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Shawn Koohy Receives Fall 2025 Outstanding TA Award

Shawn Koohy has been awarded the Fall 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering in recognition of his contributions to instruction in ENM 5310: Data-driven Modeling and Probabilistic Scientific Computing. This award recognizes a graduate student whose dedication, initiative and teaching excellence have significantly enhanced the learning experience of...

Senior Design Capstone 2026

The event marks the culmination of a two-semester experience in which students design, build and test solutions to real-world engineering challenges.

Orble Brings Boba Tea to Towne

Orble, a student-founded startup that began as a 2023 senior design project, has launched its first boba tea vending machine on Penn’s campus in the Towne building.

Yifei Ren Receives 2026 John A. Goff Prize

Yifei Ren, a doctoral candidate in MEAM, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 John A. Goff Prize, an annual award recognizing an outstanding graduate student for scholarship, resourcefulness, and leadership.

When Bone Behaves Like a Sponge

Ottman Tertuliano has developed a nanoengineered, 3D-printed scaffold that recreates the coupled fluid flow and deformation bone cells experience in the body.

Shujie Yang Harnesses Sound to Build Microrobotic Medicine

Spencer Folk Defends Dissertation

Folk defended his doctoral dissertation, “Real Time Local Wind Inference for Robust Autonomous Navigation,” completed under the guidance of Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean and Professor, and Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Why are icy surfaces slippery?

Robert W. Carpick joins Science Friday host Ira Flatow to explain why ice is slippery, drawing on his research in tribology, the study of friction and surface interactions.

Powering AI from Space, at Scale

Penn Engineers have proposed a scalable, solar-powered orbital data center design that passively maintains orientation using tethers and sunlight, offering a feasible path to meet growing AI computing demands while reducing the environmental impact of terrestrial data centers.

Haim H. Bau Named 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow