Michael Mitchell Receives BMES Rising Star Award Michael Mitchell Michael Mitchell, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering, has received a Rising Star … Read More ›

Duncan Watts Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett are pleased to announce the appointment of Duncan Watts as … Read More ›

Penn Engineers 3D Print Smart Objects with ‘Embodied Logic’ This artificial Venus flytrap only closes when a weight is inside and the actuator is exposed … Read More ›

Two Penn Engineering Professors Receive Young Investigator Program Awards from the Office of Naval Research By Jacob Williamson-Rea Firooz Aflatouni and James Pikul Two Penn Engineering professors … Read More ›

New Partnership Seeks to Advance MechanoBiology Research By Jacob Williamson-Rea The Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB) is a world leader in a nascent discipline that … Read More ›

Penn Engineering Improves Alternative to Lithium-ion Batteries A team led by Eric Detsi, professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has made … Read More ›

Engineering with Kirigami Mike Tanis is the artist-in-residence in the lab of Randall Kamien, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy who studies the … Read More ›

Nationalize the Data: How the US Can Beat China in AI This post is one in a series by students in “Emerging Technologies and the Future … Read More ›

Sneha Rajana: Voices of Penn Engineering Master’s Alumni Sneha Rajana This is part of our series of articles, written by Penn Engineering alums in their own … Read More ›

Mark Yim Named 2018 National Academy of Inventors Fellow Mark Yim Mark Yim, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been … Read More ›