Inspired by the variety of muscles that control movement in animals, Cynthia Sung, Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) at Penn Engineering, aims to advance movement […]
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 […]
Cynthia Sung On How We Can Increase Girls’ Participation in Engineering and Robotics
An Interview With Vanessa Ogle, original article written for Medium.com Despite the growing importance of engineering and robotics in shaping our future, women remain significantly underrepresented in these […]
Ottman Tertuliano Receives 2024 CAREER Award
Scientists have been studying bones and how they break for over a century, but they’ve primarily been doing so on the large scale, examining entire femur fractures through […]
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 […]
Carpick Research Group Contributes to Pixelligent Success Story
Penn Engineering faculty bring the spirit of entrepreneurship to life through their collaborations in a wide range of startups, products and external partnerships each year. The research group […]
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 […]
Celebrating Graduate Excellence: PhD Awards
Each year, Penn Engineering doctoral candidates are honored with awards recognizing exceptional scholarly achievements. This year, we are proud to recognize two doctoral candidates in Mechanical Engineering and […]