Recent Engineering News Items


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New engineering fraternity in the works

Author: Jennifer Prechtl

Coming up on January 26, 2013, the official installation of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society will occur at Penn State Behrend.  

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Is your iPhone spying on you?

Author: M. Justin Smith

Carrier IQ is a piece of software that manufacturers can put onto phones to look at every little thing you do on your phone.  However, the companies that use this software on their phones are insisting that it does not send them the information from your texts or photos or other data, it just sends them the information needed to understand how the user uses their phone and information on connection problems that may occur with the phone.

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Graduate students stir controversy

Author: Alec Italiano

Recently, Penn State Behrend has contracted the help of graduate students from University Park to teach some engineering courses (E MECH 211 Statics, ME 349 Intermediate mechanics of materials, ME 357 System Dynamics and MATSE 259 Material Science just to name a few).

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iOS upgrade features many new aspects

Author: Imade oSifo & Justin Smith

Last month, Apple unleashed their latest version of the iOS operating system. This time however, instead of the usual limited addition of features and fixes, iOS 5 looks like it will be bringing a vast list of over 200 features, along with a new way of viewing your notifications. 

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Behrend celebrates National Chemistry Week

Author: Jess Tropp

National Chemistry week lasted from Oct. 16-22. As one of the participating schools, Behrend’s Chemistry club painted windows of the Otto Behrend Science building last month, and judged posters for a grade school contest. Chemistry club and its advisor, Mrs. Halmi, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Penn State Behrend and Chairperson of National Chemistry week for the American Chemical Society, helped run Potter’s Potions, later renamed Hogwarts Potions and Chemical Magic.

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