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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 three CMU alumni in 30 Under 30 in Energy

Olivia Dippo, Peter McHale, and Shashank Sripad were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for their groundbreaking startup companies.

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

Tech advances will drive the transition to electric vehicles

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.

May 22

Energy & Environment

Karplus publishes review on the politics of environmental policy

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

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

Reimagining datacenters

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.”

May 8

News & Events

Shelley Anna named Vice Provost for Faculty

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.

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.

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.

Wambui Njogu’s path to a career in cybersecurity

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.

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

Artificial Intelligence

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.

Apr 7

Health & Biomedicine

Research in the off-season

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

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.

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

CyLab to host CMU-Africa Week in Pittsburgh

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.

Mar 27

News & Events

ASCEND Mentor Network opens opportunities

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.

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.

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

Bold initiative to make hockey safer returns for sixth year

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.

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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.

Feb 23

Energy & Environment

All eyes on “forever chemicals”

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.

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

Kinetic research propels career paths

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.

Research paper

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).

Feb 7

Energy & Environment

Increasing transmission efficiency would cut air pollution

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

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.

Delivering mRNA therapeutics to the pancreas

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.

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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.

Dec 28

News & Events

ASCEND Mentor Network supports NSF postdocs

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

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

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.

Driving autonomy into the metaverse

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.

Dec 8

Energy & Environment

Equality and air quality: the decarbonization balancing act

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

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.

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.

How Uber and Lyft affect U.S. 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.

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.

Oct 28

Robotics

Big steps for mini robots

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.

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.

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

Manufacturing Day 2022

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.

Oct 11

Advanced Manufacturing

Microneedles unlock curcumin’s therapeutic potential

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

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.

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.

CMU Racing learns tricks of the trade from Chip Ganassi

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.

Sep 6

News & Events

Research offers experience to undergraduate students

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.

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.

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.

Scaling up the production of liquid metal circuits

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.

Research paper

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.

Aug 18

Artificial Intelligence

Novel method aims to demystify communication in the brain

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.

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.

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.

Grant boosts respiratory support for lung disease patients

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.

Research paper

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.

Jul 15

Health & Biomedicine

Safer work zones for all

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

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.

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

A cooler side to soft robotics

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.

Jul 1

Health & Biomedicine

Mother’s milk cells key to novel infant disease therapy

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

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.

Engineering Art

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.

Jun 9

Health & Biomedicine

Halilaj and Ren receive NSF Career Awards

College of Engineering’s Eni Halilaj and Charlie Ren have received National Science Foundation CAREER Awards for their research.

Jun 6

News & Events

Zapanta named associate dean for undergraduate studies

Student, faculty member, associate department head, and now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

Jun 3

Health & Biomedicine

Small package, big potential to help cell-based therapies

Innovative research led by BME’s Rachelle Palchesko and Adam Feinberg is exploring the use of a new cell delivery method to help cells stick and stay where they’re needed most.

May 31

Advanced Manufacturing

Drop by drop: MXene in complex 3D device architectures

3D architectures of MXene can increase the energy storage density of lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors, but there hasn’t been a reliable manufacturing method to build these configurations.

May 27

News & Events

The deciding factor

The Tartan Scholars Program helps students like junior Gabe Blanco make the decision to attend Carnegie Mellon.

May 24

Health & Biomedicine

Wet circuits for biology research

Marc Dandin is teaming up with researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences at CMU to create electronics for use in cell research.

A new discovery sheds light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. Published in Nature, the study’s findings suggest that in addition to carbon dioxide, there are other compounds in need of immediate attention and regulation.

Discovery uncovers need for ammonia emission regulations

May 16

News & Events

Mastercard scholar works to transform Africa

CMU-Africa student Fonyuy Boris Lami applied his information technology studies, research endeavors, and internship opportunities to fulfilling the Mastercard Foundation’s mission to engineer the future of Africa.

May 11

Artificial Intelligence

Breakthrough tech enables seizure localization in minutes

Tech that uses minimally invasive resting state electrophysiological recordings to localize seizure onset brain regions and predict seizure outcomes in just 10 minutes is the He lab's latest win.

Research paper

May 6

News & Events

It’s how you finish

Class of 2022 graduate, Andrew Thompson, adds impressive academic performance, professional internships, leadership roles, and a job offer from Deloitte to his long list of accomplishments.

May 4

Energy & Environment

Hidden energy poverty revealed by energy equity gap

Energy equity gap provides new metric that captures resident behavior to illustrate the divide in safety and comfort from extreme temperatures across income groups.

A team of collaborators from CMU and Boston University present a human model of heart and lung co-development during embryogenesis using lab-grown human induced pluripotent stem cells.

It takes a heart to make a better lung

Apr 26

Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning gets smarter to speed up drug discovery

This self-supervised learning framework is better at predicting molecular properties than other machine learning models because it can use large amounts of unlabeled data that other models can’t.

Apr 22

Advanced Manufacturing

Robots that can learn to safely navigate warehouses

Advances in chips, sensors, and AI algorithms are enabling robots to continuously learn how to plan routes, avoid obstructions, and operate safely in large dynamic warehouse environments.

Apr 19

News & Events

Crossroads for data

The Intel/VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center has been formed to determine the role of FPGAs in extending the performance and efficiency of future datacenters

Apr 14

Health & Biomedicine

Collaboration shapes extracellular vesicle retention strategy

Phil Campbell and Charlie Ren present a strategy to spatially control extracellular vesicles and keep them resolute under controlled conditions.

Apr 11

News & Events

Burcu Akinci named head of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Burcu Akinci has been appointed the new head of the CEE at Carnegie Mellon University effective July 2022.

Apr 7

Health & Biomedicine

Sensing signals in paralyzed muscles

Doug Weber and an international team of researchers detected electrical signals in paralyzed muscles, which could be used to control robotic assistive devices.

Apr 4

Energy & Environment

Jaramillo on transportation, IPCC report for policymakers

Paulina Jaramillo served as coordinating lead author of the transportation section of the newly released IPCC report for climate-policymakers.

Mar 31

News & Events

Blanton accepts NSBE Lifetime Achievement in Academia Award

Shawn Blanton accepted the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Academia Award at the National Society of Black Engineers’ annual conference.

Mar 29

Energy & Environment

A disruptive approach to fuel cell tech

A research collaboration led by Shawn Litster receives $3.2M from ARPA-E’s OPEN 2021 program to develop ionomer-free electrodes for ultra-high power density fuel cells.

In an effort to modernize scientific research, CMU students used only commercial parts and the cardboard boxes they came in to build a modular robot able to autonomously conduct experiments.

Students’ ingenuity automates scientific research

Mar 22

Artificial Intelligence

You can’t drive a Lamborghini to Mars

How can researchers encourage the “right” level of multidisciplinarity to identify the best solutions? A proposed common framework can transform how they collaborate across disciplines.

Mar 18

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing giant nanotech models

Caleigh Goodwin-Schoen and Rebecca Taylor are designing more affordable ways to print colorful 3D models of biological nanostructures, like proteins and DNA.

Mar 15

News & Events

CMU software aids materials scientists worldwide

Marc De Graef has developed a materials characterization software so powerful it can create orientation maps from low-quality materials.

Mar 10

News & Events

Engineering talent

A new cohort of College of Engineering staff will soon begin a professional development experience called CIT Leads.

Elizabeth Dickey, Materials Science and Engineering department head, and alumnae Carolyn Duran (MSE ’92) and Ellen Cerreta (MSE ’01) are increasing female representation in materials through their executive roles in professional societies for scientists and engineers.

CMU women shift the dynamic in materials science leadership

Mar 4

News & Events

Driven by curiosity

From an early age, CMU-Africa alumna Marie Ange Tesire wanted to seek out the new and discover the unexpected. That sense of curiosity has continued into her profession: machine learning engineer at Rwanda Space Agency.

Mar 1

Health & Biomedicine

Disentangling interactions across brain areas

CMU researchers are simultaneously recording populations of neurons across brain areas in the visual system and utilizing novel statistical methods to observe neural activity patterns being conveyed.

Feb 24

Artificial Intelligence

Bosch takes next steps

Christopher Martin, CMU alumnus and director of engineering, research, and development for the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Pittsburgh, is named president of the Carnegie Bosch Institute.

Feb 21

News & Events

Gift to advance Electrical and Computer Engineering

A lifetime of innovation and leadership in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has inspired a Carnegie Mellon alumnus to make a generous gift to support electrical and computer engineering at the institution.

Feb 17

Artificial Intelligence

Engineering meets extreme reality

"Extreme reality engineering” is all about creating technology that can operate under some of the worst conditions imaginable.

Feb 15

Health & Biomedicine

Deeply rooted

CMU alumna works to transform health care in rural communities.

Feb 11

Energy & Environment

Micromobility modes could replace 1/5 of short car trips

Research shows micromobility modes like e-bikes could significantly reduce urban congestion and costs, but will have to be augmented by other emissions-reduction methods to achieve climate goals.

Feb 9

Health & Biomedicine

CMU and Mayo Clinic to collaborate on transplant innovation

Mayo Clinic and Carnegie Mellon University announced today a research agreement to transform organ transplantation. The institutions will bioengineer innovative approaches to address current barriers in organ transplantation.

Feb 3

Artificial Intelligence

Tucker appointed to AI commission

Conrad Tucker will serve on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s newly-launched Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation.

President Biden touted the importance of advanced manufacturing innovation, robotics, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence during his recent visit to Mill 19.

Biden calls for investment in American innovation

Jan 28

Energy & Environment

Research on eVTOL aircraft takes flight

Mechanical Engineering researchers are exploring the potential of rechargeable batteries in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which could transform transportation in metropolitan areas and battle emissions, congestion, and air pollution.

Research paper

Jan 26

News & Events

Fischhoff named 2021 AAAS Fellow

Baruch Fischhoff has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Jan 21

Energy & Environment

When biology influences technology: using bread to desalinate water

Though water covers two-thirds of our planet’s surface, water scarcity remains a persistent issue. Mechanical Engineering’s Philip LeDuc and Adam Wood have an unconventional solution: bread.

Jan 18

News & Events

Kar named 2022 IEEE Fellow

Soummya Kar has been elevated to fellow status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology.

Brandon Lucia’s lab developed the Tartan-Artibeus-1 Satellite, the world’s first batteryless PocketQube nanosatellite, deployed to low-Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-3 Rocket, earlier this week.

Satellite designed at CMU launches into low-Earth orbit

Jan 11

Advanced Manufacturing

Faculty projects awarded DURIP funding

Three College of Engineering faculty members have been selected to receive funding for their projects through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP): Marc De Graef, Anthony Rollett, and Rebecca Taylor.

Jan 7

COVID-19

Transit inequity increased during pandemic

Preliminary results from study of Allegheny County’s public busses finds transit inequity directly contributes to higher infection rates among members of low income and ethnic minority groups.

Jan 4

Health & Biomedicine

Precision rehabilitation to prevent osteoarthritis

Wearable sensors plus computer vision could reduce the likelihood of degenerative joint disease.

Dec 22

News & Events

Keith Cook named head of Biomedical Engineering

Keith Cook has been selected to be the next head of the Biomedical Engineering Department (BME) at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. The appointment takes effect immediately.

Dec 14

Artificial Intelligence

Data-frugal deep learning optimizes microstructure imaging

Compared to other computer-vision methods, Elizabeth Holm’s approach to characterizing material microstructure requires only 30-50 images to save researchers an abundance of time and money.

News & Events

What Inspired You to Become an Engineer: Dante Manchini and Nana Anokye

College of Engineering students talk about what inspired them to become engineers.

News & Events

Lorrie Cranor: Improving Transparency for Online Privacy

Lorrie Cranor discusses her research to develop usable privacy tools for consumers, such as easy-to-read labels that summarize terms and conditions for users. Cranor is Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies, CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and FORE Systems University Professor, Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy.

News & Events

A Day in the Life: Sunday

Sunday, a master's student from CMU-Africa spending his last semester at the Pittsburgh campus, shares a day in his life as a student at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering.

News & Events

Citizens Science Lab

BME’s Rachelle Palchesko and Jacqueline Bliley discuss their outreach work with the Citizen Science Lab which offers after-school education for high schoolers interested in 3D bioprinting.

News & Events

Faculty Insights with Valerie Karplus and Daniel Tkacik

Valerie Karplus of Engineering & Public Policy and Daniel Tkacik of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation present decarb @ CMU. The mission of decarb @ CMU is to engage campus faculty, staff, and students in research, education, and outreach to advance deep reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector while growing opportunity and well-being for workers and communities in Southwestern Pennsylvania and the Tri-State Appalachian region, and beyond.

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