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Leonhard Center Speaking Contest
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​September 6, 2017
26 Hosler


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Films of Past Contests

Fall 2017 Contest

Tyler Blankenship 
Ben Cutler
Shane Lutton
Meghna Benoy 
Caleb Martin 
Emily Reisman 

John Taltavall 
Noah Willis 
Computer Science
Industrial Engineering
Biological Engineering
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
​Chemical Engineering

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Meghna Benoy, a computer engineering student, discusses a new technique for stopping blood flow from wounds. Meghna finished second in the contest.

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Mechanical engineering sophomore Caleb Martin discussing a new method for cleaning trash from harbors. Caleb finished first in the contest.
This semester marks the tenth running of the contest. Attendance of the finals now exceed 250 people and attendance of the semi-finals runs about 75 people. Because of the excellent effort by students and their instructors in their course Effective Speaking for Engineering, this contest is raising the level of presentations among all engineering students in the Penn State College of Engineering.
To raise the level of presentations given by engineering undergraduates, the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education has initiated a contest in which engineering students from Penn State's College of Engineering vie to give the best 10-minute presentation that presents an engineering solution to a societal problem.​ The contest draws from the hundreds of Penn State engineering students who each semester take a course on effective speaking. Managing the contest is the Penn State student organization Utree (Undergraduate Research and Teaching Experiences in Engineering).
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Industrial engineering sophomore John Taltavall discussing a new surgery technique.

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