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Sarah Ritter

Associate Director of Engineering Design Undergraduate Programs & Engineering Design 100 Chair
Teaching Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • School of Engineering Design and Innovation
  • Engineering Design
  • Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship

320 Engineering Design and Innovation Building

scr15@psu.edu

814-865-2952

Research Areas:

Engineering Design; Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, 2008
  • Ph D, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2014

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Sandeep Krishnakumar, Torsten Maier, Catherine Berdanier, Sarah Ritter, Christopher McComb and Jessica Menold, 2022, "Using workplace thriving theory to investigate first-year engineering students' abilities to thrive during the transition to online learning due to COVID-19", Journal of Engineering Education, 111, (2)
  • Xuan Zheng, Sarah Ritter and Scarlett Rae Miller, 2018, "How Concept Selection Tools Impact the Development of Creative Ideas in Engineering Design Education", Journal of Mechanical Design, 140, (5), pp. 11
  • Meg Handley, Sarah Ritter and Dean Lang, 2018, "Design Your Future: Embedding Leadership and Career Development Into a First-Year Design Course", International Journal of Engineering Education, 34, (2(B)), pp. 632-643
  • R Majithia, Sarah Ritter and K E Meissner, 2014, "Heterogeneous nucleation for synthesis of sub-20nm ZnO nanopods and their application to optical humidity sensing.", Analytica Chimica Acta, 812, pp. 206-14
  • M A Milanick, Sarah Ritter and K Meissner, 2011, "Engineering erythrocytes to be erythrosensors: first steps.", Blood Cells, Molecules & Diseases, 47, (2), pp. 100-6
  • Sarah Ritter, M A Milanick and K E Meissner, 2011, "Encapsulation of FITC to monitor extracellular pH: a step towards the development of red blood cells as circulating blood analyte biosensors.", Biomedical Optics Express, 2, (7), pp. 2012-21

Research Projects

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About

The School of Engineering Design and Innovation delivers effective engineering education and unrivaled research opportunities through active, collaborative, project-based, and professionally oriented classroom experiences. The school offers a variety of programs that partner faculty, students, and industry in the study of real-life engineering problems. Our programs teach students to solve real-life problems with innovative solutions. 

School of Engineering Design and Innovation

304 Engineering Design and Innovation Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-2952