Penn Engineering News Archive
Headlines, Awards and Accomplishments from 2013
Dawn Bonnell Appointed Vice Provost for Research at Penn
June 19, 2013Titam Arm is featured in "Wireless Exoskeleton Wins 2013 Cornell Cup USA"
June 14, 2013GRASP Quadrotors in Nature's "Drones in science: Fly, and bring me data"
June 14, 2013Matt Blaze comments in "Google-Led NSA Denials Leave Room for U.S. Government Snooping"
June 10, 2013Research by Jason Burdick and Robert Mauck is featured in "Grow fresh cartilage from adult stem cells"
June 10, 2014Research by Shu Yang is featured in "Penn researchers integrate origami and engineering"
June 5, 2013MEAM Student Project is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Instant strength from the Titan Arm"
June 4, 2013Portonovo Ayyaswamy Receives ASME 75th Anniversary Medal
June 4, 2013Rakesh Vohra Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor
May 29, 2013
X-RHex Lite robot is featured in GizMag's "Acrobatic XRL robot takes cliffs and valleys in its stride"
May 23, 2013Nano/Bio Interface Center (NBIC) Marks a Milestone
May 23, 2013Paul Gurniak receives 2013 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
May 22, 2013Video: Mitch Marcus discusses ENIAC in "The End Is the Beginning"
May 20, 2013Research by Ertugrul Cubukcu is featured in "Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing"
May 20, 2013Matt Blaze is cited in The Washington Post's "How the FBI’s online wiretapping plan could get your computer hacked"
May 20, 2013Penn Haptics is featured in IEEE Spectrum's "Finally: Robots Learn What 'Squishy' Really Means"
May 14, 2013TitanArm Receives First Place at 2013 Intel Cornell Cup
May 13, 2013Penn Engineers Receive Awards at ICRA 2013
May 13, 2013Rajeev Alur Named a Simons Investigator
May 10, 2013Penn Haptics Wins Best Demo Prize at IEEE World Haptics Conference
May 9, 2013Ali Jadbabaie Named the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in Network Science
May 9, 2013Bioengineers receive first place in Penn Engineering's Senior Design Competition
May 9, 2013CNN features GRASP Quadrotors in "Tiny flying robots! Meet the quadrotor"
May 2, 2013Video: Jordan Miller explains a 3D-printing technique in "3D Printing a Revolution Across Delaware Valley"
May 2, 2013David Gabrieli Receives Josephine de Karman Scholarship
April 26, 2013Kenneth Foster comments on EEG signals and gaming in IEEE Spectrum's "Loser: Mental Block"
April 26, 2013Vijay Kumar comments on robotics research in "NSF Program Aims to Democratize Robot Manufacturing"
April 26, 2013"An Interview with Ruhi Sinha" features 2007 CGGT alum for her work at DreamWorks on "The Croods"
April 24, 2013Research by Chris Murray is featured in "Nanoparticle molecular probes drastically reduce cost of powerful microscopy technique"
April 22, 2013Discovery News features haptics research by Katherine Kuchenbecker in "Tech Gets 'Touchy-Feely' With Haptic Engineering"
April 22, 2013Katherine Kuchenbecker is featured for her TED talk about haptography in "Watch: The technology of touch"
April 18, 2013Ertugrul Cubukcu is featured in "Plasmomechanics - an emerging field that combines nanoplasmonics with nanomechanical resonators"
April 18, 2013Nader Engheta Receives 2013 IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award
April 16, 2013Kate Miller, freshman in BE, is featured in "Engineering student award benefits middle school girls"
April 11, 2013GRASP is featured on CNN Money for possible applications of flying robots in "Cheap drones could save your life"
April 11, 2013Jonathan Fiene receives 2013 Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty
April 12, 2013Haim Bau receives 2013 Provost's Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring
April 12, 2013Wen Shieh, Beth Winkelstein and Jeff Babin are the recipients of the 2013 Penn Engineering Teaching and Advising Awards
April 12, 2013Video: Robert Ghrist in "A Math Classroom, Without Walls"
April 8, 2013Society of Women Engineers Hosts Education Event For Young Women
April 8, 2013ModLab's CKbot is featured in "Self-Assembled Devices May Transform Manufacturing"
April 4, 2013Vukan Vuchic comments on the future of transportation in "Transportation Alternatives and Evolving Infrastructure"
April 4, 2013DMD alum Michael Highland ('07) is named "Geek of the Week" by Geekadelphia
March 29, 2013Ritesh Agarwal works to enable 'bulk' silicon to emit visible light for the first time
March 27, 2013Megan Doherty and Ira Winston Receive 2013 Models of Excellence Awards
March 29, 2013
Research by Daeyeon Lee is featured in "Professor uses bubbles as inspiration for design"
March 27, 2013
Dan Koditschek comments in Discovery News "All-Terrain Bots Get More Agile"
March 22, 2013Douglass Roman, sophomore in MEAM, receives Cultural Vistas Fellowship
March 22, 2013Rob Ghrist's Coursera course is featured in "The Professors Who Make the MOOCs"
March 20, 2013PopSci shows GRASP Quadrotor "Fly Like A Drone And Fish Like An Eagle"
March 20, 2013George Pappas comments in "Can control theory make software better?"
March 20, 2013Vijay Kumar comments on GRASP Research in "Printable robots designed to be consumer-friendly, inexpensive"
March 20, 2013Daeyeon Lee Receives 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
March 15, 2013Noam Lior Elected to the Club of Rome
March 5, 2013Jessie Huang, Senior in BE, Receives 2013 Undergraduate Student Paper Award
March 4, 2013
ModLab's Robotic Boats are featured in "Imagine an Aircraft Carrier Made Out of ... Robots"
February 28, 2013Rahul Mangharam Receives NSF CAREER Award
February 28, 2013Vijay Kumar's Swarm Robotics research is featured in "Rise of the Swarm"
February 22, 2013Nature Medicine highlights Dennis Discher's research in "Nanoparticles engineered to shuttle cancer drug past immune system"
February 22, 2013IEEE Spectrum features research by Mark Yim in "Floating Robotic Shipping Containers Team Up to Create Islands and Runways"
February 19, 2013Research by Paulo Arratia is featured in "Focus: Blood Plasma is Not So Normal"
February 19, 2013Jennifer Gillard, Communications and Outreach in BE, is featured in "A Life-Changing Trip Through a Changing India"
February 19, 2013Mark Yim's robotic boats are featured in "Swimming-pool ships make waves in modular robotics"
February 13, 2013Cassi Henderson, senior in BE, receives Thouron Award
February 13, 2013Rob Ghrist is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Penn professor brings calculus to the masses through Coursera"
February 11, 2013Karen Winey Named a 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow
February 11, 2013Dawn Bonnell, Vijay Kumar, and Krishna P. Singh Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 8, 2013First annual Y-Prize rewards student innovators
February 7, 2013Rob Ghrist's Coursera course is a "Leader in New Online Move"
February 7, 2013Research by Paulo Arratia is featured in "Blood plasma not so simple after all"
February 7, 2013In Y Prize Competition, Penn students compete to put robot research to real-world use
February 6, 2013CIS Department Chair is featured in "For Three Decades, Computer Science’s Susan Davidson Has Led by Example"
February 6, 2013CIS junior is profiled in "With Popsicle Sticks and a Glue Gun, Penn’s Allison Pearce Got Her Start in Engineering"
February 6, 2013Research by Mark Yim's lab is featured in "Engineers design boat robots in Pottruck pool"
February 6, 2013Video: Paulo Arratia's research is featured in "The Complexity of Fluids"
February 6, 2013John Crocker and Talid Sinno collaborate to use DNA to make crystals that can switch configurations
February 6, 2013Video: "The Root" features CIS alumna Brittney Exline for being the youngest African-American engineer
February 6, 2013Penn Engineering hosts "PennApps Spring 2013: The largest college hackathon just got even bigger"
February 1, 2013Digital Media Design alums Paul Kanyuk and Ariela Nurko are featured for their work on Oscar-nominated 'Brave'
February 1, 2013Progress on the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology is noted in "Nanotech center continues to grow"
February 1, 2013Aaron Roth Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 31, 2013Research from Tevis Jacobs and Robert Carpick shows mechanism behind wear at the atomic scale
January 30, 2013The SIG Center for Computer Graphics is featured in "Motion capture technology captures imaginations"
January 25, 2013Video: Vijay Kumar is interviewed about drone technology in "Rise of the Drones"
January 25, 2013Vijay Kumar Receives 2013 Heilmeier Research Award
January 24, 2013New Swarm Computing Center, TerraSwarm, Receives $2.75 Million
January 24, 2013Robotics team THOR is featured in PopSci's "How To Build A Hero"
January 22, 2013Ken Foster is quoted in "'Suspect' journals take scientists for a ride"
January 22, 2013Vijay Kumar comments in "'Nova' explores drones' use in war, surveillance"
January 22, 2013Robert Ghrist comments in "Ayasdi: A Big Data Start-Up With a Long History"
January 17, 2013Dan Lee's University Transportation Center (UTC) featured in "Penn drives transportation research forward"
January 17, 2013Rahul Mangharam's "The Car and The Cloud: Automotive Architectures for 2020" included in the National Academy of Engineering's "The Bridge"
January 11, 2013Jan Van der Spiegel and collaborators' 1989 Foveated CCD Diagram is part of the MOMA Trisha Donnelly Artist's Choice Show
January 8, 2013Beth Winkelstein Named 2013 AIMBE Fellow
January 8, 2013Shu Yang and Kate Stebe collaborate to "Show New Level of Control Over Liquid Crystals"
January 7, 2012Rob Ghrist's Coursera course featured in New York Times "Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later"
January 7, 2013
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