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MEAM Seminar: “Robots and Mechatronic Systems can help us identify, assess, and treat Motor and Cognitive Impairment after Brain Injury”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicate that in 2017 about 12.7% of adults and children had some form of disability. Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability with ~7 million in the US, which will increase by 20.5% by 2030. Cerebral Palsy is the leading cause of serious long-term disability in […]

Climate Week: Advancing Technology to Ensure Food, Energy, and Water Security

Speaker: Cherie Kagan, Associate Dean of Research, Stephen J Angello Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Penn Engineering. Director, NSF’s Internet of Thing’s for Precision Agriculture Engineering Research Center Description: Ensuring food, energy, and water security is a societal grand challenge. By 2050, the US population is estimated to grow from 330 […]

MEAM PHD Thesis Defense: “Control of Dry Adhesion via Mechanics and Structuring”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

Dry adhesives that rely on van der Waals forces have a number of applications due to their versatility, reusability, and repeatability. Applications include small-scale pick-and-place and microtransfer printing processes, wearable sensors, climbing/perching robots, and robotic gripping. However, van der Waals forces are macroscopically short-range and are the weakest of the interatomic forces, so careful mechanical […]

Climate Week: Carbon Offsets Should Make a Difference: Connecting Offsets for University-Sponsored Air Travel to a Vision for an Energy and Climate Partnership with West Philadelphia

Speakers: Megan Ryerson, UPS Chair of Transportation, Associate Dean for Research, Weitzman School Benjamin C. Pierce, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science, Penn Engineering William W. Braham, Professor of Architecture, Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and of the Center for Environmental Building + Design, Weitzman School Steve Luxton, Executive Director/CEO […]

MSE Seminar: “How to Care for Yourself While Navigating a Complex World”

As graduate students, it can be difficult to maintain a sense of balance throughout your academic career. There are often multiple demands on your time, from having a social life while performing well academically to maintaining your mental health and wellness. However, 2020 has brought unique challenges that include, managing a global pandemic, navigating issues […]

Climate Week: Embodied Carbon and the Built Environment: A Focus on Mass Timber

Speakers: Kerry Phillips, Associate at Lake|Flato Architects Heather Gayle Holdridge, Director of Design Performance at Lake|Flato Architects Terry Pattillo, AIA, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, WoodWorks – Wood Products Council Moderator: Stephanie Carlisle, Senior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum

BE Seminar: “Patients, Providers and Data: How the EMR and Data Science are Changing Clinical Care” (Kevin Johnson)

This event will be held virtually via zoom. Check your email for the link and passcode or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. The electronic health record (EHR) is a powerful application of Systems Engineering to healthcare. It is a byproduct of a host of pressures including  cost, consolidation of providers into networks, uniform drivers of quality, and the […]

SIG Seminar: “Coupling Sub-Grid Solids, Simulating Liquid Metals, and Inferring Facial Expressions”

Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

This lecture will discuss recent results in computational physics, computer graphics, and learning/data science.  The first section will present a method for accurately simulating two-way solid-fluid coupling even when solids may be smaller than the size of a computational grid cell.  Next, a numerical method for simulating materials with large surface energy (such as liquid […]

Climate Week: A Case for Carbon Removal From Air

Speakers: Jennifer Wilcox, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy, Penn Engineering, Weitzman School Noah McQueen, Third year Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, Penn Engineering Moderator: Mark Alan Hughes, Founding Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Description: As the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to rise, it is […]

PICS Workshop: “Machine Learning with MATLAB”

Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

Machine learning is a data analytics technique that teaches computers to do what comes naturally to humans and animals: learn from experience. Machine learning algorithms use computational methods to “learn” information directly from data without relying on a predetermined equation as a model. Using MATLAB, engineers and other domain experts have deployed thousands of applications […]