A New Makerspace for Materials Passion Projects News / February 2, 2022 With the pandemic disrupting in-person learning and lab time in 2020, Joshua Chen, junior in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), got together with a group of classmates and dreamed up a student-run space where they could apply their newfound knowledge to creative projects. Working with MSE Lab... Read More
A Message from Dean Vijay Kumar: Introducing Penn Engineering’s Three Signature Initiatives News / January 10, 2022 Happy New Year! With all of the stress and challenges of the pandemic, let me begin by saying how proud I am of Penn Engineering’s students, faculty and staff for their resilience and determination as we start a new semester. While we have to hold off on returning to in-person... Read More
Introducing Scholarships for MCIT Online News / December 13, 2021 Boon Thau Loo is associate dean for graduate programs and the RCA Professor of Computer and Information Science. This guest post originally appeared at Penn Engineering Online. I’m a product of public schools, so I wasn’t sure if Penn was the right place for me. But when I was interviewing... Read More
Project Maji: 2021 Penn Engagement Prize Winner Will Provide Innovative Water Solution to Aid Refugees in Uganda News / November 1, 2021 Ocek Eke is the Director of Graduate Students Programming in Penn Engineering’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and an adviser to Project Maji, which earned a President’s Engagement Prize earlier this year. I remember going to a march in Washington DC in the spring of 2006 to... Read More
‘The Experience Beyond the Internship’ News / July 22, 2021 As a Brazilian international student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, I was looking for an opportunity through which I could explore another culture, while developing my technical and personal skills. I could not return to my country during the summer due to the travel restrictions imposed on... Read More
‘A Great Beginning’ News / July 9, 2021 I applied to the GRIP program because I was very intrigued by the idea of doing research with a professor from another world-renowned institution with potentially very different perspectives than that of Penn. I wanted to get to know what they were working on and what was at the forefront... Read More
Obstacles and Growth News / September 28, 2020 It’s March 2020, and my summer is looking absolutely fantastic. Me, a freshman who (let’s face it) never really knows what’s going on in her life, now has plans to intern in Seoul, Korea for two months. Two months in another country, living alone, soaking up the culture, and experiencing new... Read More
Climate Week at Penn: Penn Engineering’s Contributions to Fighting Climate Change News / September 15, 2020 Penn Climate Week kicks off on Monday, September 21. Alongside dozens of virtual events from around the University, Penn Engineering is offering five events with a common message: Whether we choose to act as individuals or as a collective, we have a responsibility address the effects of climate change. The... Read More
Virtually Interning at a Singaporean Startup News / September 14, 2020 When I first heard that my GRIP engineering internship in Shenzhen had been canceled back in February, I was saddened but not surprised given the escalating severity of the virus. My placement was subsequently relocated to Seoul, though it too was canceled as the virus continued to progress. Despite the... Read More
Penn Engineering’s ‘Summer Reading’ Project News / July 6, 2020 The summer of 2020 will go down in history as a time when a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and an economic crisis all intersected. In difficult times, we often turn to our communities to seek comfort, grow in our understanding of the world around us and to... Read More
