MEAM Seminar: “Macroscopic Ensemble Methods for Robot Team Data Collection in Dynamic Environments”
Data is necessary to improve our understanding of dynamic environments, like the ocean. With limited sensing resources, the challenge lies in identifying and acquiring sensor measurements over large spatial and […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of the Cardiovascular System”
Patient-specific computational modeling and simulation has become a routine part of cardiovascular clinical research. These techniques leverage medical imaging to construct subject-specific models that can be used to study disease […]
MEAM Seminar: “Controlling Contact Transitions for Dynamic Robots”
Legged robots, robotic manipulators, and their combined embodiment as humanoid robots have received considerable attention across both academia and industry. However, with few notable exceptions, state-of-the-art demonstrations are significantly less […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Bistable Structures Enable Passive Transitions in Mobile Robots”
Making robots more capable, agile, and efficient requires careful design of the robot’s mechanical body to match task requirements. Passive components allow a robot to perform a task without a […]
Penn Engineering 2024 Commencement Open House
On Monday, May 20, 2024, from 12:15-2:15 p.m., Penn Engineering will host an Open House for the School’s returning graduates and their families throughout the first floors of the main […]
MEAM Seminar: “Dynamically Tunable Adhesion and Friction via Active Materials with Thermally Modulated Stiffness”
Contact interactions, including adhesion and friction, are critical to the design of many engineered systems. Currently, most systems rely on materials with static mechanical properties, requiring careful selection of materials […]
Celebrating Penn Engineers: Past, Present and Future
Penn Engineering invites all alumni, family and friends to join us for the dedication of two new hallway installations that honor the past while inspiring the future. Join Dean Kumar […]
MEAM Seminar: “Computational FSI Modeling of the Cardiovascular System”
Computational modeling and simulation has become a routine part of cardiovascular clinical research. These techniques leverage medical imaging to construct patient-specific models that can be used to study disease processes, […]
MEAM Seminar: “The Mechanics of Animal Collective Behavior: From Insect Swarms to Fish Schools”
An incredible diversity of organisms, from bacteria and social insects to bird flocks and fish schools, self-organize to achieve collective tasks. They have inspired the development of decentralized algorithms and […]
MSE Seminar: “Probabilistic Digital Twins for Structure Preserving Simulation and Scientific Discovery”
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 […]