Penn Engineering Students Receive IEEE Micro-Grant to Advance Acoustic Tool for Building Living Tissues

A team of Penn Engineering students has been selected as one of five teams worldwide to receive an IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) micro-grant to develop a new acoustic technology that could make it easier to build complex tissue models for biomedical research. The interdisciplinary team, working in the laboratory of Shujie Yang, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), is developing a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (PMUT)-based acoustic tweezer, a device that uses sound waves instead of physical contact to precisely move and arrange cells into programmable patterns.

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