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    • MEAM Seminar: “Tackling Energy Sector Challenges with Interdisciplinary Research and Education Initiatives”

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    Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

    Tackling the energy sector’s pressing technological and workforce needs requires a multi-pronged approach. This talk will include a discussion of both technical research and educational approaches to address these needs. The educational initiatives include implementation of the Energy Fellows Program, a training and professional development program, as well as research on the varying perceptions of […]

    ESE Seminar: “Electrical Digestive Engineering”

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    Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu

    Gastrointestinal (GI) problems are the second leading cause for missing work or school after the common cold, giving rise to 10 percent of the reasons a patient visits their physician and costing $142 billion annually.  Although obstructions and infections are easy to diagnose, more than half of GI disorders involve abnormal functioning of the GI […]

    CIS Seminar: “Recovering, manipulating and enhancing recorded speech (1905-2020)”

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    Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

    This talk will survey several recent projects dealing with recorded speech. The first explores an optical process for recovering sound recorded onto postcards using a forgotten technology from more than a century ago. This involves scanning the postcard at multiple orientations using a flatbed scanner, and then reconstructing the fine scale surface texture of the […]

    MSE Seminar: “III-V photovoltaic substrate reuse using fracture”

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    Controlled spalling of single-crystal semiconductors is an emerging technique which results in the rapid exfoliation of a thin, single-crystal layer by propagating fracture parallel to the wafer surface. Spalling fracture has been engineered to controllably and intentionally exfoliate thin film electronic devices from single-crystal semiconductors for the purposes of creating flexible devices or enabling substrate […]

    Climate Week: Africa and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions in a Globalized World

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    Speaker: Anthony Nyong, Director of Climate Change and Green Growth at the African Development Bank (AfDB) Speaker Bio: Bio: Professor Anthony Nyong is the Director of Climate Change and Green Growth at the African Development Bank. He has about 30 years of experience in environmental and natural resources management, environmental and social safeguards, renewable energy […]

    CIS Seminar: “Engineering Approximate Computations”

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    Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

      There’s a new ecosystem of applications that integrates machine learning into a variety of tasks. Typical domains have included image recognition and natural language processing. However, these techniques have also spread to computer systems domains, such as program compilation, resource scheduling, and database query optimization, yielding new computer systems that learn from data to achieve […]

    ESE Thesis Defense: “Constrained Learning and Inference”

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    Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu

    Learning is a core component of the information processing and autonomous systems upon which we increasingly rely on to select job applicants, analyze medical data, and drive cars. As these systems become ubiquitous, so does the need to curtail their behavior. Left untethered, they are susceptible to tampering (adversarial examples) and prone to prejudiced and […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Robots and Mechatronic Systems can help us identify, assess, and treat Motor and Cognitive Impairment after Brain Injury”

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    Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

    The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicate that in 2017 about 12.7% of adults and children had some form of disability. Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability with ~7 million in the US, which will increase by 20.5% by 2030. Cerebral Palsy is the leading cause of serious long-term disability in […]

    Climate Week: Advancing Technology to Ensure Food, Energy, and Water Security

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    Speaker: Cherie Kagan, Associate Dean of Research, Stephen J Angello Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Penn Engineering. Director, NSF’s Internet of Thing’s for Precision Agriculture Engineering Research Center Description: Ensuring food, energy, and water security is a societal grand challenge. By 2050, the US population is estimated to grow from 330 […]

    MEAM PHD Thesis Defense: “Control of Dry Adhesion via Mechanics and Structuring”

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    Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

    Dry adhesives that rely on van der Waals forces have a number of applications due to their versatility, reusability, and repeatability. Applications include small-scale pick-and-place and microtransfer printing processes, wearable sensors, climbing/perching robots, and robotic gripping. However, van der Waals forces are macroscopically short-range and are the weakest of the interatomic forces, so careful mechanical […]

    Climate Week: Carbon Offsets Should Make a Difference: Connecting Offsets for University-Sponsored Air Travel to a Vision for an Energy and Climate Partnership with West Philadelphia

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    Speakers: Megan Ryerson, UPS Chair of Transportation, Associate Dean for Research, Weitzman School Benjamin C. Pierce, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science, Penn Engineering William W. Braham, Professor of Architecture, Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and of the Center for Environmental Building + Design, Weitzman School Steve Luxton, Executive Director/CEO […]