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  • Penn launches new Center for Quantum Information, Engineering, Science and Technology

    The Center for Quantum Information, Engineering, Science and Technology (Penn QUIEST) is a transdisciplinary field that draws from physics, materials science and information science, bringing together around 30 faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Arts & Sciences.

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  • Penn Engineering’s premiere podcast: ‘Innovation & Impact’

    Penn Engineering’s new podcast series highlight innovation with the opportunity to focus on and discuss impact. Each episode of the series will feature a Penn Engineering faculty member as the moderator, as well as additional faculty members that serve as thought leaders and panelists.

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  • Deep Jariwala awarded ACS Nano Lectureship Award

    The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering is a 2023 recipient of the ACS Nano Lectureship Award, and is awarded for his work in the field of solid-state optoelectronics and low-dimensional materials.

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  • Cynthia Sung receives 2023 IEEE Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award

    The Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Computer and Information Science, has received the 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Philadelphia Section Delaware Valley Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award for her fundamental contributions to design and fabrication of soft and origami robots.

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  • Jing Li receives 2023 IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award

    The Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science has received the award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her foundational contributions to innovative memory and memory-driven computing.

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  • 2023 Senior Design Project Competition winners announced

    Penn Engineering’s Senior Design project winners have been announced, following a yearlong effort by fourth-year students to test and develop solutions to real-world problems. The top three projects from each department will compete in the annual Senior Design Competition, sponsored by the Engineering Alumni Society. Each winning team received a $2,000 prize.

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  • Lithography-free photonic chip offers speed and accuracy for artificial intelligence

    Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have created a novel photonic device that provides programmable on-chip information processing without lithography, offering the speed of photonics augmented by superior accuracy and flexibility for AI applications.

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  • Shu Yang receives 2023 Langmuir Lectureship Award

    The Joseph Bordogna Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is the 2023 recipient of the Langmuir Lectureship Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry and its journal, Langmuir, for her research in the field of colloid and surface chemistry.

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  • Daeyeon Lee receives Outstanding Achievement Award in Nanoscience from American Chemical Society

    Lee is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and member of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, the Nano/Bio Interface Center, and the Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration. His Soft Materials Research and Technology Lab focuses on the interactions of soft materials, especially how nano- and micro-scale materials assemble into macroscopic structures.

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  • For atmospheric sensing, a race to the middle

    In order to index climate, explore weather, or learn about the universe, scientist will need technology suited to the mesosphere—the middle of Earth’s five atmospheric layers, with the potential to withstand harsh conditions. Igor Bargatin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics is solving the mesosphere’s air problem by using light to levitate materials much larger than microscopic particles.

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