Ralph Teetor: The Blind Penn Engineer Who Changed the Way We Drive News / November 7, 2025 Penn Engineering graduate Ralph Teetor, who lost his sight by the age of six, used his heightened senses and passion for engineering to change how the world drives. Read More
Alumni Q&A: Paul McLaughlin News / October 10, 2025 Paul McLaughlin (GEng’86) currently serves as Chief Engineer at Honeywell Process Solutions, where he leads a division that provides industrial customers with automation and software to increase the safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability of their operations. McLaughlin earned a master’s degree in Computer and Information Science from Penn while balancing... Read More
Alumni Q&A: Farnia Fresnel News / August 4, 2025 Farnia Fresnel (ENG’98) currently serves as the president of the Lenserf Group, a business consulting firm in Philadelphia that specializes in leadership development, coaching and training. She earned her undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from Penn Engineering in 1998, followed by an MBA from New York University. In addition to... Read More
Engineering a Healthier Future: Kelsey Swingle’s Journey from Penn Student to Rice Faculty News / July 22, 2025 Kelsey Swingle (GrENG’25) has made a remarkable leap from doctoral training at Penn to a tenure-track faculty position at Rice University. Her pioneering work on lipid nanoparticle delivery of mRNA therapeutics targets critical women’s health issues like pre-eclampsia, addressing a major gap in reproductive medicine. Trained in the Mitchell Lab... Read More
Alumni Q&A: Rhonda and Gentry Klein News / June 26, 2025 Rhonda (pictured above right) and Gentry Klein (above left) first met as undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1997. More than 25 years later, they are still together, now married with five children. Rhonda (ENG’01, M’07) earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Penn, as... Read More
Alumni Q&A: Faisel Khan News / May 30, 2025 Faisel Khan (C’98, ENG’98) is the Chief Financial Officer of Sempra Infrastructure, one of three platforms at Sempra. Sempra Infrastructure develops, builds, operates and invests in the infrastructure critical to meet the world’s energy and climate needs. At Sempra Infrastructure, Khan oversees the company’s finance, accounting, information technology, cybersecurity and... Read More
Alumni Q&A: Isaiah Belle News / May 14, 2025 Isaiah Belle (ENG’00) has spent the last nine years at Google, where he currently works as a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead. Belle earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Penn Engineering in 2000 and a master’s degree in Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia in 2007. In... Read More
Designing the Future: Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition News / May 12, 2025 Consider the following problems: Every year, millions of people struggle to recover mobility following strokes. Hundreds of millions need eye exams, but live far from practicing optometrists. Billions of tires expire, leaching toxic chemicals into the food chain. And as AI systems grow larger, they require more and more power... Read More
Alumni Q&A: Sevile Mannickarottu (EE’99, GR’15) News / April 2, 2025 Sevile Mannickarottu (EE’99, GR’15) has spent the past twenty years working at Penn Engineering, where he has taught and mentored thousands of students throughout his career. He earned his undergraduate degree at Penn in Electrical Engineering in 1999, and prior to his time as a staff member at Penn, he... Read More
Investing in Engineers: Sugi Widjaja and Millie Wan Champion Entrepreneurship Fellows News / March 31, 2025 Neither Sugi Widjaja (EE’00) nor Millie Wan (W’01) pictured themselves attending Penn. Widjaja, who moved from Asia to Santa Monica, California, for his senior year of high school, expected to attend community college, then transfer to a four-year school. “My parents didn’t graduate from high school,” he says. “All they... Read More
