New Penn Engineering Assistant Professorship Honors Jan Van der Spiegel News / November 26, 2025 Jan Van der Spiegel’s quiet encouragement has shaped the careers of thousands of students, many of whom now hold prominent positions in academia and industry. Now, a group of Penn Engineering alumni are recognizing his lasting influence by helping to establish an assistant professorship in his honor. Read More
Penn Startup Showcase 2025 Recap News / November 24, 2025 Penn Engineering innovators took center stage at the inaugural Penn Startup Showcase, highlighting breakthrough ventures in robotics, AI and health care. Read More
Clark Foundation Invests $11 Million in the Next Generation of Penn Engineers News / October 21, 2025 The Clark Foundation deepens the program’s mission, opening new pathways for students to grow as engineers and community leaders. Read More
Penn Engineers Send Quantum Signals with Standard Internet Protocol News / August 28, 2025 Penn Engineers have brought quantum networking out of the laboratory and onto fiber-optic cables. Read More
Sustainable Computing: Can AI Be Energy Efficient? News / August 8, 2025 As AI advances at breakneck speed, experts at Penn are urgently trying to see if AI can be efficient. Read More
George Pappas Receives IEEE Kirchmayer Award News / July 14, 2025 Every year, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognizes an individual for the “inspirational mentoring” of graduate students. This year, the Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award was presented to George Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in Electrical and Systems Engineering, who serves as both Penn Engineering’s... Read More
Lighting the Spark: Summer STEM at Penn Engineering News / June 25, 2025 Every summer, Penn Engineering turns into an engine of opportunity for hundreds of Philadelphia students. With programs ranging from coding camps to research internships, the Cora Ingrum Center for Community and Outreach gives students the chance to connect with cutting-edge science, going far beyond what they might experience in a... Read More
Unlocking the Mechanics of Protein Misfolding News / June 3, 2025 Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, “mad cow disease” in cattle, yet they can also play essential roles in yeast survival and long-term memory formation in mice. Given their wide-ranging and complicated effects, investigating their structure and... 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
Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge News / May 6, 2025 To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is to come. On Friday, a trio of Penn Engineering startups demonstrated their aptitude for navigating the unknown by taking home more than $100,000 at the... Read More
