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Gabriel Unger Wins Penn Prize And Outstanding TA Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to Gabe for receiving the 2025 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, a university-wide honor, as well as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Award in Mechanical Engineering for the Fall 2024 semester. Both awards were in recognition of his work in MEAM 2100: Statics and Strength of Materials, a required core course for all sophomore Mechanical Engineering students.

Read more about Gabe’s experience teaching here.

Brianna presented at the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting!

Congratulations to Brianna Leung for presenting her poster at the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Annual Meeting in Maryland!

Brianna’s work “Mechanical characterization of an origami-inspired multistable tube for reconfigurable implants” introduces the design and characterization of an origami medical device. An exciting contribution to mechanics and bio-medical devices!