Sharath Chandra Guntuku Receives Penn Global Grant for Vaccine Attitudes Research in India News / April 11, 2022 Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, will receive funding from Penn Global for his project titled “Computational Social Listening of Vaccine Attitudes in India to Increase Provider Efficacy.” As a part of its Research and Engagement Grant Program, Penn Global will award... Read More
Boon Thau Loo and Amish Patel Receive Lindback Teaching Awards News / April 6, 2022 Boon Thau Loo and Amish Patel are among the recipients of the 2022 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Lindback Awards, announced annually, are the most prestigious teaching awards that full-time faculty members at the University can receive. Loo is the RCA Professor in the... Read More
Three Penn Engineers Named Goldwater Scholars News / April 4, 2022 Of the five University of Pennsylvania undergraduates who have received 2022 Goldwater Scholarships, three proudly represent the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation awards scholarships of up to $7,500 to each scholar selected. Each year Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research and... Read More
Ossum Technologies Wins 2022 Y-Prize with Tool for Stabilizing Fractures News / March 30, 2022 The Y-Prize, a student startup competition based on technologies developed at Penn Engineering, is hosted by the Wharton School’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management, Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship and the Penn Center for Innovation each year. The team with the best pitch takes home $10,000 in investment funding. This year’s winning... Read More
Penn Engineers Discover How a Magnetic Property Can Manipulate Light in Semiconductor Materials News / March 29, 2022 A major research challenge in the field of nanotechnology is finding efficient ways to control light, an ability essential for high-resolution imaging, biosensors and cell phones. Because light is an electromagnetic wave that carries no charge itself, it is difficult to manipulate with voltage or an external magnetic field. To... Read More
Penn Electric Racing Unveils New REV7 Racecar Despite Pandemic Setbacks News / March 21, 2022 After a two-year hiatus, Penn Electric Racing – the University of Pennsylvania’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) racecar-building team – has unveiled their latest creation: the REV7. The team, who has earned 39 trophies during their eight years of competing, is slated to bring the REV7 to this year’s... Read More
Systems Engineering Junior Shriya Karam on Aviation Accessibility News / March 17, 2022 As a part of the transportation industry-at-large, the aviation sector has endured many adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Billions in financial losses, thousands of flight cancellations, and airport and airline job losses have hung heavy over the industry as federal stakeholders and airlines seek a viable way forward. Systems... Read More
Bioengineering Spin-off Vivodyne on Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative’ List News / March 10, 2022 With Vivodyne, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering Dan Huh is translating the organs-on-chips technology into a promising industry venture. Using microfluidic structures that mimic aspects of human physiology, organs-on-chips allow scientists to test therapies on lab-grown human cells. Vivodyne specifically focuses on designing organs-on-chips to create a scalable... Read More
New Penn Engineering Online Initiatives Will Provide Career-advancing Experiences News / February 28, 2022 In the interest of developing enduring programs by which Online students can get the same kind of career-advancing experiences that Campus students get, Penn Engineering has established two new initiatives: an expanded version of the Side Projects for Advancement, Refinement and Collaboration (SPARC) competition and the Executives in Residence (EIR)... Read More
Chinedum Osuji receives a 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award News / February 20, 2022 Chinedum Osuji, Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and Chair in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded a 2021 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award (ORA) for his project titled “Patterning at Nano‐Length Scales by Directed Assembly.” Intel Labs, the interdisciplinary branch of Intel Corporation that presents the... Read More
