News

 

  • HSCB - Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program features Professor Barry Silverman in their Fall 2009 Newsletter.  The Spotlight article was written by David Pietrocola, doctoral student in the Electrical and Systems Engineering department and  member of  Dr. Silverman's ACASA research team.  « read article »

  • Dr. Peter Hahn, Adjunct Associate Prof. of Systems Engineering, was one of five contributors of the 2008 COAP Best Paper Award winning paper. The article, entitled "An algorithm for the generalized quadratic assignment problem", will be published Fall 2009.
  • Chengjie Zuo of the University of Pennsylvania won the Solid-State Circuits Society’s Predoctoral Fellowship for 2009-2010.« read article »
  • Congratulations! Matteo Rinaldi from the PMaNS Lab for winning the best paper award competition for Group 1 at the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium. The paper entitled "AIN Contour-Mode Resonators for Narrow-Band Filters above 3 GHz"
 

News 2008 - 2007

  • New Faculty: Rahul Mangharam, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering (2007), Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Mangharam's interests are in sensing, communication and actuation between the physical and virtual worlds.  His focus includes scheduling algorithms for wireless and embedded systems for time-critical and safety-critical applications« read more »
  • CNET news blog features Scalable sWarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors (SWARMS) project.
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  • Prof. Nader Engheta has been featured in the 2/27/08 edition of EE Times for his work in nanotechnology which explores circuit theory in a new regime in which 'current' is "...no longer defined as the movement of electrons and holes, but instead as an electromagnetic wave".« read article »
  • Prof. Nader Engheta was selected as the 2008 recipient of the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. This prestigious award recognizes Prof. Engheta's extraordinary research career and his leadership in technical innovation and public service.« read article »
  • Prof. George Pappas has lead a multi-disciplinary research team to a MURI Award.  The team includes faculty representatives from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of CA (Berkeley), Arizona State University, University of Washington, Michigan Technological University, Yale University, and M.I.T. The highly-competitive MURI program, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) supports multi-disciplinary research in areas of DoD relevance.  The team received the award for the MURI topic:  Biologically-Inspired Approaches for Team and Coalition Adaptation of Heterogeneous Unmanned Systems for Surveillance over Large and Complex Areas.   Click here to read Penn's media release. Additional coverage of this project may be found here.
  • Prof. Ali Jadbabaie and his student, Nader Motee, have won the Hugo Schuck Award, given to the best overall American Control Conference paper of the previous year.  Their paper, « read paper » , introduces a new formalism to study optimal control of heterogeneous spatially distributed systems.
  • New robot-oriented undergraduate classes announced: The six-legged mobile robot, EduBot, will be used as the working platform for the new ESE classes:  ESE 313 and ESE 112 are the new robot-oriented undergraduate classes.
  • Little Ben completed the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007 course in 6 hours!!!  Penn's Autonomous Car "Little Ben" Advances to the Finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge -- Under the team leadership of Professor Daniel D. Lee, "Little Ben", the autonomous vehicle engineered by the University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University faculty and students to drive itself, has advanced to the finals of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The finals will be broadcast live on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 11 a.m. EST at www.grandchallenge.org. For further information on "Little Ben", « read article »