Kevin T Turner
@kevin_t_turner
Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics @PennEngineers
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13-03-2014 01:36:53
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Great to visit and give a seminar in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech today! Fantastic discussions with students and faculty, including my host Michael Bartlett Michael Bartlett
MEAM is pleased to announce the doctoral dissertation defense of Sage Fulco, “Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architecture." Fulco is advised by Kevin T Turner. Abstract: bit.ly/43Owx1E Fri, Apr 12 @ 9:30 AM A8, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
Congratulations Dr. Sage Fulco for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, “Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architecture” under the advisory of MEAM Professor Kevin T Turner. 🎉 blog.me.upenn.edu/celebrating-ac…
Ready for the great meeting starting Monday morning. Speaking Zhigang Suo Nicholas A. Peppas Costantino Creton Xuanhe Zhao @NguyenLabJHU Shu Yang Kevin T Turner and many others.
Watching the Olympics and surprised to see that the most elite track athletes wearing highly engineered uniforms still must use safety pins to attach their number bibs. Seems like the adhesion community could develop a more elegant solution The Adhesion Society
Amazing day for Penn Engineering, the future is bright for our students Zack Ives George Pappas David F. Meaney Lab Kevin T Turner Ravi.Radhakrishnan Michael Kearns Mayur Naik Sid Deliwala penntoday.upenn.edu/news/dedicatio…
Chris Stabile has defended his dissertation on Dynamically Tunable Adhesion and Friction via Active Materials under the guidance of Kevin T Turner. 🎉 "The camaraderie is what I will remember most," says Stabile. Read more: bit.ly/4dxPs3U
Climate Week @ Penn starts today! One of today’s events included a panel of Penn Engineering to discuss and take questions on technological resilience against climate change. One of the panelists was MEAM Professor and Chair Kevin T Turner.
🚨Exciting Faculty Positions Penn Engineering! Join our AI for Science initiative backed by $750M investment & shape the future of scientific discovery through AI/ML, from materials design and drug discovery to autonomy and climate modeling. ✨Here's what we offer:
We are excited to welcome Wensi Wu, a new Assistant Research Professor in MEAM. At Penn, Wu plans to develop predictive virtual models of the heart to tackle critical challenges in cardiovascular research. 🫀 PennCVI CHOP Research CHOPCardiacCenter blog.me.upenn.edu/wensi-wu/
We kicked off our Spring Seminar Series this week with Thao "Vicky" Nguyen of Johns Hopkins University and her talk on "Modeling the Unique Behaviors of Liquid Crystal Elastomers," highlighting the potential of liquid crystal elastomers in soft robotics and advanced materials engineering.
Congratulations to John Bassani, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Penn, on receiving the 2025 Society of Engineering Science William Prager Medal. bit.ly/40CJSZO
Stronger materials, inspired by nature? Led by Kevin T Turner, researchers from @meam_penn, Penn Physics & Astro and Aarhus Universitet found that adding just the right amount of disorder to a material’s structure boosts toughness by 2.6x. bit.ly/3QnwHXJ
Grateful to organize the 2025 GRS Adhesion Science, creating a space for young researchers to share their work. Excited to have experts from academia & industry join us for a career panel discussion! Xuanhe Zhao Junsoo Kim Welcome to apply!!! Gordon Research Conferences Princeton University UT Austin
Most people today take for granted or just don’t understand the amount of science, technology, innovation, precision, and efficiency that goes into growing and producing this plant. Sometimes it’s a good thing to stop and remember that. Purdue Agriculture Purdue Agronomy
