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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.

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.

Costa Samaras to serve in White House OSTP

Nov 23

Artificial Intelligence

Automating engineering’s ideal manager

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.

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.

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

Making hockey safer

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.

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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.`

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.

Research paper

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.

Oct 15

Artificial Intelligence

A call to integrate AI and STEM education

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.

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.

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.

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

Who’s paying for your Uber?

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.

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.

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.

Sep 10

Energy & Environment

Decarbonizing freight rail

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.

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

News & Events

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

News & Events

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.

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.

Sense and signal

Aug 24

Health & Biomedicine

Research sheds new light on decreased performance under pressure

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh explore the phenomenon of choking under pressure and show for the first time that animals also exhibit this strange tendency.

Research paper

Aug 20

Cybersecurity

Keeping distributed systems secure

Carnegie Mellon researchers are working to design networks that keep our ever-increasing numbers of connected devices safe and secure.

Research paper

Aug 17

News & Events

The journey to the boardroom

Alumnus Nick Fiore has had an impressive 50-year career in the manufacturing industry and in academic leadership. His humble beginnings have served as the motivation for his own success and philanthropy.

Aug 13

Health & Biomedicine

Finding inspiration to rebuild human heart muscle

Using insights from the developing heart, Adam Feinberg and his team are shaping biologically-inspired engineering design principles to rebuild human heart muscle.

Researchers in Victoria Webster-Wood’s Biohybrid and Organic Robotics Group are using techniques from tissue engineering to refine tendon-like collagen threads for a new generation of robots.

Tuning synthetic collagen threads for biohybrid robots

Aug 5

News & Events

Engineering a career in medicine

Raja Chatterjee’s career in medicine started in a place you likely wouldn’t expect: the Carnegie Mellon electrical and computer engineering department. So how does an engineer become a doctor, professor, and a Naval captain?

Aug 2

News & Events

A crystal-clear way to save time

Chemical Engineering researchers recently discovered a better way to make a new class of soft materials—reducing a process that used to take five months down to three minutes.

Jul 29

Artificial Intelligence

Joshi to lead CMU’s AI-EDGE team

The mission of the AI-EDGE Institute is to design next-generation intelligent edge networks that are efficient, reliable, robust, and secure.

Research paper

Jul 27

Advanced Manufacturing

Pushing through nanopores: Genetic sequencing with MXene

MXene—a single layer, two-dimensional nanomaterial—shows potential for solid-state, nanopore-based DNA sequencing. This could lead to efficient, rapid diagnostics and personalized medicine.

Jul 23

Health & Biomedicine

Take two: Integrating neuronal perspectives for richer results

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a way to bridge two neuronal approaches traditionally used in isolation, resulting in a richer understanding of neuronal activity.

Jul 21

Advanced Manufacturing

Dynamic heart model advances engineered heart tissue tech

The Feinberg group’s latest model mimics physiologic loads on engineering heart muscle tissues, yielding an unprecedented view of how genetics and mechanical forces contribute to heart muscle function.

Jul 16

Advanced Manufacturing

Tantalizing tantalum actuators and sensors

Can this refractory metal be an efficient substitute material in microelectromechanical system (MEMS) thermal actuators?

Jul 13

Artificial Intelligence

Detecting depression and partner violence risk during pregnancy

Researchers are using language processing on diary entries from birthgiving parents in the perinatal period to detect and identify possible risk indicators for depression and intimate partner violence.

Jul 9

Health & Biomedicine

Optimizing pharmaceutical development

Chrysanthos Gounaris, in partnership with Eli Lilly and Company, has developed an automated decision support system for planning the R&D activities within Lilly’s Synthetic Molecule Design and Development organization.

Alumna Maggie Scholtz is co-founder and vice president of engineering at First Mode, a Seattle-based engineering firm focused on tackling challenging problems on Earth and throughout the solar system.

Rocket girl

Jul 1

Cyberphysical Systems

Bringing students into the next industrial revolution

Students taking a new course combine rapidly expanding technologies to create innovative solutions for real societal problems.

Jun 28

Health & Biomedicine

Wearable tech aids freedivers, cardiac patients

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are part of an international team working on wearable biomedical technology that will enhance freediver safety, as well as provide fresh treatment insights for cardiac patients.

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Research paper

Jun 25

Health & Biomedicine

Exploring silk’s full potential

Rosalyn Abbott’s latest biomaterials research investigates the use of non-invasive, therapeutic ultrasound to trigger and adjust silk scaffold degradation post-implantation.

Jun 22

News & Events

From academia to industry and back again

Chemical Engineering alum Donna Blackmond has worked in many fields—and her engineering degree was integral in all of them.

Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed fabric-friendly near-field communication antennas that can be woven into everyday surfaces for building smart environments.

Fabric-friendly sensors

Jun 15

Advanced Manufacturing

Revisiting steel

Advancing modern steel research allows us to access unique properties while lowering the carbon footprint, and it’s important for education.

Jun 9

Energy & Environment

An atomic look at lithium-rich batteries

An international collaboration explored the workings of a lithium-rich battery at the atomic scale. The research opens up pathways for improving existing battery cathodes—and designing new ones.

Jun 7

Health & Biomedicine

Resetting travelers’ circadian clocks

Carnegie Mellon researchers are working with DARPA, Northwestern University, and Rice University to develop a system for regulating the body’s circadian clock.

Jun 2

Advanced Manufacturing

One thing leads to another

Novel methods for making ceramics could abate environmental problems.

May 27

Energy & Environment

Should ships in India switch to shore power?

A team of Carnegie Mellon researchers has answered an important question about the shipping industry for a rapidly modernizing India.

May 26

Advanced Manufacturing

Using DNA for tiny tech

Tito Babatunde and her advisors Rebecca Taylor and Jon Cagan are combining their expertise to optimize designs for DNA origami nanostructures.

May 25

News & Events

Day of Enlightenment

We call our community together to commemorate May 25th as the day the world raised our collective voices to stand up for what is right—Black Lives Matter. On this day we recognize we have much more work to do. Let’s continue growing, learning, and standing up for what is right and just in our society, and on our campus.

May 20

Advanced Manufacturing

RK Mellon Foundation grant funds manufacturing and robotics

A $150 million Richard King Mellon Foundation grant includes $30 million for the Manufacturing Futures Institute and $45 million for a new facility, the Robotics Innovation Center (RIC).

May 18

Advanced Manufacturing

Rethinking the rink for hockey safety

Whether 50 pounds or 200, hockey players come in all sizes, and their safety matters. This unique collaboration invites Carnegie Mellon students to explore new ways to make hockey safer.

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Researchers show that sustainably decarbonizing our energy system by 2050 will require a significant change in the way we model energy transitions and the role of public opinion.

What’s left out of energy models? You.

May 11

Artificial Intelligence

NSF CAREER grants awarded to engineering faculty

Four engineering faculty received NSF CAREER awards to support their education and research goals.

May 7

Energy & Environment

Revising glacier projections

Research performed in collaboration with partners around the world significantly changes our understanding of glacial debris cover and its effect on glacial melt.

May 4

Health & Biomedicine

Focused ultrasound enables precise noninvasive therapy

Bin He’s latest research demonstrates that noninvasive neuromodulation via low-intensity ultrasound can have cell-type selectivity in manipulating neurons.

Apr 29

News & Events

This is how we roll

From an academic perspective, Buggy symbolizes education in motion. The sleek, three-wheeled vessels are the byproduct of classroom and hands-on learning that’s reinforced with legacy knowledge.

Biomedical Engineering’s Keith Cook has discovered a novel anticoagulation strategy to keep artificial lung devices from failing due to clot formation, without creating any negative side effects.

Hitting a home run for artificial organ research

Apr 21

Health & Biomedicine

Noninvasive technology steps ahead to help epilepsy patients

New research led by Bin He, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, combines clinical application and engineering innovation to present a safe, noninvasive, cost-effective, and quicker imaging option for patients with epilepsy.

Apr 19

Cybersecurity

Crypto derivatives markets are booming

On a busy day, more than $100 billion in these derivatives are traded, rivaling the daily volume traded in the New York Stock Exchange, according to a new study authored by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers.

Apr 16

Robotics

Tailing new ideas

Aaron Johnson’s Robomechanics Lab is looking to nature for robotic tail designs that make orientation tasks easier for moving robots.

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Apr 13

Artificial Intelligence

From Twitter to traffic predictor

Sean Qian and Weiran Yao have used data from twitter to solve one of the greatest hurdles in traffic prediction.

Apr 9

News & Events

Preparing the chip workforce of the future

With decreasing interest in the field of integrated circuit design, CMU has found a way to attract students to the career opportunities.

Apr 7

Health & Biomedicine

Unlocking richer intracellular recordings

A forward-thinking group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia has identified a flexible, low-cost, and biocompatible platform for enabling richer intracellular recordings.

Apr 5

Cybersecurity

Inferring what we share by how we share

A new study by Conrad Tucker shows that patterns in which information is shared online may indicate the information’s authenticity.

Apr 1

Artificial Intelligence

Finding silence in the brain

Alireza Chamanzar created an algorithm to locate regions of neural silence using an EEG, a widely accessible device that measures brain activity.

Apr 1

News & Events

Car-free days lead to cleaner air

Car-free days established by the Kigali city council promote the health of Kigali citizens by encouraging physical activity and a sense of community. They are also having a positive effect on public health.

When the pandemic forced CMU Silicon Valley to operate remotely, the student affairs team created a virtual immersion program to provide students with professional and social opportunities to keep them engaged.

Students climbed the mountain together

Mar 29

Health & Biomedicine

Connecting the dots between engagement and learning

New research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh examines how changes in internal states, such as engagement, can affect the learning process using BCI technology.

Research paper

Mar 26

Advanced Manufacturing

A platform for physical and virtual collaboration

Researchers from the CONIX research center have made the first open-source version of their novel platform combining augmented and virtual reality into a unified collaborative space.

Mar 23

Artificial Intelligence

Designing a National Institute for AI in Construction

Burcu Akinci and Pingbo Tang are part of a team designing the future National Institute for AI in Construction.

Mar 19

Energy & Environment

Who is marginalized in energy justice?

Destenie Nock is working to bring more perspectives from stakeholders in developing countries into decisions that affect the expansion of their power grid.

Harold W. Paxton, former head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, passed away on March 8, 2021.

Remembering Harold Paxton

Mar 11

Robotics

A touch of silver

Researchers in the Soft Machines Lab have developed a new silver-hydrogel composite for artificial skin that combines high electrical conductivity with soft, stretchable biocompatibility.

Mar 2

Energy & Environment

Wildfires, clouds, and climate change

As the frequency and size of wildfires increases worldwide, research shows how the chemical aging of particles emitted by these fires can lead to more extensive cloud formation and intense storm development in the atmosphere.

Feb 26

Energy & Environment

Should Uber and Lyft be electrifying more vehicles?

Increases in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions caused by ridesourcing impact human health and the environment. What happens when companies shoulder that cost?

Feb 24

Energy & Environment

Morgan chairs congressional briefing on future of US electrical grid

Granger Morgan and Bill Sanders presented their report on the future of the U.S. electrical system followed by a webinar that the public was encouraged to attend.

Feb 22

News & Events

Celebrating Engineers’ Week

Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering is excited to celebrate Engineers’ Week 2021.

Feb 18

News & Events

Behind the Researcher

The College of Engineering is known for our cutting-edge research, academic rigor, and amazing students, but you might be surprised by some of the other talents of our award-winning faculty.

Feb 10

Robotics

Under the sea

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon’s Soft Machines Lab has created a soft robot inspired by the quick and agile brittle star, the first mobile and untethered underwater crawling robot.

Jan 29

Health & Biomedicine

Commonalities found between viral infections and ovarian cancer

Apparent similarities between latent DNA viral infections and quiescent cancer cells could lead to new treatments for ovarian cancer.

Jan 22

Health & Biomedicine

CMU alumnus creates “Dynamic” COVID solution

Alumnus Jeff Mullen (ECE ’00, Tepper ’09) and his company, Dynamics Inc., have created an innovative way to inactivate coronavirus in the air.

To impact COVID-19 vaccination in the developing world, collaborators develop and test a new hybrid microneedle array platform capable of delivering vaccines directly into the skin.

Improving a vaccine delivery system for COVID and beyond

Jan 14

News & Events

Learning by making, outside of the lab

The College of Engineering revamped its Summer Engineering Experience this year to be entirely digital. Middle school students from all over logged on for a week of exploratory learning.

Jan 11

News & Events

Alaine Allen appointed associate dean for DEI

Alaine Allen will join Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering as the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Jan 8

News & Events

The right place, the right time, and the right people

Khulood Al Ali knew from an early age that she wanted to earn a degree at Carnegie Mellon University. But she didn’t foresee going for two.

Jan 6

Energy & Environment

Uber and Lyft increase average vehicle ownership in urban areas

On average, transportation network company entry into an urban area increases per-capita vehicle registrations by 0.7%, compared to what they would have been otherwise.

The team is creating a smart port to the brain that will use artificial intelligence to selectively stimulate and record from the brain.

A universal port for the brain

Dec 23

Advanced Manufacturing

Trans-disciplinary team investigates topological defects

Amit Acharya is leading a multidisciplinary, university-spanning team in an NSF Grand Convergence Research project to unravel one of the most ubiquitous physical phenomena known to science.

Dec 18

Artificial Intelligence

AI-fueled batteries

A team of CMU mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering researchers are using AI to optimize battery electrolyte designs, and they found new electrolytes that researchers hadn’t thought of.

Dec 11

Health & Biomedicine

The force to shape an organ

Novel biosensor reveals the mechanobiological forces that shape organ development and biological phenomena like hypertension.

Dec 9

Cyberphysical Systems

Detecting wireless interference

Carnegie Mellon researchers were awarded a $1M NSF grant to investigate a system that allows devices to scan wide bandwidths to avert interference.

Dec 4

Robotics

Latch on, launch off

Researchers observe the fastest organisms in nature—Dracula ants, froghoppers, and spore-ejecting fungi—to investigate spring-powered latch mechanisms for robotics.

Dec 1

Robotics

Making mechanical skin

These 3D printed circuits are self-healing, re-writable, and energy-harvesting, thanks to liquid metal.

Nov 27

Advanced Manufacturing

A route for avoiding defects during additive manufacturing

Research published in Science reveals how defects form during additive manufacturing, and offers insight into controlling machines to avoid this problem.

Nov 24

Cybersecurity

Lorrie Cranor named AAAS Fellow

Lorrie Cranor has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to usable privacy and security research, policy, and education.

Nov 18

Advanced Manufacturing

3D bioprinted heart provides new tool for surgeons

Surgeons will soon have a powerful new tool for planning and practice with the creation of the first full-sized 3D bioprinted model of the human heart.

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Research paper

The Society for Women Engineers provides opportunities for STEM students to build community, find mentors, develop professionally, and much more.

SWEet success

Nov 13

News & Events

Fall career fairs combine and go virtual

Thousands of students from around the world attended Carnegie Mellon’s first combined virtual career fair as the university community continues to find new solutions to global problems.

Nov 10

Health & Biomedicine

Crunching numbers for regenerative medicine

Undergrad Sean Pereira took a seminar with Rosalyn Abbott, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. Despite Pereira’s focus on the computational aspects of biology, he was drawn to the work Abbott was exploring with silk applications to different challenges in biomedical engineering.

Nov 6

Energy & Environment

The surprising strength of liquid crystals

In the quest for safer and longer-lasting batteries for electric cars, trucks, and planes, researchers explore a new class of materials to suppress the formation of dendrites.

Nov 3

News & Events

CMU student is first Black recipient of AGMA’s scholarship

Master’s student David Ajoku has been awarded the American Gear Manufacturing Association Foundation’s scholarship—making him the first Black student to receive it.

Amir Barati Farimani has improved an algorithm to predict a material’s properties.

Order up! AI finds the right material

Oct 27

News & Events

Virtual spaces for realistic learning

This year, the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department offered more summer research positions than ever before, as well as a novel and engaging virtual poster session.

Oct 23

Energy & Environment

Are Democratic and Republican energy policies actually that different?

While current proposed energy policies from the Democratic and Republican parties may sound different, new research from the Department of Engineering and Public Policy has found that they may actually lead to similar emissions outcomes—at least in the short term.

Oct 21

Health & Biomedicine

Foundation for the future

Zachary Blonder’s experience conducting research on processes relevant to pharmaceuticals synthesis with Nisha Shukla as an undergraduate steered him toward a position in the pharma industry after graduation.

Oct 15

Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent, automatic contact tracing

CMU ECE alumnus Patrick Lazik and his team at Yodel Labs have developed a system that creates contact networks to contain COVID-19.

Oct 14

Energy & Environment

Ulissi and Facebook AI create world’s largest catalysis dataset

Zack Ulissi and Facebook AI Research (FAIR) have created the Open Catalyst Project, the largest dataset of its kind, to accelerate the discovery of new catalysts for use in renewable energy storage.

Oct 12

Health & Biomedicine

As smooth as silk scaffolding

Tahlia Altgold and Rosalyn Abbott are working on the development of a new method of 3D printing silk proteins to create personalized new tissues for patients needing regenerative medicine.

Oct 9

COVID-19

The multidisciplinary way

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Michele Blazek (CEE EPP ’87) and her team at Stanford Health Care jumped into action to keep their staff safe and their patients cared for—all while creatively tackling the challenges of limited space and personal protective equipment.

Oct 6

Energy & Environment

Low-cost sensors to fight air pollution

CMU researchers are teaming up with an interdisciplinary, international network to develop new methods and practices for real-time air quality data collection and solutions for air quality issues.

Oct 2

Artificial Intelligence

Recognizing AI’s misinformation

What does cybersecurity have to do with human recognition of false data? A lot, says Conrad Tucker, who teamed up with Challenger Center and RAND to study the link between the two.

Chemical Engineering’s Kishana Taylor is hosting the first Black in Microbiology week, a unique program that aims to highlight Black scientists and their contributions to the field of microbiology.

Celebrating Black in Microbiology Week

Sep 28

Advanced Manufacturing

Hot Stuff: Unusual thermal diode rectifies heat in both directions

Dual-mode thermal rectification could be a game changer for a range of industrial and medical applications.

Research paper

Sep 23

Health & Biomedicine

Meditation for mind-control

Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering Department Head Bin He and his team have discovered that mindful meditation can help subjects learn and improve the ability to mind-control brain computer interfaces (BCIs).

Sep 21

Health & Biomedicine

Parylene photonics enable future optical biointerfaces

Maysam Chamanzar’s team has developed a new class of materials for optical biointerfaces.

Sep 17

News & Events

Simulating engineering experiments at home or in the lab

The use of force-feedback joysticks in lab demonstrations could forever change engineering education, especially for students in underresourced environments or those affected by disaster.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers reveal fastest known COVID-19 antibody test with high sensitivity due to a unique, 3D printing technology and an electrochemical reaction.

Imagine a 10-second COVID-19 antibody test—we’re on our way

Sep 11

Energy & Environment

Is systemic racism literally built into our cities?

Carnegie Mellon researchers propose a way to address biases in infrastructure to ensure that future investment doesn’t benefit one group of people at the expense of another.

Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

NIH-funded project will get your attention

Matt Smith and Byron Yu will simultaneously record multiple regions of the brain as subjects go through the process of preparing, establishing, and maintaining attention.

Sep 4

Artificial Intelligence

Predictive placentas: Using AI to protect mothers’ future pregnancies

In partnership with UPMC, Carnegie Mellon researchers developed a machine learning approach for examining placenta samples to determine if mothers are at risk for complications in future pregnancies.

Sep 1

Energy & Environment

Wildfires produce minerals that freeze clouds

Why do some biomass fuels create ice nucleating particles when they combust while others do not? Researchers at the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies make an unexpected discovery.

Aug 27

Health & Biomedicine

Sea slugs to provide clues in understanding the brain

As the co-principal investigator on an NSF NeuroNex project, Victoria Webster-Wood will investigate the impact of neuromodulators on muscle actuation and modeling biological motor control in engineering frameworks.

Aug 24

Health & Biomedicine

The infrastructure problem of COVID-19

EPP’s Daniel Armanios has received funding through the NSF’s Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program to explore the interactions between infrastructure and the spread of COVID-19.

Aug 19

Advanced Manufacturing

Microwaving new materials

Reeja Jayan has made a breakthrough in our understanding of how microwaves affect materials chemistry, laying the groundwork for tailor-made ceramic materials with new electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties.

Aug 17

Health & Biomedicine

How the brain’s internal states affect decision-making

By recording the activity of separate populations of neurons simultaneously, researchers have gained an unprecedented insight into how the “waxing and waning” of our mental state influences the decisions we make.

Aug 13

Energy & Environment

Nanoparticles to immunize plants against heat stress

Greg Lowry and Bob Tilton have created a new type of nanoparticle that may be able to immunize plants against harsh environmental conditions and pathogens.

Research paper

Research paper

A new system using remote data transfers and machine learning could cut vehicle emissions, lower testing costs, and drastically reduce the need for in-person emissions testing.

Cutting vehicle emissions and inspections via IoT

Aug 7

Health & Biomedicine

Discovery of naturally chiral surfaces for safer pharmaceuticals

Nisha Shukla and Andrew Gellman have developed a number of new, easier methods for making naturally chiral metal surfaces.

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Research paper

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

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

Jul 21

Cyberphysical Systems

Sensing tire wear

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.

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.

Engineering ways to keep doctors safe from COVID-19

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

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

Jun 29

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The electric future of autonomous vehicles

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

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Magnetic Symmetry is Not Just Like Looking in a Mirror

The energy demands of computation are ever-increasing. Magnetizing computer memory offers a large opportunity to reduce energy consumption, but researchers must first understand the behavior of domain walls. This video illustrates the behavior of domain wall symmetry.

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Faculty Insights with Coty Jen

Chemical Engineering's Coty Jen presents her research in this installment of Faculty Insights: A 20-Minute Briefing. In this series, faculty from across the College of Engineering share insights into their research and the research's impact and provide perspective for the future.

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Greg Rohrer: Polycrystalline Materials

Materials Science and Engineering Professor Greg Rohrer discusses his team's research on polycrystalline materials, microscopic particles that make up the materials we use in everyday objects, and his latest research refuting a 70-year-old model for the behavior of these materials.

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Faculty Insights with Burak Kara

Mechanical Engineering’s Burak Kara talks about using artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate product design, simulation, and workflows in this 20-minute Faculty Insights webinar.

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David Rounce: The Response of Glaciers, Water Resources, and Hazards to Climate Change

Civil and Environmental Engineering’s David Rounce discusses his research on water resources and glacial melting and how it affects our world, locally or globally.

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