The 2017 Healthcare Design Challenge invited teams from Wharton, Engineering, Medicine, Design, and Nursing to design an innovative solution to improve patients’ emergency room discharge experience.
Student Event: Healthcare Design Challenge Finale
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Student Event: Penn Aerospace Pitch Competition
On February 25, 2017, the Penn Aerospace Club will be hosting the inaugural Penn Aerospace Pitch Competition, where student teams are invited to pitch aerospace-related startup ideas for the chance to win $5,000 and earn feedback on their ideas.
Student Event: Penn Design Challenge Finale
This year, participants from Wharton, Engineering, and Design developed solutions to improve the security process at Philadelphia International Airport.
Student Event: Wharton Technology Conference 2016
The Wharton Technology Conference, the Wharton Technology Club’s premier industry conference, is celebrating its 21st anniversary! To mark this historic occasion, the Wharton Technology Conference is bringing together top industry talent to delve into those issues most pertinent to the constantly changing technology landscape. This intimate conference will offer compelling
Team Paper Plane Launches Idea for More Impactful Banking
70 million Americans lack access to traditional banking services. Instead, those in a financially precarious position often must resort to predatory alternatives such as payday lenders. The winners of the 2015 Penn Design Challenge, sponsored by the Mack Institute, describe their approach to changing this system. …Read More
TedxPenn 2015: 10x the Impact
The Mack Institute is proud to be a sponsor of TedxPenn. For the past ten months, a team of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania quietly worked to create the biggest TEDx event the school has ever seen.…Read More
Take-Aways from Tech Tuesday: Content is King
Supporting students in their innovation-related pursuits is an important part of the Mack Institute’s mission. We sponsor the Wharton Technology Club, helping them bring tech industry players to campus to share their experience and knowledge with students. This guest post by incoming club president Stephanie Au gives a peek at…Read More
Management by the Numbers
Centuries after Socrates proclaimed “the unexamined life is not worth living,” managers have begun subjecting their routine processes for handling people to analysis. Organizations are asking questions about how effective their processes for hiring, firing, paying, and evaluating employees are, and they are looking to quantitative data for answers. This…Read More
It’s Not All in the DNA: Penn Team Benefits from Mack Institute Sponsorship in Synthetic Biology Competition
Spring semester may be over, but for a small group of Penn students, the lab is now their second home. This year, the Mack Institute is once again sponsoring Penn’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) student team. iGEM is a large undergraduate synthetic biology competition in which students use standard…Read More