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Niko Simpkins: At the nexus of engineering and music For Niko Simpkins, a musician who performs, produces, and engineers his own tracks, the most exciting processes combine structure and flexibility, creativity, and rigor. As a third-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, he sees his mechanical engineering education as a framework for problem solving that might serve him across a broad set of endeavors, and for now, he’s more interested in learning than narrowing to any one particular career path. Penn Engineering undergraduate Niko Simp...

New bioprinting technique allows for complex microtissues Bioprinting is currently used to generate model tissues for research and has potential applications in regenerative medicine. Existing bioprinting techniques rely on printing cells embedded in hydrogels, which results in low-cell-density constructs that are well below what is required to grow functional tissues. Maneuvering different kinds of cells into position to replicate the complex makeup of an organ, particularly at organlike cell densities, is still beyond their capabilities. The researchers’ new ...

Maybe this is why we're single Richard Speed Mon 15 Feb 2021 // 12:28 UTC Share Copy Happy ENIAC Day! Join us for a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the launch of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Yes, we know that things actually kicked off in 1945 rather than 15 February 1946, but today's the day when, 75 years ago, the machine was launched at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2011, Philadelphia City Council declared 15 February as "ENIAC Day" and we're not about to argue the point for fear of a battering with delicious cheesesteak sandwiches. ...

GRASP Lab’s coolest robot yet Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has seen any number of innovative robots walk, fly, hop, roll and otherwise propel themselves about the GRASP Lab, where he serves as Ruzena Bajcsy Director. But the lab’s latest creation is, quite literally, its coolest yet: it’s made out of ice. IceBot’s structural components are made out of ice, which could be cut and shaped to specification in remote environments. (Image: Penn Engineering Today) ModLab, Yim’s own ...

Researchers measure different types of curiosity studying ‘hunters and busybodies’ Curiosity has been found to play a role in our learning and emotional well-being, but due to the open-ended nature of how curiosity is actually practiced, measuring it is challenging. Psychological studies have attempted to gauge participants’ curiosity through their engagement in specific activities, however, such methods focus on quantifying a person’s curiosity rather than understanding the different ways it can be expressed. Curiosity styles as knowledge networks where ...