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Students posing with items donations for refugees

Global Ambassadors: Donation Drive

The Global Ambassadors held a campus-wide donation drive for the refugee families who resettle in Erie through the USCRI Erie office. Some of them are pictured here with the donations collected in Spring 2021.

Senior engineering students turn cardboard tubes into musical instrument

Thongophone

Team “Phonies” working on their thongophone. From left, Mackenzie Sloan, Alex Croll, Jake Lehotsky, and Deaja Vital.

A research team in the School of Engineering is using “smart manufacturing” technology, including machine sensors, to reduce waste and increase product quality at Erie-based Plastek Group, which manufactures packaging for the personal care, food and beverage, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries.

Plastek

A research team in the School of Engineering is using “smart manufacturing” technology, including machine sensors, to reduce waste and increase product quality at Erie-based Plastek Group, which manufactures packaging for the personal care, food and beverage, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries.

The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.3 million to support enhanced education and advanced research in the School of Engineering.

NSFGrant

The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.3 million to support enhanced education and advanced research in the School of Engineering.

Joe and Isabel Prischak, center, surrounded by several recipients of the scholarships they have endowed at Penn State Behrend.

Prischak

Joe and Isabel Prischak, center, surrounded by several recipients of the scholarships they have endowed at Penn State Behrend.

Kevin Josue, a 2018 Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology graduate.

Josue

Kevin Josue, a 2018 Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology graduate.