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Honors + Awards

Duncan Watts Awarded 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Duncan Watts has been named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Now in its sixth year, the goal of … Read More ›

Posted on May 20, 2020September 2, 2020
Angela Wen
Students

MCIT Online Students Build Community in Online Learning

Penn Engineering’s MCIT Online degree, hosted on Coursera, prepares students without a computer science background to launch rewarding careers in the computing and technology industries. … Read More ›

Posted on May 19, 2020September 2, 2020
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Students

Congratulations to the Penn Engineering Graduates of 2020!

The Penn Engineering community is deeply proud of the graduates of 2020 and all they have accomplished. The celebrations of the graduates, complete with hundreds … Read More ›

Posted on May 15, 2020September 2, 2020
Agarwal and Feng stand in lab
Research + Innovation

Penn Engineers Develop First Tunable, Chip-based ‘Vortex Microlaser’ and Detector, Encode Information in Twisting Beams of Light

As computers get more powerful and connected, the amount of data that we send and receive is in a constant race with the technologies that … Read More ›

Posted on May 14, 2020September 2, 2020
Moore Building rendered in Minecraft
Medium.com Archive

Penn Engineering Students Help Recreate Campus in Minecraft During Quarantine

When it was announced that Penn’s campus would be closing due to the COVID-19 outbreak, thousands of students returned home feeling confused and anxious. While … Read More ›

Posted on May 13, 2020June 25, 2020
Medium.com Archive

Penn Engineers Demonstrate ‘Fundamental Nature’ of Ubiquitous Atomic-scale Defects in Materials

At the core of materials science is the study of material structure on the atomic scale. To understand how to build the next generation of … Read More ›

Posted on May 12, 2020July 29, 2020
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Medium.com Archive

To Err is Human, to Learn, Divine

The human brain is a highly advanced information processor composed of more than 86 billion neurons. Humans are adept at recognizing patterns from complex networks, … Read More ›

Posted on May 11, 2020June 25, 2020
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Medium.com Archive

En Garde!

What were the chances? Captivated by a fencing demonstration at his elementary school in St. Louis, MO, an American-born son of French parentage went straight … Read More ›

Posted on May 8, 2020June 25, 2020
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Medium.com Archive

Celebrating Penn Engineering’s 2020 Graduates

A message from Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean: Now that the semester’s course instruction has concluded, I would like to reach out to the Penn … Read More ›

Posted on May 7, 2020February 4, 2023
Headway team. Left to right: Alex Wan, Laura Ceccaci, Jonah Arnheim, Julia Lin.
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Headway, a Communication Device for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Wins 2020 Pennvention Grand Prize

Now in its fifteenth year, Pennvention prides itself on being the sole Penn entrepreneurship competition with a primary focus on technological innovation. Over the course … Read More ›

Posted on May 6, 2020June 25, 2020

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