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Mar 27

News & Events

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.

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

The Value of Information

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.

Mar 9

News & Events

Safety top of mind for Baranowski

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

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).

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.

Greenhouse gas emissions from Pittsburgh’s food system

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

Feb 3

Cyberphysical Systems

Quantifying transportation relationships

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

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.

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.

Jan 13

Energy & Environment

Evolution in the air

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

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.

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

Eye-opening engineering

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.

Research paper

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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.

Research paper

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.

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.

Creating an on-off switch for heat

Dec 13

Artificial Intelligence

Air Force partnership to fuse AI and materials research

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

Nov 27

Energy & Environment

Overeating at Thanksgiving has a carbon footprint

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

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.

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.

Taking a closer look at steel using computer vision

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.

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

A celebration of collaboration

Oct 29

Health & Biomedicine

Assisting the failing heart with muscle power

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.

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.

Oct 17

Energy & Environment

Regulators have been giving utilities higher returns. Why?

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.

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.

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.

DC can squeeze more power into existing transmission lines

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.

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

Power-full sound waves

Sep 12

Robotics

Giving robots a “nose”

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

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.

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.

Aug 27

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing nanoparticle neural probes

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.

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.

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

Are strawberries the key to developing an insulin pill?

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.

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.

3D printing the human heart

Jul 29

Artificial Intelligence

HOME away from home

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

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.

Jul 17

Health & Biomedicine

Breakthrough in optical endoscopy using ultrasound

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.

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.

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

Could 3D printing lead 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.

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.

Transforming ideas into reality in Tech Spark

Jun 20

Health & Biomedicine

First-ever noninvasive mind-controlled robotic arm

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.

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.

Jun 6

News & Events

President of Rwanda meets with CMU students

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.

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

Viswanathan receives Navy award for battery research

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.

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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.

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

Are coal-fired power plants affecting your drinking water?

May 6

Artificial Intelligence

Improving ridesharing predictions

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

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).

Apr 18

Cybersecurity

A new era for the Bosch Chair

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.

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.

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.

Achieving provably-secure encryption

Apr 1

News & Events

Three minutes to win it

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

Mar 29

News & Events

Students confront food insecurity on college campuses

To tackle the growing problem of food insecurity on college campuses, Integrated Innovation Institute students partnered with interdisciplinary students from across the United States to develop new solutions.

Mar 27

Advanced Manufacturing

Early detection of viruses in biopharma

Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with Genentech and LumaCyte to develop an advanced biomanufacturing technology for adventitious agent testing.

Mar 26

Cybersecurity

Celebrating women in cybersecurity

CMU’s Lorrie Cranor and Dena Haritos Tsamitis will speak at this week’s Women in Cybersecurity Conference in Pittsburgh.

From March 25 – 28, 2019, the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University will hold CMU Energy Week 2019.

Energy Week 2019: What’s next in energy innovation

Mar 20

Robotics

Johnson wins ARO Young Investigator Award

Aaron Johnson has won the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award for his research on designing robots to cross rough terrain.

Mar 18

Energy & Environment

Linking air pollution to climate change in Chinese policy

The amount of CO2 that China releases annually into the atmosphere has a significant impact on global climate change.

Mar 15

News & Events

Government experiments mean funding for small companies

Government funding has now become a viable option for young companies, even if the technologies they’re developing aren’t a sure thing.

Mar 13

Advanced Manufacturing

Changing the tune of magnetic materials

Professor Michael McHenry is part of a team of researchers receiving the Carnegie Science Award for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials.

Mar 8

News & Events

Year two of “Rethink the Rink” launched

The Pittsburgh Penguins, Covestro, and Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering will host their second annual Make-a-thon, kicking off year two of the “Rethink the Rink” initiative.

Mar 8

News & Events

Beyond 5G

ECE’s Jeyanandh Paramesh presented a new chip at ISSCC 2019 designed to enable cutting-edge beyond 5G communications.

Mar 6

News & Events

Design and build

Engineering students present innovative technical projects at the Mechanical Engineering Design Expo and Build18.

Mar 4

News & Events

A path to the future, paved with ceramics

Reeja Jayan investigates how electromagnetic fields speed up ceramic fabrication, finding both challenges and great potential.

Feb 28

News & Events

3D displays that accommodate the human eye

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have engineered a new technology to enable natural accommodation cues in 3D displays.

An entrepreneurial idea to expand training for 21st-century careers has sparked a $10 million gift to support mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

Gift to advance mechanical engineering

Feb 25

Energy & Environment

How long until efficient fuel cells? Ask the experts.

In the quest for alternatives to gas-powered vehicles, experts believe one new method shows great promise: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.

Feb 22

Advanced Manufacturing

Finding keyholes in metals 3D printing

Tony Rollett published in Science a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3D printing process.

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Feb 20

News & Events

2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellows

Three young faculty members have been granted the 2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellowship to enable their continued contributions to their respective fields.

Feb 18

News & Events

Engineering meets history with Daina Ramey Berry

In honor of Black History Month, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recently co-hosted the visit of distinguished historian and acclaimed author Professor Daina Ramey Berry to Carnegie Mellon University.

Artificially intelligent medical imaging technology is a promising tool to help doctors diagnose disease. CMU researchers have found a way to use less data to train these tools.

Recognizing disease using less data

Feb 13

Health & Biomedicine

Information bottlenecks between brain areas

ECE/BME’s Byron Yu and ECE postdoc João Semedo found that communication between brain areas occurs through an information bottleneck, which they’ve termed a “communication subspace.”

Feb 11

Energy & Environment

Making green cars greener with battery recycling

Widespread use of electric vehicles will go a long way toward eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector—but these emissions don’t just come from the tailpipe.

Feb 7

News & Events

Pileggi named ECE department head

Larry Pileggi has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University effective March 1.

Feb 5

Cyberphysical Systems

The future—delivered

CEE’s Costa Samaras and Sean Qian will head a DOE-funded analysis of next-generation delivery networks composed of aerial drones, robots, AVs, EVs, and “intelligent delivery zones.”

Feb 1

Health & Biomedicine

Dahl uses sensors to measure forces within cell monolayers

ChemE’s Kris Dahl is using a new technique called SINK (sensors from intranuclear kinetics) to observe the properties of an entire monolayer of cells and determine how broadly cells communicate.

Jan 29

News & Events

Working in a galaxy far, far away

From Mechanical Engineering to the Millennium Falcon, alumna Sophia Acevedo reflects on her path to Walt Disney Imagineering.

Jan 24

Cyberphysical Systems

Beyond 5G: The next generation

While the rest of the world is lauding 5G as the next big thing, EPP Head Doug Sicker and his team are already looking beyond it.

Jan 17

Robotics

Run, robot, run!

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

Jan 14

News & Events

Lorrie Cranor named director of CyLab

Lorrie Faith Cranor has been named the next director of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s security and privacy institute, effective January 15.

MechE’s Professor Jon Cagan and Kosa Goucher-Lambert helped uncover how outside stimuli inspire innovation in design.

Exploring the science of inspiration

Jan 2

Energy & Environment

Using drones in agriculture and irrigation

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kenji Shimada and his team of researchers are using drone technology to help detect and restore damaged water canals in Japan that are critical for the agricultural economy.

Dec 28

News & Events

What we talk about when we talk about science

While the key to effective communication of scientific research is relatively straightforward, it requires the one thing that is often the most difficult for researchers to do.

Dec 26

Advanced Manufacturing

Lightening the load

Kate Whitefoot and Burak Kara are developing methods allowing manufacturers to redesign multiple parts into one continuous part using 3-D printing.

Dec 21

News & Events

Stars and stripes and field hockey sticks

First-year Eric Velge plays field hockey on the U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Training Squad, and with a chance at the Olympics on the horizon, he hopes to bring attention to this under appreciated sport.

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

Eating out, breathing in

Dec 14

Artificial Intelligence

Strength training deep neural networks

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

Dec 11

Artificial Intelligence

Thwarting bias in AI systems

As machine learning systems are used more and more to make decisions about insurance, criminal justice, credit, and child welfare, we need to ensure that they are fair.

Dec 6

News & Events

Jonathan Cagan named interim dean of the College of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University has named Jonathan Cagan interim dean of the College of Engineering.

Dec 5

Cybersecurity

Preventing exposure to malicious websites

A team of CyLab researchers have developed a mechanism that detects when users may be about to visit a malicious website.

Dec 3

Energy & Environment

Predicting future energy sources

For many of us, electricity is tantamount to a magic trick—but peel back the curtain, and the reality is much different.

News & Events

Kris Dahl: Chemical Engineering and Chocolate: A Sweet Combination

ChemE’s Kris Dahl discusses partnering with local businesses to bring hands-on learning to her students in the form of a tasty treat.

News & Events

Amir Barati Farimani: A new material for water desalination

MechE’s Amir Barati Farimani describes his work on a new material to provide an energy-efficient membrane for water desalination.

News & Events

Andy Gellman: Reducing the Cost of Medicines with Chirality

ChemE’s Andy Gellman discusses engineering the chirality, or “handedness,” of pharmaceuticals so they can interact successfully with the human body at a molecular level.

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The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Mechanical Engineering

MechE Department Head Allen Robinson and several other faculty members explain how artificial intelligence and machine learning affect their research and the curricula they teach, both at the graduate and undergraduate level.

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George Amvrosiadis: Building the Software Infrastructure of the Future

ECE’s George Amvrosiadis discusses his lab’s collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on DeltaFS to revolutionize the way the software infrastructure handles massive amounts of data.

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