The Learning Factory Directory | Penn State Engineering

Jessica Menold

Associate Professor

Affiliation(s):

School of Engineering Design and Innovation

Engineering Design

Mechanical Engineering

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Law, Policy, and Engineering

The Learning Factory

417B Engineering Design and Innovation Building

jdm5407@psu.edu

814-865-2952

Research Areas:

Engineering Design

Education

BS, Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013
Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2017

Publications

Journal Articles

Conference Proceedings

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

NSF CMMI Panel Fellow, National Science Foundation, March 2021 - March 2023

President's Award for Engagement with Students, The Pennsylvania State University, March 2021

Hartz Family Career Professorship, The Pennsylvania State University, November 2021

Service

Service to Penn State:

Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Assistant Director of Diversity and Inclusion, The Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory, January 2019

Service to External Organizations:

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.