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Mobility21: Kicking off a Transportation ‘R&D&D’ Partnership This week, Penn Engineering hosted the kick-off meeting for Mobility21, a new research partnership funded by a five-year, … Read More ›

Penn Engineers Demonstrate a ‘Hybrid Nanomanufacturing’ System Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated a way to make … Read More ›

Light Touch: Biomechatronics Students Strike a Balance in Designing Robotic Hands Biomechatronics combines insights from biology with mechanical and electronic engineering. If you’ve ever been to … Read More ›

Have an Internet-of-Things Idea? Join the Comcast Pennovation Challenge Comcast, the Pennovation Center and the Penn Center for Innovation are looking for teams to develop … Read More ›

Nanotech Glaucoma Implant VisiPlate Wins 2017 Y-Prize Team VisiPlate: Brandon Kao EAS’18, Rui Jing Jiang W’18, and Adarsh Battu W’18 In front of a standing-room-only crowd in … Read More ›

Vet and Engineering Come Together for Local Students’ Robotics Competition Penn Engineering has been a long-time partner of the FIRST LEGO League competition, in which … Read More ›

Karen Winey: At the Helm of Materials Science To excel in materials science research, you need curiosity about the microscopic building blocks of matter, and … Read More ›

For This Mechanical Engineer, Curling is Both a Family Tradition and a Physics Lesson Nearly 60 years ago, Cody Clouser’s grandparents were among those who founded … Read More ›

Penn Researchers Shed Light on the Roundworm’s Curious Swimming Behavior Haim Bau The round worm Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode, is a puzzling creature. A previous study … Read More ›

Penn Engineers Calculate Interplay Between Cancer Cells and Environment In 3-D traction force microscopy, each arrow represents the discrete displacement of a fluorescent bead bonded … Read More ›