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Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

On the left is a gloved hand is holding a prototype of a micro-supercapacitor, and on the right is the prototype displayed on a human wrist.

Stretchable micro-supercapacitors to self-power wearable devices

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Six engineering graduate students named Leighton Riess Graduate Fellows

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Four College of Engineering faculty named to 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list

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Engineering professor receives Frontiers of Materials award

Research image showing effective stretchable materials and direct integration options that will advance stretchable, wearable gas sensors

Researchers develop sensors that detect human biomarkers and toxic gas

A hand with a gold sensor melded to it

Engineers print wearable sensors directly on skin without heat

Judith Todd

Engineering department head elected vice president of ASM International

An illustration of a four-layer sensor. A yellow green layer and a blue layer sandwich two black layers with facing pyramid-shaped points.

Engineers imitate human hands to make better sensors

Biosensors

Self-powered biosensors may open up new paths to medical tracking, treatments

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Engineering team wins top prize in entrepreneur program for flex heal product

microcircuits

Jumping the gap may make electronics faster

Patrick Drew

Drew named associate director of Penn State's Institute of the Neurosciences

Steven Schiff Impact 2019

Forecasting infectious diseases: Improved prediction could transform treatment

midsagittal plane of the mouse skull and brain

Sense of smell, pollution and neurological disease connection explored

What if weather forecasting could be applied to disease?

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