As part of an ongoing grant from the National Science Foundation, Kathryn Jablokow, professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering at Penn State Great Valley, worked alongside Mohamed Megahed and Pratik Pachpute, two Great Valley graduate students, to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurial teams. Their research paper won second place in the entrepreneurial division of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Penn State Great Valley will host the annual Tech360 conference 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 18. Now in its sixth year, the event draws IT professionals, thought leaders, and industry innovators from the area’s top companies to discuss how to best leverage the latest technology in today’s business climate.
Penn State Great Valley will hold the second annual Lion Cage pitch competition from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10. The day will feature a pitch competition from early-stage entrepreneurs and a keynote address from Wayne Kimmel, managing partner of SeventySix Capital. A total of $5,000 in prizes will be awarded.
More than 10 graduate international students from Penn State Great Valley participated in internships this summer where they sharpened their technical and interpersonal skills. Several students share their experiences and how it prepared them for future careers.
Currently, seven campus police stations are equipped with naloxone, including Beaver, Berks, Brandywine, DuBois, Erie, Great Valley and University Park. Administrators continue to work with local and county agencies to equip officers with naloxone at the remaining campuses.
When issues and topics are controversial, conversations can quickly turn uncomfortable and divisive. To facilitate productive debate and discussion, Penn State Great Valley is holding “Conflict Is Not a Dirty Word,” a free event open to the public on Sept. 26.
Four new faculty members have joined Penn State Great Valley’s engineering division this year: Youakim Badr, associate professor of data analytics; Parhum Delgoshaei, assistant teaching professor of systems engineering; Everton Guimaraes, assistant professor of software engineering; and Partha Mukherjee, assistant professor of data analytics.
Members of the Penn State and local communities are invited to celebrate Constitution Day with on-campus events at University Park on Monday, Sept. 17, as well as activities at a number of Penn State campuses.
To engage Philadelphia professionals, Penn State at The Navy Yard will offer “Play Nice in the Sandbox: Leverage Your Personality to Get Ahead at Work,” a free workshop on Sept. 20. Participants will learn more about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and how individual preferences, strengths and working styles factor into a team environment.
Penn State has launched two new graduate certificates in the homeland security program — counterterrorism and cyber threat analytics and prevention — that can help prepare professionals to combat terrorism and cyberattacks.
