The patient — a young man — is bleeding from his forearm. His pupils are dilated, and his blood pressure is dropping. His student nurse quickly assesses his condition and decides her first priority is to stop the bleeding. She applies pressure to the wound.
With a growth rate of nearly 10 percent annually, sales projected to reach $6.55 billion this year, and an estimated 100,000 jobs, the medical plastics sector in the United States is a flourishing industry.
Engineers don’t normally find themselves being drooled on at work, but it comes with the territory when your “client” is a 1,900-pound draft horse with a sweet tooth. The horse, Fargo, thought Joseph Hirn, the software engineering student standing next to him, might have a peppermint in his hand; Fargo reached down to find out. Software engineering senior Joseph Hirn worked on a program that will help Frog Pond Farm rescue draft horses, like Fargo, above, from slaughter.
Presque Isle State Park in Erie is under siege. Invasive plant species are pushing out the native species and that spells trouble for the insects, animals, and microorganisms that rely on native plants. It’s an epic battle that has ensnared the park’s trees in the vines of Oriental bittersweet, filled the wetlands with Phragmitesaustralis, and clogged paths with garlic mustard.
Penn State Behrend students already have raised $14,000 for this
year’s THON, which begins Feb. 16. To contribute, go to www.thon.org,
click “Donate Now,” and select Behrend as your organization of
choice.
The four games created by students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College, last week were inspired by the sound of a heartbeat – the
assigned theme for this year’s Global Game Jam, an annual hacker
marathon – and by a ticking clock: The teams had just 48 hours to
create, code and upload their games, which anyone can now play.
Seventeen students are currently eligible, said Amy Carney,
assistant professor of history and the chapter’s adviser. She plans to
schedule guest speakers and career-development seminars for the
group.
“We’d like our students to learn more about what it means to be a
historian,” she said.
The first chapter of Phi Alpha Theta was formed in Arkansas in 1921.
The society now has more than 350,000 members.
They are expected to get even better. Tau Beta Pi members are required to tutor and do community service, and to be active at both social events and professional seminars.
“We want members of our society to constantly enhance their education beyond the formal classroom,” said Bill Lasher, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering and adviser to the chapter, which was formally installed in late January.
“She still has some time left,” said Roz Fornari, head coach of the Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team. “We’ll see at the end of it where she fits into the record books.”
Penn State Behrend has been named one of the 10 best branch campuses "with impressive reputations all their own" – a list that also includes satellites of Carnegie Mellon, Tufts and T
“She still has some time left,” said Roz Fornari, head coach of the Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team. “We’ll see at the end of it where she fits into the record books.”
Penn State Behrend has been named one of the 10 best branch campuses "with impressive reputations all their own" – a list that also includes satellites of Carnegie Mellon, Tufts and T