Spring 2022 Contest

Speakers
Session 1 
Sofia Szikman
Benjamin Zydney
​Lacy Harrington
Tyler Reinert

Session 2
Sybil Owusu-Bempah​
Evan Kase
Erica Selsey
Alex Gleba
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Emcees
Erin Carbaugh
​Belinda Mativenga

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Judges
Sarah Torhan
​Dr. Karen Thole
Rebecca Shaw

Department
Session 1
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science
​Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Session 2
Biomedical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Biological Engineering
​Aerospace Engineering

​Department
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
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​Affiliation
Alumna, Ph.D. Student in CEE
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
3rd Year, Comp Sci, Contestant, S21

Contest Results:
First Place:           
Second Place:     
Third Place:  

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Mechanical engineering sophomore Rachel Perini discusses the dangers in hip replacements and a possible solution at the Spring 2014 Contest.

Fall 2021 marks the eighteenth running of the contest. Attendance of the finals now exceeds 350 people and attendance of the semi-finals runs about 100 people. Because of the excellent effort by students and their instructors in their course Effective Speaking for Engineering (CAS 100A for Engineers), this contest is raising the level of presentations among all engineering students in the College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

To raise the level of presentations given by engineering undergraduates, the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education has initiated a contest in which engineering students from Penn State's College of Engineering vie to give the best 10-minute presentation that presents an engineering solution to a societal problem.​ The eight finalists arise from a nationally recognized speaking course for engineering students. More than 350 engineering students take this course each semester. Managing the contest is the Penn State student organization Utree (Undergraduate Research and Teaching Experiences in Engineering).

Kate Waskiw, a sophomore in industrial engineering, discusses using a new way to treat moringa seeds to purify water in the Fall 2014 Contest.