10/2024:
Dr. Pangborn receives the Young Investigator Program award from the Office of Naval Research, one of 24 awardees from more than 230 applicants. See the press release here and full list of projects here.

09/2024:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Rejat Krishnan.

08/2024:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researchers Ben Hudson and Alex Haefner!

07/2024:
The PAC Lab presented three papers at the 2024 American Control Conference in Toronto.

07/2024:
The PAC Lab presented a paper at the 2024 IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems in Boulder.

07/2024:
Congrats to Ph.D. student Andrew Thompson for passing his comprehensive exam!

07/2024:
Congrats to Adim Seeler on completing his M.S. degree! Adim will be joining P.C. Krause & Associates as a Lead Engineer.

07/2024:
Congrats to Jonah Glunt on completing his M.S. degree! Jonah will be continuing with the PAC Lab to pursue a Ph.D.

06/2024:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researcher Sarah Chekan!

05/2024:
Congrats to Kaelea Hayes on receiving an Erickson Discovery Grant!

04/2024:
Congrats to Jonah Glunt for passing the ME Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!

02/2024:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Liam McIntyre!

12/2023:
The PAC Lab presented a paper at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Singapore.

12/2023:
Congrats to Ph.D. student Jake Siefert on his successful dissertation defense!

12/2023:
Congrats to Andrew Thompson on completing his M.S. degree! Andrew will be continuing with the PAC Lab to pursue a Ph.D.

12/2023:
Peraton wrote a case study to highlight their collaborations with the PAC Lab.

10/2023:
Jonah Glunt was featured in a PSU news article recognizing his NDSEG Fellowship.

10/2023:
Congrats to Josh Robbins for passing the ME Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!

10/2023:
The PAC Lab presented a paper at the 2023 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference in Lake Tahoe, NV.

09/2023:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researchers Courtney Proulx, Kaelea Hayes, and Conner Lawler!

08/2023:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researcher Jacob Sichlau!

08/2023:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researchers Joshua Robbins and Michael Williams!

08/2023:
The PAC Lab presented two papers at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications in Bridgetown, Barbados.

06/2023:
The PAC Lab presented one paper at the 2023 AIAA Aviation Forum in San Diego, CA.

06/2023:
Congrats to Joe Broniszewski on receiving an Erickson Discovery Grant!

06/2023:
The PAC Lab presented one paper at the 2023 American Control Conference in San Diego, CA.

06/2023:
Congrats to former PAC Lab member Ian Rivera on receiving the Astronaut Scholarship!

05/2023:
Congrats to M.S. student Jason Lord and B.S. students Carly Dunford and Madison O'Hara on completing their degrees! Jason will be working for Pratt & Whitney, Carly will be working for Boeing, and Carly will be working for Lockheed Martin.

05/2023:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Bhavya Jain!

04/2023:
Congrats to Carly Dunford for completing her undergraduate Honors Thesis!

03/2023:
Congrats to Jonah Glunt for receiving the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award! Jonah also received Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

03/2023:
Congrats to Jake and Allison Siefert on the birth of their first child, Mae Siefert!

01/2023:
The PAC Lab welcomes graduate researcher Adim Seeler!

01/2023:
Congrats to Ph.D. student Seho Park for passing his comprehensive exam!

12/2022:
The PAC Lab presented two papers at the 2022 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Cancun, Mexico.

11/2022:
Our IEEE TCST paper on hierarchical control for integrated propulsion, power, and thermal management of a UAV is now accessible via early access. 

10/2022:
Congrats to Andrew Thompson for passing the ME Qualifying Exam!

08/2022:
Congrats to Ph.D. student Jake Siefert for passing his comprehensive exam!

08/2022:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Joseph Broniszewski!

07/2022:
Our IEEE L-CSS paper on reachability of hybrid systems is now accessible via early access. 

06/2022:
Honored to be a co-author on this year's American Control Conference Best Student Paper! It was great to present our work on two collaborative projects at ACC.

05/2022:
Congrats to Andrew Iezzi on completing his M.S. degree! Andrew will be joining Pratt & Whitney as a software engineer.

05/2022:
Congrats to undergraduate researcher Jonah Glunt for graduating with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering! We're thrilled that Jonah is staying at Penn State to pursue a graduate degree.

4/2022:
Congrats to Carly Dunford for receiving the Boeing Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Junior Award! This award recognizes the third-year Penn State mechanical engineering undergraduate student who has made the most important contribution to forwarding the research in their selected areas of concentration.

04/2022:
Congrats to Jonah Glunt for completing his undergraduate Honors Thesis!

11/2021:
Our IEEE L-CSS paper on discrete reachability is now accessible via early access. 

09/2021:
The PAC Lab welcomes Ph.D. student Andrew Thompson from the University of Delaware!

09/2021:
Congrats to Jake Siefert and Seho Park for passing the ME Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!

09/2021:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Carly Dunford, a member of the Schreyer Honors College!

09/2021:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Ian Rivera, a member of the Millennium Scholars Program!

09/2021:
The latest edition of the "Focus on Materials" bulletin includes a profile on Prof. Pangborn.

08/2020:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Madison O'Hara, a member of the ME Scholars Program!

08/2021:
Our IEEE TCST paper on hybrid battery balancing systems is now accessible via early access. 

08/2021:
Congrats to Gurjap Singh for completing his Postdoc with the PAC Lab and joining Mesodyne Inc.

08/2021:
Congrats to Gregory Gorski for defending his paper on graph-based modeling of thermal systems and receiving his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

08/2021:
The PAC Lab will soon begin work on a $1.5 million collaborative grant to study autonomous hypersonic vehicle flight planning.

05/2021:
Congrats to undergraduate researcher Jason Lord for graduating with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering! We're thrilled that Jason is staying at Penn State to pursue an M.S. and will remain with the lab this summer to initiate a new collaborative project with Prof. Joseph Najem.

04/2021:
Arduino Education releases a case study on Dr. Pangborn's course, ME 348. He was also a guest on their EDUvision YouTube show to talk about how hands-on learning can be brought to remote courses.

04/2021:
Both papers submitted to the 2021 IEEE CCTA have been accepted!

04/2021:
Our journal article on distributed cooling and conference paper on control co-design are now available.

03/2021:
Penn State News writes an article on Dr. Pangborn's new course, ME 348.

01/2021:
Members of the PAC Lab submit two papers to the 2021 IEEE CCTA.

01/2021:
The paper and invited session proposal submitted to ACC 2021 have both been accepted! The invited session is titled "Advances in Control Co-Design."

01/2021:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Jonah Glunt, a member of the Schreyer Honors College!

01/2021:
The PAC Lab welcomes M.S. student Andrew Iezzi!

09/2020:
The PAC Lab submits one paper to ACC 2021, with Dr. Pangborn co-organizing an invited session proposal on advances in control co-design.

08/2020:
The PAC Lab welcomes Postdoctoral Scholar Gurjap Singh from the University of Iowa!

08/2020:
The PAC Lab welcomes Ph.D. student Seho Park from Pusan National University, South Korea!

07/2020:
The PAC Lab welcomes Ph.D. student Jacob Siefert from the University of Minnesota!

06/2020:
Dr. Pangborn is elected as Award Chair of the ASME DSCD Energy Systems Technical Committee.

05/2020:
The PAC Lab welcomes M.S. student Gregory Gorski!

05/2020:
The PAC Lab welcomes undergraduate researcher Jason Lord!

03/2020:
Dr. Pangborn is selected for the 2020 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (AFRL SFFP).

01/2020:
The paper and invited session proposal submitted by Dr. Pangborn to ACC 2020 have both been accepted.

01/2020:
The PAC Lab is founded at Penn State University.

09/2019:
Dr. Pangborn submits one paper to ACC 2020 and co-organizes an invited session proposal on energy management in vehicle systems.

08/2019:
Penn State News publishes a brief profile on Dr. Pangborn. You can read it here.

07/2019:
Dr. Pangborn's ACC 2019 paper, "Cooperativity and Hierarchical MPC of State-Constrained Switched Power Flow Systems," receives the ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee Best Paper Award from among 19 initial nominations and three finalists presented at the conference.

07/2019:
Dr. Pangborn organizes an invited session and authors two papers at the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC).