X-RHex, Movie Star
Penn Engineering’s X-RHex is ready for its close-up.
Engineering Lands $25 Million for Data Science Building
$25 million to Engineering for new data science building.
Character Engineer
Mark Palatucci EAS’00 is designing robots with “character.”
To Infinity and Beyond
Digital Media Design program turns 20.
Team-Oriented Robots
$27 million to develop “teams of robots” for US Army.
Smart, Simple
Two recent examples of Penn student-designed solutions to common problems.
Feed Them, Seymour
Window, Nov|Dec 2016
Cora Ingrum’s Legacy
She’s helped generations of minority engineering students—and at least one aspiring writer—pursue their dreams.
Flagship for Penn’s Other Campus
Pennovation Center opening: fabricating the future.
A $2 Genetic Test for Zika
Penn researchers develop a $2 genetic test for Zika virus.
Street Fighter
“Gridlock Sam” Schwartz is an icon in New York’s century-long war with traffic. Can his final campaign reshape the city’s transportation future?
The Master Tester
Rachel Rothman EAS’08 is the Good Housekeeping Institute’s top tester.
Penn Engineering’s New Dean
Vijay Kumar picked as next dean of EAS.
From Printer to Prototype
An “entry-level 3D printer” is still pretty impressive.
The Bionic Bicep
“Titan Arm” lifts four Penn student engineers to major prizes.
Synthesizing Music and Science
Harry Mendell EE’76 GEE’76 invented digital sampling.
Drone’s Day Scenarios
An invasion of unmanned aerial vehicles—drones to you—is on its way, but these flying robots are here to help, not enslave the human race. (At least, that’s what they say at Penn’s pioneering GRASP Lab, where some of the most sophisticated ones are being created.)
@Penn Engineering: #Majoring in Twitter
Tweet this: new engineering major focuses on networked systems
Not Your Father’s Fixie
Reinventing the (two)wheel(er)
Some Teams Could Use This Guy …
PhillieBot throws out first pitch.
M&T Marks a Three-Decade Wharton-Engineering “Marriage”
Milestone mashup: M&T celebrates 30 years
$70 Million Design Package for Engineering
Engineering awarded $70 million gift-in-kind
Digital Natives in Tomorrow’s Classroom
Today's Web-washed, text-messaging, technology-tethered undergraduates don't learn the way even their recent forebears did. Meanwhile, professors in the School of Engineering want to make them masters of technologies yet to be invented. When the two sides meet in the classroom, all the rules have changed.
I, Robot Car
Bumpy ride for “Little Ben,” robot racer.