Daeyeon Lee Named Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching News / May 5, 2020 Provost Wendell Pritchett and Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein are pleased to announce the appointment of Daeyeon Lee to the Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching, beginning July 1, 2020. Dr. Lee is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the School of Engineering and... Read More
Linh Thi Xuan Phan Receives Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching News / May 4, 2020 Linh Thi Xuan Phan, associate professor in the department of Computer and Information Science, has received a 2020 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Lindback Award is the University’s highest honor for recognizing faculty members’ contributions in the classroom. It traditionally gives out eight such awards each year, divided evenly... Read More
Language in Tweets Offers Insight Into Community-level Well-being News / April 30, 2020 People in different areas across the United States reacted differently to the threat of COVID-19. Some imposed strict restrictions, closing down most businesses deemed nonessential; others remained partially open. Such regional distinctions are relatively easy to quantify, with their effects generally understandable through the lens of economic health. What’s harder... Read More
David Meaney on Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis News / April 28, 2020 David F. Meaney, the Senior Associate Dean of Penn Engineering and Solomon R. Pollack Professor of Bioengineering, is known for his scholarship and innovation in neuroengineering and concussion science, his leadership as former Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, and for his marshaling of interdisciplinary research between Penn Engineering and... Read More
Penn Engineers’ Filters Could Enable High-quality Lasers at a Fraction of their Current Size and Cost News / April 28, 2020 Many emerging technologies rely on high-quality lasers. Laser-based LiDAR sensors can provide highly accurate scans of three-dimensional spaces, and as such are crucial in applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to geological mapping technologies and emergency response systems. High-quality lasers are also a key part of the high-speed, high-volume data centers... Read More
Daniel A. Hammer and Miriam Wattenbarger to Offer Summer Course on COVID-19 News / April 27, 2020 As researchers hunt for a solution to the coronavirus outbreak, Daniel A. Hammer, Alfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor in Bioengineering and in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), is bringing lessons from the fight for a vaccine to the classroom. Hammer will offer a course on COVID-19 and the... Read More
Victoria Muir Wins Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students News / April 23, 2020 The Office of the Provost awards the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students in recognition of their profound impact on education across the University. Nominations come directly from undergraduate and graduate students in their courses and are narrowed down to ten awardees each year. Victoria Muir, a... Read More
Bomyi Lim Receives KIChE President Young Investigator News / April 22, 2020 Bomyi Lim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected by the U.S. Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) as the recipient of the KIChE President Young Investigator Award. As a recipient of this Award, Lim will be invited to present a research... Read More
Stuart Diamond on Negotiating Tools to Get Through the Day News / April 21, 2020 Stuart Diamond, an emeritus professor at Wharton, teaches EAS 512: Engineering Negotiations in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Negotiations at Penn Law. His New York Times bestseller, Getting More, has been called “the best book to read for your career” by the Wall Street Journal’s career... Read More
Penn Engineers’ ‘Nanocardboard’ Flyers Could Serve as Martian Atmospheric Probes News / April 20, 2020 This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mars Helicopter will carry no instruments and collect no data — NASA describes merely flying it all... Read More
