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Advancing Women
More than 100 high school students and 30 teachers from across the country came to Penn for two days of panel discussions, lab tours, and keynote presentations as part of the fifth Girls Advancing in STEM (GAINS) conference. The gathering showcases STEM career options and allows high school students to interact with female role models like Alexa Murray (left), a GAINS volunteer and College of Engineering and Applied Science senior from Greenwich, Connecticut. Read More
The Perfect Storm
Lee Bassett, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, and his research team recently discovered a new quantum system in a two-dimensional material, which functions at room temperature and can be coupled to other devices. Read More
George Pappas Elected IFAC Fellow
George Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The IFAC is a scholarly society devoted to the theory and application of automatic control and systems engineering in diverse fields, including engineering, biological, social and economic systems. Read More
Mini Autonomous Vehicles Race for Community-Driven Research
Alongside colleagues at Oregon State University, Penn and Clemson, former ESE postdoc Houssam Abbas is designing the auto industry’s future on a miniature scale — a one-tenth scale, to be precise. Read More
An Eye on Advanced Robotics
Kendall Queen has a clear vision of the future, and it includes giving sight to robots. “If we can create the technology that allows machines to understand the world around them, we can harness the power of robotics to effectively take on the difficult, dangerous or mundane tasks humans do. To get there, the key is computer vision,” says Queen, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. Read More
ESE News Feed
When Curiosity Meets Nano Device Fabrication
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University of Pennsylvania receives $25 million gift to create data science building
11.18.2019 | Read More
Using Systems Engineering to Design a ‘Masterpiece Spreadsheet’ For Sustaining Human Life in Space
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