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BEACON ~. .1.; -7 . • ...•-••• Vol. XLVIII No. 4 14 pages Knowledge Park's growth benefits Behrend by Michael Frawley managing editor Krum 'ethic Park has continued its development Orr this past summer. It now contains two tenants. Aalborg Industries and the GE e-commerce team. NA ith more groups looking into becoming part of Knowledge Park. After opening this past January, Knowledge Park has been attracting interest front man., groups. and the school is preparing lor further expan- Kno\\ ledge Park is a research and development program on the Penn State Rehrend campus. It was cre ated to enable knowledge based or ganiiations to be able to locale closer to the school and alloy, them to take better ad \ antage of the College's in tellectual and physical resources. The organisations that are based in Knowl edge Park will be closely linked to Penn State Behrend's technology anstei. applied research. and educa tion and outreach services in order to accelerate competiti e advantages for the organ i tat ions and help create greater regional eomontic develop ment. Kni iv, ledge Park was created to benefit the campus and also the com nnuiity as a whole. It will enable stu dents at Bchrend to perform intern ships w ith the companies that are working in Knowledge Park, creating new educational e perience for stu dents. Employees of Knowledge Park will also be able to conduct classes for students dealing with the work that their company performs. The orga nizations will also benefit from being located in Knowledge Park. They will have access to graduate students, edu cation, and training and support pro grams connected with the school. Telecommunications and distance education programs will also he avail able to the organizations at Knowl- BEACON GOES COLOR... The past few weeks, the Behrend Beacon has begun a series of changes to the appear ance of the newspaper in hopes of catching the attention of our readers. This week, we have finally reached our goal. The Beacon, for the first time in history, is featuring color photos on the front page. With help from numerous sources, especially our printers The Cony Journal, this has been made possible. Although this change is the most obvious, the Beacon has made numerous other changes to improve the overall quality of the paper. Changes such as the weather outlook, the index, a new design to the front page, wire service articles from around the world, horo scopes, advertisements helpful to students, and new features such as "Event of the Week," and "Student Club of the Week" have all brought us closer to our goal of putting out a news paper that the entire Penn State Behrend community can be proud of. Our work, however, is not complete. We soon hope to be a member of the Associated Press. This will help expand our coverage to areas around the world, providing more photos for the delight of our readers. The changes will keep coming, so please be patient with us as we continue to attempt to provide you with a perfect publication. One that will catch your eye and keep you in formed. Thank You! The Aalborg Industries were the first partners in the Knowledge Park program at Penn State Behrend. The building is located left of the entrance to Knowledge Park. edge Park Dr. Robert Light, Associate Provost and Dean, commented, "the park will promote the expansion of jobs related to research and development, market ing and other knowledge-based areas. These are high-paying jobs that cur rently aren't being developed in the area. We hope that the Park would also lead to the creation of new com panies and the spin-off of companies fin• the area. Students will benefit from increased opportunities for in ternships, coops, part and full time employment, senior research projects and scholarships. We already have developed internship and scholarship programs with the first tenant in the Park.- The first tenant of Knowledge Park was Aalhorg Industries, which now occupies 40,000 square feet of the 70,000 square feet currently available in the Park. Aalhorg Industries de signs and markets steam boilers and generators. The company, which is based in Erie, was recently purchased by a Danish firm. The second tenant for Knowledge See page 2 for full weekend forecast. Park will be an e-commerce team from General Electric Transportation Systems (GETS). Over the summer John G. Rice, the president and CEO of GE Transportation Systems, an nounced that this newly created team of 20 e-commerce personnel will lo cate at the Park because of the oppor tunities available to them by being based there. GETS is looking to double the number of people involved on the team in the coming year. The e-commerce team will occupy 13,000 square feet of Knowledge Park. The c-commerce team will he pro ducing Web pages for GETS. These pages will allow GETS to track in formation about their locomotive fleet, including ordering parts and scheduling maintenance for the loco motives. Mr. Rice said. "the oppor tunity to locate our development team side by side with people who are re searching and developing information based technologies gives us access to the latest thinking in Internet ser vices." The GETS e-commerce team will provide internships and avenues for student and faculty research. ;~,;~ NEWS PAGE 1 POLICE AND SAFETY PAGE 2 SGA ELECTIONS PAGE 3 EDITORIAL PAGE 4 Friday, September 17, 1999 =IS= THE BEHREND BEACON 1101DIM:',,'",', • , , .. I. Penn State Behrend and GEIDC, the Greater Erie Industrial Develop ment Corporation, are the two lead organizations behind the formation and development of Knowledge Park. GEIDC is a Pennsylvania non-profit industrial development organization. Its mission is to create new net wealth in Erie County. It accomplishes its mission through the creation and man agement of industrial parks. GEIDC currently manages seven industrial parks in Erie County : J. Robert Baldwin Business Park, Thomas E. Bundy Industrial Park, Erie Industrial Park, Michael J. Veshecco Industrial Park, Albion/Cranesville Industrial Park, East 12th Street Industrial Park, and Fairview Business Park. To gether, these parks represent over 500 acres of land earmarked for industrial development. Knowledge Park is located on the southern part of campus, occupying a mile long stretch of land on the north side of Interstate 90. This area of land contains almost 200 acres for use by Knowledge Park. This location makes it very inviting for area busi- )st and Dean . John Lilley stands in front of Ohio Hall during edication this past Sunday, September 12. _,MLL-.~4~~w~~=TYHIY'~: 4u., _.: u, YY....;id-~.f4. nesses because of its convenient lo cation. It is less than 25 minutes from Erie International Airport, and it is within a five minute drive from the end of the Southern Tier Ex pressway, also known locally as Route 17, which is a direct link to New York City. The Park has over twenty, four-acre sites available for expansion. Each site is fully ser viced by utilities, and is ready for construction to take place. Tenants for Knowledge Park will include organizations who will form strong ties with Behrend. The goal is to relate the organizations to the school in areas such as the use of science, engineering, and business practices to promote the develop ment and improvement of products and processes. Due to the long tra dition and heavy concentration of manufacturing in the region, Be hrend has a strong commitment to serving the needs of this important sector, providing education, research and technology transfer services help support the industrial base of county. - 7,77; --7 rir" 7- 11 , ‘ ,5„ CALENDAR PAGE 5 WIRE SERVICE PAGE 6 FEATURES PAGE 8 SPORTS PAGE 11 A Penn State Erie Student Publication Engineering search continues by Shannon Weber The search for a new Director of the School of Engineering and Engi neering Technology (SEET) is in its final stages. The search started last fall and SEET hopes to have a new director for the spring semester. The search for a new director was brought about because the current director. Dr. Richard Progelhof, is retiring. There have been four candidates that have been interviewed for this position. Each candidate was brought to Erie to attend two-day interviews. "We hope to conclude the search during the fall semester so that the new director can he in place at the be ginning of the spring semester when the current director, Dr. Progelhof, will he retiring," stated Dr. Jack Young, Associate Professor of Me chanical Engineering. Provost and Dean, Dr. John Lilley established a research committee, which consisted of faculty members from SEET. The school advertised nationally in a variety of publications, created a wehsite, wrote and called many engineering schools, and a search firm helped the school iden tify candidates in this competitive market. The school is looking for someone that shares its views such as, quality undergraduate education, and faculty research, student involvement in undergraduate research and tech nology transfer via applied research and industrial partnerships. "The search committee, chaired by Dr. Jack Young, has worked very hard on this search, and I am grateful for their dedication to the task." stated Dr. Lilley. The director would he working with the faculty and administration to de velop further the school's vision. aca demic strategy. operating policies and facility plans. They would also he re sponsible for working with the fac ulty on curricular changes and the de velopment of new programs along with a variety of other duties. Search continued on page 2 PENNSTATE news editor 0 BY KEVIN BRUNER Erie 8 S S
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