Penn MSE May Newsletter

MAY 2019

Project Kirigami ENV wins 2019 Senior Design Competition
Grey DeSimone and Emily Spencer, 2019 graduates in Materials Science and Engineering, won this year's Senior Design Competition. Their project, Kirigami ENV, is a specially engineered building envelope which is a material applied to a building’s exterior to bolster insulation and is inspired by the Japanese art form kirigami. READ MORE

Sunita Parasuraman delivers Penn Engineering Master's Commencement address
Sunita Parasuraman, head of treasury at Facebook and a 1996 master's graduate in Materials Science and Engineering, delivered the keynote address at the 2019 Penn Engineering Master's Commencement Ceremony. W ATCH HERE

New Machine Learning Approach Predicts Which 2D Materials Can Be Synthesized
The application of machine learning to the field of materials science has proven to be difficult due to the lack of labeled data. Work by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s Vivek Shenoy and Nathan Frey strives to bring more clarity to the synthesis of new materials through an innovative machine learning technique, specifically focusing on the creation of two-dimensional materials. READ MORE

Vanessa Chan discusses technology’s impact

from Forbes
Vanessa Chan, Professor of Practice, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Materials Science and Engineering, was recently featured in Forbes, where she was interviewed by Tracey Welson-Rossman about her career and her passion for using technology to enact change. READ MORE

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