STEM Blog

Pictured: Duct-tape a friend was one of several challenges hosted during this year's engineers week competition

Pictured: YSU CCET students Soma Albert, Sidney Laughner and Ryan Bedlion work on the project.

Pictured: YSU Students take advantage of the JCP Suit-Up Event for huge discounts on their professional wardrobe

Pictured: Mahoning County Coroner's Office Reps pose at their info table (left); students learn how to dust for fingerprints (right)

Last month, STEM students and alumni geared up for another hybrid (face-to-face and virtual) STEM Expo hosted by the STEM Professional Services, Careers, Internships and Co-ops office.

Anish Chougule, Abhinav Giri, Ian Jones, Gyaneshwar Agrahari, and Nishan Adhikari made up the 2021 YSU Putnam Mathematical Competition team. Overall, 2975 students participated from 427 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. 

Pictured: YSU students check out a new waste water de-watering press

Pictured: James Molnar

Altronic is a world leading manufacturer of ignition and control systems for industrial engines largely used in the oil and gas industry. It was established in 1955 originally as the Economy Engine company by local Youngstown business chieftains Leon Beeghly, William Bliss and William Kilcawley.

The Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center, located within the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, is a Department of Veterans Affairs Research Center in the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service.

Pictured from left: Emily Campbell, Jenna Pavlansky, and Emily Carnahan

This Spring, the STEM Expo returns on Thursday, February 24th from 12-4pm in the Stambaugh Stadium with the hybrid model, offering in-person and virtual options for meeting with registered employers. Read on for important details!

This Spring, the STEM Expo returns on Thursday, February 24th from 12-4pm in the Stambaugh Stadium with the hybrid model, offering in-person and virtual options for meeting with registered employers. Read on for important details!

Cole Sexton, a senior Chemical Engineering major, interned at Lordstown Motors during Summer 2021. His amazing experience led him to win the 2021 YSU STEM Intern of the Year award!

Cole Sexton, a senior Chemical Engineering major, interned at Lordstown Motors during Summer 2021. His amazing experience led him to win the 2021 YSU STEM Intern of the Year award!

Alicia Lonsinger is a Civil Engineering major from Walhonding, Ohio, currently in her junior year.

Catch up with YSU alumni, Evan Bollinger. Evan attended YSU from 2010-2014 and received a B.E. in Civil Engineering in May 2014.

ms consultants was founded in 1963, right in Youngstown, Ohio, by Thomas F. Mosure and Thomas Fok. The company was originally started as a transportation engineering services provider.

Shuvra Bijukshe is a student in the Masters in Civil Engineering program, originally from Kathmandu, Nepal.

Youngstown State's chapter of Tau Beta Pi, also known as the Ohio Lambda Chapter, is an honor society for engineering students who choose to go above and beyond in their academics and extra-curricular activities. Congratulations to those who were initiated in Fall 2021!

Pictured: Erin Garrett poses next to her winning research poster!

After a 4th place finish in the regional competition last spring, the YSU Chem-E-Car team recently traveled to Boston to participate in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference and Chem-E-Car Competition.

Our daily lives have become inundated with computers and networks. It is pretty much impossible to think of anything we do that does not incorporate some type of computer or computer program. From driving our cars to how the power grid is being managed is done with computers.