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Jan 17

Robotics

Run, robot, run!

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

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Jan 14

Cybersecurity

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.

Dec 18

Energy & Environment

Eating out, breathing in

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

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

Strength training deep neural networks

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.

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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.

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.

One framework to rule them all

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.

Nov 16

News & Events

Carnegie Mellon names James H. Garrett provost

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

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.

Oct 30

Artificial Intelligence

Optimizing computing systems

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

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

President’s message to CMU community

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?

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

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

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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Oct 1

News & Events

Celebrating NASA with a history of collaboration

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.

Sep 27

Cybersecurity

Reducing complexity to increase security

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

Sep 21

Health & Biomedicine

Analyzing medical images with machine learning

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

Sep 21

News & Events

CMU sends delegation to “Summer Davos”

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

Sep 19

Energy & Environment

Carnegie Mellon Racing has breakout season

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

Sep 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Creating shape-aware surfaces

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

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.

Escape from the heat island

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.

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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.

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.

Mapping the brain’s traffic

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.

Aug 23

Energy & Environment

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

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

Aug 20

Advanced Manufacturing

Taking down the heat

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

Aug 17

Energy & Environment

Flooding caused by old data

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

Aug 15

Energy & Environment

Is it cleaner to ship freight by rail and water?

Carnegie Mellon University researchers review the ways that goods can be transported via alternate means, such as by rail or water, to reduce both emissions and energy use.

Aug 13

Energy & Environment

Water matters to metal nanoparticles

CEE researchers make breakthrough discovery that gold nanoparticles can dissolve when they interact with freshwater aquatic plants—instead of remaining stable as commonly thought.

Aug 10

News & Events

Rethinking social networks

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

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

Sheng Shen’s spectacular supersolder

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.

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.

Overcoming the human bottleneck with 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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Jul 18

Energy & Environment

The future of agriculture is science

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

Jul 16

Health & Biomedicine

Delivering the future of medicine

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

Jul 13

Cyberphysical Systems

Can nighttime energy use predict morning traffic?

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

Jul 11

Artificial Intelligence

Pricing and processing data far from the cloud

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

Jul 9

News & Events

Spring 2018 semester recap

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

Jul 5

Cyberphysical Systems

Indoor location, location, location

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

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

The vanishing nuclear industry

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.

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.

CMU, Howard offer dual engineering Ph.D. degrees

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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Jun 11

News & Events

Two students earn Goldwater honors

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.

Jun 8

News & Events

Modern materials to advance aviation

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

Jun 5

News & Events

CMU-Africa graduates poised to engineer the future

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

Jun 1

Artificial Intelligence

The intersection of 3-D printing and machine learning

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

May 30

Energy & Environment

Faculty urge EPA to fix data transparency rule

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

May 29

News & Events

CMU-Africa to celebrate 5th graduation

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

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

Interfacing with the brain

May 23

Advanced Manufacturing

Combining experts and automation in 3-D printing

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

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May 21

Robotics

Circuit, heal thyself!

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

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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.

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.

Engineers innovate at Meeting of the Minds

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.

Apr 30

Cyberphysical Systems

Simulating structural health

Civil engineers are using ANSYS software to monitor infrastructure systems.

Apr 30

News & Events

From the Dean

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

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Powerful storage, tiny space

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

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

The age of liquid computers

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

Apr 30

Energy & Environment

Where is the Southwest getting all of its water?

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

Apr 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Manufacturing the future

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

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

CONIX Center

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.

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

Coming down from the cloud

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.

Apr 11

Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning infers microbial relationships

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.

Apr 11

Cyberphysical Systems

Uber, CMU launch traffic data-sharing tool

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

Apr 9

News & Events

Capturing atomic beauty

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

Apr 5

News & Events

Motorcycles, makers, master’s programs

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

Apr 4

Energy & Environment

Power Sector Carbon Intensity lower than ever

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

Apr 2

Cybersecurity

Improving cybersecurity with machine learning

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

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

The 2018 CIT Dean’s Early Career Fellows

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.

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.

Modeling 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.

Mar 12

Health & Biomedicine

The learning brain is less flexible than we thought

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

Mar 9

Health & Biomedicine

Producing protein nano-armor

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

Mar 8

Energy & Environment

Could package delivery by drone reduce emissions?

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

Mar 8

News & Events

Farnam Jahanian named president of CMU

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

Mar 5

Energy & Environment

Revolutionizing computer memory—with magnets

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

Mar 2

News & Events

Metro21: Smart Cities Institute launch

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

The plan must look to the future.

US infrastructure is stuck in the past.

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.

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

Moore’s Law is ending. What’s next?

Feb 8

Cybersecurity

INI students help build BitClave’s blockchain network

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

Feb 5

Health & Biomedicine

New BME Dept. Head Bin He arrives on campus

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

Feb 2

Health & Biomedicine

A 3-D approach to stop cancer in its tracks

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

Jan 31

Energy & Environment

Power Sector Index sees renewables grow

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

Jan 29

News & Events

Creativity, curiosity, and engineering intersect at Build18

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

Jan 25

Cyberphysical Systems

Occulow device counts people to cut HVAC costs

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

Jan 23

News & Events

NSBE provides opportunities for leaders to grow

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

Jan 18

Health & Biomedicine

Separation line

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

Jan 15

Cyberphysical Systems

Smarter networks to connect the edge to the cloud

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

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

3-D printing remakes the strain gauge

Jan 4

Health & Biomedicine

...in with the good

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

Dec 31

News & Events

College of Engineering's 2017 game changers

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

Dec 27

News & Events

Ambassadors showcase student life online

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

Dec 21

News & Events

Growing up

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

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

Engineering strength

Dec 15

Energy & Environment

CEE student water bottle senses and filters impurities

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

Dec 12

News & Events

Bhagavatula named NAI Fellow

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

Dec 7

Energy & Environment

Making climate models simple

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

Dec 4

Energy & Environment

Central CA losing $3.7 billion in crop yield

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

Nov 30

Robotics

Fluidic transistor ushers the age of liquid computers

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

News & Events

Welcoming Anne Skaja Robinson to Chemical Engineering

Anne Skaja Robinson is the new department head for the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Learn about her work in protein therapeutic production and neural degeneration research.
News & Events

Nicolas Christin: Studying Cybercrime for Prevention and Enforcement

Transactions from the dark web and data from cyber-breaches can tell us a lot about how we can build better defenses against online criminals. Nicolas Christin tells us about predictive security analytics, and how he tries to stop crimes before they happen.
News & Events

Behind the Researcher - Jim Thompson

Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Teaching Professor Jim Thompson doesn't just construct buildings. When he's not working with students at Carnegie Mellon University, he's busy constructing harmonies with his barbershop quartet, The Sweatermen, a passion he's had for as long as he can remember.
News & Events

Jessica Zhang: Image Modeling for Biomedical Organs

Professor Jessica Zhang discusses the interdisciplinary nature of the Bioengineered Organs Imitative and how her research in mechanical engineering can contribute to the initiative.
News & Events

Jeanne VanBriesen: Improving Technologies for Water Treatment

CMU Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Jeanne VanBriesen’s work with drinking water systems helped improve the quality of Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River.

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