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.
The Best Inventions That Don’t Exist
Innovation for the rest of us: “2nd Best Idea Slam.”
And the Winning Prototype Is …
Parachuting robot snares annual PennVention prize.
Out of the Engineering Lab and into the Village
Engineering students volunteer for water project in Honduras
Looking for Good Things in Small Packages
Center for Molecular Discovery
On the Bleeding Edge of Innovation
Wound sealant wins honors at Wharton
The Swarm
$5 million to develop “swarming” robots
Using Eels and Robots to Help People
Robot researcher Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Nanotechnology at Penn Gets a $11.4 Million Boost
NSF grants $11.4 million for nanotechnology
A Winning Combination: Management and Technology
M&T program at 25
Don’t Forget Your Meds, Humanoid
Martha Pollack’s Pearl puts artificial intelligence to work.
Creating The Sims—and a New Reality
Sims stylist Charles London
Kick-Starting the Internet in Ghana
Making “digital dreams” reality in Ghana
Anniversaries
School of Engineering and New Bolton Center celebrate milestones.
$10 Million for Bioengineering
Peter and Geri Skirkanich give $10 million toward new bioengineering facility
Technology Rules
From College Hall: With a slew of new initiatives, SEAS is a major player in Penn’s future.
Adventures in Tele-Immersion
“You open a hole in the wall and see the other room”
Glandt Takes Over at SEAS
Glandt named SEAS dean
The Vision Thing
As the National Science Foundation's new director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Dr. Ruzena Bacsjy—a Penn computer-science professor noted for her work on robotic perception—must get Congress to see its way to creating greater support for basic research in information technology.
They Follow the Sun
Solar-car racing team hopes to shine
Farrington to Preside at Lehigh
Engineering dean resigns for Lehigh presidency
