Author: Evan Lerner

Boon Thau Loo on ‘The Rise of MOOC-based Master’s Degrees at Elite Universities’ Boon Thau Loo This January, Penn Engineering enrolled the first cohort of students … Read More ›

Y-Prize 2019–2020: Energy Harvesting and Metal Healing Each year, Engineering, Wharton and the Penn Center for Innovation come together for an invention competition known as the … Read More ›

George Pappas Elected IFAC Fellow George Pappas George Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been elected a … Read More ›

Blinking Eye-on-a-Chip is One of NSF’s ‘4 Awesome Discoveries’ Each week, the National Science Foundation highlights “4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About” — a kid-friendly … Read More ›

Penn Engineers’ New Topological Insulator Can Reroute Photonic ‘Traffic’ On the Fly, Making for Faster Chips The researchers’ chip features a tessellated grid of oval rings. … Read More ›

‘Fast Company’ Names IPD Project a 2019 Innovation By Design Honoree Swiv (center), a toothbrush designed to be easier for children with cognitive disabilities to use, … Read More ›

Deepfake Detector Wins PennApps XX Team DeFake: Aarati Srikumar, Daniel Li, George Diwan and Sofiya Lysenko An app designed to detect deepfakes took home the grand prize … Read More ›

Penn Engineering and the ‘Jobs of the Future’ 6ABC visited PERCH to discuss how automation will make some jobs obsolete while creating new ones. Watch the … Read More ›

‘Is Data Privacy Real? Don’t Bet on It’ In the wake of high-profile breaches and new research outlining the way seemingly anonymous data can be re-identified, … Read More ›

For Jordan Raney, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, cutting-edge science sometimes involves whacking a rubber disc with a hammer. … Read More ›