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The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon is a renowned institution that is widely recognized for its excellence, innovation, and the significant impact its research has on society.

Our engineering program is designed to produce technically proficient and creative engineers who can provide cutting-edge solutions to global challenges.

We take pride in our commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together experts from various fields, such as engineering, sciences, arts, and business, to achieve transformative outcomes.

World-renowned

The College of Engineering has a long history of excellence. Our people are the driving force behind our success as one of the top engineering schools in the world, and our faculty, staff, students, and alumni have earned recognition in a variety of fields. From earning Nobel Prizes and Turing Awards to being named National Academies fellows, Carnegie Mellon Engineers continue to drive innovation, shape policy, and pave the way to a better future for all.

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Departments and institutes

Biomedical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Engineering and Public Policy

Information Networking Institute

Integrated Innovation Institute

Materials Science and Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Locations

CMU-Africa

CMU-Silicon Valley

Read about our latest research

Oct 22

Artificial Intelligence

Engineering students among Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows

Amazon’s AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program aims to help drive the innovations that will underwrite the next step in the evolution of practical AI.

Han Ding is working to make aviation more sustainable through a high-resolution weather model.

Controlling the course of contrails

Oct 14

Artificial Intelligence

From donor to digital: making multi-structure transplants smarter and safer

Jessica Zhang is using AI and digital twins to make limb transplants safer, more accessible, and better matched for the millions of Americans living with limb loss.

Oct 14

Artificial Intelligence

From donor to digital: making multi-structure transplants smarter and safer

Jessica Zhang is using AI and digital twins to make limb transplants safer, more accessible, and better matched for the millions of Americans living with limb loss.

Oct 10

Advanced Manufacturing

Skybound construction

Advancements in aerial additive manufacturing from the lab of Amir Barati Farimani could one day enable drones to construct remote infrastructure, maintain cities, and support space exploration.

Oct 10

Advanced Manufacturing

Skybound construction

Advancements in aerial additive manufacturing from the lab of Amir Barati Farimani could one day enable drones to construct remote infrastructure, maintain cities, and support space exploration.

Oct 2

Energy & Environment

Heat pump technology may narrow the energy equity gap

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Maryland found that an emerging technology known as heat pumps leads to reduced disparities in thermal comfort across different income groups.

An award of up to $26.7 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has been secured by a CMU-led team to offer an at-home solution to detect more than 30 Stage 1 solid tumor cancers from a simple urine sample.

Revolutionizing early cancer detection with at-home technology

Sep 29

Advanced Manufacturing

AlloyGPT: Leveraging a language model to aid alloy discovery

Researchers in the Materials Science and Engineering Department have pioneered the potential to train large language models to understand a novel alloy physics language in a similar manner.

Sep 29

Advanced Manufacturing

AlloyGPT: Leveraging a language model to aid alloy discovery

Researchers in the Materials Science and Engineering Department have pioneered the potential to train large language models to understand a novel alloy physics language in a similar manner.

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

Designer biobots made from human lung cells

Researchers are developing microscale robots with customizable movement, aiming to navigate the body for targeted therapies using advanced tissue engineering.

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

Designer biobots made from human lung cells

Researchers are developing microscale robots with customizable movement, aiming to navigate the body for targeted therapies using advanced tissue engineering.

New research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering will make it safer for drones to survey construction sites by eliminating the risk of collision.

The future of drones in construction

Sep 22

Artificial Intelligence

The future of drones in construction

New research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering will make it safer for drones to survey construction sites by eliminating the risk of collision.

Sep 19

Health & Biomedicine

Kainerstorfer gains fresh insight through ELATES program

BME’s Jana Kainerstorfer recently completed the yearlong ELATES leadership program at Drexel University, which trains women faculty and administrators in STEM.

Sep 12

Health & Biomedicine

Better screening tool for sickle cell disease progression

Researchers explore using NIRS to screen adults with sickle cell disease, revealing insights into oxygenation and aging-related mechanisms.

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Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

Electric shocks power-off drug-resistant yeast

Electrochemical therapy makes currently-available drugs more effective against yeast infections that the CDC classifies as an urgent threat.

Sep 8

Energy & Environment

How electric vehicles can power infrastructure change

College of Engineering researchers found that increased electric vehicle adoption can trigger new investment in sustainable energy generation and storage, making vehicle infrastructure greener.