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Introducing Amy Gutmann Hall
With its next-generation hybrid classrooms and labs, Penn Engineering’s Amy Gutmann Hall will fuel innovative teaching and research in AI and data science, advance the University’s reputation and attract top talent to Penn, accelerating the work of scholars across diverse fields while making the tools and concepts of AI and data science more accessible.
Inside
From the Dean
Engineering as Optimism
Back in May, I told the Class of 2024 that “to be an engineer is to be an optimist.”
2024-2025 Print Edition
The Big Picture
What Is This?
A microscopic surface? An AI-generated image? A series of fun-house mirrors? Wrong. This is a close-up view of the sun shades on the facade of the new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST), located on Penn’s campus at 32nd and Walnut Streets.
Breakthroughs
Developing self-healing batteries, filters for 6G and beyond, using AI to combat antibiotic resistance, and more.
In Question
Is Moore’s Law Really Dead?
We’ve come to expect rapid improvements in technology. But can Moore’s Law go on forever?
In Practice
Building a Clean Energy Future
Intervention requires more than lowering emissions; we also need to remove the CO2 that is already in the atmosphere.
Features
Beyond Earth
Michelle Parker (GEN’93, GR’00) describes how her Penn Engineering degrees allowed her to forge a career where she gets to “push boundaries” and “design the next set of products that will take humankind further into space.”
Stopping Seizures Before They Start
Flavia Vitale, Associate Professor in Bioengineering in Penn Engineering and in Neurology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, works to develop accessible and affordable solutions for the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of people living with neurological disorders.
Engineering an Olympian
This past summer, Matt Fallon (CIS’25, W’25) represented the U.S. (and Penn!) at the Olympic Games in Paris, coming in 10th in the 200-meter breaststroke, after setting an American record in the event and winning the national title at the U.S. Olympic Trials, his third in a row.
On Campus
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Welcome to CPE4H
Penn Engineering’s Center for Precision Engineering for Health (CPE4H), housed in One uCity Square, a new 13-story, 400,000-square-foot building located on 38th Street across from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, welcomed four new core faculty members to campus this year.
School News
New Faculty
Penn Engineering welcomed 15 new faculty members in the last year.
In Memoriam
Charles D. Graham
Solomon R. Pollack
Why I give
Alexander Paul Carobus
(ENG’99, C’99)
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