The Hidden Waves at the Beach Faculty, In the News, Research and Innovation / August 17, 2026 At the beach, waves are everywhere — even the ones we can’t see. Penn Engineering’s Nader Engheta explains how electromagnetic waves shape what we see, feel and how marine animals navigate, revealing world of polarization, scattering and light beyond human vision. Read More How a Soft Robotics Breakthrough is Revealing Stroke’s Earliest Moments In the News, Research and Innovation / August 13, 2026 By the time most stroke patients arrive at a hospital, the earliest biological changes are already underway, making these first moments elusive and hard to investigate. In the laboratory, researchers work with mouse models to study strokes, but existing techniques don’t allow them to continuously observe those first critical moments... Read More Geomimicry Offers a New Framework for Engineering Sustainable Materials In the News, Research and Innovation / August 12, 2026 What if the key to designing more sustainable materials is already beneath our feet? Penn Engineers introduce “geomimicry,” a framework inspired by how soils and sediments evolve over thousands of years, offering new principles for engineering resilient, adaptive materials. Read More Alumni Q&A: Erdan Gu Alumni / August 10, 2026 In this Q&A, Airbnb software engineer Erdan Gu (GEng'04, GrEng'06) reflects on the mentorship she received from Norman Badler, her path from China to Silicon Valley, and why giving back to Penn Engineering has become an important part of her story. Read More
How a Soft Robotics Breakthrough is Revealing Stroke’s Earliest Moments In the News, Research and Innovation / August 13, 2026 By the time most stroke patients arrive at a hospital, the earliest biological changes are already underway, making these first moments elusive and hard to investigate. In the laboratory, researchers work with mouse models to study strokes, but existing techniques don’t allow them to continuously observe those first critical moments... Read More
Geomimicry Offers a New Framework for Engineering Sustainable Materials In the News, Research and Innovation / August 12, 2026 What if the key to designing more sustainable materials is already beneath our feet? Penn Engineers introduce “geomimicry,” a framework inspired by how soils and sediments evolve over thousands of years, offering new principles for engineering resilient, adaptive materials. Read More
Alumni Q&A: Erdan Gu Alumni / August 10, 2026 In this Q&A, Airbnb software engineer Erdan Gu (GEng'04, GrEng'06) reflects on the mentorship she received from Norman Badler, her path from China to Silicon Valley, and why giving back to Penn Engineering has become an important part of her story. Read More
