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1. Dr. Siu Ling Leung Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Dr. Siu Ling Leung is an Assistant Teaching Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University. She is developing a new engineering laboratory curriculum to empower studen

2. Dr. Eric Marsh Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Dr. Eric Marsh is the Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Engineering Education and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs. He has worked with departmental colleagues to introduce several new required courses in the mechanical engineering program. He is an ABET program evaluator and leads the ME accreditation effort at Penn State.

3. Dr. Stephen Lynch Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Dr. Stephen Lynch is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the Experimental and Computational Convection Laboratory at Penn State. He received his BSME from the University of Wyoming, and his MS and PhD from Virginia Tech.

4. Dr. H. J. Sommer III Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Joe Sommer joined Penn State in 1980 following completion of his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and has served as Interim Head of the Department and as Graduate Coordinator. He was a founder of ECSEL, one of the original NSF Engineering Educational Coalitions. His research interests include mechatronics, three-dimensional kinematics, biomechanics and vehicle dynamics with recent projects ranging from multibody dynamics, to locomotion in microgravity, to tractor overturn, to unmanned air vehicles (UAV). He is a member of ASB and ISB and is Fellow of ASME.

5. Dr. Sean N. Brennan http://orcid.org/https://0000-0001-9844-6948 Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Dr.Sean Brennan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering since graduating with his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. He is the director of the Intelligent Vehicles and Systems Group, and his research focuses on vehicle dynamics and automation, ground robotics, and map-based sensing algorithms and data-fusion.

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6. Prof. Tak-Sing Wong The Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Dr. Tak-Sing Wong is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the holder of Wormley Family Early Career Professorship at Penn State. His current research focuses on bio-inspired materials design with applications in water, energy, medicine, and environmental sustainability. For his research contributions, Dr. Wong was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and honored by the White House for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

7. Prof. Brian M. Foley The Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Dr. Brian M. Foley is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and member of the Materials Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia. His laboratory specializes in the application and development of advanced opto-thermal characterization techniques for probing nanoscale thermal phenomena in novel material systems and electronic device architectures.

8. Dr. Jean-Michel Mongeau Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Jean-Michel Mongeau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University. He directs the Bio-Motion Systems lab which studies the neuro-mechanics and control of aerial and terrestrial locomotion in animals and machines. Dr. Mongeau received a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Biophysics and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. He is the recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) award and is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience.

9. Dr. Daniel H. Cortes Penn State University [biography]

   Dr. Cortes is a mechanical engineer whose research is focused on the diagnosis of injuries and diseases in orthopedic tissues. He completed his Ph.D. studies at West Virginia University; then, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the school of medicine o

10. Prof. Karen A. Thole Pennsylvania State University [biography]

    Dr. Karen A. Thole is a Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. As the Department head, her administrative and educational efforts have focused on significantly growing the faculty, diversifying the faculty and students, and emphasizing interdisciplinary research. Dr. Thole has been recognized for her efforts in mechanical engineering education and diversity as a U.S. White House Champion of Change, and by ASME’s Edwin F. Church Medal, ABET’s Claire L. Felbinger Diversity Award, and SWE’s Distinguished Engineering Educator Award. She has also been recognized for her faculty mentoring efforts through Penn State’s Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award and Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award.

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