A sensor that will be launched on a NASA rocket and a GPS collar that will correct a wandering dog are among the senior design projects that students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will present Saturday at the Richard J. Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference.
“Who said economics is boring?” Dr. James Kurre, associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend, yells from the front car of the Ravine Flyer II roller coaster at Erie’s Waldameer Park, the perfect photo-op for illustrating an economy's characteristic uncertainties.
He wants the receptionist to move away from her computer. But he’s laughing. It could be the gun, which is plastic, and pink. It does sort of ruin the effect.
It could be that he’s new to this – not an actual police agent, but a student. An accounting major, of all things.
On the track, where he’d set his backpack, Corey Fetherlin checked his notes for FPD Co., which provides titanium forgings for the aerospace industry: “Small company. Family owned.”
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.
The men’s basketball team at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, should finish at or near the top of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, according to a preseason coaches’ poll.