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 […]
MEAM Senior Design Day Awardees 2024
Senior Design is the capstone of Penn’s practice-integrated mechanical engineering curriculum. The two-semester senior design sequence challenges students to bring theory, skills, general knowledge, and inventive energy to […]
Celebrating Graduate Excellence: PhD Awards
Each year, Penn Engineering doctoral candidates are honored with awards recognizing exceptional scholarly achievements. This year, we are proud to recognize two doctoral candidates in Mechanical Engineering and […]
Sumit Kumar Successfully Defends Master Thesis on Synthetic Mucin Rheology
Sumit Kumar, a Master’s Candidate in MEAM, has defended his thesis titled “The Rheology and Microphysics of Monodisperse Synthetic Mucin.” His research focused on understanding the behavior of […]
Celebrating Graduate Student Excellence: Master’s
Each year, Penn Engineering master’s students are honored with awards recognizing exceptional scholarly achievements. This year, we are proud to recognize two master’s students in Mechanical Engineering and […]
MEAM Hosts the Boyce Symposium in Honor of Mary C. Boyce, 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal Recipient
The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) recently hosted the Boyce Symposium on April 18 in honor of Mary C. Boyce, recipient of the 2024 Benjamin […]
Celebrating Achievement: Imran Hayat
Imran Hayat has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Implementation and Performance of Wall Models for Large Eddy Simulation of Non-equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers” under the mentorship of […]
Teaching Doglike Robots to Walk on the Moon’s Dusty, Icy Surface
At an elevation of around 6,000 feet near Mount Hood, located roughly 70 miles east of Portland, an interdisciplinary team comprising members from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of […]
Celebrating Achievement: Sage Fulco
In a culmination of years of interdisciplinary research, Sage Fulco, a PhD student in MEAM, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architecture.” Fulco’s thesis […]
‘Kinegami’ paper receives Honorable Mention for 2023 TRO Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Wei-Hsi Chen, ESE PhD ’13 and postdoctoral researcher in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) and the Sung Robotics Lab, Woohyeok Yang, MEAM MSE ’21, and Lucien […]