great teaching click stories  1   2   3   4   Max Mintz
  Max Mintz:
Inspired Teaching
 
Max Mintz, Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, is featured in a documentary outlining his award-winning teaching style. "I'm interested in education for the long haul," he states. "I don't much care what students think of me today. I care deeply about what they are going to think of me 10 years from now."
 
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  great faculty click stories  1   2   3   4   Dennis Discher
  Dennis Discher Elected to National Academy Of Engineering
 
Dennis E. Discher, the Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his accomplishments in "elucidation of the effects of mechanical forces on cell physiology and stem cell development." Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
 
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  great research click stories  1   2   3   4   Jonathan Smith
  Creating a Safety Net for Computers
  The rise of computer technology comes with a cost: the ever-growing risk of security and privacy violations. Companies evaluate their customers' web browsing habits to target Internet ads, and "phishers" send fraudulent emails in an effort to procure credit card details from individuals online. Jonathan Smith, Olga and Alberico Pompa Professor in CIS, is developing innovative strategies to prevent attacks that could sabotage personal computers and entire networks.
 
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  great faculty click stories  1   2   3   4   Robert Ghrist
  Following Robert Ghrist
  Receiving Penn Engineering’s S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award for exceptional teaching is a mark of distinction, but to receive the prize in one’s first year of teaching at Penn is—to employ an adjective often used to describe recipient Robert Ghrist—amazing. It is the undergraduates themselves who cast the votes, a fact that especially pleases Ghrist, the Andrea Mitchell University Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Mathematics.
 
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EnRoute: One step closer to "smart" buildings

EnRoute, the "Energy Router," reduces peak power consumption by coordinating energy demands from multiple systems and ensures systems operate within their specified thresholds. Watch the video!

Human-Humanoid Robot Interaction: Playing Dodgeball

A GRASP Lab dodgeball-playing robot that can dodge, grasp, and throw a dynamically moving ball. Check it out!

Human-Humanoid Robot Interaction: Playing Dodgeball

A GRASP Lab dodgeball-playing robot that can dodge, grasp, and throw a dynamically moving ball. Check it out!

 

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