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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.

Research paper

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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.

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.

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

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

Jan 3

Health & Biomedicine

It takes two: analyzing neural activity from calcium imaging

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

Research paper

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.

Dec 19

Advanced Manufacturing

Driving autonomy into the metaverse

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

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.

MSE alumna brings global perspective to big pharma

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.

Nov 30

Energy & Environment

How Uber and Lyft affect U.S. cities

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

Nov 22

Health & Biomedicine

Better than a hole in the head

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

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.

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

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

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.

Oct 21

Advanced Manufacturing

Manufacturing Day 2022

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

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.

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

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.

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Oct 4

News & Events

CMU Racing learns tricks of the trade from Chip Ganassi

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

Sep 30

Artificial Intelligence

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

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

Sep 27

Cybersecurity

A new initiative to drive financial inclusion in Africa

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

Sep 23

Health & Biomedicine

Modeling the growth process of neurons

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

Sep 20

Energy & Environment

Engineering faculty featured in events at GCEAF

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

Sep 16

Energy & Environment

Research suggests drones more efficient for last-mile deliveries

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

Research paper

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.

Hydrogels pave way for future of 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.

Aug 30

Health & Biomedicine

Scaling up the production of liquid metal circuits

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

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

Welcome to the self-assembled jungle

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.

Aug 12

Health & Biomedicine

Grant boosts respiratory support for lung disease patients

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

Aug 10

News & Events

Dinosaurs found where art and technology intersect

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

Aug 5

Health & Biomedicine

New modeling approach helps advance cryopreservation

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

Aug 2

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing ice

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

Jul 29

Health & Biomedicine

Advancing dynamic brain imaging with AI

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

Jul 26

Robotics

Open-source software gives a leg up to robot research

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

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

Inaugural conference talks digital public goods in Africa

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.

Research paper

Jul 12

Health & Biomedicine

Modeling neuron traffic jams in the brain

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

Jul 8

Advanced Manufacturing

A cooler side to soft robotics

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

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.

CMU launches initiative to transform nanosatellite capabilities

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.

Jun 24

News & Events

Engineering Art

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

Jun 21

Energy & Environment

Modeling light for solar panel placement in urban settings

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

Jun 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Decarbonizing the grid with flexible buildings

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

Jun 14

News & Events

Annette Jacobson to retire after 34 years at Carnegie Mellon

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

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.

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.

Small package, big potential to help cell-based therapies

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.

May 18

Energy & Environment

Discovery uncovers need for ammonia emission regulations

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.

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.

Mastercard scholar works to transform 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.

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.

Research paper

Apr 29

Health & Biomedicine

It takes a heart to make a better lung

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.

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.

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

Sensing signals in paralyzed muscles

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.

Mar 25

Artificial Intelligence

Students’ ingenuity automates scientific research

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.

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.

You can’t drive a Lamborghini to Mars

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.

Mar 8

News & Events

CMU women shift the dynamic in materials science leadership

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.

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.

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CMU alumna works to transform health care in rural communities.

Deeply rooted

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.

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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.

Jan 31

Advanced Manufacturing

Biden calls for investment in American innovation

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

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 on eVTOL aircraft takes flight

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.

Jan 14

Artificial Intelligence

Satellite designed at CMU launches into low-Earth orbit

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.

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.

Engineering first-year Katie Eisenman has fostered a passion for chess since she was five years old. That passion came with her to Carnegie Mellon and even earned her a scholarship from the US Chess Federation.

Classmates and checkmates

Dec 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Breaking barriers in medicine

A team of mechanical engineering researchers has used additive manufacturing and nanotechnology to detect increasingly tiny levels of biomarkers.

Research paper

Dec 3

News & Events

Exploring art while studying technology

Caroline Barkman says abundant opportunities at CMU that support her educational aspirations and satisfy her social, creative, and intellectual interests have exceeded her expectations.

Nov 30

Health & Biomedicine

Uncovering a promising use case for exosomes

New research from Carnegie Mellon University and UPMC explores an innovative case for exosomes: delivering growth factors like bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) for bone healing.

Nov 24

Energy & Environment

Costa Samaras to serve in White House OSTP

Costa Samaras has been appointed principal assistant director for energy and chief advisor for energy policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s first-ever Energy Division.

A recent paper by a collaboration of CMU mechanical engineering and psychology researchers explored the use of artificial intelligence as a process manager for human design teams.

Automating engineering’s ideal manager

Nov 19

Energy & Environment

Making environmental science accessible to all students

New Mechanical Engineering course dives into the connections between Earth’s water, air, land, and life.

Nov 17

News & Events

Magnetic symmetry is not just like looking in a mirror

Vincent Sokalski and Michael Kitcher have uncovered the quantitative explanation for magnetic symmetry breaking during domain wall motion, a contribution to the fundamental physics of technology needed to build faster computers.

Nov 15

News & Events

Students shape their futures through innovative internships

From vaccine manufacturing, to medical image processing, to helping to operate an aircraft, Carnegie Mellon engineers are putting their skills to work.

Nov 11

Advanced Manufacturing

Testing the durability of new probes

Mihir Lovalekar found a way to combine his interest in neurology with his major in mechanical engineering by getting involved with undergraduate research and the CMU Array.

Nov 8

News & Events

Making hockey safer

CMU students make hockey safer, one challenge at a time.

Nov 5

Energy & Environment

Closing the food loop

Materials Science and Engineering alumnus Dylan Lew serves as CEO of Ecotone Renewables, a Pittsburgh-based startup focused on repurposing food waste into something more useful.

Nov 3

Energy & Environment

Optimizing power grid simulation

Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers are working on ways to prevent power grid failures with fast, highly-accurate simulations and optimizations.

Nov 1

Advanced Manufacturing

A hands-free, hands-on approach

As an innovation engineer designing footwear at Nike, alumna Katie Ricciardi has forged a career that blends the interests and skills she’s developed since her time at CMU.

Oct 29

News & Events

Getting answers you want and support you need

Ryan Rusali admits that he had to seek help and set boundaries to handle the challenging engineering courses, but he says he got the support he needed and the opportunities he wanted.

Following her recent TED Talk, Katie Whitehead sits down with NPR’s TED Radio Hour Host, Manoush Zomorodi, to discuss lipid nanoparticles and how RNA drugs are revolutionizing modern medicine.

Whitehead featured on NPR’s TED Radio Hour

Oct 25

Cyberphysical Systems

Monitoring cow movement

Researchers develop smart farm infrastructure for monitoring animal health and agricultural productivity.`

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Oct 22

News & Events

Integrated Innovation Institute offers engineering, design, and business education online

The growing demand for the Integrated Innovation Institute’s training, as well as a dramatic uptick in the popularity of online education compelled leadership to create flexible and accessible alternatives for professionals who want to expand their technical, creative, and organizational skill set—without disrupting their lives.

Oct 20

Artificial Intelligence

Using AI to provide the world with drinking water

Amir Barati Farimani is seeking new possibilities in water purification through using AI agents in the desalination process.

Oct 18

News & Events

Engineer, entrepreneur, investor, sailor

Alumnus Will Lee’s sailing experience has taken him all over the world, and he recently sailed 2,200 miles—by himself.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has penetrated the job landscape and is of great interest to educators. As we develop methods for integrating AI and STEM education to transform the U.S. workforce, we also need to broaden the public’s awareness of what AI can do now.

A call to integrate AI and STEM education

Oct 13

Artificial Intelligence

Does the brain learn in the same way that machines learn?

A new perspectives piece co-authored by Carnegie Mellon University researchers relates machine learning to biological learning.

Oct 11

Energy & Environment

New tool for energy sector models carbon capture incentives

A new model shows utilities and policymakers how technologies like carbon capture and storage (CCS) can be used to reduce CO2 emissions from existing and new power plants while minimizing costs.

Oct 7

News & Events

Refuting a 70-year approach to predicting material microstructure

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new microscopy technique that maps material microstructure in three dimensions; results demonstrate that the conventional method for predicting materials’ properties under high temperature is ineffective.

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Research paper

Oct 6

News & Events

Finding community

Meena Sundrum wasn’t sure she would be able to make new friends, indulge her many outside interests, and manage majors in mechanical engineering and engineering and public policy as a first-year student in the fall of 2020. Despite the pandemic, she found all of that and more.

Oct 4

Energy & Environment

Who’s paying for your Uber?

Researchers have published a new study quantifying the societal costs and benefits of an Uber or Lyft trip.

Sep 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Team builds tools, innovations to support federal investment

With major investments in infrastructure and innovation pending, a multi-disciplinary initiative lead by EPP’s Erica Fuchs is building the tools and innovations to inform government decisions.

Sep 29

News & Events

Allen Robinson named new director of CMU-Africa

Allen Robinson has been named the next director of CMU-Africa, effective January 1, 2022.

Sep 27

News & Events

From engineering to law

Alumnus Steve Fulton and his wife, Carol, are giving back to Carnegie Mellon University’s new Scaife Hall to encourage engineering students to embrace the power of dialogue.

Sep 24

Energy & Environment

Jaramillo placing new tool in energy planners’ hands

Paulina Jaramillo led a team working with utility planners, operators, and regulators to prepare our energy system for the effects of climate change.

Research paper

Exoform, a customizable, semi-rigid material with self-fusing edges has the potential to eliminate many of the doctors visits that go along with broken bones, not to mention help them heal faster.

Resetting the standard in orthopedics

Sep 20

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence you can trust

Professor Ding Zhao developed a new course that trains engineering students how to make artificial intelligence trustworthy.

Sep 15

Health & Biomedicine

New material aides in neural stimulation

Using light to control how cells “talk” to one another isn’t new science, but researchers at CMU have discovered that MXene, an easily produced nanomaterial, can allow for effiicient cellular communication.

Research paper

Sep 15

News & Events

K-12 outreach program gets kids excited about STEM

In the College of Engineering, faculty and students prepare and implement programs for K-12 students interested in first-hand—and hands-on—exposure to the field of engineering.

Sep 13

News & Events

Jahanian accepts GEM Consortium Academic Leadership Award

Carnegie Mellon President Farnam Jahanian accepted the 2021 Academic Leadership Award at the National GEM Consortium’s annual conference.

Carnegie Mellon University, Genesee & Wyoming, and Wabtec will create the Freight Rail Innovation Institute, a first-of-its-kind effort to create zero-emission locomotives, develop technology that increases freight rail utilization, improve safety by 50 percent, and create 250,000 jobs by 2030.

Decarbonizing freight rail

Sep 7

Energy & Environment

Ultrafine and ultra-toxic?

First nationwide ultrafine particle study paves the way for understanding health effects and revisiting government regulation.

Sep 3

News & Events

Hands-on learning in Tech Spark’s Manual Machining course

Students in 24-200 have the chance to work directly with a wide variety of machining equipment and learn to become better engineers while they’re doing it.

Sep 1

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Powering sea to space

Michael McHenry’s latest advancement on cobalt-based metal amorphous nanocomposite materials (MANCs) and their processing makes smaller, more powerful motors possible.

Aug 30

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Building friendships and future success

Materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering major Jared Cohen found that making time for friends and taking on leadership roles in student organizations has contributed to both the fun and success he is having at Carnegie Mellon.

Aug 26

Health & Biomedicine

Sense and signal

A novel brain-computer interface will allow the severely paralyzed to send email messages and perform daily tasks like online shopping and banking with their minds.

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Byron Yu: Neuroscience and Engineering

Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Byron Yu explains his research in scanning brains to learn more about how we as humans learn various tasks.

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Faculty Insights with Carmel Majidi

Mechanical Engineering Professor Carmel Majidi discusses his work in soft robotics.

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Dr. Destenie Nock: Planning an Equitable Energy Future: A Focus on Vulnerable Groups

CEE/EPP’s Dr. Destenie Nock discusses her research on people impact assessment models, and equitable electricity system planning models. This work is a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and NREL. It has been supported by the National Science Foundation [grant number 2017789]. Paper citation: Goforth, T., Nock, D. Air pollution disparities and equality assessments of US national decarbonization strategies. Nat Commun 13, 7488 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35098-4 Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35098-4

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Jeremy Michalek: Impacts of Ridesourcing Services

Ridesourcing services, offered by companies like Uber and Lyft, have transformed urban mobility over the past decade. Carnegie Mellon researchers have been actively studying these trends to understand how they have affected U.S. cities. Jeremy Michalek, a professor at Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering, summarize their findings.

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Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering Research Accelerator with Franz Franchetti

Learn what Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering Research Accelerator can offer to faculty.

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