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 […]
Penn Engineers’ Liquid Assembly Line Makes Drug Microparticles a Thousand Times Faster Than Ever Before
Pharmaceuticals owe their effects mostly to their chemical composition, but the packaging of these drugs into specific physical formulations also need to be done to exact specifications. For example, many drugs are encapsulated in solid microparticles, the size and shape of which determine the timing of the drug’s release and its delivery to specific parts […]
Shivani Agarwal: Looking at Machine Learning from All Angles
It is now an everyday occurrence to see customized recommendations while shopping online, and uncannily personalized sidebar ads while browsing a website. Both of these marketing tools are powered by machine learning, a field of study that extends to many other parts of society as well. Machine learning now powers advancements in speech recognition, drug […]
Calculus III for Cells
Last year, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania revealed surprising insights into how cells respond to surface curvature. Specifically, they investigated how cells respond to cylindrical surfaces, which are common in biology. They found that cells change the static configurations of their shapes and internal structures. Now, the researchers, led by Kathleen Stebe and recent […]
Commemorating the Career of Portonovo Ayyaswamy
On May 9, an all-day symposium will celebrate the career of Portonovo Ayyaswamy, Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), who will retire this year. The symposium will feature presentations by top researchers from across the U.S., in the areas of heat and mass transfer, fluid […]
Penn Engineering 2018 Teaching Awards
The recipients of the annual Penn Engineering teaching and advising awards are selected directly by Penn Engineering students after thoughtful consideration. The School is filled with gifted educators who inspire students with their dedication and excellence. The S. Reid Warren, Jr., Award Santosh Venkatesh, Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the S. […]