Penn Engineering Students Receive IEEE Micro-Grant to Advance Acoustic Tool for Building Living Tissues News / August 6, 2026 A team of Penn Engineering students has been selected as one of five teams worldwide to receive an IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) micro-grant to develop a new acoustic technology that could make it easier to build complex tissue models for biomedical research. The interdisciplinary team, working... Read More
Penn Engineering Awards New Scholarly Professorship News / July 8, 2026 Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the establishment of a new scholarly professorship, the Hibbert Professor, which has been awarded to inaugural recipient Michael J. Mitchell, Professor in Bioengineering. The new professorship was endowed through the generosity of Alister M. Hibbert and Sharon N. Hibbert, both dedicated supporters of Penn... Read More
Ottman Tertuliano Named 2026 CIFAR Global Scholar News / June 11, 2026 The CIFAR Global Scholars program is an international initiative that supports early-career researchers pursuing interdisciplinary, high-impact research. Read More
Penn Engineers Awarded Fulbright 2026-27 U.S. Student Program Grants News / May 19, 2026 The awardees will spend the 2026-27 academic year conducting research or teaching English overseas. Read More
Penn Student Develops a Way for Computer Chips To Run More Efficiently News / May 14, 2026 President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso’s Fluid Silicon platform helps computer chips monitor their own performance in real time, reducing wasted energy and improving efficiency as demand for AI-scale computing grows. Read More
Solving Real-World Problems at Penn Engineering Senior Design News / May 11, 2026 At the 2026 Senior Design Project Competition, student teams presented projects tackling health, accessibility, climate control and more. Read More
Penn Engineers Shine at Venture Lab Startup Challenge News / May 6, 2026 At the annual Venture Lab Startup Challenge, Penn Engineering-affiliated teams took home more than $200,000, winning the grand prize, runner-up prize and much more. Read More
A Robotic Solution for Safer Tree Trimming News / May 5, 2026 Margaret Zhu and the Serpent Robotics team have leveraged Penn resources to create a tree-cutting robot, improving safety in a dangerous industry. The President’s Innovation Prize allows Zhu to iterate and pilot the device over the next year. Read More
Fengrui Tian Named 2026 Apple Ph.D. Scholar in AIML News / April 28, 2026 Fengrui Tian, a Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2026 Apple Ph.D. Scholar in AIML. Selected by the Computer Vision committee, he is recognized for his contributions to advancing computer vision and 3D scene understanding. Read More
Five from Penn Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences News / April 24, 2026 Penn Engineering's Mark G. Allen and Duncan Watts among faculty recognized for contributions to the applied, biological, social, natural, physical and behavioral sciences. Read More
