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Oct 4

Health & Biomedicine

Curating sustainable meat alternatives

Using cellular agriculture, the Abbott lab is working on a sustainable meat alternative that is safe and tastes good, without needing to sacrifice any animals.

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Oct 3

Energy & Environment

CMU team wins Best Presentation Award at NASA competition

A group of Engineering and Public Policy graduate students took home the award for Best Presentation on behalf of the NASA’s Gateways to Blue Skies: Clean Aviation Energy Competition.

College of Engineering dean, professor, and alumnus inducted in the National Academy of Engineering.

Faculty and alumnus inducted into the National Academy of Engineering

Sep 29

Energy & Environment

Understanding energy behaviors for a more equitable future

By studying energy-limiting behavior related to both heating and cooling in vulnerable households, policies can be modified and developed to address inequities.

Research paper

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Sep 27

Artificial Intelligence

Cagan presents future of AI-human teaming at congressional briefing

Jon Cagan participated in a congressional briefing on AI in the workforce, focusing on the future of AI-human teaming.

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

ARPA-H fast tracks development of new cancer implant tech

ARPA-H has awarded $45 million to a multi-institutional team of researchers to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths.

Sep 22

Robotics

Tricky tangles: Robots learn to navigate vine-like vegetation

CMU researchers develop technology that enables four-legged robots to walk through vine-like vegetation.

Sep 20

Energy & Environment

Albert Presto named director of CAPS

Albert Presto has been named the director of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS) at Carnegie Mellon University.

College of Engineering Dean Bill Sanders, with CMU-Africa student Choukouriyah Arinloye, participated in a briefing about how artificial intelligence can accelerate progress for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Sanders participates in briefing at the UN about CMU-Africa

Sep 14

Energy & Environment

Modeling energy storage for a decarbonized future

Recent study reviews challenges associated with electricity-system planning and suggests how systems could balance eliminating carbon emissions, affordability, and system reliability.

Research paper

Sep 12

News & Events

Mindfulness may help engineering students’ experiences with stress

Chris McComb and collaborators at Penn State, found that mindfulness based interventions (MBI) had an impact on students in an introductory engineering design course.

Research paper

Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

Relationships are key to the research and the researchers

Zeynep Ozkaya’s work in Jana Kainerstorfer’s biophotonicslab has helped her to better understand the signal processing principles she is learning in her electrical engineering courses.

Sep 5

Artificial Intelligence

USDOT Deputy Secretary meets CMU transportation researchers

Carnegie Mellon is working closely with the USDOT to transform the U.S. transportation system through research that focuses on safety, economic growth, climate and sustainability, and equity.

Predicting neuron cell growth just got a little bit easier, thanks to CMU researchers.

Branching out: Modeling neurons in new ways

Aug 29

Cybersecurity

Scalable manufacturing unlocks potential of soft electronics

New research from Burak Ozdoganlar, Carmel Majidi, and Kadri Burga Ozutemiz seeks to develop a scalable manufacturing method that combines the best of quality and quantity on a miniature scale, with the potential to reimagine how wearable medical devices are made.

Aug 25

Robotics

Student works on tiny bio robots

Lameck Beni, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, conducted research on small biodegradable robots that have important medical applications.

Aug 23

Artificial Intelligence

Move over metals, plastics can be thermally conductive too

An interdisciplinary team led by Jon Malen has received funding from the Department of Defense to discover switchable high thermal conductivity polymers.

Aug 22

Energy & Environment

New leadership for the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation

Costa Samaras has been named the next Director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, and Valerie Karplus will serve as the Associate Director of the Scott Institute.

Aug 18

Advanced Manufacturing

Accelerating adoption of additive manufacturing

Engineering alumnus Brian Fisher embodies the vision for additive manufacturing his former professor Jack Beuth helped him to see.

Aug 16

Health & Biomedicine

So tricky, a robot can do it

Carnegie Mellon Researchers have taken inspiration from geckos to create a material that adheres to wet and dry surfaces, even on an incline.

Aug 14

Cybersecurity

Carnegie Mellon’s hacking team wins 7th DEF CON Capture-the-Flag title

The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, CMU’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning defended its title, earning its seventh victory in the past 11 years.

Aug 11

News & Events

Small particles research reveals benefits of interaction

Undergraduate research opportunity gave Kelby Kramer the chance to explore topics and gain skills outside his chosen field.

Aug 9

Advanced Manufacturing

Virtual reality partners become real world neighbors

In July, the YKK AP Technologies Lab opened at Mill 19. Their focus on the development of a virtual factory is well aligned with the digital twin work underway at the Manufacturing Futures Institute.

Pingbo Tang is working toward realizing several AI techniques supporting the predictive management of aircraft and other systems.

AI for aviation

Aug 4

Artificial Intelligence

Training robotic arms with a hands-off approach

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently trained a robotic arm with human movements generated by artificial intelligence.

Aug 2

Energy & Environment

Immunizing plants against climate stress with nanoparticles

Professor Greg Lowry has created nanoparticles that can immunize a plant against extreme heat for a 15 day window.

Jul 31

Cybersecurity

2023 Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced

Xi (Charlie) Ren, Victoria Webster-Wood, and Ding Zhao have received the honor for their contributions to their respective fields.

Jul 28

News & Events

Engineering alumni double team innovation in sport

Two CMU materials science and biomedical engineering alumni are at the forefront of the development of an airless basketball made through additive manufacturing techniques.

The Integrated Innovation Institute, which has been teaching graduate students how to innovate products and services for 30 years, will now offer a new additional major for undergraduates.

Engineering Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Jul 25

News & Events

Lisa Porter to lead Faculty and Graduate Affairs

Lisa Porter has been named the next Associate Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs in the College of Engineering.

Jul 21

Energy & Environment

Meitz first in 25 years to receive DOE graduate fellowship

Mechanical engineering student Ethan Meitz is working to create predictive nanoscale models for the thermophysical properties of liquids.

Jul 21

Energy & Environment

Quantifying that pond smell

Researchers are partnering with the PA Department of Environmental Protection to determine if emissions from harmful algal blooms could be unsafe to breathe.

Jul 19

News & Events

Engineering for fun

Sergio Rodriguez turned his passion for small-scale design into an independent study and an internship opportunity.

Jul 17

News & Events

Krause and Abbott receive NSF CAREER Awards

CMU College of Engineering’s Krause and Abbott receive NSF CAREER Awards for their research in materials science and biomedical engineering.

Jul 14

News & Events

New online graduate certificates to launch this fall

Carnegie Mellon’s entry into online education will provide working professionals flexible access to world class graduate-level training in emerging and evolving technologies.

Jul 11

Advanced Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing in focus

Researchers introduce an experimental method to measure melt pool temperature using a single commercial color camera during additive manufacturing.

Jul 6

News & Events

Exchanging campuses, making global connections

Through the Global Campus Exchange program, engineering students have the opportunity to experience what it is like to be enrolled at another CMU location.

Jul 3

News & Events

Engineering thrills

The Theme Park Engineering Group attracts students who have a passion for themed entertainment and seek out challenges that expand both their creative and technical skills.

A team of CMU researchers is seeking an alternative to endoscopies for patients with gastrointestinal diseases with fewer risks and more convenience through digestible gelatin-based sensors.

Improving patient care through ingestible sensing capsules

Jun 27

Energy & Environment

How sustainable is online grocery delivery?

Researchers investigated the impacts of online grocery delivery on energy use, emissions, and traffic congestion.

Jun 21

News & Events

Ansys expands presence to Africa with new office in Rwanda

Ansys, the global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced on June 22 that it will be establishing its first physical presence in Africa with a new office in Kigali, Rwanda.

Jun 21

Advanced Manufacturing

Controlling distortion

By identifying its root cause, Carnegie Mellon engineers have found a way to control distortion in additive manufacturing.

Jun 19

News & Events

Director of engineering outreach is paying it forward

Rita Canton, who says the Carnegie Mellon Action Project changed her life 40 years ago, knows that outreach programs can do the same for students today.

We are one step closer to naturally compostable robots now that researchers at Carnegie Mellon can print actuators using a bio-ink made from seaweed.

Now printing: seaweed-based, biodegradable actuators

Jun 12

Energy & Environment

Decarbonization: Climate change is personal now

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says carbon capture deployment is lagging if we want to meet global mitigation targets. With the stakes so high, why is this the case?

Jun 8

News & Events

Spring Carnival runs on connections

The CMU community is familiar with Spring Carnival, but what goes on behind the scenes to make it all happen? The students in Spring Carnival Committee’s Electrical Subcommittee play a major role in making it all connect.

Jun 7

News & Events

Engineering students apply mechanics to food

Engineering students were back in the kitchen this semester to learn how the same mechanics that apply to airplanes and automobiles relate to the mechanics of cells in the foods we eat.

Jun 5

News & Events

A producer at heart

Alumna Julia Royall (DC ’73) has spent her life modeling a collegial approach through her work. Now, she is encouraging the next generation of interdisciplinary thinkers at CMU-Africa to do the same.

Jun 2

Energy & Environment

Forbes includes six CMU alumni in 30 Under 30 in Energy

Six alumni were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for their groundbreaking startup companies.

May 31

Energy & Environment

Tech advances will drive the transition to electric vehicles

Researchers found that advances in EV technology will likely bring significant growth to the market, relative to gasoline powered automobiles.

May 30

Cyberphysical Systems

Carnegie Mellon awarded $20M for transportation research

Congresswoman Summer Lee and U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announce that CMU will lead consortium that will receive $20 million to create Safety21, a University Transportation Center.

May 26

News & Events

Chemical Engineering alumni connect classes to careers

By sharing how they are applying their chemical engineering degrees, alums are helping undergraduate and graduate students understand the current distribution of career opportunities.

May 24

News & Events

CMU-Africa to celebrate 10th graduation ceremony

On Friday, May 26, Carnegie Mellon University Africa will celebrate its 10th graduation ceremony, including its first cohort of the Master of Science in Engineering Artificial Intelligence (MS EAI) program.

Valerie Karplus has co-authored a review in Nature Sustainability on political strategies for achieving environmental policy goals.

Karplus publishes review on the politics of environmental policy

May 19

Health & Biomedicine

After-school bioprinting course activates imagination, new skills

A new course led by CMU biomedical engineers at the Citizen Science Lab is teaching middle- and high-school students from underserved communities the processes involved in soft-tissue biofabrication.

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May 16

News & Events

Reimagining datacenters

Akshitha Sriraman is rethinking datacenter computing across hardware and software systems to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable large-scale web systems.

May 12

News & Events

$3.3 million awarded to advance digital technology in Africa

Afretec has awarded 11 grants, each led by a multi-university research team, to build research capacity and work toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa.

May 10

News & Events

Launching Engineering’s new strategic plan

The College of Engineering is pleased to launch its 2023 Strategic Plan, “Engineering Impact: Transformative Education and Pioneering Research for Real and Enduring Good.”

Shelley Anna, a professor of chemical engineering and associate dean for faculty and graduate affairs and strategic initiatives for the College of Engineering, has been selected as the next vice provost for faculty.

Shelley Anna named Vice Provost for Faculty

May 5

Energy & Environment

Reducing air pollution boosts undergrad’s success

Not every undergraduate research stint leads to a major scientific journal publication, an internship with a federal agency, and a prestigious scholarship, but it did for Lauren Janicke.

May 2

Cybersecurity

Wambui Njogu’s path to a career in cybersecurity

On a journey that’s taken her from Kenya to Rwanda to Pittsburgh, MSIT student Wambui Njogu looks back on the experiences that instilled her passion for cybersecurity and how she developed her skills at CMU-Africa.

Apr 27

Health & Biomedicine

Fischhoff co-authors report on lessons from COVID

Baruch Fischhoff co-authored The COVID War, a book evaluating the effectiveness of the government’s COVID response efforts.

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Research paper

Apr 25

Energy & Environment

U.S. natural gas pipelines vulnerable to electric outages

Interdependencies between the natural gas and electric grids could cause cascading outages during hazardous events, particularly in California, the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, and the Eastern US.

Apr 21

Robotics

Innovating the trading card industry

Alumni entrepreneurs take innovation in the trading card industry to the next level.

Apr 18

Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning fights global warming

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a machine learning model to identify ionic liquid molecules to make identifying candidates for CO2 storage easier.

Apr 14

Energy & Environment

A framework to advance green-hydrogen production

Researchers invent an all-encompassing optimization framework to design green-hydrogen production processes.

Apr 12

Energy & Environment

Dowd Fellowship supports “high-risk, high-reward” research

Each year, thanks to a generous gift from alumnus Philip Dowd (B.S. MSE ’63) and his wife Marsha, the Dowd Engineering Seed Fund for Graduate Student Fellowships supports a year of doctoral expenses for multiple Ph.D. students.

Apr 10

Robotics

Grasshopping robots made possible with new, improved latch control

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made grasshopping robots possible by uncovering that latches can mediate energy transfer between robotic jumpers and the environment that they are jumping from.

Women’s basketball player makes time in the off-season to take on research.

Research in the off-season

Apr 5

Energy & Environment

Multi-university team building actuators for next gen bio-bots

Multi-university team, led by Mechanical Engineering’s Vickie Webster-Wood, is building actuators for next generation sustainable bio-bots.

Apr 3

Cybersecurity

CyLab to host CMU-Africa Week in Pittsburgh

The CyLab Security and Privacy Institute will host CMU-Africa Week April 10-14 on Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus.

Mar 31

News & Events

Alumna to deliver keynote address at SWE Anniversary Celebration

In 1973, Barbara Buck was just one of 11 women to earn an engineering degree at Carnegie Mellon. She returns to campus in April to deliver the keynote address at SWE’s 50th Anniversary Celebration

Mar 29

Artificial Intelligence

A global approach to tackling grand challenges

CMU-Africa students join CMU-Pittsburgh and CMU-Qatar students in a hybrid course that focuses on critically evaluating the progress of artificial intelligence.

The inaugural ASCEND Mentor Network Fellowship Conference was held Feb. 8-10 at Carnegie Mellon University and featured educational and networking programs, poster sessions, and more.

ASCEND Mentor Network opens opportunities

Mar 23

News & Events

MSE students win big with doctoral research at 3MT championship

MSE Ph.D. students earned first place overall, the People’s Choice Award, and the Alumni Choice Award at the Carnegie Mellon Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.

Mar 21

News & Events

Bold initiative to make hockey safer returns for sixth year

CMU students strive to make ice hockey safer for players regularly blocking 100 mph shots.

Mar 17

Advanced Manufacturing

CMU to Lead NASA Space Technology Research Institute

A new NASA Space Technology Research Institute (STRI) led by Carnegie Mellon University seeks to shorten the cycle required to design, manufacture, and test parts that can withstand the conditions of space travel through constructing models for qualification and certification.

Mar 14

Energy & Environment

Improving air quality in Africa

CMU-Africa, CMU-Pittsburgh, and global collaborators create an air quality testing center in Ghana with new funding from the Clean Air Fund.

Mar 9

Robotics

Engineering breakthrough in softbotics

Introducing the first soft material that can maintain a high enough electrical conductivity to support power hungry devices.

Mar 9

Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Chamber AI Commission releases final report

Conrad Tucker served as a commissioner on the US Chamber AI Commission aimed to position the US as a leader in responsible AI development and deployment. The commission’s final report has been released.

Mar 7

News & Events

Lab work makes for easier class work

Terry Feng says his research experience gave him an edge in working with the tools and equipment he used in his materials science courses—particularly in using the scanning electron microscope to study material properties of the gallium oxide films he grew in Lisa Porter’s lab.

Mar 2

Energy & Environment

New air quality data from East Palestine, Ohio

Data provided by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Texas A&M University.

Feb 28

News & Events

Presidential and graduate fellowships awarded

College of Engineering Dean Bill Sanders is pleased to congratulate the 46 graduate students who have been awarded fellowships for the 2023-24 academic year.

Ryan Sullivan has been developing new methods to measure “forever chemicals” in the atmosphere and aerosol particles to answer outstanding questions regarding the components that lead to human exposure.

All eyes on “forever chemicals”

Feb 20

Health & Biomedicine

New hope for people living with paralysis after stroke

Spinal cord stimulation technology developed by Douglas Weber in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh offers new hope for people living with impairments that would otherwise be considered permanent.

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Feb 16

News & Events

Kinetic research propels career paths

Malaika Alphons’ Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship (SURA) could serve her as a chemical or biomedical researcher.

Feb 13

News & Events

How a sandwich is transforming electronics

Sheng Shen’s novel 3D graphene-nanowire “sandwich” can enable a wide variety of electronic systems to operate at a lower temperature with higher performance.

Feb 8

News & Events

Faculty and alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University’s Bill Sanders, Elias Towe, Anirudh Devgan, and Stefan Savage have received the prestigious honor of election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Researchers identify investment in electricity transmission and distribution systems as significant opportunity for reducing air pollution.

Increasing transmission efficiency would cut air pollution

Feb 2

News & Events

Akinci, Cagan, and VanBriesen named 2022 AAAS Fellows

Burcu Akinci, Jonathan Cagan, and Jeanne VanBriesen, senior faculty members in the College of Engineering, have been named 2022 AAAS Fellows.

Jan 30

Health & Biomedicine

Delivering mRNA therapeutics to the pancreas

Kathryn Whitehead is at the forefront of the mRNA delivery field, changing the chemistry of nanoparticle delivery vehicles to enable them to reach organs beyond the liver.

Jan 26

News & Events

Richard Mundy named Chief Operating Officer

Richard Mundy, who has served as the COO of CMU in Qatar since 2010, will provide overall operations leadership for the College of Engineering.

Jan 24

Robotics

Gwen’s Girls partnership fosters children’s interest in robomechanics

A student-driven partnership between Aaron Johnson’s RoboMechanics lab and Gwen’s Girls has introduced nearly 100 grade school girls to engineering design and robotics.

Jan 20

Artificial Intelligence

AI Engineering will change the world around us

Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering is equipping next generation engineers with the ability to integrate AI into the constraints of the engineering problem by way of seven new master’s degrees in AI Engineering.

Jan 17

News & Events

Students design and build elaborate mazes for IDeATe course

Students take on artistic and technological challenges to build mazes.

Jan 11

Advanced Manufacturing

A sweet way to teach kids about manufacturing

Sneha Prabha Narra uses hands-on activities to introduce engineering and additive manufacturing concepts to local grade school students.

Jan 6

Energy & Environment

Team projects two out of three glaciers could be lost by 2100

David Rounce led an international effort to produce new projections of glacier mass loss through the century under different emissions scenarios.

Jan 3

Health & Biomedicine

It takes two: analyzing neural activity from calcium imaging

Biomedical engineering researchers analyzed existing methods that are used to interpret calcium imaging recordings, and proposed a novel method that combines two leading approaches.

Research paper

CMU is leading a multi-institutional effort to create a mentorship network that supports NSF postdoctoral fellows.

ASCEND Mentor Network supports NSF postdocs

Dec 22

Artificial Intelligence

DfAI: The missing piece of Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Breakthrough improvements in how industries develop new technology using AI in engineering design has a starting point thanks to a framework developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Penn State University.

Research paper

Dec 19

Advanced Manufacturing

Driving autonomy into the metaverse

Students in Ding Zhao’s lab were awarded the 2022 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their proposal to generate diverse safety-critical autonomous vehicle scenarios using digital twins.

Dec 16

News & Events

MSE alumna brings global perspective to big pharma

Aliya Omer, a 2002 materials science and engineering graduate, strives to make sure everyone has a seat at the table when solving strategic problems facing healthcare.

Dec 13

News & Events

Legendary lessons from Silicon Valley

Pixar founder, Alvy Ray Smith, inspires Silicon Valley students in the Integrated Innovation Institute, whose master’s degrees combine studies in design, business, and engineering disciplines.

Destenie Nock and Teagan Goforth provide a new framework for energy policymakers to model tradeoffs between multiple objectives in the transition to carbon neutrality.

Equality and air quality: the decarbonization balancing act

Dec 5

Health & Biomedicine

Dark therapy shows promise in addressing lazy eye condition

A therapy to aid patients with amblyopia, also known as “lazy eye,” is the focus of a new pilot study by Carnegie Mellon researchers.

Nov 30

Energy & Environment

How Uber and Lyft affect U.S. cities

A new policy brief series examines how Uber and Lyft have redefined mobility, affecting travel patterns, car ownership, congestion, the economy, the environment, and equity in our cities.

Nov 22

Health & Biomedicine

Better than a hole in the head

Intracranial pressure sensing is the burgeoning focus of Jana Kainerstorfer’s biomedical optics lab, and her team is working to create noninvasive ICP sensing alternatives.

Research paper

Nov 18

News & Events

Human connections

Recent Engineering graduate Maya Garg discusses her experience as a volunteer tutor for incarcerated people in Allegheny County.

Nov 15

Health & Biomedicine

Did you hear that?

Alum-founded company, Audition Technology, offers over-the-counter hearing aids.

Nov 10

Energy & Environment

A natural gas bridge to net zero?

Destenie Nock explores the future of natural gas-fired power and its potential role in mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions.

Nov 8

News & Events

Alumna “pays it forward” with scholarship

Lauren (Milisits) Gonzalez was able to afford CMU because of scholarships, so she’s using her success—with her employer’s match—to help future mechanical engineers get the same opportunity.

Nov 4

News & Events

Bill Sanders installed as the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean

Bill Sanders is installed as the inaugural holder of the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean in the College of Engineering.

Nov 1

Energy & Environment

Decarbonizing industry with 3D-printed stacked columns

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring ways to reduce emissions from power plants using post-combustion carbon capture via absorption through additively manufactured stacked columns.

Aaron Johnson’s Robomechanics Lab tested spherical foot designs to find the best fit so their biped robot with 15-cm legs could walk steadily.

Big steps for mini robots

Oct 25

News & Events

Harnessing the building blocks of polymer recycling

Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski make foundational discovery to improve the recyclability of polymers.

Oct 21

Advanced Manufacturing

Manufacturing Day 2022

Area high school students visit Mill 19 on Manufacturing Day to learn about advanced manufacturing career opportunities.

Oct 18

Health & Biomedicine

A path for clinical translation of 3D-bioprinted human tissues

CMU researchers examine what’s happening in the field of 3D bioprinting, core challenges to overcome, and essential milestones on the horizon toward clinical translation.

Oct 14

News & Events

Jon Cagan named head of Mechanical Engineering

Jon Cagan will be the new head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, effective November 1, 2022.

Researchers engineer a hybrid system that stabilizes curcumin to target skin diseases.

Microneedles unlock curcumin’s therapeutic potential

Oct 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Nanoprinting electrodes for customized treatments of disease

Researchers pioneer the CMU Array—a customizable, 3D nano-printed, ultra-high-density microelectrode array platform for next-generation brain-computer interfaces to treat neurological disorders.

Oct 4

News & Events

CMU Racing learns tricks of the trade from Chip Ganassi

Chip Ganassi, a titan of the auto racing industry, has been offering his insight and expertise to CMU’s racing team for more than two decades.

Sep 30

Artificial Intelligence

Playing nice: self-driving and human-driven cars sharing the road

Akin to when Model Ts traveled alongside horses and buggies, autonomous vehicles and human-driven vehicles will someday share the road. How to best manage the rise of AVs is the topic of a new Carnegie Mellon policy brief.

Sep 27

Cybersecurity

A new initiative to drive financial inclusion in Africa

Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will bring together academia, government, and the private sector to make digital financial services more accessible.

Sep 23

Health & Biomedicine

Modeling the growth process of neurons

Jessica Zhang’s lab has furthered its research with IGA analysis and accurately modeled the growth of a neuron.

Sep 20

Energy & Environment

Engineering faculty featured in events at GCEAF

Many faculty from across the College of Engineering will be featured at events during this year’s Global Clean Energy Action Forum.

Sep 16

Energy & Environment

Research suggests drones more efficient for last-mile deliveries

A team lead by Costa Samaras and Thiago Rodrigues has shown that using small drones for the last mile of package deliveries uses less energy and creates fewer emissions than conventional means.

Sep 13

Advanced Manufacturing

Hydrogels pave way for future of soft robotics

Wenhuan Sun, Victoria Webster-Wood, and Adam Feinberg have created an open-source, commercially available fiber extruder to benefit future research with hydrogels and soft robotics.

Sep 8

Artificial Intelligence

Transformational growth at CMU-Africa

A historic partnership with the Mastercard Foundation will expand the engineering and technology, research, and entrepreneurship programs at CMU-Africa, helping to strengthen Africa’s technology, innovation, and research ecosystem.

Engineering students at Carnegie Mellon are often involved in research labs with faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students. But Marcus Yu had the unique experience of working in a lab that included researchers who were entirely undergraduate students.

Research offers experience to undergraduate students

Sep 2

News & Events

Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced

Five College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded the Dean’s Early Career Fellowship in recognition of their exemplary contributions to their respective fields.

Aug 30

Health & Biomedicine

Scaling up the production of liquid metal circuits

At Carnegie Mellon, mechanical engineering researchers have developed a new scalable and reproducible manufacturing technique that could accelerate the mainstream adoption and commercialization of soft and stretchable electronics.

Research paper

Aug 26

Energy & Environment

Welcome to the self-assembled jungle

Thomas O’Connor finds that all hope is not lost for working with, processing, and one day recycling self-assembled materials.

Aug 23

News & Events

Order of the May alumni show lifetime dedication to giving back

Three Engineering alumni recognized this year for a quarter-century of consistent generosity began their philanthropic journeys in their early 20s.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Einstein College of Medicine, and the Champalimaud Foundation introduce a new statistical method, DLAG, to detangle communication across brain areas.

Novel method aims to demystify communication in the brain

Aug 15

Cybersecurity

Carnegie Mellon’s hacking team wins DEF CON

CMU’s hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, joined forces with the University of British Columbia’s team and researchers from Theori.io to win this year’s DEF CON Capture the Flag competition.

Aug 12

Health & Biomedicine

Grant boosts respiratory support for lung disease patients

An interdisciplinary team led by Keith Cook has been awarded $8.7 million dollars from the U.S. Army to create and integrate new technologies to sustain permanent at-home artificial lung support.

Aug 10

News & Events

Dinosaurs found where art and technology intersect

An engineer and artist, John Schlag created reality-defying graphics for some of the most famous movies of our time, including Jurassic Park and Terminator 2.

Aug 5

Health & Biomedicine

New modeling approach helps advance cryopreservation

Cryopreserving tissues and organs without damaging them requires a delicate dance through thermodynamic principles. CMU’s Biothermal Technology Laboratory has a new modeling approach for it.

Aug 2

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing ice

3D printed ice isn’t as magical as in the movie Frozen, but it has wonderful potential for biomedical engineering and advanced manufacturing.

Jul 29

Health & Biomedicine

Advancing dynamic brain imaging with AI

Bin He introduces a novel, AI-based dynamic brain imaging technology alternative to map out rapidly changing electrical activity in the brain with high speed, high resolution, and low cost.

Jul 26

Robotics

Open-source software gives a leg up to robot research

Aaron Johnson’s Robomechanics Lab has developed an open-source software that enables more agile movement in legged robots.

Jul 21

Cybersecurity

Inaugural conference talks digital public goods in Africa

Conrad Tucker and Assane Gueye organized the first-ever West Africa Conference on Digital Public Goods and Cybersecurity, held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Jul 19

Energy & Environment

CMU team designs the airports of tomorrow

An interdisciplinary team from Carnegie Mellon University won NASA’s Blue Skies: Airports of Tomorrow competition with their project focused on sustainability and connected autonomy, earning them internships with NASA this upcoming year.

Causal modeling of the relationship between work zones and car accidents informs practices and policies that improve safety on the road.

Safer work zones for all

Jul 12

Health & Biomedicine

Modeling neuron traffic jams in the brain

MechE’s Jessica Zhang and Angran Li have developed a new way to model material transport regulation in neurons using cutting-edge parametrization technology and isogeometric analysis. This new, much more detailed modeling will help provide insights on “neural traffic jams,” which contribute to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s disease.

Jul 8

Advanced Manufacturing

A cooler side to soft robotics

Researchers combined liquid crystal elastomers with a thermoelectric device to develop a stretchable transducer for soft robotics.

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Jul 6

Artificial Intelligence

CMU launches initiative to transform nanosatellite capabilities

Researchers at CMU’s College of Engineering are working to develop computationally capable constellations of nanosatellites, equipped with machine learning techniques that extract valuable insights from the data while still in orbit.

Jul 4

News & Events

CMU to lead alliance to explore equitable career advancement in higher ed

Carnegie Mellon University will lead an alliance to develop a new career advancement model, Project ELEVATE, through the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), with Johns Hopkins University and New York University also part of the team.

Kathryn Whitehead is exploring ways to utilize the unique properties of breast milk to develop a novel approach to infant disease therapy.

Mother’s milk cells key to novel infant disease therapy

Jun 28

Health & Biomedicine

Exosome engineering tech licensed to Coya Therapeutics

An interdisciplinary group of faculty from Carnegie Mellon has licensed a proprietary platform for bioengineering exosomes for drug delivery to Coya Therapeutics, Inc.

Jun 24

News & Events

Engineering Art

Sophie Paul, who used her love of art to enrich her materials science and engineering studies, graduates with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and the new Engineering and Arts additional major.

Jun 21

Energy & Environment

Modeling light for solar panel placement in urban settings

Solar panel installation in cities requires setups tailored to the complex geometry of urban spaces that provide the most direct sunlight to each panel. Among the processes for designing the most efficient setup for solar panels is shadow modeling.

Jun 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Decarbonizing the grid with flexible buildings

Researchers in CEE have created a new model that can help decrease energy consumption from buildings and provide for a more efficient grid.

Jun 14

News & Events

Annette Jacobson to retire after 34 years at Carnegie Mellon

During her exceptionally productive career, Jacobson served as a teaching professor in chemical engineering; associate dean for undergraduate studies, director of the Colloids, Polymers, and Surfaces program; and championed K-12 STEM outreach programs.

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Dr. Destenie Nock and Dr. Luling Huang: Economic Gaps in Heating and Cooling Habits

Dr. Destenie Nock and Dr. Luling Huang discuss hidden forms of energy poverty (energy equity gaps) from their study in Chicago, IL. They find that low income groups cope with financial strain differently in the summer and winter, which will have implications for the energy transition. This work has been supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources, the National Science Foundation [grants: 2121730 and 2049333], and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Ryan Sullivan: Removing PFAS Molecules Using Ultraviolet Light

Mechanical Engineering's Ryan Sullivan explains his research in using UV light to blast apart PFAS molecules.

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Michael Bockstaller: Engineering Better Polymers to Solve Modern Problems

Material Science and Engineering’s Michael Bockstaller explains how his research group can shape polymer chains on the surface of nanoparticles to create unique materials like protective clothing and flexible electronics and even materials that biodegrade after use.

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Phil Campbell: Engineering biological signaling for medical applications

BME’s Phil Campbell describes how his lab 3D bioprints extracellular vesicles that can help our bodies process medical therapeutics.

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Modeling Consumer Preferences with Dr. Destenie Nock and Christine Cao

When people need to make a decision, such as whether to buy an electric or hybrid car, they must first lay out their preferences (for example in terms of price or miles per gallon). Then they need to select the option that best satisfies these preferences. This can be a daunting task when there are many options, complex ways of characterizing those options, and when individuals are unsure about how to make tradeoffs among them. In this video, Dr. Destenie Nock and Christine Cao discuss how their work will help people better understand their preferences and make better decisions in the future. This work has been funded in part by NSF grants 2049333 and 2121730.

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