Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, … Read More › The post Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
Penn researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered device that turns ordinary glasses into a smart, energy-efficient health monitor by watching you blink. The device, called … Read More › The post AI at the Eyelid: Glasses That Track Health Through Your Blinks appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
In fall 2024, a team of undergraduates in the Composto Soft Matter Laboratory (Composto Lab) launched a cross-disciplinary project testing the efficacy of a pavement coating … Read More › The post Students Test One Way to Combat Extreme Heat in Philadelphia appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
A $10,000 prize-winning idea topped the competition at the first Smarter Care Datathon, organized by Penn Nursing and Penn Engineering. Team 6 CARE: A Critical-care Acuity & Resource … Read More › The post Penn Nursing and Engineering Students Tackle Health Care Challenges at Inaugural Datathon appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
The 30th Anniversary Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (FOE), hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, took place from September 14 through 17, 2025 at … Read More › The post 74 Brilliant Minds, One Symposium: NAE Frontiers of Engineering Celebrates 30 Years at Penn appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
When he enrolled at Dartmouth, Pranam Chatterjee, Assistant Professor and Africk-Lesley Distinguished Scholar of Innovation in Engineering with a joint appointment in Bioengineering (BE) and … Read More › The post Pranam Chatterjee Designs Novel AI Frameworks for Biotechnology appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
When Ph.D. student Kshitiz Parihar began combing through dozens of research papers on two seemingly different topics — tumor mechanics and extracellular vesicles, tiny packages … Read More › The post Penn Engineers Explore How Tumor Mechanics and Tiny Messengers Could Shape the Future of Cancer Research appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
The University of Pennsylvania’s newest LEED-certified building projects include the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST) which earned a LEED Platinum, Amy Gutmann Hall which was awarded … Read More › The post Penn Buildings Achieve LEED Certifications, Showcasing Commitment to Sustainability appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
Two decades ago, scientists peeled away layers from graphite, the soft carbon in pencil tips, to isolate a single atomic sheet known as graphene—the first … Read More › The post Understanding Order to Disorder at the Atomic Scale Opens Possibilities for Next-Generation Electronic Devices appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it’s too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue … Read More › The post What Stiffening Lung Tissue Reveals About the Earliest Stages of Fibrosis appeared first on Penn Engineering Blog.| Penn Engineering Blog
Each day, in every school at Penn, researchers are making strides to cure diseases, improve lives, and better understand our world. With more than $1.45 … Read More ›| Penn Engineering Blog