On June 17, Jessica Weakly (pictured right) presented her doctoral dissertation, “Bistable Structures Enable Passive Transitions in Mobile Robots,” under the advisory of Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor […]
Vivek Sharma Awarded Fall 2023 Outstanding TA
Vivek Sharma, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has received the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering” for the Fall 2023 semester. Sharma […]
Cynthia Sung Receives Army Early Career Award to Make Robots Move Like Animals
Inspired by the variety of muscles that control movement in animals, Cynthia Sung, Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) at Penn Engineering, aims to advance movement […]
PhD Candidate Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Ben Shaffer, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the highly competitive NSF Graduate […]
Cynthia Sung On How We Can Increase Girls’ Participation in Engineering and Robotics
An Interview With Vanessa Ogle, original article written for Medium.com Despite the growing importance of engineering and robotics in shaping our future, women remain significantly underrepresented in these […]
Ottman Tertuliano Receives 2024 CAREER Award
Scientists have been studying bones and how they break for over a century, but they’ve primarily been doing so on the large scale, examining entire femur fractures through […]
Zaini Alansari Defends Master’s Thesis on Off-Grid Photovoltaics and Energy Storage
Zaini Alansari, a recent graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Modeling Off-Grid Photovoltaics Integrated with Micro-Cogeneration […]
Carpick Research Group Contributes to Pixelligent Success Story
Penn Engineering faculty bring the spirit of entrepreneurship to life through their collaborations in a wide range of startups, products and external partnerships each year. The research group […]
Xu Zhang Defends Master’s Thesis on Micro-Robotic Membranes
Xu Zhang (left), a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Optical Analysis of Buckling-Induced Micro-Robotic […]
Ho Jin Choi Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis
Ho Jin Choi has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Gaussian Process-Based Active Exploration Strategies in Vision and Touch” under the advisory of Nadia Figueroa, Shalini and Rajeev […]