Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars
Wanda Lipps, Gautam Nagaraj, and Michael Gromis, all students in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science who graduated this past spring, watched as a large drill, supported by a boxy metal frame, dug down into a container of dirt and ice. The students, members of the Mars Water Horizons team at Penn, were testing […]
Shu Yang Elected Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow
Shu Yang, Ph.D., Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), a professional society based in the United Kingdom with over 50,000 members worldwide. Founded in 1841, RSC is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. […]
Brian Farrell, CBE PhD’89, Named Executive Director of Technology at Air Products and Chemicals
Brian Farrell was promoted to his new position as Executive Director of Technology at Air Products and Chemicals in May. As Executive Director, Brian will lead research and development activities for Air Products, a world leading Industrial Gases company and leading supplier of gas process technology and equipment. Before assuming his new role, Brian was […]
Penn Engineering Receives Honorable Mention for 2017 NEXT Award
Penn Engineering’s Department of Computer and Information Science has received an honorable mention for the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) Extension Services Transformation (NEXT) award. The NEXT award celebrates excellence in recruiting and retaining women in computing education. Penn Engineering’s Department of Computer and Information Science is being recognized for sustaining above-average recruitment, […]
Nine BE Students Receive NSF Research Fellowships
Nine students in the Department of Bioengineering (BE) have received fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Six of the students, Zakary Beach, Nicolette Driscoll, Lindsey Fernandez, Jessica Hsu, Jinsu Kim and Ryan Leaphart, are current doctoral students in Bioengineering who earned undergraduate degrees from other top BE programs. Three of […]
CBE Alumnus Takes Students on Tour of Nuclear Power Plant
Brian Wright ChE ’10, an engineer at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, took students from the Wharton Undergraduate Energy Group (WUEG) on a tour of the facilities at Peach Bottom. This nuclear power plant is operated by Exelon and provides power to over two million people in the Delta, Pennsylvania region. Brian, along with Christian […]
Victor Ngo, ChE’15 at PowerAdvocate as an Energy Consulting Associate
Victor Ngo, ChE ’15, started a position as an Energy Consulting Associate with PowerAdvocate, located in San Francisco, California. At PowerAdvocate, Victor works on projects for energy clients focusing on strategic sourcing, cost and spending analysis, as well as market and supplier intelligence. PowerAdvocate deals mainly with supply chains of their clients, which include utility […]
Three Engineers Receive 2017 University Awards for Distinguished Teaching
Sanjeev Khanna, Alejandro Ribeiro and George Pappas have each been awarded 2017 University Teaching Awards sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Provost. The three are amongst 12 awardees throughout the University this year. At an April 25 ceremony, Provost Vincent Price presented the awards and read excerpts of the recommendation letters from […]
Konrad Kording Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Konrad Kording has been named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Kording, a pioneer of computational neuroscience, will hold joint appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and in the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Penn partners on new app to aid vulnerable youth exiting foster care
Youth leaving foster care lack traditional family resources to help them apply for public benefits, school, or even a job. A new web app unveiled by the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and the Juvenile Law Center of Philadelphia literally puts these types of vital resources at the fingertips of vulnerable youth aging […]