08/2025:
The PAC Lab welcomes PhD students Joe Pisani and Casey Hess, MS students Ben Kauffman, Finn Beck, and Jake Fenimore, and undergraduate researcher Alexa Gulea.

08/2025:
Congrats to Alex Haefner on receiving the "best graduate project" award from the PIPELINE program!

07/2025:
Congrats to Josh Robbins and Andrew Thompson on winning the Best Paper Award from the ASME DSCD Energy Systems Technical Committee at the American Control Conference!

07/2025:
The PAC Lab presented two papers at the 2025 American Control Conference in Denver.

07/2025:
Dr. Pangborn is appointed as the Shuman Family Early Career Professor. This professorship was created "to supplement support for an outstanding early career faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering."

06/2025:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researcher Josh May.

05/2025:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Daniel Pienknagura. 

05/2025:
M.S. student Sarah Chekan is selected to receive a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Sarah will be going to Chile in 2026 to collaborate with the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Congratulations, Sarah!

05/2025:
Congrats to M.S. students Jacob Sichlau and Michael Williams, as well as B.S. students Courtney Proulx and Kaelea Hayes, on completing their degrees! Jacob will be joining the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO). Michael will be joining the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Courtney will be joining Aerotech. Kaelea will be continuing with the PAC Lab to pursue an M.S.

04/2025:
Congrats to Courtney Proulx for completing her undergraduate Honors Thesis!

03/2025:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Zoe Kunz. 

02/2025:
Dr. Pangborn presents a seminar at Purdue University. You can watch the seminar here: https://youtu.be/y-P-CLFjRIE?si=wUflwmI88KdwBB1W.

02/2025:
Dr. Pangborn presents a Control Seminar at the University of Michigan. You can watch the seminar here: https://youtu.be/-sZec0hdQb0?si=ptXrWjfKHnqJXX3l. 

01/2025:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researcher Stephen McGlynn and undergraduate researcher Jason Lee.

01/2025:
Penn State News writes an article about our recent grant from the Office of Naval Research.

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