Penn Engineers have uncovered an unexpected universal pattern in how turbulent airflows behave over natural dune fields, offering insights into one of the most perplexing phenomena in fluid […]
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, […]
Engineering the Future of Farming
Over the next 25 years, the world’s population, currently hovering around 7.8 billion, is expected to grow by nearly 25% to 9.7 billion people. This means that existing […]
A New Electroadhesive Clutch To Improve Haptics in Virtual Reality Gloves and Beyond
When engaging in virtual reality (VR) and manipulating an object, users want to be able to feel what they’re touching in virtual space. A hard object needs to […]
Penn Receives $2 Million NASA Grant for TRUSSES Project to Study Lunar Robotics
The University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a $2 million grant from NASA to conduct groundbreaking research on lunar robotics. The TRUSSES Project: Temporarily, Robots Unite to Surmount Sandy Entrapments, then Separate, led […]
The Alchemy Behind the Diamond: Unearthing Baseball’s Beloved Mud
With the Phillies’ World Series hopes dashed by the Arizona Diamondbacks, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are diverting their gaze to a lesser-known player in the baseball […]
A Centimeter-Scale Quadruped Leverages Curved-Crease Origami
Centimeter-scale walking and crawling robots are in demand both for their ability to explore tight or cluttered environments and for their low fabrication costs. Now, pulling from origami-inspired […]
The Tertuliano Lab Has a Bone To Pick — And the Tools To Explain How It Breaks
Lightweight, tough and strong, our bones are forces of nature. Ottman Tertuliano joined the faculty of Penn Engineering last year to study bone as both a resilient living tissue and […]
Flow and the Time of Cholera
“A time and a place for everything.” As true for human experiences as it is for cellular survival, this maxim speaks to the most hopeful and cynical of […]