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Nov 9

Health & Biomedicine

Engineering welcomes new ChemE head

Anne Skaja Robinson became the department head of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in November 2018.

Nov 6

Energy & Environment

Magnetic materials for motors of the future

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%.

At a time when demand for cybersecurity expertise has never been higher, CMU has just been awarded a $5 million renewal of its CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program through 2023.

CMU secures $5 million for Scholarship for Service program

Oct 30

Artificial Intelligence

Optimizing computing systems

ECE’s Gauri Joshi has received a 2018 IBM Faculty Award for her research in distributed machine learning.

Oct 27

News & Events

President’s message to CMU community

Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian shared a message with the CMU community regarding the tragic events in Squirrel Hill.

Oct 26

News & Events

A new chapter for Scaife Hall

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 25

News & Events

Advancing women in cybersecurity

At Carnegie Mellon University, the Information Networking Institute is closing the cybersecurity gender gap one student at a time.

Oct 22

News & Events

CMU celebrates inauguration of President Jahanian

Carnegie Mellon University will inaugurate its 10th president, Farnam Jahanian, on Friday, Oct. 26.

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave US bridges a C+ grade. But what does that really mean?

Built to last?

Oct 15

News & Events

One-of-a-kind ChemE team breaks new ground

A unique collaboration within the Department of Chemical Engineering is laying the foundation for a whole new discipline of fluids engineering.

Oct 11

Robotics

Electronic tattoos for wearable computing

Cross-Atlantic collaborators have developed a simple, efficient method to make robust, highly flexible, tattoo-like circuits for use in wearable computing.

Watch the Video

Oct 8

Artificial Intelligence

The next generation of materials

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 3

Health & Biomedicine

Engineering breast milk to treat sick infants

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.

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.

Celebrating NASA with a history of collaboration

Sep 27

Cybersecurity

Reducing complexity to increase security

Carnegie Mellon University team receives $7.5M ONR grant for software complexity reduction, or simplifying complex internet protocols to build greater security.

Sep 21

Health & Biomedicine

Analyzing medical images with machine learning

College of Engineering alumna Shinjini Kundu was recently named one of the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35.

Sep 21

News & Events

CMU sends delegation to “Summer Davos”

CMU sent a delegation of faculty, students, and alumni led by College of Engineering Dean James H. Garrett to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of New Champions.

Sep 19

Energy & Environment

Carnegie Mellon Racing has breakout season

Carnegie Mellon Racing achieved multiple victories in the 2017-2018 season, capturing first place overall in the electric vehicle category at both Formula North and Formula SAE.

Sep 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Creating shape-aware surfaces

WiSh, a shape-sensing technology, could shape how we interact with virtual reality and how we create smart cities.

Sep 14

Energy & Environment

Escape from the heat island

New models of the urban heat island effect could inform the next generation of urban planners and help prevent hundreds of heat-related deaths occurring every year.

Sep 12

Artificial Intelligence

Accelerating electrocatalyst discovery

Chemical engineering researchers have developed a machine learning system to search through millions of intermetallics to discover new materials for electrocatalysis.

Sep 11

News & Events

Former Secretary of Transportation joins CMU

Secretary Anthony Foxx has been appointed distinguished executive in residence at Carnegie Mellon University for the 2018-19 academic year.

Sep 10

News & Events

CAPD partners with Eli Lilly on research collaboration

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.

Carnegie Mellon University’s undergraduate engineering program moved upward to No. 6 in U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 Best College Ranking, released today.

Engineering up in USNWR undergrad rankings

Sep 6

Health & Biomedicine

Mapping the brain’s traffic

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 4

Energy & Environment

How reducing CO2 benefits water use

During droughts and water shortages, power plants can put a strain on the entire water system.

Aug 31

Health & Biomedicine

Should we make it easier to access our medical records?

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

News & Events

CBI relocates to College of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University celebrates the relocation of the Carnegie Bosch Institute to the College of Engineering.

Carnegie Mellon Solar Racing details how they built and compete with their solar-powered boat.

No smoke on the water: CMU’s solar boat racing team

Aug 20

Advanced Manufacturing

Taking down the heat

Far from kilns or furnaces, Edgar Mendoza researches how to 3D print ceramics.

Aug 17

Energy & Environment

Flooding caused by old data

Many cities and communities are experiencing heavier rainfall, and storm water infrastructure can’t seem to keep up—which can lead to dangerous flash flooding and infrastructure failure.

Aug 15

Energy & Environment

Is it cleaner to ship freight by rail and water?

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

Energy & Environment

Water matters to metal nanoparticles

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

News & Events

Rethinking social networks

ECE Professor Radu Marculescu and his colleagues have created a new model of social network formation and evolution driven by the notion of “betweenness.”

Aug 8

News & Events

Sheng Shen’s spectacular supersolder

Mechanical Engineering‘s Sheng Shen has created “supersolder,” an ultracompliant thermal interface material with twice the thermal conductivity of conventional solders.

Aug 6

News & Events

Organizing quantum dots

Professor Michael Bockstaller receives DOE-BES grant to study what causes nanoparticles to assemble into organized structures when polymer chains are attached to the particle’s surface.

Aug 1

Health & Biomedicine

Growing fat cells on silk

BME’s Rosalyn Abbott studies fat using silk scaffolds to learn about the characteristics of disease mechanisms and metabolic behavior.

Jul 30

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing the next generation of batteries

MechE’s Rahul Panat has developed a revolutionary new method of fabricating battery electrodes using Aerosol Jet 3D printing.

Fran McMichael, emeritus professor and former CEE department head, had a significant impact on CMU as a teacher, mentor, colleague, and researcher.

Remembering Fran McMichael

Jul 27

Cybersecurity

Overcoming the human bottleneck with autonomy

On August 4, 2016, the mission of cyber autonomy was declared accomplished. Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, a CyLab graduate student quietly hacked away at her own research in cyber autonomy.

Jul 25

Artificial Intelligence

Using AI to solve real-world problems

In MechE’s Levent Burak Kara’s project-based graduate course, students applied their skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve real-world problems outside the classroom.

Jul 23

Artificial Intelligence

Optimizing processes with AI

ChemE Professor Nick Sahinidis and his group developed a machine learning methodology that creates simple models to accurately optimize complex processes.

Jul 20

Artificial Intelligence

CMU, Bossa Nova to apply AI to retail analytics

CMU has announced a research partnership with Bossa Nova to develop and integrate artificial intelligence into service robots in retail stores nationwide.

CEE Professor Greg Lowry works on NAS committee to identify science breakthroughs for sustainable and resilient agriculture.

The future of agriculture is science

Jul 16

Health & Biomedicine

Delivering the future of medicine

ChemE’s Katie Whitehead is pioneering RNA drug delivery techniques that could enable a new wave of treatments for nearly every known disease.

Jul 13

Cyberphysical Systems

Can nighttime energy use predict morning traffic?

To predict when morning traffic is likely to grind to a halt, it may be more effective to examine how we use electricity in the middle of the night instead of travel-time data.

Jul 11

Artificial Intelligence

Pricing and processing data far from the cloud

IoT devices are coming online, and Carlee Joe-Wong wonders how we might put prices on them.

Jul 9

News & Events

Spring 2018 semester recap

Spring was a busy and productive semester for the College of Engineering. Catch up with what students from all departments have achieved in the past months.

Jul 5

Cyberphysical Systems

Indoor location, location, location

Carnegie Mellon sweeps the competition at the 2018 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition.

Jul 2

Energy & Environment

The vanishing nuclear industry

Could nuclear power make a significant contribution to decarbonizing the U.S. energy system over the next three or four decades?

Jun 29

Energy & Environment

Mini-grid innovation for Africa's future

EPP Professors Paulina Jaramillo and Nathan Williams, and the new Mini-Grid Innovation Lab for Africa aim to sustainably deploy electrical mini-grids in rural Africa.

Jun 27

Health & Biomedicine

Laying the foundation: Organ bioengineering

BME’s Charlie Ren’s work on bioengineering lungs could one day help thousands of patients with end-stage lung diseases breathe easier.

Jun 25

Advanced Manufacturing

From jet fighters to financial advisory

Miles Hinderliter worked at Lockheed Martin, moved into a career at Barclays, and fit perfectly in with both.

Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command flew away from a NASA competition with a top 10 finish and an altitude award for coming closest to hitting a one-mile target launch altitude.

Flying high: CMRC wins NASA competition

Jun 19

News & Events

CMU, Howard offer dual engineering Ph.D. degrees

CMU Engineering and the College of Engineering and Architecture of Howard University are launching a new partnership that will include a dual-degree Ph.D. program and other initiatives.

Jun 18

Health & Biomedicine

Cohen-Karni wins CMBE Young Innovator Award

BME/MSE’s Tzahi Cohen-Karni has been named a 2018 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Cohen-Karni is a member of the Bioengineered Organs Initiative.

Jun 15

News & Events

Is more certification always a good thing?

Can Small Business Innovation Research program approval sometimes hold a company back?

Jun 13

Health & Biomedicine

The seed that could bring clean water to millions

BME/ChemE’s Bob Tilton and Todd Przybycien have refined the requirements of a process that turns easily accessible sand and plant materials into a cheap and effective water filtration tool.

Created to serve as a living memorial to honor the lifetime work of Senator Barry Goldwater, the Goldwater scholarship provides funding to students pursuing research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

Two students earn Goldwater honors

Jun 8

News & Events

Modern materials to advance aviation

The DoD helps fund the science behind composites used in aviation.

Jun 5

News & Events

CMU-Africa graduates poised to engineer the future

CMU-Africa held its fifth graduation ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, where 45 students received master’s degrees in information technology and electrical and computer engineering.

Jun 1

Artificial Intelligence

The intersection of 3-D printing and machine learning

Self-correcting 3-D printers may soon become a reality, as MechE’s Jack Beuth and alumnus Luke Scime have combined machine learning with 3-D printing to enable real time process monitoring.

May 30

Energy & Environment

Faculty urge EPA to fix data transparency rule

A group of EPP and CEE faculty members has filed a comment with the EPA, urging the Agency to correct deficiencies in its proposed data transparency rule.

May 29

News & Events

CMU-Africa to celebrate 5th graduation

Carnegie Mellon University Africa will celebrate its fifth graduation on Tuesday, June 5, marking another year of the location advancing technology education in one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world.

May 25

Health & Biomedicine

Interfacing with the brain

Materials science researchers at Carnegie Mellon develop new materials and processes to fabricate neural probes that mimic the mechanical properties of the nervous system.

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.

May 21

Robotics

Circuit, heal thyself!

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

May 17

News & Events

Aiming fore more

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

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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.

Ride on through

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.

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Manufacturing the future

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

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.

Watch the Video

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.

CMU team in NASA Mars ice drilling competition

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.

Apr 2

Cybersecurity

Improving cybersecurity with machine learning

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.

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.

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.

Shining a light on intracranial pressure

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?

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.

Mar 2

News & Events

Metro21: Smart Cities Institute launch

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.

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.

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

Creating a new path through a new degree

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.

Jan 15

Cyberphysical Systems

Smarter networks to connect the edge to the cloud

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

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.

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.

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

Growing up

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.”

Dec 7

Energy & Environment

Making climate models simple

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.

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.

Central CA losing $3.7 billion in crop yield

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.

Nov 20

Health & Biomedicine

A breath of fresh perfluorocarbon

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.

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.

“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.”

Engineering cosplay

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.

Oct 16

Artificial Intelligence

Predicting material behavior using small datasets

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.

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.

Moura named 2018 IEEE President-Elect

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.

Sep 29

Cyberphysical Systems

Homegrown smart mobility solutions

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.

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.

News & Events

Bioengineered Organs Initiative Overview

BME’s Keith Cook introduces the Bioengineered Organs Initiative, a multidisciplinary project that is designing, creating, and testing artificial and tissue-based organs for permanent replacement.
News & Events

INI Bicoastal Mobility and Information Security Practicum

Aleecia McDonald, assistant professor of the practice in the Information Networking Institute, describes the INI's bicoastal mobility and information security practicum.
News & Events

Shawn Kelly: Restoring Sight with Electronic Prostheses

The Engineering Research Accelerator's Shawn Kelly discusses his research to develop retinal prostheses to restore sight to the blind, interfacing electronics with the human body.
News & Events

Katie Whitehead: Genetically Engineering Breast Milk for Infant Therapy
News & Events

Behind the Researcher - Tony Rollett

You might be surprised to find out that Carnegie Mellon Materials Science and Engineering Professor Tony Rollett is not only an accomplished materials scientist—he's also a talented concert organist. As a young boy in Oxford, England, he developed an interest in the organ that's flourished throughout his life. Special thanks to: Shadyside Presbyterian Church Clare College, University of Cambridge Rodney Jantzi, Reed Organs Len Levasseur

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