2019

Jul 12

3D printing soft materials with AI

Carnegie Mellon University researchers created a machine learning algorithm that optimizes parameters of soft materials 3D printing.

Jul 09

Polymers, printing, and pathways

A novel approach to 3D printing using a support bath can greatly expand the types of polymers that can be printed, enable chemical reactions of the printed materials to gain novel material properties, and increase the mechanical strength and reduce the print time of mechanical parts through design optimization.

Jun 28

NASA invests in 3D printing for aviation

CMU has been selected by NASA to lead a research team dedicated to examining new ways to build and power aircraft of the future, through NASA’s University Leadership Initiative.

Jun 26

Next Manufacturing hosts Pittsburgh Chapter of Women in 3D Printing

Sandra DeVincent Wolf, executive director of the Next Manufacturing Center and the Manufacturing Futures Initiative, hosted an event during which members of Women in 3D Printing learned about CMU’s additive manufacturing research and education, attended demos, toured labs, and networked.

Apr 28

MFI leads digital transformation of manufacturing

On April 29, 2019, the MFI will host the inaugural Manufacturing Futures Forum. The Forum, entitled “Leading the Digital Transformation,” will highlight the groundbreaking research, development, and workforce training leading the digital transformation of manufacturing.

Apr 23

Lorrie Cranor, Brian Kovak Named Andrew Carnegie Fellows

Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Lorrie Cranor and Brian K. Kovak have been named to the 2019 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation that has supported the advancement of education and knowledge for more than a century.

Apr 04

Achieving provably-secure encryption

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

A FRESH take on bioprinting

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 20

Johnson wins ARO Young Investigator Award

Aaron Johnson has won the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award for his research on designing robots to cross rough terrain.

Mar 08

Year two of “Rethink the Rink” launched

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.

Mar 04

Self-healing material research

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 22

Finding keyholes in metals 3-D printing

Tony Rollett published in Science a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3-D printing process.

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