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BE Doctoral Dissertation: “Fundamentals and Application of 3D Suspension Bath Bioprinting for the Engineering of Meniscal Tissue” (Margaret Prendergast)

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Jason Burdick are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Margaret Prendergast. Title: Fundamentals and Application of 3D Suspension Bath Bioprinting for the Engineering of Meniscal Tissue Date: Friday, July 29th, 2022 Time: 9 AM ET Location: Towne Building, Room 337, 107 Towne Bldg, Philadelphia PA […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Designing Hyaluronic Acid Granular Hydrogels for Biomaterials Applications” (Victoria Grace Muir)

Class of 62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Jason Burdick are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Victoria Grace Muir. Title: Designing Hyaluronic Acid Granular Hydrogels for Biomaterials Applications Date: Friday, July 29th, 2022 Time: 12pm ET Location: John Morgan Building, Class of 62 Auditorium, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104. The public is […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Imperfect Adhesion Between Elastic Solids”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Surface force-mediated adhesion, i.e. via van der Waals forces, is critical for the direct bonding of bulk solids in the absence of an adhesive layer. However, no two surfaces are perfectly flat nor conformal and some have intentional patterns, which leads to imperfect adhesion, i.e. interface adhesion strength that is below its ideal strength. In […]

MEAM Seminar: “Toward Agile Legged Locomotion in a Novel Quadrupedal Robot with an Axially Twisting Spine”

Towne 313 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

With the advent of more capable and cheaper legged robots, robotic legged locomotion is becoming an increasingly attractive solution for locomotion and embodiment. Legs offer expanded capability over wheeled robots, albeit at the cost of complexity and efficiency. For example, walking robots explore rubble-filled caves, inspect industrial sites, move around human spaces (e.g., stairs), and […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Molecular Imaging Biomarkers and Regulation Approaches for Next-Generation Cellular Therapies” (Iris Lee)

BRB 0252

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Mark Sellmeyer are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Iris Lee.   Title: Molecular Imaging Biomarkers and Regulation Approaches for Next-Generation Cellular Therapies Date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 Time: 3 PM ET Location: Biomedical Research Building (BRB) 0252 The public is welcome to attend.

MEAM Seminar: “High-performance Electroadhesives for Materials and Robots with Programmable Stiffness”

Towne 313 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Materials with electroprogrammable stiffness and adhesion can enhance the performance of robotic systems but achieving large changes in stiffness and adhesive forces in real time is an ongoing challenge. Electroadhesive clutches can rapidly adhere high stiffness elements, although their low force capacities, high activation voltages, and inability to separate and turn off stiffness changes reliably […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Sex differences in head impact biomechanics and quantitative functional deficits due to repetitive head loading in high school sports” (Colin Huber)

Room 1120B, Roberts Center for Pediatric Research 2716 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Kristy Arbogast are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Colin Huber.   Title: Sex differences in head impact biomechanics and quantitative functional deficits due to repetitive head loading in high school sports Date: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 Time: 2:00 PM ET Location: Roberts […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “A Spin-Lattice Dynamics Model with Improved Energy and Angular Momentum Conservation”

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Magnetic materials are critically important in a wide range of application areas including data storage, medicine, energy harvesting, and refrigeration. Atomistic numerical simulations of magnetic materials can provide important insight in these applications because they offer the ability to track phenomena such as magnon-phonon interactions, ultrafast demagnetization processes, and magnetization and energy at time and […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation: “Biomechanical Evaluation of the Role of Decorin and Biglycan during Neonatal Tendon Development and Healing” (Zak Beach)

JMB Reunion Auditorium 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Lou Soslowsky are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Zak Beach. Title:  Biomechanical Evaluation of the Role of Decorin and Biglycan during Neonatal Tendon Development and Healing Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Time:  2pm-3pm Location: JMB Class of 62 Auditorium

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Room-temperature Electrochemical Healing of Structural Metals”

Greenberg Lounge (Room 114), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

For over 6,000 years, repairing high-strength metallic materials has required high temperatures and large energy inputs. Likewise, recent innovations in self-healing and repairable metals have remained limited by the need for heating, the small size of repairable cracks, and the low strength and constrained chemical composition of healed metals. While welding remains the most widely […]