Penn Engineering Professor Awarded NASA Grant to Improve Satellite Communication
Treating Spinal Pain with Replacement Discs Made of ‘Engineered Living Tissue’ Moves Closer to Reality
Three Penn Engineers Recognized as APS Fellows
Engineering/Wharton Start-Up Avisi Technologies on their way to FDA Approval
Nanowerk on Nanotribological Printing
Nanotribological printing is anew kind of additive manufacturing technique developed by Robert Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and Harman Khare, a member of his lab.
Wall Street Journal’s ‘Moving Upstream’ on Autonomous Flight
The Wall Street Journal’s docu-series “Moving Upstream” takes a closer look at disruptive technologies that are changing the way we live, work and communicate. Topics in its second season include gene editing, cryptocurrencies, and the deceptive videos known as “Deepfakes.” For its latest episode, “The Future of Flight: AI in the Cockpit,” host Jason Bellini visited PERCH to […]
Promoting Innovative, Reproducible Science: Penn’s Research Excellence Initiative
Penn Engineers Discover New Cellular ‘Elevator’ That’s Controlled by Light
Penn Engineers’ Liquid Crystal Force Fields Enable New Kind of Microrobotics
A new study, published in Nature Communications, shows how simple glass particles can be instructed to follow sophisticated trajectories, which arise from their interactions with a liquid crystalline environment. The study was led by Kathleen Stebe, Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, former Stebe lab member Francesca Serra, […]
Portonovo Ayyaswamy Named American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Honorary Member
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Board of Governors has unanimously selected Portonovo Ayyaswamy as an Honorary Member of ASME. Dr. Ayyaswamy has been selected “for exceptional contributions to mechanical engineering through a career marked with seminal and groundbreaking research scholarship, which has engendered transformational technology transfer for diverse applications; and for exemplary professional […]