Advisory Board member and former part-time faculty member Chuck Thomas and his wife, Karen, have made a commitment to name the Electronics Lab at Penn State Great Valley. The lab provides classroom and working space for students in the regional engineering – multidisciplinary engineering design option and serves as a resource for the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship.
The University Staff Advisory Council, which serves the president and administration in an advisory capacity about issues that have an impact on staff across the University, has elected new leaders for 2018-19.
Working adults across southeastern Pennsylvania can receive an AACSB-accredited Master of Business Administration from Penn State — customized to their needs and conveniently located to work or home. In addition to their campus in Malvern, Penn State Great Valley now offers its MBA in Abington, Philadelphia, and Reading.
Graduate and undergraduate students learned more about energy sustainability and connected with leaders in the industry through the Energy Innovation Leadership Experience at Penn State at The Navy Yard.
Penn State Great Valley will host "Bringing the World to PA" event on Sept. 12 for Pennsylvania companies to meet with trade representatives for over 50 companies. The event is designed to fuel international business for southeastern Pennsylvania exporters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
