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    • 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 […]

    MSE Seminar: “How to Care for Yourself While Navigating a Complex World”

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    As graduate students, it can be difficult to maintain a sense of balance throughout your academic career. There are often multiple demands on your time, from having a social life while performing well academically to maintaining your mental health and wellness. However, 2020 has brought unique challenges that include, managing a global pandemic, navigating issues […]

    Climate Week: Embodied Carbon and the Built Environment: A Focus on Mass Timber

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    Speakers: Kerry Phillips, Associate at Lake|Flato Architects Heather Gayle Holdridge, Director of Design Performance at Lake|Flato Architects Terry Pattillo, AIA, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, WoodWorks – Wood Products Council Moderator: Stephanie Carlisle, Senior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum

    BE Seminar: “Patients, Providers and Data: How the EMR and Data Science are Changing Clinical Care” (Kevin Johnson)

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    This event will be held virtually via zoom. Check your email for the link and passcode or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. The electronic health record (EHR) is a powerful application of Systems Engineering to healthcare. It is a byproduct of a host of pressures including  cost, consolidation of providers into networks, uniform drivers of quality, and the […]

    SIG Seminar: “Coupling Sub-Grid Solids, Simulating Liquid Metals, and Inferring Facial Expressions”

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

    This lecture will discuss recent results in computational physics, computer graphics, and learning/data science.  The first section will present a method for accurately simulating two-way solid-fluid coupling even when solids may be smaller than the size of a computational grid cell.  Next, a numerical method for simulating materials with large surface energy (such as liquid […]

    Climate Week: A Case for Carbon Removal From Air

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    Speakers: Jennifer Wilcox, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy, Penn Engineering, Weitzman School Noah McQueen, Third year Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, Penn Engineering Moderator: Mark Alan Hughes, Founding Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Description: As the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to rise, it is […]

    PICS Workshop: “Machine Learning with MATLAB”

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

    Machine learning is a data analytics technique that teaches computers to do what comes naturally to humans and animals: learn from experience. Machine learning algorithms use computational methods to “learn” information directly from data without relying on a predetermined equation as a model. Using MATLAB, engineers and other domain experts have deployed thousands of applications […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Aluminum Scandium Nitride Microdevices for Next Generation Nonvolatile Memory and Microelectromechanical Systems”

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

    Aluminum Nitride (AlN) is a well-established thin film piezoelectric material. AlN bulk acoustic wave (BAW) radio frequency (RF) filters were one of the key innovations that enabled the 3G and 4G smart phone revolution. Recently, the substitutional doping of scandium (Sc) for aluminum (Al) to form aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) has been studied to significantly […]

    ESE Seminar: “Evolutionary Adaptations and Spreading Processes in Complex Networks”

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

    A common theme among many models for spreading processes in networks is the assumption that the propagating object (e.g., a pathogen, in the context of infectious disease propagation, or a piece of information, in the context of information propagation) is transferred across network nodes without going through any modification. However, in real-life spreading processes, pathogens […]

    CIS Seminar: “Experiencing a new Internet architecture”

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

    Imagining a new Internet architecture enables us to explore new networking concepts without the constraints imposed by the current infrastructure. What are the benefits of a routing protocol that does not rely on convergence? What about a data plane without inter-domain forwarding tables on routers? How can we build secure systems if a router can […]