Johnson & Johnson Start-Up Incubator JPOD Hosts Five Engineering Companies

On Nov. 1, Penn launched a new partnership between the University and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the health care giant’s collaborative arm. Known as JPOD @ Philadelphia and based in the Pennovation Center, JPOD is a start-up incubator designed to accelerate innovative health care technologies. Of JPOD’s first seven resident businesses, five are operated by Penn Engineering faculty, students or […]

Students Design Health Care Technology Prototypes at 2018 Rothberg Catalyzer Makerthon

Students spent a weekend finalizing designs and pitching health care technology prototypes to a panelist of judges. Penn Health-Tech organized the event, which took place at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

M&T Student Profiles: Quinn Wu

Quinn Wu is a senior in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology. Students in the M&T program dual major in departments that span Penn Engineering and Wharton; Wu majors in Computer Science in the former and Statistics at the latter. In an interview, Wu explains what drew him to the program and what makes the […]

Akshay Ramani: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni

This is a part of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alums about their experiences at Penn and how it shaped their lives. Our next article is by Akshay Ramani, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and […]

Computer and Information Science Names 2018 J.P. Eckert Master’s Fellows

The Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS)is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 J.P. Eckert Master’s Fellowship. This fellowship is named in honor of J. Presper Eckert, co-inventor of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sophie Edgar: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni

Sophie Edgar graduated with a master’s in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) in December 2015. Sophie is currently working as Manager, Engineered Solutions at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., a consumer division of Johnson & Johnson based in Skillman, NJ, developing medical devices for the consumer marketplace.

Y-Prize 2018: Embodied Logic and Surface Wrinkle Printing

Each year, Engineering, Wharton and the Penn Center for Innovation come together for an invention competition known as the Y-Prize. Unlike the XPRIZE, where competitors come up with novel technologies to solve a particular problem, the Y-Prize starts with the technologies and challenges entrants to find commercial applications they are particularly suited for. At stake: $10,000 to […]

Automatic Dubbing App Wins PennApps XVIII

Last weekend, more than a thousand student hackers arrived at Penn Engineering for the eighteenth iteration of PennApps, the original student-run collegiate hackathon. Over the course of two days, they were tasked with forming teams and making the best software or hardware applications they could devise, with more than $80,000 in prizes on the line.

Summer Studies In Session At Penn Engineering’s ESAP

Every summer, for just three weeks, Penn Engineering transforms from a quiet research hub into a buzzing pre-college campus. Here, qualifying high school students in the Engineering Summer Academy at Penn(ESAP) have the opportunity to take an intensive summer engineering course for college credit. The Penn program graduated 221 students this year, and each will go […]

Robert Ghrist Named Inaugural Faculty Co-Director of the Office of Penn First Plus Students

Robert Ghrist, the Andrea Mitchell University Professor with appointments in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and the Department of Mathematics in the School of Arts and Sciences, has been named an inaugural co-director of the Office of Penn First Plus Students. The Office, established in the spring, is designed to to support first-generation […]

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