Luis F. Ayala, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering and holder of the William A. Fustos Family Professorship in Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, assumed the head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State, effective July 1.
Six Penn State students' futures are bright. They recently took first place in their division of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar District Cup, a national collegiate competition that challenges multidisciplinary student teams to design and model distributed energy systems for a campus or district.
The Penn State team “Nittany Solar” comprised students in Nelson Dzade’s "EGEE 437: Design of Solar Energy Conversion Systems" class and included Khaleah Jackson, Olivia DiPrinzio, Olivia Williamson, Joseph Hokky, Al-Harith Al Amir and Mahmood AlFarqani.
The increased demand for clean water and its limited supply has made water management one of the most pressing challenges facing society today. Changing attitudes about water conservation could significantly impact water consumption and help address this issue, according to research led by Renee Obringer, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State.
Miners from CONSOL are working towards advancement to senior leadership with the help of the two-year associate degree program at Penn State.
June is National Pride Month in the United States, and in support on Saturday, June 8, the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) will participate in the State College Pride Parade and Festival, hosted by Centre LGBT+.
A Penn State research team was recently awarded a $4.99 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and assess advanced separation technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare earth elements and other critical materials from coal, coal wastes and coal by-products.
A project led by Mort Webster, professor of energy engineering at Penn State, has been selected to receive up to $815,959 from the Grid Deployment Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The team will evaluate prospective market design changes to efficiently integrate batteries and other unconventional resources into wholesale electricity markets, with the aim of improving electrical grid reliability.
Penn State students are making an impact on climate change at the local level by helping officials across Pennsylvania track the carbon footprint in their communities and recommending ways to reduce it.
Penn State ranked in 49 out of 55 subjects, with Mineral and mining engineering ranked 13, in the 2024 World University Rankings by Subject, released April 10 by London-based QS, one of the major three international organizations that annually rank academic institutions.
Using machine learning, researchers at Penn State have tied low-magnitude microearthquakes to the permeability of subsurface rocks beneath the Earth, a discovery that could have implications for improving geothermal energy transfer.