Jon DeMarco, executive director of Presque Isle Partnership, a nonprofit partner to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources at Presque Isle State Park, worked with Behrend School of Engineering students on three senior design capstone projects, including a smartphone application.
This image from the environmental scanning electron microscope shows plastic spheres at 100 nanometers. Researchers are using the microscope to study the lower limits of microplastics.
The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship and Learning, or METAL, initiative will include public workshops, like this program presented at Behrend’s annual STEAM Fair.
Lighter Than Air Paper Factory, a kinetic sculpture by David Seitzinger and John Vahanian, was commissioned in the 1970s for the Behrend family’s Hammermill Paper Co. In 2011, the piece was refurbished and hung in the Burke Center’s Clark Café.