From the Towne Building to Earth Orbit: Garrett Reisman Returns to Penn for the Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture Events, Alumni / October 13, 2026 When Garrett Reisman (ENG’91, W’91) was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming an astronaut wasn’t part of his plan. That changed during his senior year, when Reisman came across a magazine featuring biographies of NASA astronauts and discovered that they weren’t all military test pilots. Some were engineers... Read More Two MEAM Researchers Selected for Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop Doctoral / October 12, 2026 Marquise Bell, Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Luc Capaldi, a doctoral student, were selected for the 2026 Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop, a competitive program that prepares early-career researchers for careers in academia. Read More Teaching Robots to Do More with Less Data Faculty, Doctoral, Research and Innovation / October 5, 2026 Nadia Figueroa and her lab are developing new ways for robots to combine physics, planning and artificial intelligence, allowing them to learn useful skills from just a handful of demonstrations, and adapt when the world doesn’t go as planned. Read More From the RoboRacer Course to the RoboRacer Track Master's, In The News, Academics / October 5, 2026 MEAM master’s student Cedric Hollande took lessons from Penn Engineering’s RoboRacer course to the racetrack, applying his mechanical engineering background to help develop and race an autonomous vehicle at an international robotics competition. Read More
Two MEAM Researchers Selected for Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop Doctoral / October 12, 2026 Marquise Bell, Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Luc Capaldi, a doctoral student, were selected for the 2026 Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop, a competitive program that prepares early-career researchers for careers in academia. Read More
Teaching Robots to Do More with Less Data Faculty, Doctoral, Research and Innovation / October 5, 2026 Nadia Figueroa and her lab are developing new ways for robots to combine physics, planning and artificial intelligence, allowing them to learn useful skills from just a handful of demonstrations, and adapt when the world doesn’t go as planned. Read More
From the RoboRacer Course to the RoboRacer Track Master's, In The News, Academics / October 5, 2026 MEAM master’s student Cedric Hollande took lessons from Penn Engineering’s RoboRacer course to the racetrack, applying his mechanical engineering background to help develop and race an autonomous vehicle at an international robotics competition. Read More
