Penn Electric Racing (PER), a team of about 60 students at the University of Pennsylvania, is designs and builds electric speedsters to race in the Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, Nebraska and in Formula North in Barrie, Ontario, each year.

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Penn Engineering 2025 Graduation: Highlights from Undergraduate and Master's Ceremonies

From May 15 to May 19, Penn Engineering hosted Commencement ceremonies and events in recognition of the 2025 Penn Engineering graduates. Students, family, friends and members of the Penn Engineering faculty and staff gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of this incredible group. Congratulations to these amazing engineers! WATCH NOW

Using Satellites, drones and AI for more sustainable and efficient agriculture

Piotr Lazarek, a fourth-year Penn Engineering and Wharton student from Pawłowice, Poland, won the 2025 President’s Sustainability Prize for Nirby, a real-time farmland management system addressing inefficiencies in fertilizer usage. READ MORE

Rob Ghrist: The Soul of an Artist, The Mind of a Mathematician

Visitors enter the virtual gallery through what appears to be a wormhole before arriving in a room where every wall is covered by psychedelic works of art — whorls of pink, yellow, and green in shapes like coiled springs, some of which vibrate and move when viewed from the right angle. The art is both real and not real — a digital representation of an abstract concept — minted on the blockchain and hosted in an online, video-game-like platform by Robert Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Electrical & Systems Engineering and Mathematics and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at Penn Engineering. Ghrist’s penchant for combining seemingly disparate domains and interests extends to every part of his work. READ MORE.

Penn students develop AI-driven solution to transform senior care

Fourth-year students Melanie Herbert, an electrical engineering major, Nami Lindquist, a dual-degree major in computer science and economics in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology, and Alexandra Popescu, a systems engineering major, were awarded the President’s Innovation Prize for Sync Labs, a privacy-centered AI system to address the growing caregiving gap in senior care. READ MORE

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Using Satellites, Drones, and AI for More Sustainable and Efficient Agriculture

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Scaling Up: How AI Month 2025 Brought Big Ideas to Life at Penn Engineering

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Five Penn Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Statistical Limits and Efficient Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Control”

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Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) is a rapidly growing department within Penn Engineering whose mission is focused on synthesis of devices and design theory underlying the interface between the material world and the information and work humans seek to exchange with it and each other.


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