Education and Training

Providing unique and impactful opportunities to ensure a skilled workforce pipeline.

Resident Education

The College of Agricultural Sciences offers several undergraduate and graduate programs that offer courses with technology content. Stay tuned for more information about these courses, including a course inventory.

Penn State Extension Training

Extension offers a unique educational experience due to the land-grant mission of Penn State. This includes many public-facing educational materials, workshops, and demonstrations that help move technology advancements from research to the public sector. 

Penn State Extension - Harvesting Innovation Webinar Series

The Harvesting Innovation webinar series is designed to foster collaboration, meaningful conversation, and shared learning around emerging technologies shaping food, agriculture, natural resources, and related systems. The series highlights technologies currently in research or the early stages of real-world application and explores how they can support efficiency, sustainability, competitiveness, and profitability.

 Harvesting Innovation aims to showcase the great people and fantastic work taking place across Penn State while expanding the reach and impact of faculty and staff research through engagement. We welcome the opportunity to learn from colleagues about their research, pilot tools and initiatives, or efforts to translate innovation into practice. While last year we focused primarily on the digital transformation underway in agriculture, we welcome all ideas related to TALiS's goals, emerging innovations, and avenues to illustrate the positive work happening at the University. If you are willing, please consider sharing your ideas or work by connecting with Dana Ollendyke (djm428@psu.edu) or Jim Ladlee (jladlee@psu.edu). They look forward to supporting your work and helping to extend the potential impact of emerging technologies and ideas across Penn State and the communities we serve.

Director, TALiS

Paul Heinemann, Ph.D.
  • Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Director, TALiS

Paul Heinemann, Ph.D.
  • Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering