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Paving the way for safer roads
Drone shot of Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia’s Roosevelt Boulevard.

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Paving the way for safer roads

An interdisciplinary team of Penn engineers and urban planners has taken an innovative approach to creating a drivable digital twin of Philadelphia’s Roosevelt Boulevard, a significant public health threat to the tens of thousands of people who use it each day.

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How Vanessa Chan is training Ph.D. engineers for real-world impact
Vanessa Chan.

Vanessa Chan is the Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and vice dean of innovation and entrepreneurship.

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How Vanessa Chan is training Ph.D. engineers for real-world impact

The Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and vice dean of innovation and entrepreneurship is helping students to bridge the divide between technical excellence and real-world impact.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

Opening AI’s black box
Danae Metaxa and the cover of their book “Auditing AI”

Danaé Metaxa is the Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering.

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Opening AI’s black box

Penn Engineering’s Danaé Metaxa on AI audits and how their lab at Penn Engineering is working to make AI systems more accountable.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read

How AI could make autism screening more accessible
A child follows movements from a video in a clinical office setting.

CAMI-2DNet builds on a series of studies that have steadily moved computerized motor imitation assessment closer to clinical use.

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How AI could make autism screening more accessible

Penn Engineers have built an AI-powered system designed to gauge children’s ability to imitate body motions using video, offering a new and effective way to assess for autism.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

The hidden waves at the beach
Two people are standing at Avalon Beach in Sydney, Australia

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The hidden waves at the beach

Electromagnetism researcher Nader Engheta explains the physics behind invisible waves washing over beachgoers at the shore.

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Penn Electric Racing’s comeback
Penn Electric Racing’s REV11 car racing on a track.

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Penn Electric Racing’s comeback

The team behind the fully electric REV11 race car overcame technical challenges to successfully compete in this year’s Formula SAE Electric competition, placing 15th overall and earning first place in the Business Presentation event.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

How sea stars build materials that can see
Li holds the skeletons of two differently sized sea stars, both showing the calcium carbonate skeleton.

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How sea stars build materials that can see

Researchers have discovered that the skeleton of the sea star Protoreaster nodosus contains specialized mineral structures capable of guiding and concentrating light, suggesting natural mechanical support and optical sensing in a singular system.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

When design meets engineering, students solve the right problems
Sarah Rottenberg lecturing.

For Sarah Rottenberg is the executive director of the Integrated Product Design Program at Penn Engineering and adjunct assistant professor at the Weitzman School of Design.

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When design meets engineering, students solve the right problems

In Sarah Rottenberg’s studio course, engineering and design students are taught to rethink the earliest stage of design: understanding the problem itself.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read