Penn Engineering News Archive
Headlines, Awards and Accomplishments from 2012
Q&A: Vijay Kumar, co-creator of the famous flying robot swarm
May 1, 2012Penn Engineering and Bryn Mawr Sign Agreement to Fast-track Undergrads Into Master's Programs
May 1, 2012Research by Scott Diamond featured in "Penn Scientists Develop Large-scale Simulation of Human Blood"
May 1, 2012Lyle Ungar comments in "Your Life Span? Ask the Calculator"
May 1, 2012PopSci features Vijay Kumar in "Rough Sketch: 'I Build Flying Robots'"
May 1, 2012Daniel Lee featured in "Tech Life: Shooting hoops at the 'bot expo"
April 26, 2012GRASP's Haptics Group featured in "Are You Ready For A New Sensation?"
April 20, 2012Robert Ghrist quoted in "Penn, other universities offer free online classes"
April 18, 2012Fast Company features "The Startup Incubator For Robot Overlords: GRASP"
April 17, 2012Research by Milo Martin featured in "Researchers solve scaling challenge for multi-core chips"
April 17, 2012Penn Engineering Joins MIT-led Project on 'Printable Robots'
April 10, 2012Penn Engineering and Haverford Sign Agreement to Fast-track Undergrads Into Master's Programs
April 10, 2012Penn engineers participate in two $10 million projects
April 5, 2012GRASP Collaboration featured in "Printable Robots: MIT Project Wants to Let You Design and Fabricate Your Own Machines"
April 4, 2012Matt Blaze quoted in "Pricey 'stingray' gadget lets cops track cellphones without telco help"
April 4, 2012Rajeev Alur to Lead $10 Million Project on Computer-assisted Programming
April 3, 2012Research by Dan Hammer featured in Popular Mechanics' "Lab-Created Cells Could Target Tumors and Deliver Drugs"
March 30, 2012Mark Yim featured in "Penn profs star in Science Festival's 'Superheroes'"
March 29, 2012Video: Haptic photography research at Penn develops images that can be both seen and physically felt
March 27, 2012Benjamin Garcia, associate professor, appointed as the University's first Presidential Term Professor
March 27, 2012Vijay Kumar's talk, "Robots that Fly...And Cooperate," featured in "The Seven Best TED Talks So Far This Year"
March 23, 2012Video: Katherine Kuchenbecker featured in "Touch Photography: Capturing The Feel Of Surfaces"
March 23, 2012
Brian Litt collaborates "to Explore New Ways to Predict and Control Seizures"
March 15, 2012Metamaterials, metatronics and cloaking devices are discussed in "Q&A with Nader Engheta"
March 15, 2012GRASP Quadrotors featured in the Wall Street Journal's "Week in Ideas"
March 12, 2012ENIAC's women programmers in "International Women's Day: Celebrating Women in Tech"
March 9, 2012A research team led by Milo Martin shows that ‘Computational Sprinting’ could give mobile devices big bursts of speed
March 8, 2012Praveen Pitchai, a master's student in Robotics, is featured in "Robot Mules, Birds and Snakes Helping on the Warfront"
March 7, 2012Quadrotors featured in Slate's "I Love You, Killer Robots"
March 7, 2012Karen I. Winey Receives Heilmeier Research Award
March 07, 2012Aaron Roth, a senior in EE, shares his experience in "5 things I learned at AngelHack"
March 6, 2012GRASP Quadrotors featured in "Penn's flying robots generate their own unique sound"
March 2, 2012Paul Ducheyne publishes new six volume book series, Comprehensive Biomaterials
March 01, 2012Milo Martin Helps Rethink Smartphone Design With 'Computational Sprinting'
February 29, 2012Vijay Kumar to present GRASP Quadrotors at the TED2012 Conference
February 29, 2012Eric Berdinis and Jeff Kiske win the $50,000 Top Prize in the Intel Innovators Competition for "Kinecthesia: Belt for the Blind"
February 29, 2012Zvi Hashin, former Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is the recipient of the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering
February 24, 2012Andre DeHon is author on 5 of the list of the 25 most important Field-Programmable Gate Arrays papers published in the field
February 24, 2012Dan Lee featured in "Penn Engineering prof designs cars of the future"
February 23, 2012Work by Nader Engheta featured in "Researchers build first physical 'metatronic' circuit"
February 23, 2012Christopher Murray Named a 2012 MRS Fellow
February 23, 2012Karen Winey named Director of the Nanotechnology (NTI) and Energy Commercialization (ECI) Institutes
February 23, 2012Research by Milo Martin and Arun Raghavan featured in "Sprinting chips could push phones to the speed limit"
February 20, 2012ENIAC, world's first digital computer, turns 66
February 16, 2012Penn Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University Receive $3.5 Million for Innovative Transportation Research
February 16, 2012Rahul Mangharam to speak on automotive architectures at the 2012 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
February 16, 2012Christopher Fang-Yen Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
February 15, 2012FIRST Lego League competition features robotics teams from Philadelphia School District
February 15, 2012Robert Ghrist participates in "Engaging Minds," Penn's on-the-road lecture series
February 15, 2012Dennis Discher Elected to National Academy Of Engineering
February 9, 2012GRASP Lab Nano Quadrotors featured on NBC10's "Swarm of Mosquitoes? Nope, a Quad Rotor"
February 9, 2012NBIC researchers collaborate to nanomanufacture a wear-resistant carbide tip
February 9, 2012Penn hosts FIRST LEGO League robotics tournament
February 9, 2012Shu Yang Receives PMSE Arthur K. Doolittle Award
February 9, 2012Rahul Mangharam and Young India Fellows featured in "viSparsh: Helping the blind through touch"
February 7, 2012GRASP's "nano quadrotors" featured in PopSci's "Video: Swarm of Tiny Quadcopters Do a Delicate Dance"
February 2, 2012GRASP's Autonomous quadrocopters fly in 20-strong formation
February 1, 2012Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology featured in "Singh Center begins to take shape"
January 31, 2012First Lego League: youth robotics championship tournament held Saturday at Penn
January 31, 2012Robockey featured in IEEE Spectrum's "Robockey Cup Looks Like Fun, Even At Night"
January 27, 2012Robotic hockey teams face-off at Penn Engineering
January 26, 2012Mark Yim quoted in "The next robot revolution"
January 20, 2012Penn Engineering Hosts App Coding Contest
January 20, 2012Haptic Belt featured in Times of India's "Connect the Dots"
January 17, 2012ENIAC featured in "Philadelphia - A 'city of firsts' that feels little need to brag"
January 17, 2012Boon Thau Loo Receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
January 17, 2012MKSE program featured in "Preparing to Lead in Today's Networked World"
January 13, 2012Beth Winkelstein and Jennifer Lukes named 2012 Penn Fellows
January 17, 2012George Heilmeier, Penn Engineering Overseer, wins the National Academy of Engineering’s Draper Prize for the development of LCDs
January 11, 2012Joshua Plotkin's research featured in "Planet of the Apes: How do we know evolution really happens? Through viruses"
January 5, 2012Benjamin Pierce's Unison file synchronizing tool featured in "With Sync Solved, Dropbox Squares Off With Apple's iCloud"
January 5, 2012ALPHA Bike featured in "Core77 2011 Year in Review: The Cycling Movement Gains Momentum"
January 5, 2012Penn Engineering is cited as the only Ivy League school with a graduate program in game programming
January 5, 2012
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