Skip to content
Penn Engineering Blog

Posts from the School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Blog
  • Newsroom
  • Magazine
  • Penn Engineering Home

Author: Ian Scheffler

Alumni, Events, Honors + Awards, Students

Designing the Future: Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition

Consider the following problems: Every year, millions of people struggle to recover mobility following strokes. Hundreds of millions need eye exams, but live far from … Read More ›

Posted on May 12, 2025May 12, 2025
Honors + Awards, Students

Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge

To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is … Read More ›

Posted on May 6, 2025May 14, 2025
A banner reading "AI Month @ Penn" hangs over Smith Walk.
Academics, Alumni, Events, Research + Innovation, Students

Scaling Up: How AI Month 2025 Brought Big Ideas to Life at Penn Engineering

In the world of AI, experts frequently discuss so-called “scaling laws,” which describe how large language models (LLMs) grow exponentially more powerful as their training … Read More ›

Posted on April 28, 2025April 27, 2025
A student communicating with the Jean chatbot
Academics, Research + Innovation

Meet Jean, Penn Engineering’s AI Tutor, Available 24/7

Imagine that you’re a first-year student in the Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) program, Penn Engineering’s most popular online degree. You’ve spent hours … Read More ›

Posted on April 23, 2025April 25, 2025
Students

How MLR@Penn Supports Student AI Researchers

Last year, researchers published over 50,000 papers on machine learning — a nearly 50% jump from the previous year. “Figuring out what’s worth reading is … Read More ›

Posted on April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
Two engineers wearing safety goggles point at equipment on a table.
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers First to Train AI at Lightspeed

Penn Engineers have developed the first programmable chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light — a breakthrough that could dramatically speed up AI … Read More ›

Posted on April 15, 2025
Picture of students in front of a television screen holding robots. From left to right: Wanying Long, Eric Sigg, Victoria Edwards, and Dr. Thales C. Silva shared with the local community all the steps necessary for building an mASV.
Events, Students

Robots in the Reading Room: GRASP Lab Brings Hands-On STEM to Roxborough Library

From left to right: Wanying Long, Eric Sigg, Victoria Edwards, and Dr. Thales C. Silva shared with the local community all the steps necessary for … Read More ›

Posted on April 14, 2025
A man and woman stand side by side next to a framed work of art.
Alumni, Students

The Impact of Engineering Entrepreneurship at Penn

What does it take to bridge the gap between engineering and entrepreneurship? Penn’s Engineering Entrepreneurship Program isn’t just about launching startups — it’s about developing … Read More ›

Posted on April 14, 2025April 11, 2025
An illustration showing a scale weighing various symbols related to engineering.
Academics, Students

Responsible Innovation Starts Here: A Holistic Approach to Engineering Education

Imagine that a company develops a new, more sustainable type of concrete. One day, a bridge built using the material collapses, injuring an elderly woman. … Read More ›

Posted on April 7, 2025April 4, 2025
Three adults -- one woman and two men -- stand side by side in a restaurant, having just signed a document
Alumni, Students

Investing in Engineers: Sugi Widjaja and Millie Wan Champion Entrepreneurship Fellows

Neither Sugi Widjaja (EE’00) nor Millie Wan (W’01) pictured themselves attending Penn.  Widjaja, who moved from Asia to Santa Monica, California, for his senior year … Read More ›

Posted on March 31, 2025March 26, 2025

Posts navigation

Older posts

Categories

  • Academics
  • Alumni
  • Events
  • Grants
  • Guest Posts
  • Honors + Awards
  • In the News
  • Medium.com Archive
  • Research + Innovation
  • Students

Tags

Abhishek Dhand ai antibiotics artificial intelligence Bach BE CBE Cesar de la Fuente chatgpt Chinedum Osuji Chris Callison-Burch CIS CSSLab Dan Huh Dani Bassett Duncan Watts EENT Engineering Alumni Society ESE Jason Burdick Knowledge for Good Liam Dugan Liang Feng lipid nanoparticles LLaMA llms LNPs Lulu Xue Magazine News Matt Fallon MEAM microbiome Mike Mitchell misinformation MIT MSE network theory Olympics Paco Barreras precise center Responsible Innovation Senior Design Sherry Gao Suman Kulkarni Vijay Kumar

Archives

Follow Penn Engineering

Receive Our Newsletter

Authors

avatar for Bella CiervoBella Ciervo
avatar for Alex HendersonAlex Henderson
avatar for Olivia J. McMahonOlivia J. McMahon
avatar for Melissa PappasMelissa Pappas
avatar for Ian SchefflerIan Scheffler
avatar for Holly WojcikHolly Wojcik
Penn Engineering Logo

School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania
220 South 33rd Street
107 Towne Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6391

Contact Penn Engineering Webmaster
Report accessibility issues and get help

© 2025 Penn Engineering Blog
Powered by WordPress / Theme by Design Lab