Engineering Research Accelerator
Jun 24
In the College of Engineering’s Tech Spark, Robert Smith, senior windows systems engineer, has developed a system that allows students, faculty, and staff to access machines and tools they have been trained on, and directs them to training courses they may need to use the systems in the future.
Jun 20
CMU BME has made a breakthrough in the field of robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface, they have developed the first-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm.
Jun 18
The US Department of Energy has awarded two Carnegie Mellon researchers a $400,000 grant to strengthen grid security using blockchain technology.
Jun 14
In 2020, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center will celebrate the arrival of the Perlmutter supercomputer—and ChemE’s Zack Ulissi will be one of the first to use it.
Jun 12
CEE researchers have discovered a way to deliver nanoparticles into plant leaves for efficient delivery to the root, paving the way toward sustainable food production.
Jun 10
One group of researchers in ECE has a wide variety of students exploring novel uses and implementation methods for an underutilized technology: EEG nodes.
Jun 04
When should we apply sensors to monitor the state of our infrastructure in a way that could help predict and prevent failure?
May 30
There are many ways to make a lung. With so many possible approaches, where do you even start? BME Ph.D. student Erica Comber has the answer.
May 28
Venkat Viswanathan received a 2019 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research to research how to improve battery safety in low temperatures.
May 23
Swarun Kumar’s lab has created PushID, a tracking system that may just be the answer to never losing anything again.
May 20
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon is starting a project to design and implement a high-resolution, noninvasive neural interface that can be used as a wearable device.
May 15
U.S. wildfires pose a serious threat to human health—and not just in the area of the burn.
May 13
A generous gift by Mark and Roseanne Wholey will propel Carnegie Mellon University forward in fundamental discoveries and technological solutions that will have a great impact on society.
May 09
A new study from Jeanne VanBriesen takes a national look at whether coal-fired power plants are unintentionally affecting drinking water treatment plants.
May 06
Sean Qian, Director of the Mobility Data Analytics Center, partnered with Gridwise, a local startup company, to optimize ridesharing platforms.
May 02
New research suggests fear of the zero-carbon energy source diminishes its potential contribution to decarbonization.
Apr 28
On April 29, 2019, the MFI will host the inaugural Manufacturing Futures Forum, entitled “Leading the Digital Transformation.”
Apr 25
Brandon Lucia, Nathan Beckmann, and their student present first-ever demonstration of machine learning inference using deep neural networks on a batteryless, intermittent computing device at ASPLOS 2019.
Apr 18
Lorrie Cranor has received the Bosch Distinguished Professorship in Security and Privacy Technologies, enabling her to lead a new era of security and privacy research at the university.
Apr 15
ChemE’s Alan Russell has earned the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2018 Innovator Award as co-founder of startup BioHybrid Solutions.
Apr 11
Using super-sensitive microscopic imaging, Kris Dahl partnered with Pitt/UPMC to make a fundamental biological discovery that could be key to untangling the mechanisms underlying several genetic diseases.
Apr 04
Earlier this week, a team consisting of researchers from CyLab released the world’s first verifiably secure industrial-strength cryptographic library—a set of code that can be used to protect data and is guaranteed to protect against the most popular classes of cyberattacks.
Apr 01
Adam Feinberg, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and materials science & engineering, has developed the novel Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) 3-D bioprinting technique, which allows for the printing of soft gels.
Mar 27
Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with Genentech and LumaCyte to develop an advanced biomanufacturing technology for adventitious agent testing.
Mar 26
CMU’s Lorrie Cranor and Dena Haritos Tsamitis will speak at this week’s Women in Cybersecurity Conference in Pittsburgh.
Mar 22
From March 25 – 28, 2019, the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University will hold CMU Energy Week 2019.
Mar 20
Aaron Johnson has won the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award for his research on designing robots to cross rough terrain.
Mar 18
The amount of CO2 that China releases annually into the atmosphere has a significant impact on global climate change.
Mar 15
Government funding has now become a viable option for young companies, even if the technologies they’re developing aren’t a sure thing.
Mar 13
Professor Michael McHenry is part of a team of researchers receiving the Carnegie Science Award for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials.
Mar 08
The Pittsburgh Penguins, Covestro, and Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering will host their second annual Make-a-thon, kicking off year two of the “Rethink the Rink” initiative.
ECE’s Jeyanandh Paramesh presented a new chip at ISSCC 2019 designed to enable cutting-edge beyond 5G communications.
Mar 04
Reeja Jayan investigates how electromagnetic fields speed up ceramic fabrication, finding both challenges and great potential.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Mohammad Islam and Lining Yao are developing a self-healing actuator, called Healer, which is expected to fully heal itself within a few hours with the same shape, functionalities, and properties as before if it is broken into pieces. Such actuators can be used as sensors and synthetic muscles.
Feb 28
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have engineered a new technology to enable natural accommodation cues in 3D displays.
Feb 26
An entrepreneurial idea to expand training for 21st-century careers has sparked a $10 million gift to support mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
Feb 25
In the quest for alternatives to gas-powered vehicles, experts believe one new method shows great promise: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.
Feb 22
Tony Rollett published in Science a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3-D printing process.
Tony Rollett published in Science a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3D printing process.
Feb 20
Three young faculty members have been granted the 2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellowship to enable their continued contributions to their respective fields.
Feb 18
In honor of Black History Month, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recently co-hosted the visit of distinguished historian and acclaimed author Professor Daina Ramey Berry to Carnegie Mellon University.
Feb 15
Artificially intelligent medical imaging technology is a promising tool to help doctors diagnose disease. CMU researchers have found a way to use less data to train these tools.
Feb 13
ECE/BME’s Byron Yu and ECE postdoc João Semedo found that communication between brain areas occurs through an information bottleneck, which they’ve termed a “communication subspace.”
Feb 11
Widespread use of electric vehicles will go a long way toward eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector—but these emissions don’t just come from the tailpipe.
Feb 07
Larry Pileggi has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University effective March 1.
Feb 05
CEE’s Costa Samaras and Sean Qian will head a DOE-funded analysis of next-generation delivery networks composed of aerial drones, robots, AVs, EVs, and “intelligent delivery zones.”
Feb 01
ChemE’s Kris Dahl is using a new technique called SINK (sensors from intranuclear kinetics) to observe the properties of an entire monolayer of cells and determine how broadly cells communicate.
Jan 24
While the rest of the world is lauding 5G as the next big thing, EPP Head Doug Sicker and his team are already looking beyond it.
Jan 17
Soft robots can mimic a critter’s scurry, thanks to shape memory alloy actuators.
Jan 14
Lorrie Faith Cranor has been named the next director of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s security and privacy institute, effective January 15.
Jan 04
MechE’s Professor Jon Cagan and Kosa Goucher-Lambert helped uncover how outside stimuli inspire innovation in design.
Jan 02
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kenji Shimada and his team of researchers are using drone technology to help detect and restore damaged water canals in Japan that are critical for the agricultural economy.
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