Category: Medium.com Archive

Engineering Undergrads Building Fundamentals of New Peer-to-Peer Technology Aspyn Palatnick, Alex Haynes, Zixuan (ZX) Zhang, and Robert Zajac. Rather than relying on centralized servers to manage … Read More ›

Senior Design Project Aerate Wins $30,000 Startup Challenge Perlman Grand Prize Left to right: Aerate members Jake Fine, Connor Sendel, Spencer Collins, Bikram Bakshi, Yann Pfitzer, … Read More ›

Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. The medal is awarded to … Read More ›

A New Way to Fly, Built Up From the Nanoscale Super-thin ‘nanocardboard’ can levitate using only the power of light, opening the door to tiny … Read More ›

Shu Yang Honored as a Leader in STEM with Drexel’s ELATES Fellow Program Shu Yang Shu Yang, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering … Read More ›

Project Kirigami ENV Wins 2019 Senior Design Competition The semi-autonomous system for reducing buildings’ energy costs is inspired by a Japanese art form. Kirigami ENV, a … Read More ›

For Philly Tech Week, a Showcase for Cutting-edge Robots Penn students, faculty, and affiliated entrepreneurs showed off their latest legged robots, drones, automated driving systems, … Read More ›

Dan Huh’s Space-based Organ-on-a-Chip Experiments Featured in WIRED By Lauren Salig Dan Huh, the Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, researches human … Read More ›

At Weiss Tech House, a Race From Idea to Prototype in One Semester The student-run incubator hosted its first hardware accelerator this spring, offering cash, mentoring, … Read More ›

Vanessa Chan Discusses Technology’s Impact with Forbes Vanessa Chan Vanessa Chan, Professor of Practice, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was … Read More ›