Filters
Week of Events
Sunday, June 18, 2023
No events on this day.
Monday, June 19, 2023
-
June 19, 2023 -CBE PhD Thesis Defense: “Electrochemical and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Selected Industrial Commodities”
CBE PhD Thesis Defense: “Electrochemical and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Selected Industrial Commodities”
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 […]
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
-
June 20, 2023 -MEAM Seminar: “Computationally-constrained Dynamically-feasible Search-based Motion Planning”
-
June 20, 2023 -MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design, Characterization, and Fabrication of Low-Cost, Passive, and Biodegradable Sensors For Precision Agriculture”
-
June 20, 2023 -PSOC@Penn Seminar: Michael Tobin
MEAM Seminar: “Computationally-constrained Dynamically-feasible Search-based Motion Planning”
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”
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 […]
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
-
June 21, 2023 -MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Addressing Stiffness-induced Challenges In Modeling and Identification of Rigid Body Systems with Frictional Impact”
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Addressing Stiffness-induced Challenges In Modeling and Identification of Rigid Body Systems with Frictional Impact”
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 […]
Thursday, June 22, 2023
-
June 22, 2023 -MSE PhD Defense: Autonomous Stimuli-Responsive Metamaterials Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers
MSE PhD Defense: Autonomous Stimuli-Responsive Metamaterials Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers
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 […]
Friday, June 23, 2023
No events on this day.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
No events on this day.