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MEAM Seminar: “Active Materials and Devices for Biomedical Applications”

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

In this talk, I will discuss our recent work in materials fabrication, manipulation, assembly, and manufacturing tailored towards biomedical and environmental applications. The focus is on active materials and devices enabled by materials control across a wide range of length scales. At the nanoscale, I will discuss 3D electrokinetic tweezers, an ultra-precision tool developed in […]

Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less: An Abstract Workshop

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It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. Community for Rigor is here to help! Join Professor Konrad Kording for a rigorous abstract writing workshop on March 20th, 2024. Together, let’s lovingly glam up abstracts from the Community and make the most of 100 […]

This Seminar is currently Postponed. MSE Seminar: “Tuning Nanostructured Materials for Combustion Applications”

Metals powders like aluminum and boron are attractive potential fuel additives for pyrotechnics, propellants and explosives due to their high energy release upon oxidation. However, they tend to agglomerate, have lengthy ignition delays, and low combustion rates/efficiencies. This work aims to design metal powders with tuned surface, micro-structure, morphology, or chemistries to mitigate these challenges […]

2024 Celebration of Diversity

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

The Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is hosting another Celebration of Diversity gala. The gathering is intended to showcase students, staff, and faculty from Penn Engineering in their cultural richness and heterogeneity. The event will consist of guest speakers, special performances, presentations from student affinity groups, and a variety of cuisines for all to […]

MSE Seminar: “The Surface Dynamics of the Initial Stages of CU Oxidation”

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

Much is known about oxygen interaction with metal surfaces and about the macroscopic growth of thermodynamically stable oxides. At present, however, the transient stages of oxidation - from nucleation of the metal oxide to formation of the thermodynamically stable oxide - represent a scientifically challenging and technologically important terra incognito. These issues can only be […]

MSE Seminar: “Thermal Architecture”

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

Air conditioning accounts for nearly 20% of the total electricity used in buildings globally and cooling energy demand is predicted to significantly increase over the next decades due to urbanization, population growth, and global warming. Heat stress is a major environmental justice concern, disproportionally impacting disadvantaged communities. What are the paths to reduce the massive energy […]

Career Steps Before Graduation Seminar

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

On Friday, April 12,2024, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is hosting an information session dedicated to equipping you with insights on the essential steps to secure a career after graduation, with staff from UPenn Career Services and ISSS (International Student and Scholar Services) lending their expertise on prevailing job trends and providing guidance […]

MSE Seminar: “Probabilistic Digital Twins for Structure Preserving Simulation and Scientific Discovery”

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

Despite the recent flurry of work employing machine learning to develop surrogate models to accelerate scientific computation, the "black-box" underpinnings of current techniques fail to provide the verification and validation guarantees provided by modern finite element methods. In this talk we present a data-driven finite element exterior calculus for building accelerated reduced-order models of multiphysics […]