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Read the 2020 issue of Engineering News, published annually and provided free to alumni and friends of the Penn State Behrend School of Engineering by the Office of Strategic Communications.

A production team assembled by Penn State Behrend has manufactured 126,000 COVID-19 medical face shields since the start of the pandemic.

Penn State Behrend is playing a pivotal role in a partnership that will establish Magee-Womens Research Institute in Erie.

Behrend researcher designs COVID-19 face shields, teams up with partners to mass-produce and ship them to health- care workers.

This VR simulation is perfect for use with our own nursing students here at Behrend, but this is a product that can be used by anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of what life may be like for a person living with dementia.

William Friedlander, Mechanical Engineering

Blue and green ball of baking soda mixture fizzing.

From left to right: Ashkan Negahban, assistant professor of engineering management at Penn State Great Valley; Omar Ashour, associate professor of industrial engineering at Penn State Behrend; and Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden, assistant professor of IST at Penn State Abington received a three-year, $831,276 grant from the National Science Foundation for their research on immersive simulation-based learning modules.

Tyler Rigby, Dr. Paul Lynch, and Shannon Sweeney