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: https://t.co/Y73Cil1MvY

In our Precision Machining Lab, students are getting hands-on with one of manufacturing’s most versatile tools: the tool room lathe. With Jason Pastor and Devin Carroll, they’re learning the core skills they’ll need to design and build their own heat engines by semester’s end.

Penn Engineering's Derek Ho, post-doctoral researcher in @MEAM_Penn, is using machine learning and fluorescence imaging to detect microplastics in Cobbs Creek, a West Philadelphia waterway. This research, in collaboration with Jon Hawkings' lab (@PennSAS), is crucial because

Congratulations Yucong Hua for defending his doctoral dissertation, “Pneumatic Actuation in Soft Robotic Systems," under the guidance of Jordan Raney, Associate Professor in MEAM. Read more: https://t.co/Ou9UkVoGKE

This week's seminar speaker, David Pine of NYU, unpacked the self-assembly of colloidal diamond by multiple routes, including specific DNA interactions, depletion funneling, and hybrid tricks to build 3D lattices faster at low concentrations. Read more: https://t.co/hmLrDxmvvf

How do hydrodynamic instabilities in porous‐media flows shape patterns from water infiltration to CO₂ storage and fracture propagation? Learn from Ruben Juanes (MIT) at next week’s fall seminar “Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media.”

Congrats Dr. Yasaman Moharrer, for defending her dissertation, “The Role of YAP and TAZ in Regulating Load-induced Bone Adaptation and Osteocytes Mechanosensing." Moharrer was advised by Joel Boerckel, Associate Prof. of Orthopaedic Surgery. Read more: https://t.co/1RyBjv2mW7

Kenneth Breuer's seminar dove into structured wakes, the organized, high-energy vortices shed by birds in formation and swimming fish. Breuer shared how these coherent flows power arrays of oscillating turbines for renewable energy, and even help birds save energy in flight.

Congratulations Dr. Arjun Kumar, who defended his doctoral dissertation "SLAM in Hard Places" in late September. 🎉 Kumar, advised by Prof. Ani Hsieh, examined the limitations of standard SLAM techniques in unstructured outdoor and underwater environments.

Learn how DNA-mediated specificity and depletion-driven “funneling” enable the self-assembly of colloidal diamond and zincblende structures with David Pine of NYU at next week's seminar: "Self-assembly of Colloidal Diamond by Multiple Routes."

In August, the gypsum landscape of White Sands National Park in New Mexico served as an ideal substitute for the Moon and Mars, allowing an interdisciplinary team from Penn Engineering, @NASA, @templeuniv, @usc, @tamu, @georgiatech and @oregonstate to test how robots could

Congratulations to Gulzhan Aldan, the Spring 2025 Outstanding TA, for her expertise in MEAM 2030: Thermodynamics! From clear recitations & record-breaking review sessions to recorded walkthroughs, she’s transformed student learning. 🎉 Read more: https://t.co/gyPLLnfd5w

Wake flows, turbulent low-momentum fluid shed behind moving bodies, are typically undesirable, but can sometimes organize into coherent, high-energy vortices. Next week, Kenneth Breuer will illustrate several examples of structured wakes in both natural and engineered systems.

At the 2025 AI Research Mixer, Ben Shaffer, a doctoral student in @PennEngineers' @MEAM_Penn department, presented his work on physics-inspired machine learning for robotics. The event was co-hosted by @PennASSET, IDEAS Center, @WarrenCntrPenn, DDDI of @PennSAS, and @_PennAI.

How can nature inspire new locomotion, actuation, and control strategies? This week, Aimy Wissa (awissa_bid) spoke on how biology and engineering is a two-way street, citing examples such as how birds' wings offer a pathway to advance the design of small aerial vehicles.

We are pleased to announce the doctoral dissertation defense of Yasaman Moharrer. Her work examines YAP/TAZ’s role in bone mechanoadaptation, showing that inhibiting YAP/TAZ in prenatal and adult mice abolishes load-induced ossification, bone formation and osteocyte signaling.

Children born with congenital heart defects often face a lifetime of follow-up procedures, making it critical to understand what predicts long-term heart changes after surgical repair. A new study used cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and computational fluid dynamics to

We are pleased to announce the doctoral dissertation defense of Arjun Kumar. His work examines the limitations of standard SLAM techniques in unstructured outdoor and underwater environments and presents strategies for robust localization under extreme sensing constraints.

Wound healing is an essential biological process for maintaining homeostasis and, ultimately, for survival. This week, @TangSindy of Stanford spoke on her recent efforts on developing a microfluidic platform for the manipulation and reproducible wounding of the cell.

How can nature inform new locomotion, actuation, and control strategies in mechanical systems? Next week, Aimy Wissa (@awissa_bid) joins the Fall Seminar Series to introduce examples of bioinspired multifunctional structures. Abstract & Bio: https://t.co/QRxIMvURDG

Penn Engineering is proud to welcome Marquise D. Bell as a new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Bell is joining @meam_penn to pursue his independent research in collaboration with @kevin_t_turner to design programmable materials for soft, wearable robotic systems. Bell says,