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Simulation of glacial calving and tsunami waves predicts climate change consequences
Computer simulation of a sheet of glacial ice breaking apart.

The researchers’ model is capable of accurately describing glacial calving and resulting tsunami waves. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Simulation of glacial calving and tsunami waves predicts climate change consequences

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have created a computer model that can accurately simulate tsunamis caused by glacial calving, critical to hazard assessments and mitigation measures in coastal regions regarding climate change.

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‘I Look Like an Engineer’
clockwise) Nyasha Zimunhu, Fahmida Lubna, Celestina Saven, Sanjana Hemdev, Sabrina Green and Sydney Kariuki

Penn Engineering students (clockwise) Nyasha Zimunhu, Fahmida Lubna, Celestina Saven, Sanjana Hemdev, Sabrina Green and Sydney Kariuki all participated in the “I Look Like an Engineer” campaign, locally organized by AWE. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

‘I Look Like an Engineer’

For the third year in a row, Penn Engineering’s Advancing Women in Engineering program, dedicated to recruiting, retaining and promoting all female-identified students in the School, participated in the “I Look Like an Engineer” social media movement.

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Engineers pave way for chip components that could serve as both RAM and ROM
An illustration and electron microscope image of the researchers’ ferroelectric field-effect transistor.

An illustration and electron microscope image of the researchers’ FE-FET device. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Engineers pave way for chip components that could serve as both RAM and ROM

The hurdle for making individual chip component devices has always been in manufacturing high-temperature ferroelectric materials. Now a team of researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science has shown a potential way around this problem.

Evan Lerner

Five Penn faculty named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows
portraits of from top left clockwise Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Bo Zhen, Marc Miskin, Ziyue Gao, and Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

Five Penn faculty named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows

The fellowship recognizes extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of scientific leaders.

Erica K. Brockmeier

The world’s first general purpose computer turns 75
ENIAC_Teitelbaum and Meltzer

The world’s first general purpose computer turns 75

The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, sparked the “birth of the computer age” thanks to a team of women programmers.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Penn Engineering and Steppingstone Scholars launch a STEM equity and innovation lab
two middle school-age students work on a robotics project.

(Pre-pandemic image) In the Blended Learning Initiative, Steppingstone Scholars use Arduino based robotics, coding and design thinking to ready themselves for Java certification and AP computer science as well as prepare for college or careers in STEM fields. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Penn Engineering and Steppingstone Scholars launch a STEM equity and innovation lab

Penn Engineering and Steppingstone will begin developing a new blended AP Computer Science course for the fall 2021 semester, in which engineering students will create online content modules to supplement high school classroom instruction.

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Engineers develop laser-controlled, cell-sized robots
A microscopic robot next to a paramecium.

One of the researchers’ robot next to a paramecium. (Image: Penn Engineering)

Engineers develop laser-controlled, cell-sized robots

Researchers at Penn Engineering are creating microscopic robots with semiconductor processing that can be controlled, and made to walk, as small as biological cells.

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