kec210@psu.eduwescott PuseyCEDE SupervisorE-mail: wpusey@engr.psu.eduE-mail: andylau@psu.eduMatthew ParkinsonAssistant Professor, Engineering Design and MechanicalEngineeringDirector, Engineering Design ProgramDirector, Center for Research in Design and InnovationKhanjan MehtaSenior Research Associate, Electronic and ComputerServicesE-mail: krm209@psu.eduHeather daleJunior Financial AssistantE-mail: hed11@psu.eduChristina ragerAdministrative Support Assistant, Toys’n MOREProgramE-mail: CRager@psu.eduE-mail: mbp11@psu.eduMatthew PoeseInstructor, Engineering LeadershipE-mail: poese@psu.eduJohn MessnerAssociate Professor, Architectural Engineering andEngineering DesignE-mail: jmessner@engr.psu.eduadam HackenbergCEDE Network System SpecialistE-mail: ahack@engr.psu.eduKaren riderAdministrative AssistantE-mail: kxr5@psu.edurichard schuhmannAssistant Professor, Engineering LeadershipDirector, Engineering Leadership Development MinorE-mail: rxs34@psu.eduPeter OlfsAdjunct Associate Professor, EngineeringSenior Director Emeritus, Siemens AG, Munich,GermanyE-mail: peter.olfs@gmx.netJetta McClenahanSenior Financial AssistantE-mail: jym11@engr.psu.edudebra witheriteAdministrative Support Assistant, Undergraduate/Student ServicesE-mail: dqw4@psu.eduThomas seybertDirector, Engineering Technology and CommonwealthEngineeringE-mail: tas103@psu.edudavid rileyAssociate Professor, Architectural Engineering andEngineering DesignDirector, Center for Sustainability at Penn StateE-mail: driley@engr.psu.eduXinli wuInstructor, Engineering DesignCoordinator, Engineering Design StudioE-mail: xinli@psu.eduTimothy simpsonProfessor, Mechanical Engineering, IndustrialEngineering, and Engineering DesignDirector, The Learning FactoryE-mail: tws8@psu.eduSponsor the next issueof SEDTAPP News!Please help support the publication of thismagazine to keep our partners up-to-date on theresearch, programs, initiatives, and achievementsof the School of Engineering Design, Technology,and Professional Programs.Emeritus Facultyrobert FosterAssociate Professor EmeritusWith your sponsorship support, the magazine willacknowledge your generous contribution throughvisual and editorial recognition. Other sponsorshipand recognition opportunities may also beavailable.wayne HagerProfessor EmeritusFormer Head, SEDTAPPPlease contact Sven Bilén at sbilen@psu.edu or814-865-7580 to learn more.62 | SEDTAPP NEwS | SPriNg 2010 SPriNg 2010 | SEDTAPP NEwS | 63