Fall 2025 Dean’s Welcome News / August 21, 2025 Welcome, Penn Engineers! Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning for another exciting year of discovery and growth, it’s wonderful to see our campus buzzing with energy again. There is nothing quite like the excitement of a new academic year, and I’m reminded how much our strength... 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
Bruce Lee: Exploring the Limits of Robotic Systems News / June 10, 2024 As machine learning enters the mainstream, consumers may assume that it can solve almost any problem. This is not true, says Bruce Lee, a doctoral student in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Lee’s research works to identify how robotic systems learn to perform different tasks, focusing on... Read More
The PRECISE Center Turns 15 — and Looks to the Future with Two New Faculty Members News / August 28, 2023 The Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering, or PRECISE, Center was founded 15 years ago with the mission of bringing together experts from the computer science and the electrical and systems engineering fields to accelerate technological progress, expand capabilities and share knowledge about the way machines interact... Read More
Fall 2023 Dean’s Welcome News / August 23, 2023 In Penn Engineering, the last weeks of summer are filled with anticipation as we prepare our campus for the return of our full student body, and I’m particularly excited to welcome all of our new students, faculty and staff who will be joining us for the first time this semester.... Read More
‘The Surprising Power of Foosball’ News / July 20, 2022 Rebecca Peng, a rising sophomore from Pittsburgh majoring in Computer Science at Penn Engineering, is spending the summer working on environmental sustainability issues at Phenikaa MaaS, a Vietnamese technology company that helps optimize transportation systems. Read more dispatches from participants in Penn’s Global Research and Internship Program at its... Read More
Remembering Max Mintz News / April 20, 2022 It is with deep sadness that we share that Max Mintz, Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, passed away on Monday, April 18, following an illness. Max joined Penn in 1974 as an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering, now part of the Department of Electrical and Systems... Read More
‘The Spontaneity of Climbing a Mountain… Or Studying Abroad’ News / April 6, 2022 Ricardo Del Rio is one of the Semester Abroad Global Correspondents writing and sharing his experience abroad during the Spring 2022 semester. Follow along with the group of correspondents at Penn Abroad’s blog and the @pennabroad Instagram feed. I once heard that someone asked a mountaineer: “Why do you want to climb... Read More
Paul Greenberg, Penn Engineering Advisor and Alumnus, on Giving Back News / February 22, 2022 Paul S. Greenberg serves as a Penn Engineering Advisor and is a member of the Penn Engineering Annual Giving February Challenge Committee. Paul is Managing Member of Clermont Capital, LLC. For the past 21 years, he has been a fund manager focused on investments in special situations, distressed and bankrupt... Read More
A New Makerspace for Materials Passion Projects News / February 2, 2022 With the pandemic disrupting in-person learning and lab time in 2020, Joshua Chen, junior in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), got together with a group of classmates and dreamed up a student-run space where they could apply their newfound knowledge to creative projects. Working with MSE Lab... Read More
