Penn Engineering | Inventing the Future

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Return to campus: Penn Engineering looks ahead to welcoming students back on campus beginning September 1, 2020. Learn More For more than a decade, Penn’s Dan Huh has been developing super-small devices called organs-on-chips that use living cells to stand in for larger organs. In May 2019, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two experiments with Huh’s organs-on-chips to the International Space Station. In orbit, a lung chip and bone marrow chip are being compared to Earth-bound counterparts to shed light on astronauts’ susceptibility to infection. Learn More Penn Engineering and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Join Forces to Envision the FutureIn the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibit, Designs for Different Futures, artists, designers, and engineers are coming together to explore the future of technology in everyday life. A highlight of the exhibit is Quori, a socially interactive teaching robot developed by Mark Yim along with fellow members of the GRASP Lab and  the Integrated Product Design program. Quori is genderless, and its socially-conscious design is sparking an important conversation about how sexism can be inadvertently coded into hardware and software.Read More Mini Autonomous Vehicles Race for Community-Driven Research Former remote control toys are being reinvented to study the future of autonomous driving,. Houssam Abbas, a former post-doctoral researcher in Rahul Mangharam’s laboratory, was one of the core founders of the F1 Tenth Autonomous Racing Project, which transforms RC cars into miniature autonomous vehicles to study safety systems, computational performance, cybersecurity, and multi-car coordination. Now this project goes far beyond the lab. Members of F1 Tenth meet at international competitions to race their cars in pursuit of research.Read More Superstrong, Reversible Adhesive That Works Like Snail Slime Using snail slime as inspiration, Penn Engineers led by Shu Yang created a reversible superglue that is adjustable when wet but cement-like when dry. When the wet adhesive dries, it locks firmly in place and is even strong enough to hold a fully grown adult. Durable, reversible adhesion, like that demonstrated in the material developed by Yang’s team, could allow for reusable envelopes, gravity-defying boots, and revolutionized industry assembly. Read More ‘Nanocardboard’ can Levitate Using Only the Power of Light Through working on a problem with blood filters, Penn Engineers developed what they call “nanocardboard,” a material that’s as thin as a few strands of DNA and weighs less than a thousandth of a gram, but stiff enough to resist flopping. In testing their material, they discovered an unexpected property: the material weighs so little that, when exposed to light, it can levitate. Their discovery, although still in the initial phases, could lay the groundwork for future smart dust sensors or weather sensors.Read More Penn Engineering COVID-19 Impact Penn Engineering has created a page to host information for students, faculty and staff related to the School's response to the coronavirus pandemic. About Penn Engineering At Penn Engineering, we are preparing the next generation of innovative engineers, entrepreneurs and leaders. Our unique culture of cooperation and teamwork, emphasis on research, and dedicated faculty advisors who teach as well as mentor, provide the ideal environment for the intellectual growth and development of well-rounded global citizens. Learn More

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