MEAM Master’s students independently competed at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 in Japan. The team competed the F1tenth Autonomous Grand Prix and the Bots & Bento competition. Read More
Team MorphBoard on Senior Design Day demonstrating their prototype – a foldable, electric skateboard with an integrated suspension system to allow it to tackle obstacles encountered in cities such as trolley lines, curbs, or sidewalk cracks. This team won the John Couloucoundis Prize for the best senior design presentation. Read More
In November, the Department welcomed five MEAM alumni back to campus for an Alumni Career Panel as part of the MEAM Career Development Series. The panelists generously shared their career insights and advice with current MEAM students. Read More
In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Penn researchers, including Doug Jerolmack, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor in MEAM, Paulo E. Arratia, Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Scholar and Professor in MEAM, and postdoctoral fellow Shravan Pradeep, reveal what makes the magic mud in professional baseball so special. Read More
Students in MEAM 5200: Introduction to Robotics, taught by Associate Professor Cynthia Sung, participated in a block stacking competition for their final project. Each team controls one 7 DOG Franka-Emika Panda manipulator arm to stack as many blocks as possible in two minutes. This year’s team, consisting of Luyang Hu, Ella Zhao, Jonathan Ma, and Riju Datta, stacked 8 blocks for a total of 28,000 points. The next highest-scoring team earned 8,500.