John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

A new process for creating thermally regenerative ammonia batteries improves their stability and affordability and may help address the country’s growing grid-scale energy storage problem, according to a team led by Penn State researchers.

At Penn State's spring commencement ceremony, when Avery Taylor fulfilled a long, often difficult journey to earning an energy engineering degree and began setting her sights on her next chapter, she cried seven times.

Several faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences received non-tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2022. 

Yashar Mehmani, assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, received a $629,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue an integrated modeling, experimental and educational plan to improve the basic understanding of failures in porous materials and develop a more accurate computational framework to predict them.

One recent evening, three student teams shuffled into the Steidle Building and were swiftly handed a detailed corporate briefing on Blue Vector Gas, a fictitious national pipeline company. For this capstone course experience, students spent the next 21 hours assuming the role of company leaders.