Left to right: Tanna Pugh, director, PennTAP; Joleen Hindman, manager, external affairs, West Penn Power; JP Tambourine, manager, economic development, FirstEnergy; David McDonald, president, West Penn Power; Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, Penn State; Matt Parkinson, director, Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory, Penn State; Jeff Fortin, associate vice president for research, Penn State; and Tim Kerchinski, innovation team lead, PennTAP.
Students of all ages, as well as faculty, staff, and community members, peered through the college’s telescopes, cardboard solar eclipse glasses, and paper-and-tin-foil pinhole viewers to see the moon steal the sun’s spotlight.
Dr. Shraddha Sangelkar, center, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is working with engineering students, front row from left, Alec Hydock and Anthony Walker, and second row from left, Marco Nunez and William Aldridge, to reduce the manufacturing costs of a braille reader to make it more accessible to those in developing countries.
Rachel Rattay has accepted a position as a software engineer at Microsoft in Seattle, Wash., where she will be working on the new HoloLens technology after her graduation in May.
