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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Understanding the Northeast earthquake
On April 5, 2024, people in the Northeast, including many at Penn, experienced an unusual disruption to their day as the ground beneath and walls around started to […]
2024 Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture
In a captivating fusion of art and engineering, the recent Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture welcomed Glaucio Paulino, the Margareta E. Augustine Professor of Engineering from Princeton University. With his […]
S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award
Douglas Jerolmack, Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and in Earth and Environmental Science, has been awarded the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award. Presented in conjunction with […]
Interfacial Phenomena: Samantha McBride’s Untapped Resource for Water Sustainability
In a typical year, Reno, Nevada, receives just seven and a half inches of rain. For Samantha McBride, the newest faculty member in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, […]
At Ben Talks NYC, A Journey From Ocean Depths to Outer Space
Written for OMNIA by Michele W. BergerPhotos by Brooke Sietinsons On a brisk night in January overlooking the skating rink in New York’s Bryant Park, alumni took a […]