This article was written by Kristina García for Penn Today. Photographs by Eric Sucar. The history of Philadelphia’s water lies mostly underground, buried and dormant. Watershed maps show […]
Parker LaMascus Defends Dissertation on Nanocrystals in Lubrication
Parker LaMascus has successfully completed his doctoral dissertation, “Tribosintering of Metal Oxide Nanocrystals,” working under the guidance of Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor in MEAM. LaMascus investigated […]
Jessica Yin Defends Dissertation on Multimodal Sensing for Robot Manipulation
Jessica Yin has successfully completed her doctoral dissertation on “Exploring Multimodal Sensing Across the Stack for Robot Manipulation” under the guidance of Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical […]
Yichao Shi Defends Dissertation on Revolutionizing Robot Power
Yichao Shi has successfully completed his doctoral dissertation on “Coupling Hard and Soft Interfaces to Realize Actuators and Energy Sources that Bring Robots Towards Animal Mobility” under the […]
Your PhD in MEAM: Fluid Mechanics with Sindu (Video)
Meet Sindu Shanmugadas, a third-year doctoral student working at the intersection of electromagnetism and fluids in Haim Bau’s microfluidics lab. Sindu shares what makes Penn Engineering unique – […]
Academic Resilience Meets Startup Grit: My Ph.D. Journey Through Penn and Beyond
Written by Dr. Tom Zhang for Penn Engineering Graduate Admissions A week after defending my Ph.D. dissertation, I’m still decompressing from the whirlwind of my five years at […]
Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture with Gareth H. McKinley
In a exploration of fluid dynamics, the MEAM department invited Gareth McKinley from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to speak at the Fall 2024 Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture. To a […]
MEAM Welcomes Back Alumni for Career Panel
We were thrilled to welcome five Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) alumni back to campus for our recent Alumni Career Panel as part of the MEAM Career […]
Hang Shu Defends Dissertation on Impulse-Induced Nonlinear Dynamics
Hang Shu has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on “Impulse-Induced Nonlinear Dynamics of Flexible Mechanical Metamaterials,” under the guidance of Jordan R. Raney, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering […]
The Secrets of Baseball’s Magic Mud
Written by Ian Scheffler for Penn Engineering Today. The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper in Proceedings […]