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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.
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NEWS PAGE 1
POLICE AND SAFETY PAGE 2
SGA ELECTIONS PAGE 3
EDITORIAL PAGE 4
Friday, September 17, 1999
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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.
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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.
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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
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