Walker Gosrich has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled “Multi-Robot Coordination and Cooperation via Graph-Based Computation,” while under the advisory of Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical […]
MEAM MSE Students Compete at ICRA 2024
MEAM MSE students independently competed at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 in Japan. The team, comprised of four students from the class of 2025 […]
PhD Candidate Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Daelan Roosa, a rising third-year PhD candidate, has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for his work in soft robotics and material science. Roosa, […]
Ryan Black Successfully Defends Dissertation
Ryan Black has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of the Cardiovascular System” under the mentorship of Assistant Professor George I. Park. His research aims […]
Jessica Weakly Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
On June 17, Jessica Weakly (pictured right) presented her doctoral dissertation, “Bistable Structures Enable Passive Transitions in Mobile Robots,” under the advisory of Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor […]
Vivek Sharma Awarded Fall 2023 Outstanding TA
Vivek Sharma, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has received the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering” for the Fall 2023 semester. Sharma […]
PhD Candidate Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Ben Shaffer, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the highly competitive NSF Graduate […]
Zaini Alansari Defends Master’s Thesis on Off-Grid Photovoltaics and Energy Storage
Zaini Alansari, a recent graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Modeling Off-Grid Photovoltaics Integrated with Micro-Cogeneration […]
Xu Zhang Defends Master’s Thesis on Micro-Robotic Membranes
Xu Zhang (left), a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Optical Analysis of Buckling-Induced Micro-Robotic […]
Ho Jin Choi Successfully Defends Master’s Thesis
Ho Jin Choi has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Gaussian Process-Based Active Exploration Strategies in Vision and Touch” under the advisory of Nadia Figueroa, Shalini and Rajeev […]