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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
ESE News Feed
Using Satellites, Drones, and AI for More Sustainable and Efficient Agriculture
05.01.2025 | Read More
Scaling Up: How AI Month 2025 Brought Big Ideas to Life at Penn Engineering
04.28.2025 | Read More
Five Penn Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04.24.2025 | Read More
ESE Seminar Series
ESE Guest Seminar: “On-Device Probabilistic AI: From Gaussian Transistors to Light-Driven Spike Encoding”
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Novel van der Waals Chalcogenides for Sustainable Light Harvesting”
ESE Fall Seminar – “Title TBA”
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