Building Tomorrow’s Innovators: Inside Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program News / February 13, 2025 Penn Engineering recently welcomed the second cohort of Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows. The highly selective, year-long program invites students to engage directly with startups and venture firms through internships and mentorships. Read More
Qubits to qudits: Using quantum mechanics to transmit information more securely News / February 10, 2025 Penn Engineerings are pushing quantum messaging to be more resilient to interference and capable of transmitting more data securely. Read More
Revolutionizing Data Centers: Penn Engineers’ Breakthrough in Photonic Switching News / January 7, 2025 A tiny new photonic switch from Penn Engineering could dramatically accelerate global data traffic while slashing energy use in data centers. Read More
Cherie Kagan Receives 2024-25 Heilmeier Award News / December 12, 2024 Cherie Kagan, Stephen J. Angello Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), has been named the recipient of the 2024-25 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research “for fundamental contributions to colloidal nanocrystal materials and their use in electronic and optical devices.” The Heilmeier Award honors a Penn... Read More
Shu Yang and Collaborators Receive NSF Grant for Multidisciplinary Graduate Program across Engineering and Architecture News / December 3, 2024 Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), works to identify how synthetic and biological materials can be engineered to solve diverse climate change problems. One of her research goals is developing efficient heating and cooling technologies for buildings, which finds... Read More
Inaugural CPE4H Symposium Explores Engineering’s Role in Precision Medicine News / November 27, 2024 Novel molecular and cellular therapies are being discovered and optimized through interdisciplinary approaches across medicine and engineering. Thanks to this concerted effort, technologies such as mRNA, wearable devices and tissue regeneration have gone from idea to reality, and the University of Pennsylvania, specifically the Center for Precision Engineering for Health,... Read More
Vanessa Chan on the TIME100 Climate List News / November 25, 2024 The 2024 TIME100 Climate list has selected Vanessa Chan, Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, in the Leader category. Chan, who is currently on leave from Penn Engineering, is serving as the Chief Commercialization Officer and the Director of the Office of Technology Transitions at... Read More
Breakthrough in Energy-Efficient Avalanche-based Amorphization Could Revolutionize Data Storage News / November 6, 2024 The atoms of amorphous solids like glass have no ordered structure; they arrange themselves randomly, like scattered grains of sand on a beach. Normally, making materials amorphous — a process known as amorphization — requires considerable amounts of energy. The most common technique is the melt-quench process, which involves heating... Read More
Battery Innovation: Extending Lifespan and Capacity Through Self-Healing Materials News / September 25, 2024 One of the greatest challenges in the fight against climate change is energy storage. Fossil fuel essentially stores itself, with its energy locked inside its own chemical bonds. But how do you store more sustainable, but otherwise ephemeral, forms of energy, like the power of the wind and sun? For... Read More
Liang Feng Receives Experimental Physics Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation News / August 21, 2024 Liang Feng, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the recipient of a $1.25 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in support of pioneering research in his field. Feng joins the 2024 cohort of the Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative, which... Read More
