Category: In the News

Research from the lab of Igor Bargatin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, is really starting to take off. The … Read More ›

Penn Engineering’s MCIT Online program is designed to give students without a computer science background a path to success in a variety of computing and … Read More ›

Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has seen any number of innovative robots walk, fly, hop, roll and otherwise propel themselves about the … Read More ›

Monroe Kennedy III graduated from the doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2019 and is now an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at … Read More ›

The technology behind video games is serious business. Beyond driving a multibillion-dollar industry, consumer demand for realistic graphics and three-dimensional physics is major force in … Read More ›

Algorithms, the digital decision-making tools at the core of some of the most successful and powerful technologies of the modern era, don’t come to conclusions … Read More ›

Social media is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools for political communication in the 21st century, with breaking news, governmental proclamations, protest movements and … Read More ›

In 2017, Brandon Kao of Penn Engineering, and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of the Wharton School, devised a way to use a nanoscale material … Read More ›

When the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in the United States, one of the first “superspreader” events was an academic conference. Such conferences have long … Read More ›

Monroe Kennedy III graduated from the doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2019 and is now an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›