ME Directory | Penn State Engineering

John Gershenson

Director of Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship
Teaching Professor

Affiliation(s):

School of Engineering Design and Innovation

Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship

Mechanical Engineering

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

123 S. Burrowes St, 2nd Floor

jzg322@psu.edu

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Research Areas:

Engineering Design; Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship

Interest Areas:

Humanitarian Engineering, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, Design for Developing Communities, Appropriate Design, Design Justice, Co-Design

Education

AB, Physics, Cornell University, 1989
MS, Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1991
Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho, 1995

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About

With more than 60 faculty members, 330 graduate students, and 1,000 undergraduate students, the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering embraces a culture that welcomes individuals with a diversity of backgrounds and expertise. Our faculty and students are innovating today what will impact tomorrow’s solutions to meeting our energy needs, homeland security, biomedical devices, and transportation systems. We offer B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering as well as resident (M.S., Ph.D.) and online (M.S.) graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. See how we’re inspiring change and impacting tomorrow at me.psu.edu.