At TED, Professor Aaswath Raman Talks About the Cold of Space as a Renewable Resource
Aaswath Raman, one of the newest members of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, is using his background in optics and materials science to take an ancient idea and apply it to a pressing, modern-day problem: cooling. He spoke at this year’s TED conference in Vancouver, explaining how harnessing “radiative cooling” could be the […]
Machine Learning Researchers Try to Improve Working Conditions for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Workers
In the late 1700s, a Hungarian inventor built what appeared to be a chess-playing automaton, cloaked in Ottoman robes and a turban. The machine, known as the Mechanical Turk, impressed crowds and challenged opponents across Europe and the Americas. Eventually it was revealed that the Turk was not automated at all. Rather, a skilled chess […]
Fred Warren: Investing in the Promise of Innovation
Penn Engineering alumnus and venture capitalist Fred Warren (ME’60, WG’61) discusses his passion for the School and in discovering the next great innovation. He and his wife Robin are also founding donors of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, Penn Engineering’s incubator of forward-thinking, collaborative research that is shaping how network science improves […]
Vimanyu Jain: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni
This is part of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alums in their own words, of their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. Our next article is written by Vimanyu Jain, who graduated with a master’s in Computer Graphics and Game Technology (CGGT) in 2013. He is currently the senior […]
Paving the Way for Safer, Smaller Batteries and Fuel Cells
Research led by Karen I. Winey, TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow, professor and Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, and Edward B. Trigg, then a doctoral student in her lab, introduces a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that has twice the proton conductivity of the current state-of-the-art material.
A Virtual World for an Ancient Society
Clark Erickson of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Penn Museum, describes his efforts to humanize the past, enlisting artists, field work, and digital visualization tools. In a course co-taught last fall with computer scientist Norman Badler ,Rachleff Family Professor in Computer and Information Science, Erickson helped students populate a virtual landscape with […]
Science and Politics: A Q&A with Molly Sheehan
Molly Sheehan, postdoctoral researcher in Bioengineering, sat down with Penn Today to discuss her path towards becoming a scientist, what led her to run for office, and the changes she hopes to be able to make.
Q&A with Nader Engheta in Optics & Photonics News
Stewart Wills of Optics & Photonics News caught up with Nader Engheta at CLEO 2018, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, being held in San Jose, California this week.
An Innovative Approach to Better Energy Storage
Led by Shu Yang, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, a Penn/Drexel research team has engineered a way to manipulate nanomaterials to stand up vertically on a scale that has potential for industrial applications.
Theresa Breiner: 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. Our next article is written by Theresa Breiner, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Penn Arts & Sciences and a master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) […]