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Learning Factory Faculty and Staff

Program Administrators

Please contact one of the following if you have questions about the Learning Factory Capstone Design Project Program. Please contact Steven White or Matt Hassinger if you have questions about the Learning Factory Shops located in the new Engineering Design and Innovation Building on West Campus.

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Matthew Parkinson, Learning Factory Director
406 EDI Building
814-863-9079
mbp11@psu.edu

Cindy Winkelblech

Cindy Winkelblech, Industry Relations Coordinator
405 EDI Building
814-863-6380
ckb2@psu.edu

Contact Cindy to discuss your project's financial sponsorship support (gift/donation).

Jessica Menold, Associate Director for Outreach and Inclusion
417B EDI Building
jdm5407@psu.edu

Jesse Torba, Industry Relations Coordinator
408 EDI Building
814-863-1229
jjt5008@psu.edu

Contact Jesse to discuss your capstone project idea.

Learning Factory Shop Supervisors

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Matt Hassinger
116B EDI Building
814-865-1079
hmh103@psu.edu

Steven White

Steven White
116B EDI Building
814-867-5335
srw227@psu.edu

Project Coordinators

For questions about a project in a specific department, please contact:

Biomedical Engineering

Daniel Hayes

Daniel Hayes
814-865-0780
djh195@psu.edu

Computer Engineering

Oren Gall

Oren Gall
814-863-5142
ozg1@psu.edu

Computer Science

Al Verbanec

Al Verbanec
814-863-1469
acv@psu.edu

Engineering Design

David Mazyck

David Mazyck
814-863-1510
dwm110@psu.edu

Electrical Engineering

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David Cubanski
814-359-6290
djc24@psu.edu

Energy Engineering

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Semih Eser
814-863-1392
sxe2@psu.edu

Industrial Engineering

Brian Zajac

Brian Zajac
814-554-0307
btz5026@psu.edu

Material Science and Engineering

R. Allen Kimel

R. Allen Kimel
814-865-5397
rak189@psu.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Gary Neal

Gary Neal
814-863-5468
gln103@psu.edu

Program Administrators
Project Coordinators
Student Teaching Assistants

About

Our mission is to help bring the real-world into the classroom by providing engineering students with practical hands-on experience through industry-sponsored and client-based capstone design projects. Since its inception, the Learning Factory has completed more than 1,800 projects for more than 500 different sponsors, and nearly 9,000 engineering students at Penn State University Park participated in such a project.