Engineering Research Accelerator
Dec 06
Carnegie Mellon University has named Jonathan Cagan interim dean of the College of Engineering.
Nov 27
CEE’s Greg Lowry has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his efforts in advancing environmental engineering and the use of nanomaterials.
Nov 16
Carnegie Mellon University has named James H. Garrett Jr. as the university’s next provost and chief academic officer after a rigorous, comprehensive, and international search
Nov 13
The unreliable delivery of electricity can lead to additional consumer costs, limited economic benefits, and increased environmental impacts.
Nov 06
MSE Professor Michael McHenry and his group have designed a motor that uses soft magnetic materials that are projected to increase efficiencies to exceed 96%.
Oct 30
ECE’s Gauri Joshi has received a 2018 IBM Faculty Award for her research in distributed machine learning.
Oct 26
With a generous lead grant from the Allegheny Foundation, the university has announced plans to build a new Scaife Hall. The building will feature expanded, technology-rich labs; modern, flexible classrooms; and spaces that facilitate formal and informal collaborations.
Oct 22
Carnegie Mellon University will inaugurate its 10th president, Farnam Jahanian, on Friday, Oct. 26.
Oct 11
Cross-Atlantic collaborators have developed a simple, efficient method to make robust, highly flexible, tattoo-like circuits for use in wearable computing.
Oct 08
A summer research fellowship sponsored by Citrine Informatics gave students the chance to use cutting-edge computer vision technologies to solve questions in materials science research.
Oct 03
ChemE Assistant Professor Kathryn Whitehead has been awarded a 2018 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for her project to genetically engineer the human cells in breastmilk.
Oct 01
As NASA turns 60, the College of Engineering celebrates its history of partnerships with NASA: from research and competitions, to the CMU-SV campus located at NASA’s Ames Research Park.
Sep 12
Chemical engineering researchers have developed a machine learning system to search through millions of intermetallics to discover new materials for electrocatalysis.
Sep 11
Secretary Anthony Foxx has been appointed distinguished executive in residence at Carnegie Mellon University for the 2018-19 academic year.
Sep 10
Carnegie Mellon and global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company have formed a research partnership to advance process systems engineering and optimization tools for accelerated product development in the pharmaceutical industry.
Sep 06
Engineering Professors Ge Yang and Jessica Zhang are using complex geometric analysis to learn about neuron function and unlock the mysteries of the human brain.
Sep 04
During droughts and water shortages, power plants can put a strain on the entire water system.
Aug 31
As more hospitals adopt the use of Electronic Health Records, more doctors are looking into ways that these records can be used to improve patient care.
Aug 28
Carnegie Mellon University celebrates the relocation of the Carnegie Bosch Institute to the College of Engineering.
Aug 20
Far from kilns or furnaces, Edgar Mendoza researches how to 3D print ceramics.
Aug 15
Carnegie Mellon University researchers review the ways that goods can be transported via alternate means, such as by rail or water, to reduce both emissions and energy use.
Aug 13
CEE researchers make breakthrough discovery that gold nanoparticles can dissolve when they interact with freshwater aquatic plants—instead of remaining stable as commonly thought.
Aug 10
ECE Professor Radu Marculescu and his colleagues have created a new model of social network formation and evolution driven by the notion of “betweenness.”
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