Brian Acosta has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Real-Time Perception and Mixed-Integer Footstep Control for Underactuated Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain” under the guidance of Michael Posa, Assistant […]
Victoria Edwards Defends Dissertation on Multi Robot Task Assignment in Dynamic Environments
Victoria “Torrie” Edwards has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Macroscopic Ensemble Methods for Multi Robot Task Assignment in Dynamic Environments” under the guidance of M. Ani Hsieh, Associate […]
Gabriel Unger Awarded Fall 2024 Outstanding TA Award
Gabriel “Gabe” Unger, a MEAM PhD student working in the Sung Robotics Lab, received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Award in Mechanical Engineering for the Fall 2024 semester […]
Christopher Kim Defends Dissertation on Impedance-Driven Self-Sensing Actuators
Christopher Kim has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Leveraging Impedance-Related Properties for Free Self-Sensing in Actuators for Compact Robots,” under the guidance of Cynthia Sung, Associate Professor in […]
Xiaoheng Zhu Defends Dissertation on Bio-Inspired Design
Xiaoheng Zhu has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Bio-inspired Architected Materials/structures with Enhanced Failure Characteristics,” working under the guidance of Jordan Raney, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and […]
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 […]