Penn Engineering News Archive
Headlines, Awards and Accomplishments from 2009
George Pappas Receives Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
December 22, 2009
Raymond Gorte Presented With the R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering
December 22, 2009Vukan Vuchic, professor of electrical and systems engineering, comments on high-speed rail lines in China
December 17, 2009Nader Engheta Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
December 16, 2009Students at Penn Engineering Celebrate 50 Years of Robotics With "Robot Slalom" and "Robockey"
December 14, 2009Daily Pennsylvanian: Product Design students show off inventions in Houston Hall
December 9, 2009Brian Litt cited in "When Antidepressants Fail to Work: Brain-Stimulating Techniques"
December 5, 2009Brand New Spin on an Old Game: Bruce Kothmann and the Invention of a New Form of Dreidel
December 4, 2009Hydros Bottle can sustainably provide purified water to increasingly mobile, urban people in the developing world
November 30, 2009Chris Chen Named AIMBE Fellow
November 20, 2009Beth Winkelstein Presents at National Academy of Engineering Frontiers Conference 2009
November 13, 2009Engineering's Wei Zhou and John Fischer Part of a "Breakthrough in Industrial-Scale Nanotube Processing" Based at Rice University
November 4, 2009Bioengineering's Brian Litt Part of Team of Experts that Have Created "Silicon-Silk Electronics," or Circuits Which Dissolve Into the Human Body
November 4, 2009Engineering Robotics Team to do Battle in Robotics Challenge MAGIC 2010
November 2, 2009
Chris Murray, Materials Science and Engineering, in "17th century mathematics and 21st century materials"
November 2, 2009Computer Science Alum Tim Wu in Shanghai Making "A fresh rap for hip-hop"
October 28, 2009"Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions," a novel method for creating nanoscale structures.
October 26, 2009Engineering Freshman Jonathan Leung Wins Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes for His Work with "Helping Hunger"
October 23, 2009Paul Ducheyne one of three to win University City Science Center QED Award for his work in nanostructured thin films
October 22, 2009"Self-assembly Used To Make Molecule-sized Particles With Patches Of Charge," Principal Investigator Dennis Discher
October 21, 2009Dennis Discher, a veteran of stem cell research, comments on a new study in Nature Materials "Jostling Spurs Cell Spreading"
October 20, 2009Philanthropy Journal on "Prospect Research" and the $20 Million Gift for the Singh Nanotechnology Center
October 20, 2009Nader Engheta in "Running Electrons Using Light," on creating a nanoscale circuit board that has the potential to be useful in communications
October 20, 2009Machine Learning by Watching and Listening: Ben Taskar is using television to teach computers to be smarter about what they see, hear and read.
October 15, 2009Susan Margulies Named BMES Fellow for National and International Contributions to Biomedical Engineering and for Inspired Leadership
October 14, 2009Engineering Alumnus Adam Engler, BE(BSE) and MEAM (Ph.D.), Wins Prestigious NIH Young Innovators Award
October 13, 2009Philadelphia Business Journal: Michael Kearns is featured discussing his course “Networked Life"
October 12, 2009Two Penn Engineering Technology Programs Receive Nearly $20 Million: Nano/Bio Interface Center and Market and Social Systems Engineering
October 12, 2009Inside Higher ED: "New Programs: Education, Renewable Energy, Market and Social Systems"
October 9, 2009How the Associated Press Measured the Meltdown at the Local Level: a formula created with assistance from Professor Tony Smith
October 6, 2009Vukan Vuchic in the Boston Globe's "Invasion of the pod car: The dream of personal rapid transit picks up speed"
October 5, 2009University of Pennsylvania Launches Nation’s First Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering
October 1, 2009Penn Engineering's Computer Graphics and Game Technology Master's Program in the New Yorks Times Article "Want a Career in Video Games?"
September 30, 2009Best Paper award for the SIG Center: "Recreating Early Islamic Glass Lamp Lighting"
September 28, 2009Computer Engineering Major Reboots: New program will focus on the creation and mechanics of hardware and software components
September 25, 2009Penn's Nano/Bio Interface Center awarded $11.5m to advance nanotechnology research in biological systems
September 21, 2009Director Michele Grab on Advancing Women in Engineering at Penn: "It’s an exciting time for engineering, and a great time to be an engineer"
September 17, 2009Penn Advancing Women in Engineering Program to Attract Young Women to Field of Computer Science Through Microsoft Grant
September 16, 2009George Pappas, Insup Lee, Rajeev Alur, Rahul Mangharam and Alejandro Ribeiro Receive 1.5 Million NSF Award "Quantitative Analysis and Design of Control Networks"
September 2, 2009J. Peter Skirkanich: Trustee, Overseer and Friend
August 24,2009Penn Engineering Insectlike Robots Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer: "Time for creepies and crawlies: Bug Fest at the Academy of Natural Sciences"
August 14, 2009Penn Engineering GEMS Featured in "Penn Students Helping Middle School Girls With Science"
August 10, 2009Norman Badler and Renata Holod Receive PISF Award
August 8, 2009Penn Engineering Researchers in "Protein unfolding is key for understanding blood clot mechanics"
August 7, 2009Science-Minded Middle School Girls Graduate from Summer Program at Penn Engineering School
August 6, 2009Rising Senior Stephen McGill Presents Robotics Research on Capitol Hill
August 5, 2009Norm Badler: Computing Now "Building, Populating, and Interacting with Virtual Worlds"
August 5, 2009University of Pennsylvania's The Moore School Named One of InfoWorld's 12 "Tech Meccas"
August 3, 2009CIS Ph.D. Student Participates in Winning Netflix Team: "Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork"
July 28, 2009Penn Researchers Featured in Phialdelphia Inquirer "With help of DNA, nanotubes may become a bigger force"
July 27, 2009Studies from University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Medicine and Engineering have provided new data on life sciences
July 27, 2009A Modular Robot That Puts Itself Back Together Again
July 27, 2009Programmer Worked on Historic ENIAC Computer
July 26, 2009Vukan R. Vuchic Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer Article "SEPTA seeks input on Regional Rail name changes"
July 22, 2009GRASP Lab's Modular Robots Featured in "Shape-Shifting Material Suggests Morphable Hardware"
July 17, 2009
Brian Litt featured in US News and World Report's "Brain Stimulation: Can Magnetic or Electrical Pulses Help You?"
July 15, 2009Kathleen Stebe: Publication in Science Magazine "Materials Science: Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials"
July 10, 2009Pushing Boundaries: Honoring the Contributions of Vasek Vitek
July 6, 2009Penn's Rachleff Scholars: A New Kind of Engineering Student
July 6, 2009Penn Engineering Students Take Top Honor at Robotics Science and Systems Conference
July 2, 2009
Science Channel's "Robocars" Features Little Ben
July 1, 2009Raymond J. Gorte Selected as 2009 Recipient of the R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering
June 29, 2009
While Recovering, Rockies' Francis Revels in Physics of Pitching
June 28, 2009Dennis Discher: Science Magazine Review "Growth Factors, Matrices, and Forces Combine and Control Stem Cells"
June 26, 2009Penn Bioengineers Develop Microfabricated Device To Measure Cellular Forces During Tissue Development
June 22, 2009Scott Diamond Profiled in BioTechniques
June 17, 2009Ten Commandments from Entrepreneurial 'Evangelist' Guy Kawasaki
June 10, 2009Ken R. Foster: Science Magazine Review "Epidemiology: Epidemics of Fear"
June 10, 2009Ju Li: Constructing Curvy Nanostructures Directly Integrated on Graphene
June 10, 2009Christopher Murray Featured in Science for His Work in Nanocrystals
June 5, 2009Rahul Mangharam Featured in The Econmist for V2V Networks
June 4, 2009Jason Burdick Selected to Participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
June 1, 2009Katherine Kuchenbecker Receives NSF CAREER Award
May 28, 2009Penn Engineering Students Honored by CURF
May 8, 2009Robert Carpick Awarded the ASME 2009 Burt L. Newkirk Award
May 8, 2009UPennalizers Compete in RoboCup US World Open
May 8, 2009
Mark Yim Awarded a Lindback Award, Penn's Highest Teaching Award
April 21, 2009Vukan Vuchic Featured in Los Angeles Times Article on Obama’s Call for Federal Assistance for High-speed Rail
April 17, 2009Matt Blaze Cited in New York Times Article on the NSA’s Track Record When Dealing with Civilian Cybersecurity
April 16, 2009"March of the SandBots" Features Robotics Work by Daniel Koditschek and Haldun Komsuoglu
April 2009Daniel Lee is "Making Robots More Like Us"
April 2, 2009Alumnus and Innovator Krishna Singh Profiled in Philadelphia Inquirer for Contribution to Nanotechnology Engineering
March 26, 2009Michael Kearns' Networking Study Profiled in Philadelphia Inquirer
March 16, 2009Stephan Zdancewic Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
February 17, 2009Penn Engineering Overseer George Heilmeier Inducted Into Inventors Hall of Fame
February 12, 2009Daniel Koditschek Cited by Discovery News for Robotic Research and Construction of Six-Legged 'Sandbot '
February 10, 2009Jason Burdick Receives NSF CAREER Aaward
February 10, 2009It’s The Network: Penn Researchers Examine Behavior, Consensus Building Influenced By Network Structure
January 28, 2009Robert Carpick Named a Penn Fellow
January 27, 2009Scott Diamond Awarded the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
January 21, 2009Daniel Koditschek Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
January 21, 2009Boon Thau Loo Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 18, 2009
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