Join us this semester for an exciting lineup of esteemed speakers from top institutions for our Spring Seminar Series. Topics will range from liquid crystal elastomers and phononic […]
New MEAM Faculty Member Wensi Wu Brings Innovation to Cardiovascular Research
We extend a warm welcome to Wensi Wu, who joins the MEAM faculty as Assistant Research Professor. Wensi’s research sits at the convergence of applied mechanics, scientific machine […]
Happy Holidays from MEAM @ Penn
MEAM Master’s students independently competed at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 in Japan. The team competed the F1tenth Autonomous Grand Prix and the Bots & Bento competition. Read […]
Penn4C Celebrates Annual Awardee Achievements
Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation (Penn4C), an initiative led jointly by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) and the School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering), recently […]
Rivers in a Changing World
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 […]