Attention, high school juniors: MCE and WISE would like to introduce you to college this summer.
Minority College Experience (MCE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) offer the real-deal Penn State Behrend experience. You’ll enroll in an actual summer-session course and have the potential to earn 3 college credits at no cost. You’ll attend special academic workshops, meet regional professionals, take field trips, and explore careers you might never have considered before.
A Penn State Behrend student investment team competed in the regional CFA Institute Research Challenge in Pittsburgh on Monday, Feb. 17. The students defended their market valuation of PPG Industries, a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products and glass.
The team recommended a hold strategy at a PPG stock price of $188.56.
To date, Erie has received 108.5 inches of the white stuff this winter and our fair frozen city stands atop the snowfall derby race with a commanding 13 inch lead over Buffalo. (WE are the champions, my friends….)
Suffice to say this is a tough place to live if you hate winter.
The U.S. economic recovery likely will continue through 2018, with annual growth of about 3 percent, the top economist for Citigroup said during a visit to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Interest rates also will climb, Willem H. Buiter said.
The U.S. economic recovery likely will continue through 2018, with annual growth of about 3 percent, the top economist for Citigroup said during a visit to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Penn State Behrend will welcome Damien Escobar, a unique hip-hop violinist from New York City, to the stage of Bruno's Cafe in Reed Union Building on Wed., Feb. 19 from noon to 1 p.m. as part of the college's Rhythms of Life Series.
Ralph Ford, director of the School of Engineering and associate dean for industry and external relations at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been re-elected Vice President of Member and Geographic Activities for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The society is the world’s largest technical professional association, with more than 425,000 members in 160 countries.
In October 2013, the Sustainability Institute announced its new internal grant program, The Reinvention Fund, intended to support collaborative projects by faculty, staff and students that will improve and expand sustainability efforts at Penn State. Of the more than $700,000 allocated for investment in these projects, $102,000 has been dedicated to support proposals received by student teams.
Twenty-two proposals were received from interdisciplinary student teams, and 11 were selected to be funded. The funded proposals represent innovative ideas from four of Penn State's campuses -- Abington; Berks; Erie, The Behrend College; and University Park.
An Erie man who died in 2012 left his entire estate – valued at more than $1.1 million – to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The money will create new scholarships in the college’s School of Engineering.
Frank S. Palkovic earned an associate degree in drafting design and technology at Penn State Behrend in 1968. He went on to earn a bachelor of science in engineering at Penn State Harrisburg.
The School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend has installed a 3D printer, a high-tech system that gives engineers and product designers the ability to produce in real form virtually any shape they can create with computer software. The machine, which was donated to the college by FMC Technologies Measurement Solutions, is worth more than $40,000.
