Andrea Argüelles, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics in the Penn State College of Engineering, earned a five-year, $696,010 U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Award. This project aims to develop a fundamental understanding of how processing conditions impact the resulting structure and properties of ceramics manufactured through the novel cold sintering process. Through developing advanced multi-modal characterization approaches centered around acoustic methods and integrating them with in situ monitoring