Penn Engineering Rewind: Top Social Media Posts From 2022 News / December 22, 2022 Penn Engineering’s social media platforms feature a mix of research stories, faculty and student profiles, views of campus, and much more. These are the posts from 2022 that engaged our audiences most: #5 Master’s Commencement Ceremony On the day of the 2022 Master’s Commencement Ceremony, which took place in May... Read More
Deep Jariwala Receives IEEE Nano Early Career Award News / December 19, 2022 Deep Jariwala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the 2023 recipient of the IEEE Nano Early Career Award. The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Nanotechnology carried out throughout the IEEE... Read More
Andre DeHon Named a 2023 IEEE Fellow News / December 16, 2022 Andre DeHon, Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science, is among the members of the IEEE Computer Society to be elevated to IEEE Fellow status for his “contributions to reconfigurable computing and FPGAs.” The IEEE Board of Directors confers the title of Fellow... Read More
Cynthia Sung Receives the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award News / December 15, 2022 Cynthia Sung, Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Computer and Information Science, has received the Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2023 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award. The ONR YIP is a highly competitive and popular early-career award program where prior academic... Read More
Penn Engineers Win 2022 Bell Labs Prize News / November 22, 2022 The Bell Labs Prize awarded by Nokia Bell Labs is a yearly contest in which researchers from around the world submit proposals for “disruptive innovations that will define the next industrial revolution.” Participants are paired with Nokia Bell Labs researchers to refine their ideas, ultimately presenting them to a panel... Read More
Listen: ‘Curious Minds’ on NPR’s ‘Detroit Today’ News / November 14, 2022 Twin academics Dani S. Basset, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor and director of the Complex Systems Lab, and Perry Zurn, a professor of philosophy at American University, were recently featured as guests on NPR radio show “Detroit Today” to discuss their new book, “Curious Mind: The Power of Connection.” In their... Read More
Y-Prize 2022-2023: Solar Powered Aerial Vehicles and Physics-Informed Neural Networks News / October 6, 2022 Each year, Penn Engineering, The Mack Institute at the Wharton School, The Penn Venture Lab, and the Penn Center for Innovation host the Y-Prize competition. Starting with technologies developed by Penn Engineering researchers, contestants are charged with finding significant real-world applications and building business plans around them. This year’s technologies are... Read More
‘A Robot Made of Sticks’ News / October 3, 2022 When Devin Carroll, a Ph.D. candidate in Penn Engineering’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab, walks the streets of Philadelphia, he keeps an eye out for the best sticks to add to his modular robot. Composed of circuitry, actuators, a microcontroller, and a motor driver, Carroll has dubbed... Read More
Karen Winey Receives ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry News / September 23, 2022 Karen Winey, Harold Pender Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received the 2023 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Polymer Chemistry. Recipients have demonstrated pioneering research accomplishments in synthetic methods of unique polymeric materials or achieved profound discoveries in polymer physical... Read More
Pandemic Bike-share Boom Crossed Socioeconomic Lines News / September 22, 2022 Racial and economic factors can often create barriers to reliable transportation, making it difficult access to basic necessities such as health care and employment. Although city bike-share programs have become particularly popular during the pandemic, bike-share companies concentrate infrastructure in upper-class neighborhoods, citing historically lower use of such programs in... Read More
