MEAM Seminar: “Microdevices Enabled by Rarefied Flows”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

In this talk we will review emerging applications of rarefied gas dynamics for microscale sensing, actuation and power generation. Performance of conventional fluidic devices such as pumps, combustors and heat […]

MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Unsupervised Learning of Dislocation Motion”

Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

High-performance designs that utilize metallic alloys are driving a need to quantify deformation in-situ at the finest length scales in order to reduce weight, increase operating temperatures, and improve fatigue […]

MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Atomically Thin Films and Superlattices”

Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Thin film materials and heterostructures play a key role in modern technology including electronics and photonics. Atomically precise engineering of thin film materials enables unprecedented control of their structure and […]

BE Seminar: “Immunomodulatory Biomaterials for Limb Salvage”

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

Diabetes and peripheral arterial disease affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Patients with these conditions frequently develop chronic wounds on the lower limbs that lead to amputation, with a […]

ESE & CIS Seminar: “Toward Power-Efficient Computing with Applied Inference”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: We require computers that extract value from exponential data growth even as exponential transistor scaling falters. With limited scaling, power and thermal density threaten performance. Architects must pursue power […]

The Joy of Being Faculty PT I: How to Interview for a Faculty Position

Heilmeier Hall (Room 100), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This professional development workshop series is designed to provide Penn Engineering graduate students and postdocs with a richer understanding of what it is like to pursue a career in academia […]