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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Penn Researchers Discuss Their Solutions to the Climate Crisis
This article was written by Nathi Magubane for Penn Today. As society grapples with the impacts of a worsening climate—from the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather […]
New technique enhances absorptivity of powders for metal 3D printing
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has become a powerful tool for scientists and artists, enabling the creation of complex geometries with which traditional methods struggle. While many are […]
Touching the Future: Mastering Physical Contact with New Algorithm for Robots
Written by Ian Scheffler for Penn AI. Penn Engineers have developed a new algorithm that allows robots to react to complex physical contact in real time, making it […]
Nathan Wei on Renewable Energy, Fluid Mechanics and the Shaping of Humble Engineers
With a research career dedicated to atmospheric wind and fluid mechanics, Nathan Wei, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), takes his endeavors almost wherever the wind blows. Guided […]
Pushing the Limits of Scientific Discovery with Machine Learning
What if scientists and policy-makers could automate and optimize the filtering of the massive amount of data available across each system they interact with to pull out information […]