Astronaut Charles Camarda visited Penn State in the Fall of '08.
Photos from the Iron Lion Design Challenge '08
Photos from the Iron Lion Design Challenge '08
Students play Wii Fencing at ASME DETC '09.
Upcoming and Recent Events
This new course will be taught in the spring semester of 2010.
November 11, 2009
Bill Dowell, Director of Research at Herman Miller, Inc. was a seminar series speaker this Fall.
Interdisciplinary Design as an Instructional Discipline
The NSF-sponsored Workshop Series, "Interdisciplinary Design as an Instructional Discipline", has concluded. A complete listing of workshop venues may be found under the "Workshop Series" link. Additional content, including attendees, presentation slides, discussions, and videos are available for some workshops.
Iron Lion Design Challenge 2009
In the second annual Iron Lion Design Challenge, thirteen students and several faculty members collaborated on a variety of design projects. The projects included a universally-designed portable appliance, a system for serving targeted advertising (à la Minority Report), and an improved gripper, among others. The Iron Lion Design Challenge is a multidisciplinary student design competition with support from multiple industry sponsors and several Penn State Faculty members.
Iron Lion Design Challenge 2008
Like the popular Food Network program Iron Chef, the Iron Lion Design Challenge requires teamwork, skill, and expeditiousness to succeed. Given only one week, teams of engineering students participating in the Challenge at Penn State's University Park campus are required to design and build a working prototype of a device dictated by the theme of the event. In this inaugural year, 11 students, 6 faculty members, and 5 industry collaborators came together to design adaptive and co-adaptive medical devices.
