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MEAM Seminar: “Modboats: Building an Aquatic Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System out of Underactuated Modules”

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

Modular robots offer the promise of flexibility; we will be able to deploy teams of generalist modules and reconfigure them into various specialists to perform whatever task is necessary. Surface swimming aquatic modular robots in particular are not well studied, however, because the literature assumes that the modules need to be holonomic, which makes them […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation: “Rapid, scalable, amplified RNA detection in situ with clampFISH 2.0” (Ian Dardani)

Smilow Center for Translational Research, Room 09-146

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arjun Raj are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Ian Dardani. Title: "Rapid, scalable, amplified RNA detection in situ with clampFISH 2.0" Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 Time: 1pm ET Add to Google Calendar Location: In-person: Smilow Center for Translational Research, Room 09-146 […]

Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series: Sinead Griffin, PhD [novel qubit materials design] (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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About the Series: The Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series is hosted by the Quantum Engineering Graduate Association (QEGA) every Friday at 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT throughout the summer months and will be followed by a separate Fall series. The series invites leading world leading experts across academia, industry, and government working on experimental, theoretical, […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “The Design of a Community-Informed Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot and End-effectors for Novel Edge-Rolling”

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

This dissertation discusses my work in building an HRI platform called Quori and my once separate now integrated work on a manipulation method that can enable robots like Quori, or any more capable robot, to move large circular cylindrical objects. Quori is a novel, affordable, socially interactive humanoid robot platform for facilitating noncontact human-robot interaction […]

MEAM Seminar: “Motion Planning for a Variable Topology Truss Robot”

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

Variable Topology Trusses (VTTs) are a new type of modular, self-reconfigurable robot (MSRR). Like other self-reconfigurable robot systems, a VTT can change its shape to adapt to a variety of tasks, offering a wider range of capabilities than a single robot configuration. While most MSRRs consist of robot modules that are connected in a chain […]

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

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 […]

Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series: Hannes Bernien, PhD [trapped ion systems] (University of Chicago)

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About the Series: The Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series is hosted by the Quantum Engineering Graduate Association (QEGA) every Friday at 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT throughout the summer months and will be followed by a separate Fall series. The series invites leading world leading experts across academia, industry, and government working on experimental, theoretical, […]

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

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 […]