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.
Office Location
Francesco Costanzo, Ph.D.
Center for Neural Engineering
W-315 Millenium Science Complex
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Contact
Phone: 1-814-863-2030
Fax: 1-814-865-9974
Email: fmcostanzo@psu.edu