Eight undergraduate Penn State engineering students presented their senior capstone projects to a crowd of 50 guests at the inaugural Design Expo on the Penn State Great Valley campus in Malvern on Wednesday evening. This is the first class of students to graduate from Penn State with a bachelor of engineering degree with a multidisciplinary engineering design specialization, thanks to a partnership among the Abington, Brandywine and Great Valley campuses.
In collaboration with the Brandywine and Abington campuses, the Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies will host its first Design Expo on April 26. As part of the inaugural event, two teams of undergraduate students will showcase their senior capstone projects as a culmination of their engineering education at Penn State.
This spring Penn State expects to award 13,604 diplomas to students University-wide. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State’s 24 locations.
Penn State Berks will hold an information session for the master of business administration program from 6 to 7 p.m. April 28 in Room 157 of the Franco Building on campus. Penn State Great Valley offers its MBA course at Penn State Berks.
Eighty local students in grades seven through 12 spent their Saturday in Penn State’s recently constructed engineering suite, located at Penn State Great Valley in Malvern. The suite serves as a hub for the University’s regional undergraduate engineering program between Penn State Brandywine, Abington and Great Valley.
Penn State, along with other universities that have a presence in the Philadelphia region, has learned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that there have been vague threats on social media of violence at "a Philadelphia area University." The FBI indicated that similarly vague threats have been made on social media across the country in the last several days.
Penn State Financial Literacy Manager Daad Rizk has compiled a list of six basic financial tips to help students successfully adapt to life away from home.