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Science News featuring Dr. Nader Engheta
A brief in Science News highlighted Nader Engheta's upcoming work on "Cloaking a Sensor"
Twisting the Knob of Light: News article by Giorgio Volpe featured in Optics & Photonics Focus journal
Good things come in small packages: in the general trend towards miniaturization, our ancestors’ wisdom seems to be the leitmotif of modern technology. In fact, scientists today are scaling down everyday concepts. Following a new theoretical proposal from Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), tuning the response of something as complex as an optical nano-antenna may soon become as simple as tuning into our favorite radio stations by the mere twisting of a knob.
Little Ben making history
On a historic day in November, 2007, not only for robotics but also for Penn Engineering. Little Ben has completed a total of 19 complex driving missions in 6 hours while obeying all California driving laws. Congratulations to Dan Lee and all members of the Little Ben team for this historic achievement! They have all made us all so proud.
News & Events
Teaching Forum on Creating Effective Exams
Tuesday, November 29 - Register Now
On Tuesday, Nov. 29, Dan Lee of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Sampath Kannan of Computer and Information Science will lead an Engineering Faculty Teaching Forum on Creating Effective Exams. Organized by SEAS in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning, this discussion will bring together faculty and instructors from across SEAS to consider what types of exams are effective and how to craft questions for them. All faculty and instructors are invited to participate.
The discussion will take place 12-1:15 in Towne 108. Because the Engineering Faculty Teaching Forum is designed to promote informal conversations, registration is limited. To register, contact CTL at ctl-help@sas.upenn.edu. Lunch will be provided to all those who register in advance.
ESE 350 Students win 2011 Google Zeitgeist Young Minds Award
UPenn ESE Juniors, Eric Berdinis and Jeff Kiske, were two of the twelve winners in the 2011 Google Zeitgeist Young Minds award for their haptic belt (with Kinect) for assisting visually impaired persons.
"To aid the 284 million people around the world who are blind or visually impaired. Eric and Jeff aimed to create high-tech alternatives to current “low-tech” solutions such as Seeing Eye dogs and walking canes. They built a prototype belt that is equipped with an infrared camera, six vibration motors, processors, and batteries. When blind users wear the belt, they can feel vibrations across the belt and know where there are obstacles in their path.”
To read Eric’s blog: click this link
“Zeitgeist is a special event hosted by Google, that brings together over 400 of the planet’s top leaders and biggest brains – from businessmen to bloggers and inventors to activists. Google’s goal is to discuss the big issues affecting our everyday lives and hear what they think is shaping this weird and wonderful world of ours.”
To learn more about Google Zeitgeist, click this link
Dr. Kenneth Laker Graces the Cover of
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine
The Summer 2011 issue of “IEEE Solid States Circuits Magazine” features UPenn’s ESE Professor Kenneth Laker, and his technical innovations and IEEE contributions over his career.
To access the IEEE Explore Digital Library, click this link.
Penn Nano Cluster-Hiring Initiative
The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at the University of Pennsylvania seeks to build interdisciplinary faculty clusters of eminence at the forefront of nanotechnology.
In anticipation of the opening of the $100M Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology, a premier facility that integrates state-of-the-art nanocharacterization and nanofabrication facilities, numerous hires will comprehensively span forefront measurement, novel phenomena, innovative devices, and integrated systems.
Successful candidates will be expected to couple with existing resources to synergistically build new areas of international impact.
To read the complete story, click on the following link.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/nano/
EEWEB Q and A with featured Engineer, UPenn's
Dr. Daniel Lee
EEWEB Q and A with featured Engineer, UPenn's Dr. Daniel Lee.
Electrical Engineering magazine’s August issue has chosen our own Dr. Daniel Lee as the featured engineer.
His efforts of working with students from universities all over the
world to share the technological advancement in robotics has singled him out as a leader in the field of robotic engineering. Most recently, Dr. Lee sponsored a joint team from Upenn and Virgina Tech, who captured first place in the 2011 Robocup Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.
To read the Q/A interview, click the link.
Interview-with-daniel-lee
Penn Teams Compete - Joint Team (Upenn-Va. Tech) wins 2011 World Championship
Sponsored by Dr. Daniel Lee, two RoboCup teams traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, for the 2011 international Robocup competition.
The Standard Platform League (SPL), using Aldebaran's 'Nao' brand humanoids, fell in the quarter final round to the Nao Devils from Dortmund, after a 3-1 overtime penalty kick decision.
In the Humanoid League, Team Darwin, a joint effort of students from UPenn and Virginia Tech, deployed a new robot, the Darwin OP, to win first place after an 8-1 victory against the CIT Brains of the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. Team Darwin scored a total of 74 goals in 8 games, and allowed only 7 in return. This amounts to approximately 9.4 goals per game.
Congratulations to team members Jordan Brindza, Spencer Lee, Nicholas McGill, Ashleigh Thomas, Stephen McGill, Seung_Joon Yi and Yida Zhang. In addition to the teams, Chris Jones and Teyvonia Thomas and Aylin Caliskan, played an enormous role in supporting both groups.
Our own Steve McGill is featured in this video on BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14105078
Congratulations Dr. Nader Engheta and Ashkan Vakil on your published article in Science Magazine
Professor Nader Engheta and graduate student Ashkan Vakil, published their theoretical research in the journal Science today with their article, "Transformation Optics Using Graphene."
The study of metamaterials is an interdisciplinary field of science and engineering that has grown considerably in recent years. It is premised on the idea that materials can be designed so that their overall wave qualities rely not only upon the material they are made of but also on the pattern, shape and size of irregularities, known as “inclusions,” or “meta-molecules” that are embedded within host media.
To Read the article:
Transformation Optics Using Graphene
Penn Research Advances Understanding of Lead Selenide Nanowires
Led by Dr. Cherie Kagan, associate professor in the departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry and co-director of Pennergy, and David Kim, a graduate student in the Materials Science and Engineering program, has shown how to control the characteristics of semiconductor nanowires made of a promising material: lead selenide.
Dr. Barry Silverman and his ACASA Team wins 1st place for best AI/pattern of life in this year's Federal Virtual World Competition.
This $5,000 first prize was awarded in person at the GameTech 2011 conference in Orlando, Florida, on 3/24/11.
For a list of all game winners, click here.
NonKin Village is an immersive SimCity style game useful for training in how to resolve conflicts and stabilize realworld socio-technical systems.
For a brief video summary of the Nonkin Village, double click Nonkin village.
Professor Vuchic to receive Honorary Doctorate.
On March 10th, Dr. Vukan Vuchic, will receive an Honorary Doctorate from The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris, France, for his work of international standing in the field of engineering of public transport and in particular in rail transportation.
Letting your Car talk to You
Learn what ESE undergraduates have done after taking ESE350: Intro to Embedded Systems (2011)
"Pimp Your Ride" "The Daily Pennsylvanian"
Professor George Pappas Receives Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2010).
CONGRATULATIONS Prof. Dan Lee
and MAGIC 2010 Team! Penn Takes Second Place at MAGIC 2010.
TEAM: Jon Butzke, Alex Kushleyev,
Cody Phillips, Mike Phillips and Prof. Lee
For more details on competition:
Congratulation! Professor Barry Silverman and his ACASA group received an Honorable Mention in the Cross-Function category at the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) meeting for their innovative work on NonKin Village
On the road to driverless cars
Prof. Rahul Mangharams' new course, ESE519 Real-Time & Embedded Systems featured in the Daily Pennsylvania
Congratulations! George Pappas, Joseph Moore Professor, and Antoine Girard’s co-authored paper titled, “Approximation Metrics for Discrete and Continuous Systems,” was selected as the winner of the 2009 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award.
Congratulations! Professor Nader Engheta has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his contributions to the fields of metamaterials, plasmonic nano-optics, biologically-inspired lumped nanocircuits.
President Amy Gutmann and Robert W. Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University PIK Professor regarding the State of the University...« Almanac article»
The Fall 2009 HSCB (Human Social Culture Behavior) Modeling Program Newsletter spotlights the work of Professor Barry Silverman and his ACASA team for his work with agent-base modeling and simulation. « read more...see page 18»
Congratulations on Adjunct Assistant Prof. Raymond Watrous' recognition for Cardioscan! Cardioscan was awarded the 2009 Popular Science Innovation of the Year Award, as well as the Grand Award in Health technology, in the December issue highlighting the top 100 innovations of the year. The award is shared with 3M/Littmann who manufactures the BlueTooth stethoscope from which the heart sound recordings are made for analysis by Cardioscan. Cardioscan will be demonstrated at the American Heart Association meeting next week in Orlando.«see video»
Congratulations! Chengjie Zuo Receives SSCS Predoctoral Fellowship for 2009-2010 « read more »
The School of Engineering and Applied Science has introduced a new, revamped Computer Engineering program this semester.
The Moore School has been named one of InfoWorld's 12 "Tech Meccas"--one of the "holy sites" where computing history was made. « read more »
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"