President’s Innovation Prize Winners Aim to Streamline the Health Care Supply Chain News / May 28, 2022 In a recent article from Penn Today, 2022 President’s Innovation Prize winners Luka Yancopoulos, an environmental studies major and a bioengineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and William Danon, a history major, discussed how the company and partnership came to be, how the software works and... Read More
Soft ‘Rotini’ Robots Navigate with a Snap News / May 25, 2022 Though autonomy in robotics constructed of soft materials is essential, creating autonomous soft robots that can intelligently interact with and adapt to changing environments without external controls remains challenging. Such robots usually require a soft, brain-like command center that integrates on-board sensing, control, computation, and decision-making. In a recent paper... Read More
Congratulations to the Penn Engineering Graduates of 2022! News / May 18, 2022 Penn Engineering held its first in-person Commencement in three years, celebrating our 2022 graduates with ceremonies at Irvine Auditorium and the Palestra. Students, family, friends and faculty were able to gather together once again to celebrate the accomplishments of a cohort that survived a complete campus shutdown in 2020, and... Read More
Interactive Robots Star in Interdisciplinary Choral Performance News / May 17, 2022 The rise of technology is both exciting and daunting as it has positive and negative implications on our society. One field that stirs up particularly uncomfortable questions is artificial intelligence and robotics. Assuming we can create lifelike machines that look, behave and process information in ways closely mimicking humans, should... Read More
Penn Engineering Researchers Use Cascading Dominoes to Mimic Soliton Waves News / May 6, 2022 Whether it be the fluid motions of the centipede as it propels itself along, or the intestines ability to usher food through the digestive system, it has long been a goal of scientists to mimic and reproduce the intricate wavelike motions that biological organisms utilize for movement. Researchers thus far... Read More
Prioritizing Environmental Justice While Capturing Carbon From the Air News / May 5, 2022 Reaching our carbon emission goals requires efforts on all fronts of carbon management; decreasing carbon emissions, capturing carbon and storing carbon. Traditionally, cost and resource availability are leading factors that determine how and where these efforts are made, leaving environmental and societal impacts as afterthoughts. Penn Engineers in the Kleinman... Read More
2022 Senior Design Project Competition Winners Announced News / May 3, 2022 Each year, Penn Engineering’s seniors present their Senior Design projects, a year-long effort that challenges them to test and develop solutions to real-world problems, to their individual departments. The top three projects from each department go on to compete in the annual Senior Design Competition, sponsored by the Engineering Alumni... Read More
Penn Engineering Commencement 2022 News / May 2, 2022 The time for celebrating our amazing Penn Engineering graduates is almost here! The 2022 Penn Engineering Commencement ceremonies will be held at the Palestra and the Irvine Auditorium, hosted both in-person and virtually. All Penn Engineering ceremonies will be live-streamed via the web and the links will be posted on... Read More
Making Chemical Separation More Eco-friendly with Self-assembled Nanoscale Membranes News / April 25, 2022 Chemical separation processes are essential in the manufacturing of many products from gasoline to whiskey. Such processes are energetically costly, accounting for approximately 10–15 percent of global energy consumption. In particular, the use of so-called “thermal separation processes”, such as distillation for separating petroleum-based hydrocarbons, is deeply ingrained in the... Read More
Penn Engineering’s 2022 Teaching and Advising Awards News / April 18, 2022 Each year, the Penn Engineering undergraduate student body thoughtfully selects the recipients of the Penn Engineering Teaching and Advising Awards. This year’s recipients are Deep Jariwala, Chris Callison-Burch and James Won. Deep Jariwala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the S. Reid Warren,... Read More
