Francesco Costanzo, Ph.D.
Email: fmcostanzo@psu.edu
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Honors & Awards

Professor Costanzo has received the following honors and awards over the course of his career.

• Fulbright Scholarship, 1989.
• NSF CAREER Award, 1998.
• Awarded a 1% salary increase for the 1998 Collaborative and Curricular Innovations Special Recognition Program by the Provost of The Pennsylvania State University.
• First prize co-winner of the General Electric Learning Excellence Award, 1998. The award includes $10,000 for the enhancement of Educational related activities.
• American Society of Engineering Education Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award, 1999.
• Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching Award, 2000.
• Second prize co-winner the General Electric Learning Excellence Award, 2003. The award includes $5,000 for the enhancement of Educational related activities.
• Best Paper Award - Mechanics Division — I and my co-authors were awarded the Best Paper Award for the Mechanics Division of ASEE. The paper is question was entitled “The Dynamics Concept Inventory Assessment Test: A Progress Report and Some Results” (June 2005)
• Overall Best Paper Presentation - Mechanics Division: “The Dynamics Concept Inventory Assessment Test: A Progress Report and Some Results” in Session 3268 at the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, June 2005.
• Penn State Engineering Society Premier Teaching Award, 2007.
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015.