How can many robots work together effectively to collect information about the environment? This is a question Victoria Edwards, a fifth-year doctoral student in MEAM, is working to solve using complex systems theory. Watch the full video:

Congratulations Gregory Campbell for defending his dissertation, “Elastomeric Strain Limitation for Design of Soft Pneumatic Actuators." . Campbell will be starting a new chapter at @LafCol as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Congratulations Julia Radzio, MEAM doctoral student, for receiving the Best Poster Award from the @GordonConf on the Physics and Chemistry of Micro-fluidics. Radzio presented a summary of her work on a stiffness-based droplet sorting platform for biodegradable enzyme screening.

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RT @PennEngineers: Inspired by nature, Penn Engineers are teaching robotic swarms to build like bees, without a central plan. Jordan Raney….

Discover Loraine Terrell’s new comic, illustrated by Dan Lee, in @pennsas OMNIA magazine—where Doug Jerolmack’s application of physics reveals how river sediment transforms a baseball’s grip. ⚾ . Read the full issue here:

RT @PennEngineers: Congratulations to Julia Dase (MSE’25), Ainsley Rexford (MEAM’25), Jonathan Wu (ESE’25) & Lizzie He (M&T’25) on graduati….

The MEAM Summer Seminar Series starts this week with Yasaman Moharrer, a MEAM PhD Candidate working with Joel Boerckel. "The Role of YAP and TAZ in Regulating Mechanical Load-induced Bone Adaptation and Osteocytes Mechanosensing". June 3 at 10:15 AM.

Celebrating our Class of 2025, congratulations to @ArratiaPaulo on being named a Society of Rheology Fellow, discover Aurora — a new machine learning model for Earth systems forecasting, plus an alumni Q&A and more. Read the June newsletter:.

RT @PennEngineers: The Penn Engineering Class of 2025 steps into the future with the power to drive change. Watch highlights from the under….

RT @MichaelAPosa: It was great to end ICRA with some fantastic workshops, and the news that Penn has approved my tenure! I owe much to my f….

Mitchell Fogelson, @fogmb, (ENG’17, GEN’18) tests deployable space structures in microgravity on a NASA-funded Zero-G flight. His hands-on innovation began at Penn Engineering, and he now leads Beyond Reach Labs, creating tech for remote environments.

RT @PennEngAI: @ParisPerdikaris (@MEAM_PENN, @PennEngineers) and @MSFTResearch have developed Aurora, a foundation AI model that forecasts….

Yiding Zhang has successfully defended his master's thesis on computational modeling of C. elegans, a tiny, transparent roundworm that can swim and crawl using different gaits. Read more:

A big congratulations to the undergraduate class of 2025 who walked the stage on Saturday, May 17!🎓

RT @PennEngineers: Introducing the latest Ph.D. graduates from Penn Engineering! From six engineering departments, these graduates are read….

RT @PennEngineers: Penn Engineering master’s graduates crossed the stage at the Palestra with passion, pride, and new connections. With deg….

RT @PennEngineers: Congratulations to Penn Engineering's Class of 2025! Embodying creativity and innovation, these graduates are ready for….

At this year's Graduate Awards Ceremony, six MEAM graduate students were celebrated for their contributions to the Penn Engineering community through service, teaching, and academics. Learn about the recipients:

Paulo E. Arratia, Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Scholar & Professor in MEAM, has been named a Fellow of the Society of Rheology for his innovative studies connecting out-of-equilibrium deformation in complex fluids to the resulting bulk transport, flow stability and more.

Congratulations to Brian Acosta for defending his doctoral dissertation, “Real-Time Perception and Mixed-Integer Footstep Control for Underactuated Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain” under the guidance of @MichaelAPosa, Asst. Prof in MEAM. Read more: