Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship at 25: Bridging Science and Business for Success in a Tech-Driven Economy News / December 2, 2024 In 1999, Tom Cassel (ME’68, GME’73, GR’79) was a Penn Engineering doctoral alumnus with decades of entrepreneurial success in the energy sector. With a career bookended by a Peace Corps stint building water systems in the ‘70s and the sale of his company’s advanced power plants to multinationals in the... Read More
Penn Engineering Awards Three New Scholarly Professorships News / November 19, 2024 A scholarly professorship, or named faculty position, is one of the highest honors a faculty member can receive from an academic institution. Such an appointment increases a faculty member’s distinction and validates the individual’s work, elevating their influence at Penn and beyond. In Fiscal Year 2024, Penn Engineering appointed the... Read More
Alumni Q&A: Chloe Snyder News / November 7, 2024 Penn Engineering alumna Chloe Snyder (ENG’17, GEN’18) is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Google. While at Penn, she earned a BSE in Digital Media Design in 2017, followed by an MSE in Computer Graphics and Game Technology in 2018. In the Q&A below, Snyder explains how Pixar inspired her... Read More
From Penn Engineering to AI Leadership: Archana Vemulapalli’s Path to Success News / October 30, 2024 For Archana Vemulapalli (GEN’01, CGS’05) one of the most important workplace lessons is to treat your role with respect. “Sometimes I see people who are trying to work towards something before excelling in what they have at hand,” she says. “When you excel at what you have at hand,... Read More
A Decade of BETA Day: Shaping the Success of Future Bioengineers News / October 14, 2024 Last year marked not just the 50th anniversary of the Department of Bioengineering (BE) but the 10th anniversary of Bioengineer-Teach-Aspire (BETA) Day, one of the most beloved and impactful programs run by the Graduate Association of Bioengineers (GABE). BETA Day, an annual event in which a diverse group of Philadelphia... Read More
Clark Scholars Program Rewards Effort, Fosters Connection News / August 23, 2024 As most students finish packing their bags for a return to campus and the start of the fall semester, one small group will already be settling in. No, they didn’t get their dates mixed up — these 10 engineering students are Clark Scholars, part of a prestigious program and one... Read More
Empowering Future Engineers: Lyle Brunhofer and the Impact of Senior Design News / August 15, 2024 Today, Lyle Brunhofer (EAS’14, GEng’14) advises companies on digital transformations, applying the skills he learned at Penn Engineering to modernize firms’ understanding of customers in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals and consumer products. He also helps run Penn Engineering’s annual Senior Design Project Competition, which recruits dozens of alumni to... Read More
Catalyzing Change: Henry Coshburn and the Power of Mentorship News / June 24, 2024 Henry Coshburn, one of the first Black graduates of Penn’s chemical engineering program, rose from Harlem’s post–Great Migration era to a pioneering career in batteries and international petroleum. After facing discrimination early on, he built a career in global energy and spent decades mentoring Black engineers. Read More
Investing in Innovation: Philanthropy Powers AI Education at Penn Engineering News / May 22, 2024 In 1943, Warren McCullough, a psychiatrist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Walter Pitts, a runaway prodigy, co-authored a paper in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics on the relationship between biological neurons and formal logic. As Brian Christian recounts in “The Alignment Problem,” the idea that the logic... Read More
Opening Doors and Changing Lives: Five Years of Penn Engineering Online Master’s Degrees News / March 25, 2024 The technological landscape is changing at a rapid pace, faster than ever before, leaving almost no career path untouched. In addition, professionals looking to augment their skills due to these changes, or even make the switch to a new career entirely, can encounter barriers to advancement if they do not... Read More
