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Jul 30

Advanced Manufacturing

CMU and CCDC ARL announce new cooperative agreement

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory (ARL) have entered into a $3.5 million cooperative agreement that supports machine learning-enabled additive manufacturing.

Jul 24

COVID-19

A new perspective in the fight against COVID-19

ChemE/BME’s Elizabeth Wayne has received funding through the NSF RAPID program to study an often-ignored cellular factor in the mortality rate of COVID-19.

Researchers propose how we can we measure and monitor tire wear with tire wear sensors, increasing safety on the road, saving drivers money, and ultimately, saving lives.

Sensing tire wear

Jul 17

Health & Biomedicine

Engineering ways to keep doctors safe from COVID-19

When Allegheny Health Network and Magee Plastics needed help perfecting their simple intubation boxes, they turned to Carnegie Mellon engineers Ryan Sullivan and Coty Jen.

Jul 14

News & Events

2020 Dean’s Early Career Fellowships awarded

Two College of Engineering faculty members have been selected to receive the 2020 Dean’s Early Career Fellowship in recognition for their exemplary contributions to their respective fields: MechE’s B. Reeja Jayan and EEP’s Alex Davis.

Jul 9

Energy & Environment

COVID and pollution

A team of Carnegie Mellon researchers found that Pittsburgh’s air pollution levels decreased during the stay-at-home order—but the overall impact remains small.

Jul 6

Energy & Environment

Alumni write books to combat climate change

With their new book series The Adventures of the Earth Defenders, a pair of ChemE alums are combining their entrepreneurial spirit with their passion for the environment to create real-world change.

Jul 2

Advanced Manufacturing

Installing windows with help from robots

MechE’s Kenji Shimada is working on a collaboration with YKK AP to create high-tech window installation robots.

A team of CMU Engineering researchers has shown that autonomous vehicles can be electric—despite the decreased driving range.

The electric future of autonomous vehicles

Jun 26

News & Events

Johnson received NSF CAREER Award

Aaron Johnson has been awarded a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Jun 24

Health & Biomedicine

A new platform for neural recording from large brains

A team led by ECE/BME’s Maysam Chamanzar is developing a novel neural interface made from stainless steel for much safer, high-density neural recording.

Jun 19

Health & Biomedicine

Calcium helps build strong cells

Research from ChemE’s Kris Dahl marks the first definitive look at how cells maintain structural integrity under mechanical strain.

Jun 16

Advanced Manufacturing

Molding masks against coronavirus

MechE’s Kenji Shimada and Erica Martelly team up for the America Makes Fit to Face Challenge, creating one of the top two designs in the competition.

Rebecca Taylor and her research team have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic mimic of DNA.

Unlocking PNA’s superpowers

Jun 10

News & Events

Peter Adams named head of EPP

Peter Adams, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and leading researcher in the field of air quality and environmental policy, has been named head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP).

Jun 9

Cyberphysical Systems

Smile, you’re on Camaroptera

ECE’s Brandon Lucia created a battery-less remote image sensor—and taught it time management.

Jun 5

Energy & Environment

The future of pesticides and fertilizers

CEE’s Greg Lowry has demonstrated for the first time the ability of engineered nanoparticles to target specific structures on plant leaves.

Research paper

Jun 3

Health & Biomedicine

A remote control for neurons

A novel material for controlling human neuron cells could deepen our understanding of cell interactions and enable new therapies in medicine.

Jun 1

News & Events

Elizabeth Dickey named head of MSE

Elizabeth Dickey, a leading researcher in the field of materials science and engineering, has been named Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University effective January 2021.

May 28

Energy & Environment

Air pollution, simplified

Researchers from CMU’s College of Engineering are part of a collaboration that has created easy-to-use tools to estimate the societal costs of air pollution.

May 26

Energy & Environment

Electricity for all

CEE/EPP’s Destenie Nock led a study outlining a more equitable model of electricity planning in developing regions like Liberia.

May 22

Robotics

First real-time physics engine for soft robotics

Collaborators have adapted the sophisticated computer graphics technology used in blockbuster films and video games to simulate the movements of soft, limbed robots for the first time.

May 20

Health & Biomedicine

Analyzing cells for future biomedical devices

Yu-li Wang has been awarded an NIH grant to support his research in cell migration and developing technologies for applications in biomedical devices.

Researchers are developing affordable fever-screening technologies for buildings and first responders to detect fevers, using an algorithm to detect faces and measure temperature on the forehead.

Remote fever-scanning technologies

May 14

Cyberphysical Systems

Building smart cities with taxis

Pei Zhang has turned a fleet of taxis into a mobile sensing platform to collect data required to develop applications for a smart city.

May 11

News & Events

Engineering alumnus shares 100 years of stories

Alumnus E. Gerald Meyer (’40 ’42) proves that age is just a number. Meyer, who turned 100 last November, is impressively busy and not slowing down.

May 7

Energy & Environment

Prescribed burns may introduce new atmospheric toxins

Prescribed burns are an effective method for managing forests and controlling wildfires. But burning such a large amount of built-up fuel can significantly impact regional air quality.

May 4

Health & Biomedicine

Working against the clock

Alumnus Raj Kapoor teamed up with health-tech startup Clara Health to create World Without COVID to connect people from all over the world to clinical trials in their local communities.

ECE’s Osman Yağan seeks to understand the spread of coronavirus and how public health measures can reduce that spread.

Yağan receives emergency NSF grant to help fight COVID-19

Apr 27

Energy & Environment

A big comeback for a little switch

Maarten de Boer and Gianluca Piazza are developing reliable, mechanical switches the size of a DNA molecule, thanks to a $2M LEAP-HI grant from the National Science Foundation.

Apr 23

Health & Biomedicine

Dynamic source imaging the brain

New functional imaging technology dynamically maps a signal’s source and underlying networks within the brain.

Apr 20

Health & Biomedicine

Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces

New research will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized, greatly reducing the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments.

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Apr 17

COVID-19

Behind the shield

Tech Spark is fabricating face shields for essential workers at the front lines of the COVID-19 response.

Apr 16

News & Events

Pick your own project

Whether CMU engineering teams are given a week or a whole semester, their projects are always innovative and exciting.

Apr 14

Artificial Intelligence

Managing necessary bias in AI

Some biases in AI might be necessary to satisfy critical business requirements, but how do we know if an AI recommendation is biased strictly for business necessities and not other reasons?

Apr 10

Artificial Intelligence

Outsmarting a virus

Can machine learning help us to accelerate the antibody discovery process to fight highly infectious viral diseases like COVID-19 and save thousands of lives?

Apr 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Microneedle patches available for COVID-19 fight

Carnegie Mellon University will provide microneedle drug delivery patches to support COVID-19 vaccination and treatment research.

Apr 3

COVID-19

CMU-Africa mobilizes to continue classes during COVID-19

When the Government of Rwanda implemented a nationwide lockdown because of coronavirus, CMU-Africa transitioned to remote learning in less than a week

Staff and administrators are implementing creative ways of keeping community members engaged and connected with each other in the face of adversity.

The Remote Student Experience at CMU-SV

Mar 27

COVID-19

Move to remote research invites innovation

While much of our lives can now function remotely, the transition to online poses unique challenges for academia—particularly for research universities like Carnegie Mellon.

Mar 23

Advanced Manufacturing

Engineering faculty win Carnegie Science Awards

MechE’s Carmel Majidi and Ryan Sullivan have won Carnegie Science Awards from the Carnegie Science Center for their incredible contributions to science.

Mar 17

News & Events

The Value of Information

Research by CEE’s Matteo Pozzi shows how improper regulation can unintentionally trigger dangerous behaviors of information avoidance from infrastructure managers.

Mar 12

Health & Biomedicine

Healing large wounds fast

CMU has secured a $22 million DARPA grant to develop a device combining artificial intelligence, bioelectronics, and regenerative medicine to regrow muscle tissue, especially after combat injuries.

As an integral member of the “Rethink the Rink” team, Joanna Baranowski is working to make hockey safer.

Safety top of mind for Baranowski

Mar 5

Energy & Environment

Going with the flow

In solving an age-old physics problem, a team led by Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Jerry Wang has helped enable a future permeated with nanoporous materials.

Mar 2

Cybersecurity

To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored

In a new study, a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers show for the first time how important evolutionary adaptations are in predicting epidemics.

Feb 28

Cybersecurity

Engineering faculty receive CAREER awards

Four College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded CAREER awards by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Feb 25

Energy & Environment

Greenhouse gas emissions from Pittsburgh’s food system

A new report from a student team details the climate impacts from the production, packaging, transportation, and refrigeration of all food consumed in Allegheny County.

Feb 21

Robotics

Making tracks in the desert

Catherine Pavlov, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, traveled to the Atacama Desert to conduct experiments she modeled that aim to gain non-grasping functionality from space rovers.

Feb 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Feet beyond fiction

Carnegie Mellon’s Pei Zhang is part of a team blurring the line between science and magic with a footstep-sensing invention inspired by Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map.

Feb 14

Cyberphysical Systems

Heating and cooling that anticipates your needs

Researchers have created a system that predicts each occupant’s ideal temperature range and changes the room temperature to provide better comfort for all.

Feb 11

Artificial Intelligence

Capturing physiological signals with an app and a tap

For someone suffering from an acute illness or a medical emergency, the nearest healthcare facility can be several hours away in some parts of the world. Researchers are working to bridge this gap in patient care with machine learning.

Feb 6

Advanced Manufacturing

Producing hydrogen peroxide when, and where, it’s needed

Does a material exist that can be used to selectively, reliably, and efficiently form hydrogen peroxide whenever and wherever it’s needed?

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Research paper

CEE’s Sean Qian studied the relationship between Uber and public transportation, proving it can vary by time of day and location.

Quantifying transportation relationships

Jan 30

Cyberphysical Systems

Safety helmet for firefighters

Communication technologies built into a firefighter’s helmet can send directional information in realtime to firefighters working in dangerous environments.

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Jan 27

Health & Biomedicine

The future of human healing lies in the brain of a starfish

Stem cell therapy is about to get a whole lot cheaper, thanks to the incredible regenerative powers of starfish.

Jan 23

Health & Biomedicine

Taking care of moms

CMU's AI and human decision-making researchers create an app to improve maternal mortality.

Jan 16

Energy & Environment

Study verifies a missing piece to urban air quality puzzle

CMU researchers get closer to solving a long-standing air quality mystery.

Two new studies show how aerosol optical tweezing can allow scientists to scrutinize the components of the atmosphere with new precision.

Evolution in the air

Jan 9

Energy & Environment

Gender inequality persists in electricity use

As households gain access to electricity, not all members use it equally. New research examines the link between energy access and gender equality in the developing world.

Jan 6

Health & Biomedicine

Salting down the cost of protein-polymer drugs

ChemE’s Alan Russell and Stefanie Baker have developed a novel method to purify the protein-polymer conjugates used in pharmaceuticals to ensure they perform properly.

Jan 2

Artificial Intelligence

Using AI to recycle bottles

A collaborative project in partnership with CMKL University aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately screen bottles for reuse and recycling.

Dec 30

News & Events

Eye-opening engineering

The Engineering Exploration Experience offers teens a window into the engineering behind everyday objects that surround them.

Dec 26

Health & Biomedicine

Illuminating neurons deep in the brain

An interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at CMU has produced a new type of neural probe with an innovative design, improving the way researchers study neurons deep in the brain.

Dec 23

Health & Biomedicine

Using exosomes for drug delivery

In recent years, there has been an explosion in exosome research. CMU researchers have created an “all-purpose” platform for using exosomes for drug delivery in living organisms.

Dec 20

Robotics

Pushing robotics uphill

MechE senior Vinay Mitta is working with a four-legged Minitaur robot the size and shape of a briefcase with legs. He studies its movements and teaches it new skills and maneuvers so that the robot can be used to aid search and rescue operations or for large survey projects.

Dec 18

Energy & Environment

A more efficient way to turn saltwater into drinking water

Researchers are working on a way to transform seawater into fresh drinking water with a new, honeycombed-patterned membrane—only a few atoms thick—that uses less energy than existing methods.

Dec 16

Advanced Manufacturing

Creating an on-off switch for heat

This polymer thermal regulator can quickly transform from a conductor to an insulator, and back again. By switching between the two states, it can control its own temperature as well as the temperature of its surroundings, such as a refrigerator or computer.

CMU and Air Force Research Laboratory establish 5-year, $7.5M Center of Excellence in data-driven materials research.

Air Force partnership to fuse AI and materials research

Dec 11

Artificial Intelligence

Computing at the edges of the Earth—and beyond

Brandon Lucia has developed new hardware and software that enables reliable sensing and processing onboard nanosatellites smaller than the size of a playing card.

Dec 9

Artificial Intelligence

Society, STEM, and AI

Experts converge at Carnegie Mellon University, the birthplace of artificial intelligence, to discuss how AI can transform STEM education and workforce development today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Dec 5

Health & Biomedicine

Treating sickle cell pain deep in the brain

A new, noninvasive, focused-ultrasound method of neuromodulation could provide an alternative to opioid pain treatment for patients with sickle cell disease by targeting the brain.

Dec 2

Energy & Environment

A gnu way to control room temperature

Bergés has developed a machine learning solution, Gnu-RL, to manage building temperature, saving energy and earning the Best Paper Award at BuildSys 2019.

From the ingredients to the cooking to the travel, CMU researchers tally up the carbon footprint of Thanksgiving.

Overeating at Thanksgiving has a carbon footprint

Nov 26

Energy & Environment

Carbon intensity of power sector down in 2019

The Power Sector Carbon Index shows the carbon intensity is down 9% over the past year.

Nov 21

News & Events

New software makes science more replicable

ChemE Professor John Kitchin has developed a comprehensive scientific reporting software, known as SCIMAX, which aims to make studies more reliable and more replicable.

Nov 19

News & Events

CMU-Africa celebrates new location

CMU-Africa celebrates the opening of its new location within Kigali Innovation City, where students can interact directly with surrounding industries to experiment, to innovate, and to build solutions that will impact the continent.

Nov 15

Advanced Manufacturing

Taking a closer look at steel using computer vision

CMU engineers are applying computer vision and machine learning to improve the study of inclusions, microscopic particle within steel that can have a big impact on metal properties.

Nov 13

Artificial Intelligence

AI learns to design

AI agents imitate engineers to construct effective new designs using visual cues like humans do.

Nov 11

News & Events

PDL receives computing cluster from Los Alamos

The Parallel Data Lab has received a supercomputer from Los Alamos National Lab that will be reconstructed into a computing cluster for education and research.

Nov 6

News & Events

Taking crystals to a higher dimension

MSE’s Caroline Gorham and David Laughlin have published a paper about a new framework to understand crystallization, the process that transforms a liquid or gas to a solid.

Nov 4

Health & Biomedicine

Helping tracheostomy patients breathe easy

A capstone project by a group of biomedical engineering undergraduates has won awards for its innovative design to help tracheostomy patients receive better care.

Oct 31

News & Events

A celebration of collaboration

With the opening of ANSYS Hall, Carnegie Mellon and ANSYS celebrate a partnership and a promise for the next generation of engineers.

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A team of BME researchers is developing a self-contained, non-blood-contracting ventricular assist device that uses muscle power to support the failing heart.

Assisting the failing heart with muscle power

Oct 28

News & Events

Carnegie Mellon University announces ANSYS Hall opening

ANSYS and Carnegie Mellon University announce the opening of ANSYS Hall, a world-class maker facility where students and collaborators innovate with cutting-edge simulation and fabrication tools.

Oct 25

Artificial Intelligence

Deploying goods effectively with large data

A group of Carnegie Mellon – CMKL | Thailand researchers is developing a software to optimize logistics operation and detect anomaly based on large data.

Oct 23

Cyberphysical Systems

Communications technologies for monitoring the great outdoors

ECE’s Bob Iannucci has worked with the USGS building a low-power, wide-area wireless network (LP-WAN) platform that can be used to sense a host of environmental factors.

Oct 21

Artificial Intelligence

Six things you should know about AI from experts in the field

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering share what they have learned about artificial intelligence while working in the field.

Electric utility regulators claim to use a model to decide how much a utility should earn. But the data don’t support that idea, as returns to utilities have steadily risen over the past 40 years.

Regulators have been giving utilities higher returns. Why?

Oct 14

News & Events

Engineering deanship endowed with $15M gift

Carnegie Mellon University alumnus William Strecker and his wife, Nancy, have made a transformational $15 million gift to endow the dean’s chair of the College of Engineering.

Oct 10

News & Events

Tran overcomes setback, engineers final year of football

Long Tran, a defensive end for the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans, returned to the starting lineup last year after sitting out the 2017 season following heart surgery to stop premature ventricular contractions, or extra, abnormal heartbeats.

Oct 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Rollett receives $2.4M from ARPA-E for 3D printing research

A team led by MSE’s Tony Rollett has received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), supporting high temperature materials and heat exchanger projects.

Oct 3

Energy & Environment

DC can squeeze more power into existing transmission lines

Changing transmission lines from alternating to direct current has been long overlooked, but it may be the cheapest way to boost capacity on our over-taxed grid.

Sep 30

News & Events

William Sanders appointed dean

William H. Sanders of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been appointed as the next dean of the College of Engineering, effective January 1, 2020.

Sep 26

Advanced Manufacturing

Protecting 3D printers from attackers

CyLab’s researchers have developed a tool to identify security risks of networked 3D printers.

Sep 23

Health & Biomedicine

“Push-pull” dynamic in brain network is key to stopping seizures

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made an important discovery that may revolutionize the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.

Sep 19

Health & Biomedicine

Exploring frontiers in biomedical engineering

The 2nd annual Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering will be held at Carnegie Mellon University on September 19 – 20, 2019.

Sep 16

Cybersecurity

Power-full sound waves

ECE’s Gianluca Piazza is developing a piezoelectric system that powers devices with ultrasound

A team of MechE researchers are developing soft robots that sense and respond to chemicals.

Giving robots a “nose”

Sep 10

Energy & Environment

How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?

Damages from air pollution have fallen dramatically in the U.S. in recent years, shows new research. But how different sectors of the economy have contributed to that decline is highly uneven.

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Sep 6

Artificial Intelligence

Exploring the essence of big data

ECE’s Yuejie Chi has received a 2019 PECASE Award for her research on data science.

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Sep 4

Advanced Manufacturing

Mill 19 opening signals new era of manufacturing

Carnegie Mellon University researchers and robots will soon occupy a state-of-the-art facility at the newly constructed Mill 19 building on the 178-acre site known as Hazelwood Green.

Aug 30

Cyberphysical Systems

Optimizing ride-hailing systems

CEE’s Sean Qian aims to leverage the platform of ride-hailing companies to benefit everyone in the transportation system.

MechE’s Rahul Panat has received a R01 grant from the NIH to use a low-cost, rapid additive manufacturing method to create a new class of high-density neural probes to record neurological data.

3D printing nanoparticle neural probes

Aug 23

Health & Biomedicine

Self-rolling sensors take heart cell readings in 3D

A new organ-on-an-electronic-chip platform, published in Science Advances, uses self-rolling biosensor arrays to coil up and measure the electrophysiology of heart cells in 3D.

Aug 21

News & Events

Cagan receives ASME Design Automation Award

Jon Cagan, interim dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded the Design Automation Award from the the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Aug 19

News & Events

Finding big savings in driver-assisted safety tech

Driver-assisted safety systems reduce the likelihood of crashes. How much would society benefit if they were installed on all cars? More than $20 billion, according to research from CMU.

Aug 15

Health & Biomedicine

Are strawberries the key to developing an insulin pill?

ChemE’s Katie Whitehead and her team have now shown that the development of a safe insulin pill is possible.

Aug 12

Cybersecurity

CMU crowned hacking champs for fifth time in seven years

Carnegie Mellon University’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), just won its fifth hacking world championship in seven years at this year’s DefCon security conference.

Aug 9

Energy & Environment

A (climate change) tale of 115 cities

Climate change is happening, but the details of how can vary greatly, which makes planning for the future a challenge. A new, open dataset contains climate histories of more than 100 U.S. cities, showing the unique changes each city has been through, and hinting at what might lie ahead.

Aug 7

Health & Biomedicine

Brain changes when mastering new skills

Mastering a new skill—whether a sport, an instrument, or a craft—takes time and training. While it is understood that a healthy brain is capable of learning these new skills, how the brain changes in order to develop new behaviors is a relative mystery.

Aug 5

Cyberphysical Systems

Detecting good vibrations, with pigs

CEE and ECE researchers use vibrational sensors to detect sick pigs and improve farm efficiency.

Aug 1

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing the human heart

CMU researchers have published in Science a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult human heart.

To explore the Moon or Mars, astronauts need smart habitats that will remain operational when they are vacant. However, space is harsh, so we need autonomous systems that will not fail. Carnegie Mellon researchers are engineering a smarter habitat for deep space exploration

HOME away from home

Jul 26

Robotics

An elegant solution to the soft sensing challenge

Carmel Majidi’s team has developed a soft magnetic skin with a single sensing element that detects force and contact.

Jul 24

Energy & Environment

Saving lives with cleaner air

More than 30,000 U.S. lives could be saved by reducing air pollution levels below the current air quality standard, two studies from the Center for Air Quality, Climate, and Energy Solutions find.

Jul 22

Robotics

Revolutionizing robotics with motors

Mike McHenry is applying soft magnetic materials to motors, making them smaller, lighter, and more efficient. These small motors stand to have a have big impact on robotics.

Jul 19

Energy & Environment

Untangling electric car policies

A recent study analyzing federal and state policies on electric cars reveals the peculiar relationship between the policies that leads to counterintuitive effects.

One day, scopes may no longer need to be inserted into the body, such as down the throat or under the skin, to reach the stomach, brain, or any other organs for examination.

Breakthrough in optical endoscopy using ultrasound

Jul 15

Health & Biomedicine

Revolutionizing brain aneurysm treatments

Christopher Bettinger leads an interdisciplinary project that could make brain aneurysm treatments more successful and more permanent.

Jul 12

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing soft materials with AI

Carnegie Mellon University researchers created a machine learning algorithm that optimizes parameters of soft materials 3D printing.

Jul 10

Robotics

Shooting for the stars

MechE alumnus Maynard Holliday has worked to fulfill his childhood engineering dreams and to promote diversity throughout a career that has bridged policy, research, and private industry.

Jul 8

Advanced Manufacturing

Could 3D printing lead to distributed manufacturing?

In a recent paper published in Additive Manufacturing, a team of EPP researchers investigated how AM could contribute to distributed manufacturing.

Jul 5

Energy & Environment

The root of the matter

A team from the College of Engineering has used the natural architecture of the mangrove tree to unlock a better method of desalination.

Jul 2

News & Events

Alumnus’ legacy lives on

A recently-graduated ROTC student was awarded with a late alumnus’ blazer buttons featuring the Carnegie Institute of Technology logo.

Jun 28

Advanced Manufacturing

NASA invests in 3D printing for aviation

CMU has been selected by NASA to lead a research team dedicated to examining new ways to build and power aircraft of the future, through NASA’s University Leadership Initiative.

Jun 26

News & Events

Software engineering and education

Cécile Péraire shows just how much of an impact you can make when you follow your passions.

Jun 24

Advanced Manufacturing

Transforming ideas into reality in Tech Spark

In the College of Engineering’s Tech Spark, Robert Smith, senior windows systems engineer, has developed a system that allows students, faculty, and staff to access machines and tools they have been trained on, and directs them to training courses they may need to use the systems in the future.

CMU BME has made a breakthrough in the field of robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface, they have developed the first-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm.

First-ever noninvasive mind-controlled robotic arm

Jun 18

Cybersecurity

Securing the energy grid with blockchains

The US Department of Energy has awarded two Carnegie Mellon researchers a $400,000 grant to strengthen grid security using blockchain technology.

Jun 14

Energy & Environment

CMU among first to pilot brand new supercomputer

In 2020, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center will celebrate the arrival of the Perlmutter supercomputer—and ChemE’s Zack Ulissi will be one of the first to use it.

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Jun 12

Energy & Environment

A new route for plant nutrient delivery

CEE researchers have discovered a way to deliver nanoparticles into plant leaves for efficient delivery to the root, paving the way toward sustainable food production.

Jun 10

Health & Biomedicine

The power of EEG and student innovation

One group of researchers in ECE has a wide variety of students exploring novel uses and implementation methods for an underutilized technology: EEG nodes.

On Thursday May 30, a delegation of Project Rwanda students and alumni from Carnegie Mellon’s Africa, Qatar, and Pittsburgh campuses were hosted by H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at his office, Urugwiro Village, in Kigali, Rwanda.

President of Rwanda meets with CMU students

Jun 4

Cyberphysical Systems

Do sensors make infrastructure safer?

When should we apply sensors to monitor the state of our infrastructure in a way that could help predict and prevent failure?

Jun 2

News & Events

Congratulations Carnegie Mellon University Africa Class of 2019

Carnegie Mellon University Africa is proud to announce that 51 students graduated today, June 2, 2019, in Kigali, Rwanda.

May 30

Health & Biomedicine

Creating lungs “from scratch”

There are many ways to make a lung. With so many possible approaches, where do you even start? BME Ph.D. student Erica Comber has the answer.

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May 28

Energy & Environment

Viswanathan receives Navy award for battery research

Venkat Viswanathan received a 2019 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research to research how to improve battery safety in low temperatures.

May 23

Advanced Manufacturing

PushID: Pushing the limits of commercial RFIDs

Swarun Kumar’s lab has created PushID, a tracking system that may just be the answer to never losing anything again.

May 20

Health & Biomedicine

Wearable system to sense and stimulate the brain

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon is starting a project to design and implement a high-resolution, noninvasive neural interface that can be used as a wearable device.

May 15

Energy & Environment

Could U.S. wildfires be contributing to heart disease?

U.S. wildfires pose a serious threat to human health—and not just in the area of the burn.

May 13

Health & Biomedicine

A gift to further biomedical research

A generous gift by Mark and Roseanne Wholey will propel Carnegie Mellon University forward in fundamental discoveries and technological solutions that will have a great impact on society.

May 9

Energy & Environment

Are coal-fired power plants affecting your drinking water?

A new study from Jeanne VanBriesen takes a national look at whether coal-fired power plants are unintentionally affecting drinking water treatment plants.

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Sean Qian, Director of the Mobility Data Analytics Center, partnered with Gridwise, a local startup company, to optimize ridesharing platforms.

Improving ridesharing predictions

May 2

Energy & Environment

Public dread of nuclear power limits its use

New research suggests fear of the zero-carbon energy source diminishes its potential contribution to decarbonization.

Apr 28

Advanced Manufacturing

MFI leads digital transformation of manufacturing

On April 29, 2019, the MFI will host the inaugural Manufacturing Futures Forum, entitled “Leading the Digital Transformation.”

Apr 25

Artificial Intelligence

Intelligence beyond the edge

Brandon Lucia, Nathan Beckmann, and their student present first-ever demonstration of machine learning inference using deep neural networks on a batteryless, intermittent computing device at ASPLOS 2019.

Apr 23

News & Events

A light in the dark: Impact-a-Thon 2019

This year’s Impact-a-Thon theme was all about shedding light on a big issue (literally).

Lorrie Cranor has received the Bosch Distinguished Professorship in Security and Privacy Technologies, enabling her to lead a new era of security and privacy research at the university.

A new era for the Bosch Chair

Apr 15

Health & Biomedicine

Protein cuisine

ChemE’s Alan Russell has earned the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2018 Innovator Award as co-founder of startup BioHybrid Solutions.

Apr 11

Health & Biomedicine

“Seeing” the dual-layered scaffolding of cellular nuclei

Using super-sensitive microscopic imaging, Kris Dahl partnered with Pitt/UPMC to make a fundamental biological discovery that could be key to untangling the mechanisms underlying several genetic diseases.

Apr 8

News & Events

Entrepreneurship by the numbers

Quantitative Entrepreneurship course offers students a glimpse into how product design and production affect prospects for success in business.

Apr 4

Cybersecurity

Achieving provably-secure encryption

Earlier this week, a team consisting of researchers from CyLab released the world’s first verifiably secure industrial-strength cryptographic library—a set of code that can be used to protect data and is guaranteed to protect against the most popular classes of cyberattacks.

Apr 1

News & Events

Three minutes to win it

Eight doctoral candidates. Six from the College of Engineering. Three minutes each.

News & Events

Charlie Ren: Tissue Engineering

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Charlie Ren explains why he wanted to join the Bioengineered Organs Initiative, and how his research on vascular biology is combined with multiple faculty’s research in other fields.

News & Events

Maarten de Boer & Gianluca Piazza: LEAP-HI: Ultra-low power computing

MechE’s Maarten de Boer and ECE’s Gianluca Piazza discuss their ultra-low power, nanomechanical computing project, funded by CMU’s Kavčić-Moura Fund and now the NSF’s LEAP-HI Program.

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Saugata Ghose: Rethinking Computer Architecture: Faster, Smarter, More Efficient

ECE’s Saugata Ghose discusses how his group makes data movement and processing more efficient.

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Burak Ozdoganlar: Micro-needle Patches for Advanced Drug Delivery

MechE’s Burak Ozdoganlar discusses his work in micro-needle array technology, an alternative to hypodermic needles or other oral drug delivery that provides significant advantages over traditional methods.

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Shawn Litster: Electrification of Vehicles with Fuel Cells and Batteries

Mechanical Engineering’s Shawn Litster is pushing the limits of electric vehicles.

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