Sumit Kumar Receives 2026 STLE Scholarship

News / August 4, 2026

Sumit Kumar received an STLE scholarship to advance research on mucus-inspired biomaterials that could improve lubrication and reduce wear in healthcare applications, including treatments for cystic fibrosis and dry eye disease.

Penn Engineering Students Receive IEEE Micro-Grant to Advance Acoustic Tool for Building Living Tissues

News / July 7, 2026

The grant will allow the team to further develop an acoustic technology that precisely assembles living cells into complex tissue structures.

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Ottman Tertuliano Named 2026 CIFAR Global Scholar

News / May 21, 2026

The 2026 CIFAR Global Scholars program is an international initiative that supports early-career researchers pursuing interdisciplinary, high-impact research.

Celebrating Student Excellence 2026

News / May 11, 2026

Twenty undergraduate and graduate students are recognized for outstanding achievements in scholarship, research, leadership, teaching, and service, showcasing the talent and impact of Penn Engineering’s next generation of innovators.

Shawn Koohy Receives Fall 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

News / April 30, 2026

Recognized for exceptional teaching in a graduate course on machine learning and scientific computing, Ph.D. candidate Shawn Koohy earned the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for developing learning resources, providing extensive student support, and helping make complex technical concepts more accessible.

Yifei Ren Receives 2026 John A. Goff Prize

News / March 16, 2026

Ph.D. candidate, Yifei Ren, is advancing research at the intersection of mechanics, materials science and biology while demonstrating exceptional scholarship, leadership and commitment to teaching.

Douglas Jerolmack Elected American Physical Society Fellow

News / January 8, 2026

Jerolmack is recognized for pioneering investigations into the universal behaviors governing the formation, failure, and flow of soft earth materials, and for outstanding leadership in building a soft earth geophysics community.

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Nadia Figueroa Receives 2025 CAREER Award

News / January 8, 2026

Her award-winning project, “Constraint-Aware Estimation, Learning and Control for Fluid Physical Human-Robot Collaboration,” aims to fundamentally expand how robots sense, predict and physically interact with people in dynamic, real-world environments.

Haim H. Bau Named 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

News / December 12, 2025

With more than 2,000 Fellows across over 300 universities and research institutes worldwide, the NAI community collectively holds tens of thousands of issued U.S. patents, which have enabled thousands of licensed technologies and companies and created millions of jobs. The NAI Fellows Program recognizes academic inventors whose work has led to outstanding...

STLE Scholarships Fuel Nanocoating and Nanogrease Innovations

News / October 10, 2025

Two Ph.D. students in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics working with Robert Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor, have been recognized with scholarships from the Tribology and Lubrication Engineering Society (STLE). These awards recognize promising research that is driving next-generation lubrication technologies. Pezhman Palahang: Pioneering In Situ BaTiO₃ Tribocoatings L to R:...