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Penn’s Fluid Dynamics Symposium: Breaking Waves, Forging Connections
Events / Faculty

Penn’s Fluid Dynamics Symposium: Breaking Waves, Forging Connections

Posted on: December 11, 2023January 23, 2024

In November 2023, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) played a pivotal role in hosting a satellite workshop preceding the American Physical Society conference in Washington, DC. […]

Introducing: Nathaniel Trask
Faculty

Introducing: Nathaniel Trask

Posted on: December 5, 2023February 12, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Associate Professor Nat Trask, our newest faculty member, to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. With a background steeped in a decade […]

Penn Receives $2 Million NASA Grant for TRUSSES Project to Study Lunar Robotics
Grants & Awards / Research

Penn Receives $2 Million NASA Grant for TRUSSES Project to Study Lunar Robotics

Posted on: November 28, 2023January 23, 2024

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 […]

Celebrating Achievement: Sumukh Shankar Pande
PhD / Students

Celebrating Achievement: Sumukh Shankar Pande

Posted on: November 27, 2023February 12, 2024

Dr. Sumukh Shankar Pande successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Mechanics-Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness” under the advisory of Professor and Chair Kevin Turner on November 27, 2023. […]

Celebrating Achievement: Shane Rozen-Levy
PhD / Students

Celebrating Achievement: Shane Rozen-Levy

Posted on: November 16, 2023February 12, 2024

Congratulations Dr. Shane Rozen-Levy, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “No Watts Wasted: Spines and Tails for Agile Legged Locomotion,” under the advisory of Daniel Koditschek, graduate group member […]

The Alchemy Behind the Diamond: Unearthing Baseball’s Beloved Mud
Faculty / Research

The Alchemy Behind the Diamond: Unearthing Baseball’s Beloved Mud

Posted on: October 30, 2023February 12, 2024

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
Faculty / Research

A Centimeter-Scale Quadruped Leverages Curved-Crease Origami

Posted on: October 25, 2023February 12, 2024

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 […]

Two Doctoral Students Earn Recognition at Society of Engineering Science (SES) Conference
Students

Two Doctoral Students Earn Recognition at Society of Engineering Science (SES) Conference

Posted on: October 24, 2023February 12, 2024

Two doctoral students from the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics department earned recognition in the area of mechanics at the Society of Engineering Science (SES) conference. Sage Fulco […]

The Tertuliano Lab Has a Bone To Pick — And the Tools To Explain How It Breaks
Faculty / Research

The Tertuliano Lab Has a Bone To Pick — And the Tools To Explain How It Breaks

Posted on: September 27, 2023February 12, 2024

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 […]

A Solution for Cleaner Cars
Students

A Solution for Cleaner Cars

Posted on: September 26, 2023February 12, 2024

Scattered throughout the lab of chemistry professor Eric Schelter—under a box, on top of a shelf, in a drawer—are vials containing solutions of an orange cobalt compound powder […]

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