Electrical and Systems Engineering http://www.ese.upenn.edu/ In The Headines Mon, 13 May 2013 20:30:00 GMT Dan Koditschek's RHex robot is featured in IEEE Spectrum's "This Robot's Acrobatic Leaps Are the Coolest Thing You'll See Today" http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/upenn-kodlab-rhex-legged-robot-leaping May 13, 2013 Mon, 13 May 2013 20:30:00 GMT Video: Robert Ghrist in "A Math Classroom, Without Walls" http://www.upenn.edu/spotlights/math-classroom-without-walls April 8, 2013 Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:30:00 GMT Vukan Vuchic comments on the future of transportation in "Transportation Alternatives and Evolving Infrastructure" http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=3213 April 4, 2013 Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:30:00 GMT Dan Koditschek comments in Discovery News "All-Terrain Bots Get More Agile" http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/all-terrain-bots-get-agile-130321.htm March 22, 2013 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:30:00 GMT Rob Ghrist's Coursera course is featured in "The Professors Who Make the MOOCs" http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/137905/#id=overview March 20, 2013 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:30:00 GMT George Pappas comments in "Can control theory make software better?" http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/can-control-theory-make-software-better-0319.html March 20, 2013 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:30:00 GMT Robert Ghrist is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Penn professor brings calculus to the masses through Coursera" http://www.philly.com/philly/health/20130211_A_Penn_professor_brings_calculus_to_the_masses.html February 11, 2013 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:30:00 GMT Robert Ghrist's Coursera course is a "Leader in New Online Move" http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20130207_Penn_s_course_a_leader_in_new_online_move.html February 7, 2013 Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:30:00 GMT Robert Ghrist comments in "Ayasdi: A Big Data Start-Up With a Long History" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/ayasdi-a-big-data-start-up-with-a-long-history/ January 17, 2013 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:30:00 GMT Dan Lee's University Transportation Center (UTC) featured in "Penn drives transportation research forward" http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2013-01-17/latest-news/penn-drives-transportation-research-forward January 17, 2013 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:30:00 GMT Rahul Mangharam's "The Car and The Cloud: Automotive Architectures for 2020" included in the National Academy of Engineering's "The Bridge" http://www.nae.edu/File.aspx?id=67680#page=27 January 11, 2013 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:30:00 GMT Jan Van der Spiegel and collaborators' 1989 Foveated CCD Diagram is part of the MOMA Trisha Donnelly Artist's Choice Show http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/arts/design/trisha-donnelly-in-momas-artists-choice-series.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 January 8, 2013 Tue, 8 Jan 2013 20:30:00 GMT Robert Ghrist's Coursera course featured in New York Times "Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/education/massive-open-online-courses-prove-popular-if-not-lucrative-yet.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 January 7, 2013 Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:30:00 GMT Research by Nader Engheta Shows a Way to Reduce Electrons' Effective Mass to Nearly Zero http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=26219 December 19, 2012 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:30:00 GMT Robert Ghrist teaches "Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials" http://boingboing.net/2012/12/04/free-coursera-calculus-course.html December 7, 2012 Fri, 7 Dec 2012 20:30:00 GMT Rahul Mangharam comments on student innovations in "Classmates and former PennVention champions face each other in court" http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/11/classmates-and-former-pennvention-champions-face-each-other-in-court December 4, 2012 Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:30:00 GMT Cherie Kagan, David Kim and Yuming Lai collaborate to develop flexible, low-voltage circuits using nanocrystals http://phys.org/news/2012-11-flexible-low-voltage-circuits-nanocrystals.html November 27, 2012 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:30:00 GMT Nader Engheta collaborates to produce a "Nanoscale Device Makes Light Travel Infinitely Fast" http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/infintely-fast-light.html November 7, 2012 Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:30:00 GMT Nader Engheta to collaborate in Quantum Metaphotonics and Metamaterials MURI Team http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=26886.php October 9, 2012 Tue, 9 Oct 2012 20:30:00 GMT Dan Lee and Stephen McGill quoted in "Real steel: the broken robot necks and baby steps of RoboCup 2012" http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/7/3287515/robocup-2012-robots-soccer-broken-necks-baby-steps September 10, 2012 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:30:00 GMT Andre DeHon quoted in Forbes "Want To Be More Creative? Pull A Prank At The Office" http://www.forbes.com/sites/anniemurphypaul/2012/08/20/want-to-be-more-creative-pull-a-prank-at-the-office/ August 21, 2012 Vukan Vuchic quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer "Federal planners gather rail-service ideas in Philly, 8 other cities" http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20120821_Federal_planners_gather_rail-service_ideas_in_Philly__8_other_cities.html August 21, 2012 Research by Nader Engheta featured in "Taking Your Lumps At Optical Frequencies: Nano-components and Nano-circuits from Meta-materials" http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20120625-metatronics/ June 27, 2012 Research by Nader Engheta featured in "Cloak of Invisibility: Engineers Use Plasmonics to Create an Invisible Photodetector" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120521104637.htm May 22, 2012 Daniel Lee featured in "Tech Life: Shooting hoops at the 'bot expo" http://www.philly.com/philly/business/148980625.html April 26, 2012 Robert Ghrist quoted in "Penn, other universities offer free online classes" http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20120418_Penn__other_universities_offer_free_online_classes.html April 18, 2012 Metamaterials, metatronics and cloaking devices are discussed in "Q&A with Nader Engheta" http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2012-03-15/interviews/qa-nader-engheta March 15, 2012 Praveen Pitchai, a master's student in Robotics, is featured in "Robot Mules, Birds and Snakes Helping on the Warfront" http://www.laserfocusworld.com/news/2012/03/05/robot-mules-birds-and-snakes-helping-on-the-warfront.html March 7, 2012 Aaron Roth, a senior in EE, shares his experience in "5 things I learned at AngelHack" http://gigaom.com/2012/03/05/5-things-i-learned-at-angelhack/ March 6, 2012 Dan Lee featured in "Penn Engineering prof designs cars of the future" http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2012-02-23/latest-news/penn-engineering-prof-designs-cars-future February 23, 2012 Work by Nader Engheta featured in "Researchers build first physical 'metatronic' circuit" http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-physical-metatronic-circuit.html February 23, 2012 ENIAC, world's first digital computer, turns 66 http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/31980?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2012-02-16#slide1 February 16, 2012 Penn Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University Receive $3.5 Million for Innovative Transportation Research http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2012/february/feb15_transportation.html February 16, 2012 Robert Ghrist participates in "Engaging Minds," Penn's on-the-road lecture series http://makinghistory.upenn.edu/happenings/posts/835 February 15, 2012 Rahul Mangharam and Young India Fellows featured in "viSparsh: Helping the blind through touch" http://www.afternoondc.in/spectrum/visparsh-helping-the-blind-through-touch/article_46952 February 7, 2012 Haptic Belt featured in Times of India's "Connect the Dots" http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=CAP/2012/01/16&ViewMode=GIF&PageLabel=36&EntityId=Ar03500&AppName=1 January 17, 2012 ENIAC featured in "Philadelphia - A 'city of firsts' that feels little need to brag" http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/phrasing-philadelphia/item/32661-philadelphia-a-city-of-firsts-that-feels-little-need-to-brag January 17, 2012 Daniel Lee is EEWeb's "Featured Engineer" http://www.eeweb.com/spotlight/interview-with-daniel-lee August 17, 2011 Video: Watch Team DARwIn as they win the Humanoid Kid Size final match at RoboCup 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XLKKbz2mNyo July 13, 2011