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Mar 18

Energy & Environment

Linking air pollution to climate change in Chinese policy

The amount of CO2 that China releases annually into the atmosphere has a significant impact on global climate change.

Mar 15

News & Events

Government experiments mean funding for small companies

Government funding has now become a viable option for young companies, even if the technologies they’re developing aren’t a sure thing.

Professor Michael McHenry is part of a team of researchers receiving the Carnegie Science Award for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials.

Changing the tune of magnetic materials

Mar 8

News & Events

Year two of “Rethink the Rink” launched

The Pittsburgh Penguins, Covestro, and Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering will host their second annual Make-a-thon, kicking off year two of the “Rethink the Rink” initiative.

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Mar 8

News & Events

Beyond 5G

ECE’s Jeyanandh Paramesh presented a new chip at ISSCC 2019 designed to enable cutting-edge beyond 5G communications.

Mar 6

News & Events

Design and build

Engineering students present innovative technical projects at the Mechanical Engineering Design Expo and Build18.

Mar 4

News & Events

A path to the future, paved with ceramics

Reeja Jayan investigates how electromagnetic fields speed up ceramic fabrication, finding both challenges and great potential.

Feb 28

News & Events

3D displays that accommodate the human eye

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have engineered a new technology to enable natural accommodation cues in 3D displays.

An entrepreneurial idea to expand training for 21st-century careers has sparked a $10 million gift to support mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

Gift to advance mechanical engineering

Feb 25

Energy & Environment

How long until efficient fuel cells? Ask the experts.

In the quest for alternatives to gas-powered vehicles, experts believe one new method shows great promise: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.

Feb 22

Advanced Manufacturing

Finding keyholes in metals 3D printing

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

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Feb 20

News & Events

2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellows

Three young faculty members have been granted the 2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellowship to enable their continued contributions to their respective fields.

Feb 18

News & Events

Engineering meets history with Daina Ramey Berry

In honor of Black History Month, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recently co-hosted the visit of distinguished historian and acclaimed author Professor Daina Ramey Berry to Carnegie Mellon University.

Artificially intelligent medical imaging technology is a promising tool to help doctors diagnose disease. CMU researchers have found a way to use less data to train these tools.

Recognizing disease using less data

Feb 13

Health & Biomedicine

Information bottlenecks between brain areas

ECE/BME’s Byron Yu and ECE postdoc João Semedo found that communication between brain areas occurs through an information bottleneck, which they’ve termed a “communication subspace.”

Feb 11

Energy & Environment

Making green cars greener with battery recycling

Widespread use of electric vehicles will go a long way toward eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector—but these emissions don’t just come from the tailpipe.

Feb 7

News & Events

Pileggi named ECE department head

Larry Pileggi has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University effective March 1.

Feb 5

Energy & Environment

The future—delivered

CEE’s Costa Samaras and Sean Qian will head a DOE-funded analysis of next-generation delivery networks composed of aerial drones, robots, AVs, EVs, and “intelligent delivery zones.”

Feb 1

Health & Biomedicine

Dahl uses sensors to measure forces within cell monolayers

ChemE’s Kris Dahl is using a new technique called SINK (sensors from intranuclear kinetics) to observe the properties of an entire monolayer of cells and determine how broadly cells communicate.

Jan 29

News & Events

Working in a galaxy far, far away

From Mechanical Engineering to the Millennium Falcon, alumna Sophia Acevedo reflects on her path to Walt Disney Imagineering.

Jan 24

Cyberphysical Systems

Beyond 5G: The next generation

While the rest of the world is lauding 5G as the next big thing, EPP Head Doug Sicker and his team are already looking beyond it.

Jan 17

Robotics

Run, robot, run!

Soft robots can mimic a critter’s scurry, thanks to shape memory alloy actuators.

Jan 14

News & Events

Lorrie Cranor named director of CyLab

Lorrie Faith Cranor has been named the next director of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s security and privacy institute, effective January 15.

MechE’s Professor Jon Cagan and Kosa Goucher-Lambert helped uncover how outside stimuli inspire innovation in design.

Exploring the science of inspiration

Jan 2

Energy & Environment

Using drones in agriculture and irrigation

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kenji Shimada and his team of researchers are using drone technology to help detect and restore damaged water canals in Japan that are critical for the agricultural economy.

Dec 28

News & Events

What we talk about when we talk about science

While the key to effective communication of scientific research is relatively straightforward, it requires the one thing that is often the most difficult for researchers to do.

Dec 26

Advanced Manufacturing

Lightening the load

Kate Whitefoot and Burak Kara are developing methods allowing manufacturers to redesign multiple parts into one continuous part using 3-D printing.

Dec 21

News & Events

Stars and stripes and field hockey sticks

First-year Eric Velge plays on the U.S. men’s national field hockey team, and with a chance at the Olympics on the horizon, he hopes to bring attention to this underappreciated sport.

CAPS researcher Ellis Robinson casts new light on an under-scrutinized source of urban air pollution.

Eating out, breathing in

Dec 14

Artificial Intelligence

Strength training deep neural networks

A team led by Pulkit Grover created more efficient deep neural networks called PolyDot coding to reduce errors and increase processing speed.

Dec 11

Artificial Intelligence

Thwarting bias in AI systems

As machine learning systems are used more and more to make decisions about insurance, criminal justice, credit, and child welfare, we need to ensure that they are fair.

Dec 6

News & Events

Jonathan Cagan named interim dean of CIT

Carnegie Mellon University has named Jonathan Cagan interim dean of the College of Engineering.

Dec 5

Cybersecurity

Preventing exposure to malicious websites

A team of CyLab researchers have developed a mechanism that detects when users may be about to visit a malicious website.

Dec 3

Energy & Environment

Predicting future energy sources

For many of us, electricity is tantamount to a magic trick—but peel back the curtain, and the reality is much different.

Nov 30

News & Events

One framework to rule them all

ECE Assistant Professor George Amvrosiadis is part of a team from CMU’s PDL and Los Alamos National Lab designing a record-breaking file system framework for the next era of supercomputing.

Nov 27

Energy & Environment

Lowry elected 2018 AAAS fellow

CEE’s Greg Lowry has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his efforts in advancing environmental engineering and the use of nanomaterials.

Nov 23

Artificial Intelligence

Ready for takeoff

A team of researchers and students at CMU-SV are using simulation and AI technologies to optimize flight departure and arrival schedules for safety and efficiency.

Nov 20

Cybersecurity

As advertised? Exposing lies about VPN locations

A strange observation led a CyLab researcher to figure out how to detect when VPN services are lying about their location.

Carnegie Mellon University has named James H. Garrett Jr. as the university’s next provost and chief academic officer after a rigorous, comprehensive, and international search

Carnegie Mellon names James H. Garrett provost

Nov 13

Energy & Environment

When the power goes out, pollution rises

The unreliable delivery of electricity can lead to additional consumer costs, limited economic benefits, and increased environmental impacts.

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%.

Nov 2

Cybersecurity

CMU secures $5M for Scholarship for Service

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.

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

Optimizing computing systems

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.

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Oct 22

News & Events

CMU celebrates inauguration of President Jahanian

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

Oct 18

News & Events

Built to last?

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

Creating shape-aware surfaces

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.

Sep 10

News & Events

Engineering up in USNWR undergrad rankings

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.

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.

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

Rethinking social networks

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.

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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.

Jul 28

News & Events

Remembering Fran McMichael

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

Indoor location, location, location

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.

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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.

Jun 21

News & Events

Flying high: CMRC wins NASA competition

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.

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.

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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.

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.

CMU-Africa to celebrate 5th graduation

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.

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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.

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.

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?

Media Coverage

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.

News & Events

Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon: MedHub

The first place team at the Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon 2018 was Pavitthra Pandurangan (SCS’20), Namita Dongre (SCS’20), Shanel Huang (ECE’20), and Anusha Chillara (SCS’20). They designed a medical relief system for areas affected by natural disasters by making use of crowdsourced mobile devices and the internet of things. IoT devices or volunteers using an app can report back about infrastructure needing attention, such as downed powerlines, active fires, and victims in need.
News & Events

Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon: Eco_Print

Hurricane Maria left 6.2 million cubic yards of debris in Puerto Rico, preventing citizens from accessing the water safely. This Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon, comprised of Carolyn Chheath (Des/CogSci BHA ’19), Lisa Yan (ECE BS ’18), Amber Lee (Des BA ’20), and Jackie Chou (Des BA ’20) thought about not only how to clean up, but how to recycle much of the plastic waste. By cutting plastic containers down into long strips, they can then repurpose the material as 3D printing filament, which can create useful tools like medical tweezers and pipe pieces.
News & Events

Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon: Life Vest

Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon competitors John Shi (ECE Ph.D.), Irfan Khan (ECE Ph.D.), and their teammates worked together with four other students to create a wearable device to be used in flood relief efforts. Their LifeVest is equipped with sensors that can help pinpoint where victims are and whether they need medical assistance or not. Their team took home third place.
News & Events

Build18 - Piezoelectric Dance Floor

CMU students developed a dance floor that lights up based on the kinetic energy created from dancing. Dancers thus power how mood of the party. Learn more: https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2019/03/06-design-build.html
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Build18 - deJunk

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