Professor Emeritus Andrew Pytel has announcedl his fall commonwealth campus visit schedule. During the visits, Dr. Pytel will meet with groups of students interested in pursuing engineering science as their engineering major of choice. If you are interested in participating in a meeting at your campus, please contact Stacy Smith at sls60@psu.edu.

Dr. Sulin Zhang is teaching a three-credit graduate-level course on Multiscale Modeling of Materials spring semester 2009. The course will discuss computational methods that couple different length and time scales ranging from nano to micro.

The course is offered as E MCH 597A and will be taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:15 - 5:30 pm. To register for the course, use schedule code number 232048.

For additional information, contact Dr. Zhang at:

Office phone: (814) 865-7640
Office address: 411D EES BL
E-mail: suz10@psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.esm.psu.edu/zhang

In July 2008, the Powder Metal Industry held its 44th year of offering the Basic Powder Metallurgy Short Course in State College. Course participants came from many industry segments including parts fabricators, jewelry manufacturers, medical parts end users, friction component manufacturers, abrasive component fabricators and oil drilling fabricators. Penn State's Center for Innovative Sintered Products (CISP) hosted course participants in a tour of the Center's facilities that included a presentation of research activities.

Dr. Bernhard R. Tittmann is teaching EMch 597A - "Physical Principles in Biomedical Ultrasonics" fall semester 2008. This graduate level course addresses the physical principles of advanced ultrasonic imaging and quantitative data acquisition techniques in the field of biology and medicine.

For more information contact Dr. Tittmann at 5-7827 or by e-mail at brt4@psu.edu.