The University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a $2 million grant from NASA to conduct groundbreaking research on lunar robotics. The TRUSSES Project: Temporarily, Robots Unite to Surmount Sandy Entrapments, then Separate, led […]
Celebrating Achievement: Sumukh Shankar Pande
Dr. Sumukh Shankar Pande successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Mechanics-Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness” under the advisory of Professor and Chair Kevin Turner on November 27, 2023. […]
Celebrating Achievement: Shane Rozen-Levy
Congratulations Dr. Shane Rozen-Levy, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “No Watts Wasted: Spines and Tails for Agile Legged Locomotion,” under the advisory of Daniel Koditschek, graduate group member […]
The Alchemy Behind the Diamond: Unearthing Baseball’s Beloved Mud
With the Phillies’ World Series hopes dashed by the Arizona Diamondbacks, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are diverting their gaze to a lesser-known player in the baseball […]
A Centimeter-Scale Quadruped Leverages Curved-Crease Origami
Centimeter-scale walking and crawling robots are in demand both for their ability to explore tight or cluttered environments and for their low fabrication costs. Now, pulling from origami-inspired […]
Two Doctoral Students Earn Recognition at Society of Engineering Science (SES) Conference
Two doctoral students from the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics department earned recognition in the area of mechanics at the Society of Engineering Science (SES) conference. Sage Fulco […]
The Tertuliano Lab Has a Bone To Pick — And the Tools To Explain How It Breaks
Lightweight, tough and strong, our bones are forces of nature. Ottman Tertuliano joined the faculty of Penn Engineering last year to study bone as both a resilient living tissue and […]
A Solution for Cleaner Cars
Scattered throughout the lab of chemistry professor Eric Schelter—under a box, on top of a shelf, in a drawer—are vials containing solutions of an orange cobalt compound powder […]
Flow and the Time of Cholera
“A time and a place for everything.” As true for human experiences as it is for cellular survival, this maxim speaks to the most hopeful and cynical of […]