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Leonhard Center Speaking Contest
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Contest:
September 9, 2020
​7:00 p.m.
Online



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Films of Past Contests

Fall 2020 Contest

Speakers
Matthew Capece
 
Emily Denison

Joshua Famous
Allyson Motts
Jennifer Sena

Reilly Smith
​Harsh Tyagi
​Clay Bacastow


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Coordinators
Dean Ellis
​Emily Robinson


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Judges
Thomas Sambolt
​Sarah Torhan
​Michael Houser




Department
Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
​Aerospace Engineering
​Mechanical Engineering

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Department
Aerospace Engineering

Biomedical Engineering
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​Affiliation
Director, Naval Nuclear Laboratory
Grad Student, CEE, Penn State
​Stress Analyst, Boeing


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www.navalnuclearlab.energy.gov
Contest Results:
First Place:           Joshua Famous       
Second Place:      Jennifer Sena      
People's Choice:  Reilly Smith  
People's Choice:  Allyson Motts 

First Session of Fall 2020 Leonhard Center Speaking Contest

Second Session of Fall 2020 Leonhard Center Speaking Contest


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Mechanical engineering sophomore Rachel Perini discusses the dangers in hip replacements and a possible solution at the Spring 2014 Contest.
Fall 2019 marks the fourteenth running of the contest. Attendance of the finals now exceeds 350 people and attendance of the semi-finals runs about 100 people. Because of the excellent effort by students and their instructors in their course Effective Speaking for Engineering (CAS 100A for Engineers), this contest is raising the level of presentations among all engineering students in the College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.
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 eight finalists arise from a nationally recognized speaking course for engineering students. More than 350 engineering students take this course each semester. Managing the contest is the Penn State student organization Utree (Undergraduate Research and Teaching Experiences in Engineering).
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Kate Waskiw, a sophomore in industrial engineering, discusses using a new way to treat moringa seeds to purify water in the Fall 2014 Contest.
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