Mark Allen Named Chair of Electrical and Systems Engineering News / February 14, 2024 Mark G. Allen has been named Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Allen is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering with secondary appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He comes to this position after serving more than... Read More
Penn Engineering Announces First Ivy League Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence News / February 13, 2024 The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science introduces its Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) degree, the first undergraduate major of its kind among Ivy League universities and one of the very first AI undergraduate engineering programs in the U.S. The rapid rise of... Read More
George Pappas Elected to the National Academy of Engineering News / February 6, 2024 George Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in Electrical and Systems Engineering in Penn Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his significant “contributions in analysis, synthesis, and control of safety-critical cyber-physical systems.” Pappas joins a distinguished group of 114 new members and 21 international members... Read More
Koditschek Doctoral Fellowship Honors Family’s Resilience, Love of Education News / December 19, 2023 With a generous gift to Penn Engineering, longtime Penn professors Daniel E. Koditschek and his wife, Anne M. Teitelman, chose to turn a dark time in history, both for the world and for their own family, into a bright spot for burgeoning academics. Koditschek is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor... Read More
Arjun Raj Receives 2023-24 Heilmeier Award News / November 20, 2023 Arjun Raj, Professor in Bioengineering in Penn Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2023-24 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “pioneering the development and application of single-cell, cancer-fighting technologies.” The Heilmeier Award honors a Penn Engineering faculty member whose work is scientifically meritorious and... Read More
