Prospective students and their parents can explore engineering majors available at Penn State at the Engineering Open House on Saturday, Feb. 28. The day's events begin at 8 a.m. and include programs in the College of Engineering, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the College of Information Sciences and Technology. Open house activities include information sessions on special programs, department tours and campus tours. Faculty, staff and students will be on hand to answer questions about advising, financial aid, housing, cooperative education, study abroad and more.

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Osama Awadelkarim, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, attended the 2009 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists, February 11 - 15, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Engineering Science and Mechanics Graduate Student Council have announced the winners of the 5th Annual ESM Graduate Student Symposium. Congratulations to all of the winners.

Paper Competition. Paper Grand Prize winner Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani is shown with ESM alum and member of the ESM Alumni Advisory Board, Mr. Glen Chatfield, guest presenter.

Grand Prize - Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani
First Place - Sean Pursel
Second Place - Sz-Chin Steven Lin
Third Place - Michael Lapsley
Honorable Mention - Yina Wei, Nick Chernyy, Jaya Koduru, Vivek Verma

Poster Competition. Glen Chatfield presents the Grand Prize Poster Award to Daniel Ahmed.
Grand Prize - Daniel Ahmed
First Place - Xu Huang
Second Place - Jinjie Shi
Third Place - Hongyan Yuan
Honorable Mention - Yue Bing Zheng, Changjin Huang, Dana Andre

The 2/13/09 issue of MRI-eMaterials spotlights the research of Barbara A. Shaw, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Dr. Shaw's recent research involves creating a magnesium alloy material that can be controllably and safely dissolved in the body.

Article courtesy of Materials Research Institute.

ESM Graduate Student Council President Daniel Ahmed invites you to attend the 5th Annual ESM Graduate Student Symposium, 9:00 a.m., Saturday, February 14, 2009. Two parallel Paper Sessions will be held in the morning in rooms 114 and 116 EES Building. The purpose of the symposium is to showcase research activities of Engineering Science and Mechanics graduate students. First through third prizes will be awarded to the best in the paper and poster competitions. This year's Symposium honors ESM Professor Emeritus Norman Davids.

ESM Today is sponsored by the ESM Graduate Student Council:
Daniel Ahmed; President
Balu Krishna Juluri; Vice-President
Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani; Secretary
Michael Muelly; Treasurer

Dr. Lawrence Friedman, Assistant Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will be attending The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) 2009 meeting as Vice Chair of the NMMB committee. Additionally, Lawrence will be presenting a paper on “Finite Temperature Continuum Modeling with Applications to Film Evolutions. The meeting will be held on February 14 – 18 in San Francisco, CA. To learn more about the meeting, please visit this web site.

Dr. Lawrence Freidman, assistant professor in engineering science and mechanics, will be attending the TMS 2009 Annual Meeting and Exhibition in San Francisco, California from February 15 - 19, 2009. To learn more about the TMS meeting, please visit their website.