Jason Bostron won the Student Poster Competition at the Annual Spring Workshop for the Center for Acoustics and Vibration (CAV). The workshop is a two day event held at the Nittany Lion Inn and attended by corporate sponsors, international liaisons, US government liaisons and Penn State CAV faculty and students. Graduate students from a variety of engineering disciplines in the fields of acoustics and/or vibration submitted posters for the session held at the Café Laura on the University Park campus. Bostron’s poster was on the use of ultrasonic guided interface waves for bond evaluation of coatings on metal structures. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Acoustics and is advised by Dr. Joseph Rose.

The Fall 2012 project team from the ESC 497 Multidisciplinary Design Project course was honored with the Most Innovative Video award at the College of Engineering Design Showcase in late April.

The winning team developed an interactive display demonstrating the workings of a pneumatic tube for the Discovery Space children’s museum in State College. The display had two coils of transparent tubing and allowed the children to pick a path – either a dollar bill flowing to a collection box, or a colored ping-pong ball that is launched toward the ceiling requiring the kids to chase it around the room.

Team members were Austin Darigo, Melanie Macek, Daniel Severns, and John Sonnelitter, and the instructor was Mike Erdman. The video can be viewed on the Learning Factory website for future students and industry sponsors to see what our students can do.