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 ›
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics major Nisan Lerea graduated in 2012, but he is still working on his Senior Design Project: WAZER. A low-cost, tabletop … 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 ›
Penn Engineers on their Search for Shakespeare’s Secret Co-Authors Alejandro Ribeiro, Rosenbluth Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, along with lab … Read More ›
Cockroaches Give Undergrads a Leg Up in Designing Biomechatronic Prostheses When ABC premiered The Six Million Dollar Man more than 40 years ago, the idea … Read More ›