Meet Jean, Penn Engineering’s AI Tutor, Available 24/7 News / April 23, 2025 Imagine that you’re a first-year student in the Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) program, Penn Engineering’s most popular online degree. You’ve spent hours on a coding assignment, only to encounter the same bug, over and over. You could post a question on the online discussion board, but, like... Read More
Responsible Innovation Starts Here: A Holistic Approach to Engineering Education News / April 7, 2025 With guidance from faculty experts, students develop the “ethics toolkit” they’ll rely on as future leaders in science and technology. Read More
Meet Taylor Caputo, Director of the Engineering Studios @ Venture Lab News / March 28, 2025 Taylor Caputo (IPD’15) helps students bring their visions for new products to life through techniques as varied as sewing and 3D printing. Read More
The Cora Ingrum Center: Supporting the Next Generation of Engineers News / March 25, 2025 Through a wide range of initiatives, the Cora Ingrum Center (CIC) for Community and Outreach aims to introduce as many Philadelphia students as possible to the kind of science happening within Penn Engineering. Read More
Building Tomorrow’s Innovators: Inside Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program News / February 13, 2025 Penn Engineering recently welcomed the second cohort of Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows. The highly selective, year-long program invites students to engage directly with startups and venture firms through internships and mentorships. Read More
Penn Engineering and Plaksha University Partner for International Research and Academic Collaboration News / September 18, 2024 The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Engineering) recently signed a collaborative memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Plaksha University, a leading Indian research university. In alignment with both institutions’ commitment to elevating research at a global scale and bolstering their academic collaborations, this strategic... Read More
Fall 2024 Dean’s Welcome News / August 20, 2024 It is with great excitement and anticipation that I welcome our new and returning Penn Engineers to campus for the 2024-2025 academic year. I trust that everyone had a restful summer break and that you will all join me in my enthusiasm for the yet-to-be-discovered, the coming breakthroughs, and perhaps... Read More
2024 CAREER Award Recipient: Flavia Vitale News / July 24, 2024 Neurological disorders such as epilepsy, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s and certain forms of dementia are the leading cause of disability and second-leading cause of disease worldwide. These disorders disproportionately affect low-resourced communities due to lack of access to specialized healthcare, and many of these complex diseases lack curative solutions. The need to... Read More
Shedding Light on Cellular Metabolism to Fight Disease News / July 15, 2024 Enamored by the chemical processes of life, Yihui Shen, J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Bioengineering, started her research career as a chemist studying the way that proteins fold and the intricate dynamics underlying life processes. “As an undergraduate, I studied physical chemistry, thinking that one... Read More
The Penn Forum on Quantum Systems (FoQuS), QUIEST’s First Inaugural Symposium, Hosts International Experts in Quantum Research News / June 21, 2024 Sometimes, nature’s smallest objects have the biggest impact. Take the quantum realm, which involves the building blocks of matter itself. Quantum science aims to understand the behavior of matter and energy at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. Because particles frequently defy human intuition at this scale, the field... Read More
