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May 23

Advanced Manufacturing

Combining experts and automation in 3-D printing

The Expert-Guided Optimization method combines expert judgment with an optimization algorithm to enable high-fidelity 3-D printing of soft materials.

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May 21

Robotics

Circuit, heal thyself!

When punctured or torn, this material’s circuits can autonomously—and instantaneously—heal themselves to remain fully operational.

MSE/BME alum Matt Simone’s trajectory has been a little different than he’d originally planned…and he’s absolutely loving it.

Aiming fore more

May 14

Cyberphysical Systems

Ride on through

Sean Qian receives NSF award to combine big data and transportation system modeling to improve traffic flow and the way we create and operate transportation systems.

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May 9

News & Events

Engineers innovate at Meeting of the Minds

At the end of every school year, CMU hosts a symposium for undergraduate research where engineering students from all departments present posters, presentations, and demos on their research.

May 7

Health & Biomedicine

Pursuing medicine through engineering

The Health Professions Program at CMU helps engineering students pursue a career in medicine.

May 3

Advanced Manufacturing

Governor launches Manufacturing Initiative at CMU

Governor Tom Wolf announced the launch of the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Initiative, which will ensure that Pennsylvania remains a national and international leader in manufacturing.

May 2

News & Events

Dean named ASCE Distinguished Member

James H. Garrett, Jr. has been honored by ASCE with inclusion in its 2018 class of Distinguished Members.

Civil engineers are using ANSYS software to monitor infrastructure systems.

Simulating structural health

Apr 30

News & Events

From the Dean

I am committed to integrating leadership into our college and exemplifying our leadership model through our college leaders, graduates, faculty, and staff.

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Powerful storage, tiny space

Jimmy Zhu has created a method to store huge amounts of data on a compact hard disk drive.

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

The age of liquid computers

Carmel Majidi and James Wissman seek ways to make functional and floppy electronics.

Apr 30

Energy & Environment

Where is the Southwest getting all of its water?

David Dzombak and student Kerim Dickson surveyed and mapped Interbasin Transfers throughout the country to assess how cities might adapt their water supply routes to the stresses of climate change.

CMU established the Manufacturing Futures Initiative to support manufacturing research and fund interdisciplinary projects.

Manufacturing the future

Apr 30

Cyberphysical Systems

CONIX Center

The CONIX Center is creating the architecture for networked computing to better connect edge devices to the cloud in the IoT.

Apr 30

Cybersecurity

Is there privacy in a world of self-driving cars?

The general population welcomes AVs, but not how they treat data privacy. Cara Bloom discusses policy options.

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Lighter weight, lower costs in 3-D printing

Levent Burak Kara develops ways to best bolster lightweight, 3-D printed materials and reduce production costs.

Apr 27

Advanced Manufacturing

A high-tech spin on spider silk

This game-changing technology can transform polymers from soft and thermally insulating materials to an ultra-strong and thermally conductive material.

Apr 25

Robotics

CMU team in NASA Mars ice drilling competition

A team of engineering undergraduate students is one of 10 finalists competing to develop a robot that can drill ice on Mars for a prestigious NASA challenge.

Apr 23

Artificial Intelligence

Coming down from the cloud

ECE’s Diana Marculescu is bringing machine learning applications to your mobile device.

Apr 19

Advanced Manufacturing

Is 3-D printing the future for ceramics?

MechE’s B. Reeja Jayan has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award and $500,000 to pursue research in creating 3-D printing ceramics, and create an integrated research and game-based education plan.

Apr 17

News & Events

CMU joins the ARL’s Open Campus Initiative

CMU recently signed a collaborative research agreement with the Army Research Laboratory and will be part of their Open Campus Research initiative.

Apr 13

News & Events

Faculty receive Celebration of Education Awards

Four College of Engineering faculty members will be honored at the upcoming Celebration of Education Awards on April 30: Jonathan Cagan, Rosemary Frollini, Diana Marculescu, and Baruch Fischhoff.

ECE professor Radu Marculescu has developed an algorithm that shines new light on the associations and interactions of microorganisms in the human GI microbiome, providing a new tool for the field of preventive care.

Machine learning infers microbial relationships

Apr 11

Cyberphysical Systems

Uber, CMU launch traffic data-sharing tool

CMU’s Traffic21 researchers are using Uber Movement to help infrastructure operation and planning decisions in Pittsburgh.

Apr 9

News & Events

Capturing atomic beauty

Alumnus Paul Chao (MSE ’17) says that the way people rearrange themselves in crowded spaces is akin to how atoms in materials respond to different mechanical stresses like compression and expansion.

Apr 5

News & Events

Motorcycles, makers, master’s programs

Dave Landis, executive director of EST&P’s MS program, reflects on his time at CMU in his year before retirement.

Apr 4

Energy & Environment

Power Sector Carbon Intensity lower than ever

CMU Power Sector Carbon Index finds that the carbon intensity of the US power sector is lower than ever recorded.

Mahmood Sharif has been named a 2018 Symantec Research Lab Graduate Fellow and will continue his research in machine learning and cybersecurity in collaboration with Symantec.

Improving cybersecurity with machine learning

Mar 30

News & Events

The 2018 CIT Dean’s Early Career Fellows

Eight young CMU faculty receive awards for their outstanding contributions to the university.

Mar 28

Health & Biomedicine

Blast from the past

Developed in the early 90s, ChemE Professor Michael Domach’s NMR spectroscopy reactor has been revitalized in research at the National Institutes of Health.

Mar 26

Health & Biomedicine

Footsteps to preventing falls

These sensors developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon predict when a patient will fall.

Mar 23

Advanced Manufacturing

3-DIY: Printing your own bioprinter

Researchers in BME have developed a low-cost 3-D bioprinter by modifying a standard desktop 3-D printer, and they have released the breakthrough designs as open source.

Mar 21

Health & Biomedicine

Shining a light on intracranial pressure

Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Jana Kainerstorfer and her Ph.D. student Alexander Ruesch, in collaboration with Matthew Smith from the University of Pittsburgh, have been developing an alternative, non-invasive way for doctors to measure and monitor intracranial pressure using an approach based on near infrared spectroscopy.

Mar 19

Energy & Environment

Modeling the solubility of organic compounds

By studying the reactions of hydrophilic organic compounds to high salt concentrations, a research team in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering successfully identified a model that accurately describes the solubility of organic compounds.

Mar 16

Health & Biomedicine

Treating the deep brain with ultrasound

BME Department Head Bin He’s neuromodulation technology—a noninvasive alternative to deep brain stimulator implants—uses ultrasonic waves and EEG imaging, with implications for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Mar 14

Advanced Manufacturing

Measuring macro with micro

College of Engineering’s Rebecca Taylor earns funding from the U.S. Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program to develop next generation sensors with DNA and PNA.

Mar 12

News & Events

Rethinking the rink

The Pittsburgh Penguins are teaming up with two international giants of science and technology—Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering and Covestro—on a bold initiative to make hockey safer at all levels.

New research from CMU and Pitt reveals that when learning a new task, the brain is less flexible than previously thought.

The learning brain is less flexible than we thought

Mar 9

Health & Biomedicine

Producing protein nano-armor

ChemE’s Alan Russell and Chemistry’s Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have published a paper in Nature Communications describing a new technique, PARIS, allowing the researchers to grow “protein nano-armor.”

Mar 8

Energy & Environment

Could package delivery by drone reduce emissions?

How much of an effect can using drones have on energy use in the freight sector?

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Mar 8

News & Events

Farnam Jahanian named president of CMU

Farnam Jahanian, the nationally recognized computer scientist, successful entrepreneur, senior public servant and respected leader in higher education, has been appointed as the 10th president of Carnegie Mellon University.

Mar 5

Energy & Environment

Revolutionizing computer memory—with magnets

Within two decades, the global demand for energy will outweigh the total produced. MSE’s Vincent Sokalski is solving this problem using magnetic materials for energy-efficient memory and computing.

The Smart Cities Institute is a campus-wide academic center that will address the complex challenges facing metro areas in the 21st century and build on the exciting work that has already come out of Metro21.

Metro21: Smart Cities Institute launch

Feb 28

News & Events

US infrastructure is stuck in the past.

The plan must look to the future.

Feb 26

Cyberphysical Systems

Estimating traffic today for better roads tomorrow

CEE’s Sean Qian, and Qian’s former doctoral student Yiming Gu, are the 2017 recipients of the Greenshields Prize.

Feb 23

News & Events

CMU and Portugal renew partnership

CMU and the Government of Portugal signed a cooperation agreement to extend the successful CMU Portugal Program for an additional 10 years.

Feb 20

News & Events

Marculescu is Kavčić-Moura Professor

Radu Marculescu is one of four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members that have been appointed to new Kavčić-Moura Professorships.

Feb 16

News & Events

Creating a new path through a new degree

The new Engineering and Arts additional major invites students to combine engineering and art in creative ways.

Feb 12

News & Events

Moore’s Law is ending. What’s next?

In a recent paper published in Nature Electronics, Carnegie Mellon researchers argue that future advancement in microprocessors faces new and unprecedented challenges.

Feb 8

Cybersecurity

INI students help build BitClave’s blockchain network

INI students worked with blockchain start-up BitClave to drive the company’s development in new directions.

Feb 5

Health & Biomedicine

New BME Dept. Head Bin He arrives on campus

As of February 1, the College of Engineering welcomed new Department Head of Biomedical Engineering Bin He to campus as he began his appointment.

Feb 2

Health & Biomedicine

A 3-D approach to stop cancer in its tracks

Although cell analysis traditionally occurs in a plastic petri dish, researchers created a 3-D model scientists can use to analyze the complexities of cancer cells in an environment that more closely mimics the human body.

The index found that the U.S. power plant emissions averaged 1,035 lbs. of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour (CO2/MWh) in the third quarter of 2017, a decrease of 5 percent from the same time frame in 2016.

Power Sector Index sees renewables grow

Jan 29

News & Events

Creativity, curiosity, and engineering intersect at Build18

Build18’s mission is to provide students with a risk-free environment to pursue personal engineering challenges, where the only limiting factor to creation is their own ingenuity. The festival signifies the start of the spring semester and a chance for students to build for fun.

Jan 25

Cyberphysical Systems

Occulow device counts people to cut HVAC costs

Occulow, a cheap, low power sensor unit that senses and transmits occupancy data, demonstrates the potential of OpenChirp, a LoRaWAN platform that makes it easy to connect edge devices to the cloud.

Jan 23

News & Events

NSBE provides opportunities for leaders to grow

Pierce Sinclair and John Bailey Jr.’s commitment to the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has give them new perspectives on leadership and community.

Jan 18

Health & Biomedicine

Separation line

Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed a novel device that separates blood cells using sound waves.

Carnegie Mellon University will lead a $27.5 million Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) initiative to build more intelligence into computer networks.

Smarter networks to connect the edge to the cloud

Jan 8

Advanced Manufacturing

3-D printing remakes the strain gauge

Rahul Panat and a team of researchers from CMU, WSU, and UT-El Paso have developed a new 3-D printing technique for manufacturing strain gauges that breaks the Poisson Ratio by 40%.

Jan 4

Health & Biomedicine

...in with the good

With a grant from the U.S. Army, Biomedical Engineering professor Keith Cook is revolutionizing the field of external oxygenators.

Jan 1

News & Events

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Dec 31

News & Events

College of Engineering's 2017 game changers

From engineering new materials to constructing smart systems, researchers in the College of Engineering are innovating for the future. Read some of our highlights from 2017.

Dec 27

News & Events

Ambassadors showcase student life online

The Dean’s Office Social Media Reporters are a select group of engineering students who post about events, research, and day-to-day life in the College of Engineering on social media.

Dec 21

News & Events

Growing up

Researchers create a new technique to form gels that mimics the way living tissues grow.

Dec 18

News & Events

Engineering strength

Carnegie Mellon University engineers are answering the need for heat-tolerant materials by developing a new way to strengthen metals using oxide particles.

Dec 15

Energy & Environment

CEE student water bottle senses and filters impurities

Ecomo is a microfluidics mini spectrometry sensor designed to assess water quality in real-time.

Dec 12

News & Events

Bhagavatula named NAI Fellow

NAI Fellows have “demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.”

In order to save future lives, as well as our cities, civil and environmental engineers need to incorporate climate change information into their design standards moving forward.

Making climate models simple

Dec 4

Energy & Environment

Central CA losing $3.7 billion in crop yield

Though the area has since seen a slight rebound, the central California region is still experiencing a significant loss of agricultural yield and revenue. The primary culprit? Soil salinity.

Nov 30

Robotics

Fluidic transistor ushers the age of liquid computers

Mechanical engineers Carmel Majidi and James Wissman of the Soft Machines Lab at Carnegie Mellon have been looking at new ways to create electronics that are not just digitally functional but also soft and deformable.

Nov 27

Health & Biomedicine

After you invent it, how do you sell it?

CMU students receive introductory lessons on moving their invention from lab to market.

Nov 24

Artificial Intelligence

CMU and KMITL to launch collaboration

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) announced a long-term collaboration to significantly expand research and education in the areas of information, computing, and autonomous technologies.

Many chronic lung diseases limit the ability of inhaled medications to reach the areas they need to reach. BME’s Diane Nelson has been working on a solution: liquid perfluorocarbon emulsions.

A breath of fresh perfluorocarbon

Nov 16

News & Events

Empowering young girls to pursue STEM careers

Carnegie Mellon University is combatting the gender biases that often discourage women from joining the tech world—with clearly visible results.

Nov 13

News & Events

Under 40, unlimited innovation

MechE Professors Reeja Jayan and Venkat Viswanathan were awarded 40 Under 40 Award from Pittsburgh Magazine and PUMP.

Nov 9

News & Events

Celebrating 50 years as Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the merger of two visionary institutions to create one world-class university that is actively crafting the future.

Nov 6

Advanced Manufacturing

Looking through the eyes of a 3-D printer

MechE Ph.D. student Luke Scime uses machine vision to optimize the metal 3-D printing process.

Nov 2

Cyberphysical Systems

Powering the smart cities of the future

Bob Iannucci and his students have developed the PowerDué: a prototyping platform that allows programmers, students, and makers alike to build their intuition about how much energy their code uses.

Oct 30

News & Events

Engineering cosplay

“Cosplay,” or the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game, is a subset of the broader concept of “costuming.”

Oct 26

Health & Biomedicine

Sharing the gift

BME alumna Sanna Gaspard’s own experience as an inventor has given her the chance to serve as a 2017 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador.

Oct 23

Energy & Environment

Where is the southwest getting all of its water?

There’s a reason most major cities are built by water’s edge.

Oct 19

Energy & Environment

EWB can grow fresh food in your home

CMU Engineers Without Borders students are pioneering a brand-new approach to indoor agriculture—and it all starts with LED lights.

Newell Washburn and a team of researchers from CMU have designed a novel machine learning model that predicts and optimizes the properties of complex physical systems using small datasets.

Predicting material behavior using small datasets

Oct 11

News & Events

Moura named 2018 IEEE President-Elect

José M. F. Moura, Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and IEEE Life Fellow, has been elected to serve as the 2018 IEEE President-Elect. Moura will begin serving as IEEE President on January 1, 2019.

Oct 9

Energy & Environment

NanoFARM: Using nanoparticles to grow food

The answer to the growing, worldwide food production problem may have a tiny solution—nanoparticles.

Oct 5

News & Events

A work in process

Tianyi Song, a ChemE senior, developed a chemical design process during his BASF Corporation summer internship.

Oct 2

Advanced Manufacturing

A new way to train manufacturing workers

MechE alumnus Anthony Hughes of the Lanterman Group has launched a national 3-D printing training program as part of a long-term strategic alliance with America Makes.

Sean Qian, the director of the Mobility Data Analytics Center at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), is working with local municipalities to address their unique mobility challenges.

Homegrown smart mobility solutions

Sep 28

Energy & Environment

Deceptively clean vehicle emissions

Researchers in the College of Engineering found that newer gasoline vehicles emit less particulate matter, but vapors in the “cleaner” exhaust form particulate matter in the atmosphere long after exiting the tailpipe.

Sep 28

News & Events

Innovation in brain imaging

Grover and his team have been focused on improving the resolution of EEG neural imaging technology, a portable and non-invasive brain imaging system. Their research goes against the trend in the field of neuroscience.

Sep 28

Health & Biomedicine

An easier prescription

Using a technique called Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP), Carnegie Mellon researchers created a packaged protein that survives digestion-like conditions and is easily transported across the intestinal barrier in a cell culture model.

Sep 28

News & Events

NSF CAREER awards

The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a foundation-wide initiative, offering prestigious awards to encourage faculty early in their careers to serve as role models in research and education, and to build the foundation for a lifetime of leadership in their field.

Sep 28

News & Events

Carnegie's medallion

In May 2017, alumnus Thomas Bugel (ChemE’55) sent the College of Engineering a remarkable treasure—a historic medallion he obtained while attending Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Sep 28

Energy & Environment

Innovator leads energy institute

Carnegie Mellon University has named Jay F. Whitacre, professor of MSE and EPP, the new director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.

Sep 28

Energy & Environment

Seeding energy research

The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation announced the 2017 recipients of its annual Seed Grants for Energy Research, which supports efforts across the university in the areas of energy, environment, and policy.

Sep 28

News & Events

Honoring Angel Jordan

Angel Jordan, trailblazer, key architect, and builder of a department, a college, and a university, passed away on August 4, 2017.

Sep 28

Health & Biomedicine

A handheld device to monitor for breast cancer

BME Ph.D. student Constance Robbins is creating a breast cancer lesion monitoring device that has the potential to revolutionize breast cancer treatment.

For the first time in history, two self-driving buggies took part in Carnegie Mellon’s Spring Carnival Sweepstakes.

Self-driving buggies make history

Sep 28

News & Events

INI students innovate at internships

Information Networking Institute (INI) students innovated at summer internships with top tech companies, research centers and government agencies.

Sep 28

News & Events

Father like son

Spreading his commitment to STEM education beyond Boulder, alumnus Paul Kelly established a $50,000 fund, the Kenneth J. and Paul C. Kelly Technology Outreach Fund, at Carnegie Mellon.

Sep 28

News & Events

Department News

Stay up-to-date with each department of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering.

Sep 28

News & Events

INI director receives information networking professorship

Dena Haritos Tsamitis, director of the Information Networking Institute, is the first recipient of the newly established Barbara Lazarus Professorship in Information Networking.

Kara and Ulu’s new process—critical instant analysis—means lighter weights, lower costs in additive manufacturing.

Lighter weight, lower costs in 3D printing

Sep 27

Cybersecurity

PPP: The strongest team in DefCon history

CMU’s hacking team won its fourth “World Series of Hacking” title at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas.

Sep 25

Cybersecurity

Improving security without sacrificing performance

A team of researchers has demonstrated a new programming tool that enables high-performance cryptographic code to be verifiably correct and secure.

Sep 22

News & Events

Sensing danger In severe environments

MSE alumni Jason Gu and Jacob Melby and MSE Professor Bob Davis have developed a hydrogen sensor that can prevent catastrophic explosions in severe environments.

Sep 22

News & Events

Tracking firefighters through heat and smoke

ECE professors Anthony Rowe and Bruno Sinopoli are now advancing wireless broadband communications for use in extremely hostile environments such as burning buildings.

Sep 22

Cybersecurity

Decision systems that respect privacy & fairness

Researchers seek to add a layer of humanity to artificially intelligent systems

Sep 22

Cyberphysical Systems

Ian Lane puts the smart in smart car

Ian Lane’s intelligent navigation and conversation system, Capio, enables people to interact with a machine in the same way they would interact with a human.

Sep 22

Cyberphysical Systems

Drones in the Matrix

CMU-SV’s Bob Iannucci and his team are working on a number of projects to train drones through real-time deep learning.

Sep 22

News & Events

Website evaluates open source software

CMU-SV Professor Tony Wasserman has contributed to the world of programming software with OSSpal.org, a website that provides evaluations and ratings of open source software.

Sep 22

News & Events

The muscle suit

Thanks to CMU-SV Professor Pei Zhang, the modern athlete now has access to the newest advancement in performance enhancing technology: data.

CMU-SV Professor Carlee Joe-Wong is interested in how to create networks that can stand up to high volumes of traffic.

Optimizing the 21st century radio network

Sep 22

Energy & Environment

Solar boat takes 3rd in SOLAR SPLASH

Zero Emissions Day is a 24-hour global moratorium on the use of fossil fuels, held annually on September 21st. But what if, asks the Carnegie Mellon Solar Racing club, we could power vehicles using the sun alone?

Sep 21

News & Events

Radio City in Silicon Valley

CMU-SV/CyLab's Bob Iannucci explains how the future of radio technology will take us beyond Wifi and LTE receivers to a whole new computing platform.

Sep 21

News & Events

From the Dean

The Master of Science in Technology Ventures (MSTV) program, launched in January 2017, teaches engineers how to thrive in the dynamic technology environment as both innovators and entrepreneurs.

Sep 20

Energy & Environment

EPP supports Climate Week 2017

This week, as the southern United States is bombarded by some of the most intense storms in the country’s history, business leaders, researchers, artists and NGOs gather in New York City for Climate Week 2017. EPP faculty voice their support of this timely event.

Carnegie Mellon researchers design building blocks for synthetic muscle using computational method.

Synthetic muscle gets its punch from design method

Sep 15

Energy & Environment

Putting the power to model pollution into your hands

At Carnegie Mellon, Professor Peter Adams is working to make sure that everyone who is affected by air pollution has the tools they need to understand the quality of their air.

Sep 13

Cyberphysical Systems

Choir: bringing harmony to discord in the IoT world

Introducing Choir, a networking platform created by ECE Assistant Professor Swarun Kumar, that can potentially be used to connect IoT devices.

Sep 8

News & Events

Annette Jacobson talks STEM with PBS Newshour

Chemical Engineering Professor Annette Jacobson has published an op-ed in PBS Newshour on the unintended consequences of our all-STEM-all-the-time approach to pre-college education.

Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

Fixing the unfixable with microtissues

For her senior project, MSE/BME alum Sabrina Liu proved that tiny heart tissues can be used to power soft robotic devices.

Sep 6

Energy & Environment

Fuel regulations: lower costs, higher benefits

The regulations that set fuel-economy and greenhouse-gas emission goals for cars and trucks have lower costs and higher benefits than previous analyses report.

Sep 5

Cybersecurity

Protecting the power grid

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Larry Pileggi and his graduate students have developed a simulation approach that could potentially help experts model and simulate the power grid more reliably, thereby protecting it from possible cybersecurity threats in the future.

Sep 5

Cyberphysical Systems

CMU signs MOU on Smart Infrastructure

Representatives from Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering traveled to the City of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the establishment of a smart cities research partnership with the Chengdu High-Tech Development Zone (CDHT), and The Lab Ventures, LLC.

Aug 31

News & Events

CMU-SV students and faculty mentor teens in hackathon

This summer, students and faculty from CMU-SV collaborated with the Cupertino Library on their third annual Teen Hackathon, CU Hacks 3.

Aug 28

Advanced Manufacturing

Dow helps students gain industrial perspective

The Dow Chemical Company launched a program called the University Partnership Initiative (UPI), investing in 11 chemical engineering departments across the country, including CMU’s, to develop the next generation of leaders in process development, energy, transportation, and consumer applications.

First responders in Portugal may soon benefit from wearable technology being tested and developed by a startup that taps the entrepreneurial expertise at Carnegie Mellon University.

Entrepreneurs in Portugal learn from CMU experts

Aug 21

News & Events

CEE undergrads land political internships in DC

What better time could there be, for an intern in the Washington DC political sphere, to gain practical experience than at the turn of an administration? Two of our CEE undergrads landed internships in DC in spring 2017.

Aug 17

Energy & Environment

Aging power plants provide risks and opportunities

When it comes to the current plans to retire U.S. power plants, Carnegie Mellon University researchers believe we are "running towards a cliff with no fence."

Aug 14

News & Events

Jayan wins ARO Young Investigator Award

The Army Research Office recently granted Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering B. Reeja Jayan the Young Investigator Award—the most prestigious award granted by the US Army.

Aug 10

Advanced Manufacturing

A rapid screening method for new 3-D printing alloys

CMU researchers are addressing the need for new metal 3-D printing materials by designing a rapid screening method for the alloys.

What is standing in the way of oral alternatives to injectable medications? Our own digestion systems. ChemE’s Whitehead and DHTI’s Russell are working to tackle this challenge.

An easier prescription

Aug 7

News & Events

Angel Jordan: 1930–2017

Angel Jordan, who played a pivotal role in establishing Carnegie Mellon University as one of the leading engineering, computer science, and robotics institutions in the world, died Friday.

Aug 4

Cybersecurity

Decision systems that respect privacy, fairness

CyLab and ECE's Anupam Datta will lead a $3 million National Science Foundation project on accountable decision systems that respect privacy and fairness expectations.

Aug 1

Health & Biomedicine

Graphene is the future of nanotechnology

Carnegie Mellon’s Prof. Yang and Prof. Cohen-Karni recently published insights into graphene, which is hailed by many as the “wonder material” of the 21st century.

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Jul 31

Cybersecurity

PPP emerges as strongest team in DefCon history

At a time when the need for cybersecurity expertise is at its highest, CMU’s hacking team won its fourth “World Series of Hacking.”

Jul 24

Energy & Environment

Big impact, tiny element: hydrogen power, amplified

MSE Ph.D. candidate Ajay Pisat hopes to unlock hydrogen’s full potential as a primary, mainstream energy storage medium by maximizing the efficiency of hydrogen production through photocatalysis.

Jul 20

Energy & Environment

ChemE student wins DOE Award

This summer, Christopher Lee Hanselman will be working at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh to pursue his doctoral thesis research in optimization for process systems engineering.

Jul 17

News & Events

Heat treatment for stainless steel

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Chris Pistorius and his research group found that heat treatment can be leveraged to control inclusions in stainless steel.

Jul 13

News & Events

Minecraft: the maker's game

Instead of learning the principles of materials science in a traditional lecture-based setting, students in Assistant Professor B. Reeja Jayan’s course mastered their principles while playing Minecraft.

Jul 10

News & Events

MSE student collaborates abroad

Madeleine Kelly, MSE Ph.D. candidate, recently spent two weeks at the University of Manchester in England, collaborating with researchers on a powerfully unique microscope.

A team including MSE’s Mohammad Islam, Paul Salvador, and Greg Rohrer recently published a paper on their new approach to optimizing photocatalysts.

Lighting the way to optimal photocatalysis

Jul 3

Cybersecurity

Behaving safely online? It depends where you’re from

New CyLab research reveals that where you’re from is a strong indicator for how safely you behave online.

Jun 29

Health & Biomedicine

A handheld device to monitor breast cancer lesions

Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student Constance Robbins is creating a breast lesion monitoring device that has the potential to revolutionize breast cancer treatment worldwide.

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Jun 27

Energy & Environment

Researchers find vehicle emissions deceptively clean

Jun 23

News & Events

CMU-Africa students invited to Facebook F8

In April, four Carnegie Mellon University Africa (CMU-Africa) students attended the Facebook Developer Conference F8 in San Jose, California.

In January 2017, four Carnegie Mellon University Africa (CMU-Africa) students won first prize in the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology’s Africa Grand Challenge competition.

CMU-Africa students win tech competition

Jun 23

News & Events

Mobility for all

In December 2016, CEE Ph.D. student Corey Harper's research paper on self-driving car technology was selected for an Elsevier Atlas Award, an award that recognizes research that could significantly impact people's lives.

Jun 23

News & Events

30 under 30 (times 3)

For three Carnegie Mellon Engineering alumni who already have an impressive record of accomplishments, they have a new title to add to their lists: “Forbes 30 Under 30.”

Jun 23

News & Events

Why I am a hacker

Here are a few hackers from CyLab explaining why they hack.

Jun 23

Health & Biomedicine

A landmark achievement in walking technology

Researchers at the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon have developed a novel design approach for exoskeletons and prosthetic limbs that incorporates direct feedback from the human body.

Jun 20

Health & Biomedicine

Spectrin proteins spring into action to restore nucleus

ChemE Associate Professor Kris Dahl and Ph.D. student Travis Armiger discovered that the cell’s nucleus recovers from deformations in part because of a spring-like element: a spectrin protein.

News & Events

2018 Innovation Palooza and Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon Highlights

At the Innovation Palooza and Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon, we celebrate innovation—everything about innovation—the innovators, what they innovate and create, and how they do it. We give people a hard social problem, and they have up to a week to solve it. This year’s problem was about creating medical devices to assist people during natural disasters.
News & Events

CMU Spring Carnival Recap

We caught up with three of our own myths and legends at the CMU Spring Carnival. Hear what they had to say.
News & Events

Sheng Shen: Engineering Polymer Nanofibers

Mechanical Engineering faculty member Sheng Shen describes his work developing low-density, multi-functional materials that have a broad range of applications in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical technologies.
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Chris Bettinger: Integrating Medical Devices into the Human Body

Chris Bettinger, associate professor of materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering, is working with his laboratory to develop brain-machine interfaces made of hydrogel-based electronics, which are less likely to cause brain injuries while stimulating or recording from the nervous system.
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Venkat Viswanathan: Batteries: The Missing Piece for Sustainable Transportation and Aviation

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Venkat Viswanathan discussed the potential to use batteries for sustainable transportation and aviation.

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