Kwadwo Asamoah Boateng: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni

This is part of our series of articles written by Penn Engineering alumni about their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. This article is written by Kwadwo Asamoah Boateng, who graduated with a M.S.E. degree in Computer and Information Science in 2012. He is currently Senior Director of Engineering at Group Nine […]

Matt Blaze: A New Model of Voting Threats

An article published in Ars Technica quotes associate professor of Computer and Information Science Matt Blaze on the way threats to election security are changing.

Building futures through LEGOs

On Feb. 10, approximately 400 middle schoolers from schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania gathered around field models in Houston Hall to watch robots they had built out of LEGOs simulate collecting rain water, helping flowers grow, and putting out fires. The students were participating in the regional FIRST LEGO League (FLL) tournament. FLL, a middle school […]

Penn Electric Racing is featured in Philly.com’s “Penn’s electric race car team seeks fourth title in four years”

Self-Reflected: Bringing the Conscious Brain to Life

If you’re lucky enough to wander into the Your Brain exhibit at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, you’re in for a mesmerizing treat — a portrait of the brain, ironically, as it views a work of art. The stunning display, appropriately called Self Reflected, depicts a thin slice of the human brain scaled up by a factor […]

Nicholas Yiu: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni

This is the third of our series of articles written by Penn Engineering alums about their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. This article is by Nicholas Yiu, who graduated with a master’s in Nanotechnology in 2016. He is currently working as a process engineer at Heliotrope Technologies, a startup company based […]

Dan Huh is featured in Science News’ “A fake organ mimics what happens in the blink of an eye”

Jennifer Phillips-Cremins is profiled in Nature Methods’ “The Author File: Jennifer Phillips-Cremins”

Mayur Naik: Building Better Software

In many industries and academic fields, more people are finding it helpful to know some basic programming, but not all of them want to get full degrees in computer science. Meanwhile, as modern software ecosystems grow more and more complex, even those who do spend their undergraduate years studying computer science cannot learn everything. As […]

Penn Engineers Present New ‘Eye-on-a-Chip’

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dan Huh and colleagues presented their research on a new ‘eye-on-a-chip,’ an artificial organ composed of living cells and a blinking, hydrogel eyelid. Researchers could potentially use the eye as a model to study conditions such as dry eye disease, and to […]