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MSE PhD Defense: Effects of Size and Composition on the Performance of Dealloyed Nanoporous Metal Catalysts for CO2 Reduction, O2 Evolution, and H2 Generation
Department of Bioengineering Juneteenth Address: “A White Neighbor, a Black Surgeon, and a Mormon Computer Scientist Walk into a Bar…” (Kevin B. Johnson)
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Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall
210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
“A White Neighbor, a Black Surgeon, and a Mormon Computer Scientist Walk into a Bar…” As we recognize Juneteenth, a holiday that brings awareness to what journalist Corey Mitchell calls “…a complex understanding of the nation’s past”, we also need to understand how many of our neighbors, staff, and faculty—even those born in the last […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Detecting and Localizing Progressive Changes In Longitudinal MRI of the Hippocampal Region in Alzheimer’s Disease” (Mengjin Dong)
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BRB 0252
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Paul Yushkevich are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Mengjin Dong. Title: Detecting and Localizing Progressive Changes In Longitudinal MRI of the Hippocampal Region in Alzheimer’s Disease Date: Thursday, June […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Photophoretic Light-flyers for Mesospheric Applications”
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Lynch Lecture Hall, Cret Wing, CHEM
231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The Earth’s mesosphere plays a crucial role in weather forecasting, environmental conservation, and planetary exploration. However, traditional unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as balloons or spacecraft face significant challenges when attempting to access this layer. Balloons and airplanes struggle due to the low pressure, while satellites encounter high aerodynamic drag. To overcome these limitations, we […]
CBE PhD Thesis Defense: “Electrochemical and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Selected Industrial Commodities”
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Towne 225
Novel high-surface-area catalysts were synthesized for selected industrial chemical reactions, conducted in heterogeneous reactors and electrochemical reactors. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) was used to synthesize highly dispersed metal catalysts and to deposit uniform oxide thin films on porous supports. The interaction between Cu catalyst and its oxide support was studied for the water-gas-shift […]
MEAM Seminar: “Computationally-constrained Dynamically-feasible Search-based Motion Planning”
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Room 337, Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Planning fast and autonomous robotic motion in unstructured, cluttered environments remains a core challenge of the robotics community. The robot’s motion must be agile and dynamic, operating near the limit of its physical capabilities, to reach its goal location as quickly as possible. Fast motion in turn creates a need for fast plan computation over […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design, Characterization, and Fabrication of Low-Cost, Passive, and Biodegradable Sensors For Precision Agriculture”
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Room 337, Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
With the global population projected to reach 9.1 billion people by 2050 there is a need to develop highly efficient agricultural systems that maximize crop yield. Precision Agriculture (PA) systems enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) offer a potential solution through improvements in labor, resource, and time efficiency to improve agricultural output. PA systems […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Addressing Stiffness-induced Challenges In Modeling and Identification of Rigid Body Systems with Frictional Impact”
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Moore 216
200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Imperfect but useful dynamical models have enabled significant progress in planning and controlling robotic locomotion and manipulation. Traditionally, these models have been physics-based, with accuracy relying upon manual calibration only feasible in laboratory environments. As robotics expands into complex real-world applications, models must instead be automatically fit to limited data. One major challenge is modeling […]
MSE PhD Defense: Autonomous Stimuli-Responsive Metamaterials Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers
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Towne 227 (MEAM Conference Room)
220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Numerous responsive materials have been developed in recent decades and applied toward engineering challenges ranging from medicine to robotics. For example, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), hydrogels, shape memory polymers (SMPs), liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), and many other materials can be engineered to respond to many environmental stimuli, such as non-polar solvents, humidity, heat, light, magnetic fields, and […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Decellularized Cartilage for Airway Repair” (Paul Gehret)
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Riccardo Gottardi are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Paul Gehret. Title: “Decellularized Cartilage for Airway Repair”. Date: June 26, 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Wu and Chen Auditorium in Levine Hall The public is welcome to attend. Join Zoom Meeting https://upenn.zoom.us/j/7937445851?pwd=RUJYZFNhOWVyRmM5QzZUb3FoaDRxZz09 […]