Author: Evan Lerner

Penn Students Discuss ‘Emerging Technologies and the Future of the World’ Technological change relies on more than the next innovation engineers dream up in lab. The … Read More ›

Three Penn Engineers Recognized as APS Fellows John Crocker, Chinedum Osuji and Shu Yang The American Physical Society annually recognizes a small percentage of its membership as … Read More ›

Engineering/Wharton Start-Up Avisi Technologies on their way to FDA Approval Rui Jing Jiang and Brandon Kao, recent Wharton and Engineering grads, won the President’s Innovation Prize … Read More ›

Wall Street Journal’s ‘Moving Upstream’ on Autonomous Flight On the left, one of Penn Engineering’s autonomous flying robots. On the right, an Aurora helicopter, which … Read More ›

Nanowerk on Nanotribological Printing Nanotribological printing is a new kind of additive manufacturing technique developed by Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor and Chair of … Read More ›

Penn Engineers’ Liquid Crystal Force Fields Enable New Kind of Microrobotics In this accelerated video, a glass particle is propelled by elastic energy fields created … Read More ›

Penn Engineers Discover New Cellular ‘Elevator’ That’s Controlled by Light light-driven elevator in cells: BcLOV4 protein, here expressed in yeast cells, is initially distributed throughout the … Read More ›

Promoting Innovative, Reproducible Science: Penn’s Research Excellence Initiative The two-year effort includes electronic research notebooks, a research symposium, and a task force of faculty and … Read More ›

Johnson & Johnson Start-Up Incubator JPOD Hosts Five Engineering Companies On Nov. 1, Penn launched a new partnership between the University and Johnson & Johnson … Read More ›

Penn Engineers Develop Ultrathin, Ultralight ‘Nanocardboard’ Nanocardboard is a hollow, plate-shaped shell of aluminum oxide, patterned with slit-shaped channels. These channels function like the corrugated … Read More ›