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Inventing the Future

Penn Engineers Develop Ultrathin, Ultralight 'Nanocardboard'

A team of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call “nanocardboard,” an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. A square centimeter of nanocardboard weighs less than a thousandth of a gram and can spring back into shape after being bent in half. Its stiffness-to-weight ratio makes it ideal for aerospace and microrobotic applications, where every gram counts.

Using Statistics to Uncover the Truth About Individual Cells

Researchers at Penn Engineering have developed a better method for interpreting data from single-cell RNA sequencing technologies.

Penn Engineers Join Honda Research Institute's 'Curious Minded Machine' Project

Honda Research Institute USA has launched a new interdisciplinary collaboration designed to imbue robots with human-like curiosity, and Penn engineers are taking part. Known as Curious Minded Machine, the three-year project aims to expand the abilities of robots to think, learn and explore in more natural ways. The Penn team is led by Kostas Daniilidis, the Ruth Yalom Stone Professor of Computer and Information Science (CIS). Read More

Powering the Future with Giant Clams

In 2014, Shu Yang, of the Materials Science and Engineering, joined School of Arts and Sciences’ biophysicist Alison Sweeney on an unusual quest. Backed by a NSF INSPIRE grant for bold, interdisciplinary research, the duo aimed to unlock the solar-powered secrets of the giant clam.

News

Promoting Innovative, Reproducible Science: Penn’s Research Excellence Initiative

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Penn Engineers Discover New Cellular ‘Elevator’ That’s Controlled by Light

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

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Events

MSE Seminar: "Hybrid perovskites: A new class of semiconductors with emergent functional properties"

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CIS Seminar: "What - if anything - have we learned from C++?"

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Technology, Business and Government Lecture: "Oil and Gas: Environment and Efficiency Require More Innovation than Ever"

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Announcement

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.

Penn Engineering Launches Online Master's in Computer Science

Penn Engineering is now offering its first completely online master's degree, a Master of Computer and Information Technology. MCIT Online is designed to be affordable, at one-third the cost of an on-campus degree, and open to students with no previous background in computer science.

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About Penn Engineering

At Penn Engineering, we are preparing the next generation of innovative engineers, entrepreneurs and leaders. Our unique culture of cooperation and teamwork, emphasis on research, and dedicated faculty advisors who teach as well as mentor, provide the ideal environment for the intellectual growth and development of well-rounded global citizens.

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