Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, delivered an invited lecture entitled "Thin-film materials called sculptured thin films," on August 25, 2009 at the Joint IFIN-HH/ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Trends in Nanoscience: Theory, Experiment, Technology.

For more information on this Workshop held August 23-30 in Sibiu, Romania, please visit this website.

Some College of Engineering students got a jump start on college. More than 200 students arrived at the University Park campus on Wednesday, Aug. 19, for orientation programs geared toward women and underrepresented groups. The annual Women in Engineering Program Orientation (WEPO) and Multicultural Engineering Program Orientation (MEPO) are designed to give students a strong foundation as they begin their academic careers at Penn State.
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Dinesh Agrawal, Professor of Materials, and Engr Sci and Mech, and Director of Microwave Processing and Engineering Center gave an invited talk at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa, India, on "Microwave Processing of Variety of Materials: An Overview," on August 5, 2009.

Dr. Melik Demirel, Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, presents a talk entitled "Pathogen sensing via surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy" at the American Chemical Society meeting in Nanorods and Microparticles in Homeland Security session, in Washington, DC, August 16-20, 2009. For more information, please visit this website.

Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, edited volumes 1 and II in Optical Guided-wave Chemical and Biosensors. These volumes contain nine chapters covering planar wave-guides for sensing as well as techniques based on plasmonics waveguides. For more books by Dr. Lakhtakia, please visit this web site.

Dr. Al Segall, Professor in Engineering Science and Mechanics, will chair conference sessions, present and organize at the 2009 American Society for Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Meeting. The meeting will be held on July 26 - 30 in Prague, Czech Republic.

To learn more about the conference, please visit their web site.