Exploring the Future: Highlights from AI Month 2025 |
For the second year in a row, Penn Engineering hosted AI Month @ Penn. This year's focus on AI and human well-being brought together nearly two dozen events across the University. Relive the highlights, including remarks by industry leaders like Meta’s Yann LeCun and One Investment Management’s Rajeev Misra.
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Innovation & Impact Podcast: The Future of AI with Yann LeCun |
AI is at the forefront of technological advances and is also reshaping creativity, ownership and societal interactions. In episode 7 of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, host Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering and Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, speaks with Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, Yann LeCun, about the journey of AI, how we define intelligence and the possibilities and challenges it presents.
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Responsible Innovation Starts Here: A Holistic Approach to Engineering Education |
One of the pillars of Responsible Innovation at Penn Engineering is teaching undergraduate students the importance of considering ethics in their work. Led by Brit Shields (Gr’15), a senior lecturer in Bioengineering, the School is expanding ethics course offerings, which include EAS 2030: Engineering Ethics, a course open to all majors. Learn about Shields’ unique approach to this topic, which is informed by her background in the humanities.
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Investing in Engineers: Sugi Widjaja and Millie Wan Champion Entrepreneurship Fellows |
Before college, neither Sugi Widjaja (EE’00) nor Millie Wan (W’01) imagined they would attend Penn. Now, to support the next generation of Penn students, they’ve endowed the Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows, a highly selective program that introduces Penn Engineers to the world of startups and venture capital. Learn what motivated them to give back, and how they plan to prepare future leaders.
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The National Geographic 33 Spotlights The Visionaries Shaping Tomorrow
Forbes
Recognized as an agent of change striving to make our world a better place, Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named one of National Geographic’s 33 Extraordinary Changemakers of 2025. Read More
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How is the tech industry thinking about AI's environmental impact?
NPR
In an episode of All Things Considered, Benjamin Lee, Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering and in Computer and Information Science, discusses the implications that AI systems will have on the environment. Read More
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New wearable sensors could transform tendon rehabilitation. Led by Flavia Vitale, Associate Professor in Bioengineering and Neurology, and Josh Baxter, Assistant Professor in Orthopedic Surgery, researchers at Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine are using MXene-based flexible sensors to monitor tendon recovery in real-time.
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Where is this spiral staircase in the Penn Engineering quad?
A. Towne Building
B. Levine Hall
C. Moore School Building
D. Skirkanich Hall
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