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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrating Graduate Student Excellence: Master’s
Each year, Penn Engineering master’s students are honored with awards recognizing exceptional scholarly achievements. This year, we are proud to recognize two master’s students in Mechanical Engineering and […]
Celebrating Achievement: Imran Hayat
Imran Hayat has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Implementation and Performance of Wall Models for Large Eddy Simulation of Non-equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers” under the mentorship of […]
Celebrating Achievement: Sage Fulco
In a culmination of years of interdisciplinary research, Sage Fulco, a PhD student in MEAM, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architecture.” Fulco’s thesis […]