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 […]
Hang Shu Defends Dissertation on Impulse-Induced Nonlinear Dynamics
Hang Shu has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on “Impulse-Induced Nonlinear Dynamics of Flexible Mechanical Metamaterials,” under the guidance of Jordan R. Raney, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering […]
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 […]