“The senior capstone design course is a culminating experience for undergraduate seniors in the Penn State College of Engineering, where interdisciplinary teams take an idea from concept to reality. By fusing their academic knowledge and experiences to tackle a real-world problem, the students prepare themselves…
Reservoir Studio and the Electroactive Materials Characterization Lab (EMCLab) co-sponsored an undergraduate engineering team in the spring 2017 Design Challenge. The Learning Factory coordinates the Design Challenge event every semester. Reservoir Studio and EMCLab challenged a team of five undergraduate engineering students to make an…
Ismaila Dabo, Zoubeida Ounaies, and Steve Carpenter (from Reservoir Studio) are recipients of a 2016 Humanitarian Materials Engineering Award for their project Expanding the Capacity to Confront the Global Water Crisis: Exploring Affordable Possibilities and Increased Effectiveness of Point-of-Use Ceramic Water Filters with Metallic Nanoparticles. Click here for more information….
The studio was full of energy yesterday for a summer session of Filter Friday. We spent the afternoon engaged in some overdue cleanup and repairs, rather than making filters. The afternoon was very productive thanks to a small group of volunteers. Thanks for your hard work….
More than 1,700 fifth-grade students attended the 2015 Great Lakes Children’s Water Festival, held May 14 on the campus of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The students came from school districts in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio to attend the festival, which the Water…