Vanessa Chan is featured in Technical.ly Philly’s “Vanessa Chan to Penn’s Class of 2018: ‘Failing is like farting'”

Frontiers, Fundamentals, and Future Directions of Transport: From Theory to Applications

A symposium in honor of Dr. Portonovo Ayyaswamy, Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering Sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Pennsylvania Join us at the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, May 9, 2018 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall 3330 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA […]

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.

Computer Networks that Help People Stay Sober

As a member of the World Well-Being Project, a research group at Penn that uses machine learning to enable computers to better understand people’s personalities and emotions, as well as their mental and physical health, Lyle Ungar is interested the way that users express themselves on social networks. The specific words that people employ in […]

Earthquakes at the Nanoscale

Robert Carpick collaborates with Cornell postdoctoral researcher Kaiwen Tian and Penn alumni David Goldsby to publish a paper in Physical Review Letters which attempts to tackle the devastation of earthquakes by investigating the laws of friction at the smallest possible scale, the nanoscale.

Penn Engineers Win Award for Paper on AI for Smart Buildings

Engineering graduate student Achin Jain, professors Rahul Mangharam and Manfred Morari, and alumnus Truong X. Nghiem won the Best Paper Award at the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2018 for their work on bridging machine learning and control theory for physical systems. ICCPS is part of CPSWEEK, which is one of the […]

Amish Patel Receives ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Amish Patel, Reliance Industries Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected to receive the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the Computers in Chemistry (COMP) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award is designed to assist new faculty members in gaining visibility within the COMP community.

GRASP Lab Spin-off Exyn Technologies Featured on 6ABC

Exyn Technologies, a spin-off of the GRASP lab founded by Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, develops software that allows flying robots to map and understand unfamiliar locations. Being able to navigate novel, dynamic environments without direct human oversight allows for a wide range of fully autonomous missions.

Penn Engineering Announces Four New Scholarly Chairs

Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the recipients of four Scholarly Chairs: Drs. Jason Burdick, Zachary Ives, Vivek Shenoy and Beth Winkelstein. These are well-deserved honors and we celebrate the privilege of having each of these outstanding scholars among us. Jason A. Burdick has been named the Robert D. Bent Professor of Bioengineering. Dr. Burdick […]