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Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge

To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is … Read More ›

Posted on May 6, 2025May 14, 2025
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Academics, Students

Meet Taylor Caputo, Director of the Engineering Studios @ Venture Lab

Since Tangen Hall’s 2020 opening, Taylor Caputo (IPD’15), Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has directed the Engineering Studios @ Venture Lab, introducing … Read More ›

Posted on March 27, 2025April 30, 2025
Academics, In the News, Research + Innovation

From Drummer to Educator: How Entrepreneurship Transcends Disciplines

For someone who’s navigated multiple careers and passions, starting in music, pivoting to tech and now teaching engineering entrepreneurship, Jeffrey Babin, Practice Professor in Mechanical … Read More ›

Posted on February 19, 2025February 17, 2025
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Research + Innovation

Breaking the Pattern: How Disorder Toughens Materials

Cut open a bone and you’ll see a subtly disordered structure. Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular patterns, distributing stress and … Read More ›

Posted on February 17, 2025February 18, 2025
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Research + Innovation, Students

Rivers in a Changing World

The history of Philadelphia’s water lies mostly underground, buried and dormant. Watershed maps show a slow and persistent erasure of the streams that once covered … Read More ›

Posted on December 5, 2024December 9, 2024
Grants, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Shu Yang and Collaborators Receive NSF Grant for Multidisciplinary Graduate Program across Engineering and Architecture

Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), works to identify how synthetic and biological materials … Read More ›

Posted on December 3, 2024December 9, 2024
Vijay Kumar accepts the John Scott award
Honors + Awards, In the News

Penn Engineering Dean Honored with John Scott Award for Robotics Advances

The Honorable Michael Nutter (W’79), Bernard Smalley, Vijay Kumar, Marsha Lester and George Pappas, from left. On November 20, scientists, academics and members of the … Read More ›

Posted on November 22, 2024November 26, 2024
Picture of Ngaatendwe Manyika ('27), a Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics major, researched developing nano-porous devices for water filtration under the mentorship of Dr. Marija Drndić (Department of Physics and Astronomy) through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.
Research + Innovation, Students

Humor Is Humans’ Best Skill

Nanotechnology receives praise in physics, the medical world, and all that lies between. I first heard about nanotechnology in a high school class and was drawn … Read More ›

Posted on November 21, 2024December 9, 2024
A pair of hands hold two baseballs, one coated in mud, the other pristine.
In the News, Research + Innovation

The Secrets of Baseball’s Magic Mud

The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper in Proceedings of the National … Read More ›

Posted on November 4, 2024November 4, 2024
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Research + Innovation

Touching the Future: Mastering Physical Contact with New Algorithm for Robots

Penn Engineers have developed a new algorithm that allows robots to react to complex physical contact in real time, making it possible for autonomous robots … Read More ›

Posted on October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

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