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Aug 5

Health & Biomedicine

New modeling approach helps advance cryopreservation

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

Research paper

Aug 2

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing ice

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

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

Advancing dynamic brain imaging with AI

Jul 26

Robotics

Open-source software gives a leg up to robot research

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

Watch the Video

Jul 21

Cybersecurity

Inaugural conference talks digital public goods in Africa

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

Jul 19

Energy & Environment

CMU team designs the airports of tomorrow

An interdisciplinary team from Carnegie Mellon University won NASA’s Blue Skies: Airports of Tomorrow competition with their project focused on sustainability and connected autonomy, earning them internships with NASA this upcoming year.

Jul 15

Health & Biomedicine

Safer work zones for all

Causal modeling of the relationship between work zones and car accidents informs practices and policies that improve safety on the road.

Jul 12

Health & Biomedicine

Modeling neuron traffic jams in the brain

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

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

A cooler side to soft robotics

Jul 6

Artificial Intelligence

CMU launches initiative to transform nanosatellite capabilities

Researchers at CMU’s College of Engineering are working to develop computationally capable constellations of nanosatellites, equipped with machine learning techniques that extract valuable insights from the data while still in orbit.

Jul 4

News & Events

CMU to lead alliance to explore equitable career advancement in higher ed

Carnegie Mellon University will lead an alliance to develop a new career advancement model, Project ELEVATE, through the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), with Johns Hopkins University and New York University also part of the team.

Jul 1

Health & Biomedicine

Mother’s milk cells key to novel infant disease therapy

Kathryn Whitehead is exploring ways to utilize the unique properties of breast milk to develop a novel approach to infant disease therapy.

Jun 28

Health & Biomedicine

Exosome engineering tech licensed to Coya Therapeutics

An interdisciplinary group of faculty from Carnegie Mellon has licensed a proprietary platform for bioengineering exosomes for drug delivery to Coya Therapeutics, Inc.

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

Engineering Art

Jun 21

Energy & Environment

Modeling light for solar panel placement in urban settings

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

Jun 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Decarbonizing the grid with flexible buildings

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

Jun 14

News & Events

Annette Jacobson to retire after 34 years at Carnegie Mellon

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

Jun 9

Health & Biomedicine

Halilaj and Ren receive NSF Career Awards

College of Engineering’s Eni Halilaj and Charlie Ren have received National Science Foundation CAREER Awards for their research.

Jun 6

News & Events

Zapanta named associate dean for undergraduate studies

Student, faculty member, associate department head, and now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

Jun 3

Health & Biomedicine

Small package, big potential to help cell-based therapies

Innovative research led by BME’s Rachelle Palchesko and Adam Feinberg is exploring the use of a new cell delivery method to help cells stick and stay where they’re needed most.

May 31

Advanced Manufacturing

Drop by drop: MXene in complex 3D device architectures

3D architectures of MXene can increase the energy storage density of lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors, but there hasn’t been a reliable manufacturing method to build these configurations.

May 27

News & Events

The deciding factor

The Tartan Scholars Program helps students like junior Gabe Blanco make the decision to attend Carnegie Mellon.

May 24

Health & Biomedicine

Wet circuits for biology research

Marc Dandin is teaming up with researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences at CMU to create electronics for use in cell research.

A new discovery sheds light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. Published in Nature, the study’s findings suggest that in addition to carbon dioxide, there are other compounds in need of immediate attention and regulation.

Discovery uncovers need for ammonia emission regulations

May 16

News & Events

Mastercard scholar works to transform Africa

CMU-Africa student Fonyuy Boris Lami applied his information technology studies, research endeavors, and internship opportunities to fulfilling the Mastercard Foundation’s mission to engineer the future of Africa.

May 11

Artificial Intelligence

Breakthrough tech enables seizure localization in minutes

Tech that uses minimally invasive resting state electrophysiological recordings to localize seizure onset brain regions and predict seizure outcomes in just 10 minutes is the He lab's latest win.

Research paper

May 6

News & Events

It’s how you finish

Class of 2022 graduate, Andrew Thompson, adds impressive academic performance, professional internships, leadership roles, and a job offer from Deloitte to his long list of accomplishments.

May 4

Energy & Environment

Hidden energy poverty revealed by energy equity gap

Energy equity gap provides new metric that captures resident behavior to illustrate the divide in safety and comfort from extreme temperatures across income groups.

A team of collaborators from CMU and Boston University present a human model of heart and lung co-development during embryogenesis using lab-grown human induced pluripotent stem cells.

It takes a heart to make a better lung

Apr 26

Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning gets smarter to speed up drug discovery

This self-supervised learning framework is better at predicting molecular properties than other machine learning models because it can use large amounts of unlabeled data that other models can’t.

Apr 22

Advanced Manufacturing

Robots that can learn to safely navigate warehouses

Advances in chips, sensors, and AI algorithms are enabling robots to continuously learn how to plan routes, avoid obstructions, and operate safely in large dynamic warehouse environments.

Apr 19

News & Events

Crossroads for data

The Intel/VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center has been formed to determine the role of FPGAs in extending the performance and efficiency of future datacenters

Apr 14

Health & Biomedicine

Collaboration shapes extracellular vesicle retention strategy

Phil Campbell and Charlie Ren present a strategy to spatially control extracellular vesicles and keep them resolute under controlled conditions.

Apr 11

News & Events

Burcu Akinci named head of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Burcu Akinci has been appointed the new head of the CEE at Carnegie Mellon University effective July 2022.

Apr 7

Health & Biomedicine

Sensing signals in paralyzed muscles

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

Apr 4

Energy & Environment

Jaramillo on transportation, IPCC report for policymakers

Paulina Jaramillo served as coordinating lead author of the transportation section of the newly released IPCC report for climate-policymakers.

Mar 31

News & Events

Blanton accepts NSBE Lifetime Achievement in Academia Award

Shawn Blanton accepted the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Academia Award at the National Society of Black Engineers’ annual conference.

Mar 29

Energy & Environment

A disruptive approach to fuel cell tech

A research collaboration led by Shawn Litster receives $3.2M from ARPA-E’s OPEN 2021 program to develop ionomer-free electrodes for ultra-high power density fuel cells.

In an effort to modernize scientific research, CMU students used only commercial parts and the cardboard boxes they came in to build a modular robot able to autonomously conduct experiments.

Students’ ingenuity automates scientific research

Mar 22

Artificial Intelligence

You can’t drive a Lamborghini to Mars

How can researchers encourage the “right” level of multidisciplinarity to identify the best solutions? A proposed common framework can transform how they collaborate across disciplines.

Mar 18

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing giant nanotech models

Caleigh Goodwin-Schoen and Rebecca Taylor are designing more affordable ways to print colorful 3D models of biological nanostructures, like proteins and DNA.

Mar 15

News & Events

CMU software aids materials scientists worldwide

Marc De Graef has developed a materials characterization software so powerful it can create orientation maps from low-quality materials.

Mar 10

News & Events

Engineering talent

A new cohort of College of Engineering staff will soon begin a professional development experience called CIT Leads.

Elizabeth Dickey, Materials Science and Engineering department head, and alumnae Carolyn Duran (MSE ’92) and Ellen Cerreta (MSE ’01) are increasing female representation in materials through their executive roles in professional societies for scientists and engineers.

CMU women shift the dynamic in materials science leadership

Mar 4

News & Events

Driven by curiosity

From an early age, CMU-Africa alumna Marie Ange Tesire wanted to seek out the new and discover the unexpected. That sense of curiosity has continued into her profession: machine learning engineer at Rwanda Space Agency.

Mar 1

Health & Biomedicine

Disentangling interactions across brain areas

CMU researchers are simultaneously recording populations of neurons across brain areas in the visual system and utilizing novel statistical methods to observe neural activity patterns being conveyed.

Feb 24

Artificial Intelligence

Bosch takes next steps

Christopher Martin, CMU alumnus and director of engineering, research, and development for the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Pittsburgh, is named president of the Carnegie Bosch Institute.

Feb 21

News & Events

Gift to advance Electrical and Computer Engineering

A lifetime of innovation and leadership in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has inspired a Carnegie Mellon alumnus to make a generous gift to support electrical and computer engineering at the institution.

Feb 17

Artificial Intelligence

Engineering meets extreme reality

"Extreme reality engineering” is all about creating technology that can operate under some of the worst conditions imaginable.

Feb 15

Health & Biomedicine

Deeply rooted

CMU alumna works to transform health care in rural communities.

Feb 11

Energy & Environment

Micromobility modes could replace 1/5 of short car trips

Research shows micromobility modes like e-bikes could significantly reduce urban congestion and costs, but will have to be augmented by other emissions-reduction methods to achieve climate goals.

Feb 9

Health & Biomedicine

CMU and Mayo Clinic to collaborate on transplant innovation

Mayo Clinic and Carnegie Mellon University announced today a research agreement to transform organ transplantation. The institutions will bioengineer innovative approaches to address current barriers in organ transplantation.

Feb 3

Artificial Intelligence

Tucker appointed to AI commission

Conrad Tucker will serve on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s newly-launched Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation.

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

Biden calls for investment in American innovation

Jan 28

Energy & Environment

Research on eVTOL aircraft takes flight

Mechanical Engineering researchers are exploring the potential of rechargeable batteries in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which could transform transportation in metropolitan areas and battle emissions, congestion, and air pollution.

Research paper

Jan 26

News & Events

Fischhoff named 2021 AAAS Fellow

Baruch Fischhoff has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Jan 21

Energy & Environment

When biology influences technology: using bread to desalinate water

Though water covers two-thirds of our planet’s surface, water scarcity remains a persistent issue. Mechanical Engineering’s Philip LeDuc and Adam Wood have an unconventional solution: bread.

Jan 18

News & Events

Kar named 2022 IEEE Fellow

Soummya Kar has been elevated to fellow status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology.

Brandon Lucia’s lab developed the Tartan-Artibeus-1 Satellite, the world’s first batteryless PocketQube nanosatellite, deployed to low-Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-3 Rocket, earlier this week.

Satellite designed at CMU launches into low-Earth orbit

Jan 11

Advanced Manufacturing

Faculty projects awarded DURIP funding

Three College of Engineering faculty members have been selected to receive funding for their projects through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP): Marc De Graef, Anthony Rollett, and Rebecca Taylor.

Jan 7

COVID-19

Transit inequity increased during pandemic

Preliminary results from study of Allegheny County’s public busses finds transit inequity directly contributes to higher infection rates among members of low income and ethnic minority groups.

Jan 4

Health & Biomedicine

Precision rehabilitation to prevent osteoarthritis

Wearable sensors plus computer vision could reduce the likelihood of degenerative joint disease.

Dec 22

News & Events

Keith Cook named head of Biomedical Engineering

Keith Cook has been selected to be the next head of the Biomedical Engineering Department (BME) at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. The appointment takes effect immediately.

Dec 14

Artificial Intelligence

Data-frugal deep learning optimizes microstructure imaging

Compared to other computer-vision methods, Elizabeth Holm’s approach to characterizing material microstructure requires only 30-50 images to save researchers an abundance of time and money.

Dec 10

News & Events

Classmates and checkmates

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

Dec 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Breaking barriers in medicine

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

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.

Research paper

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.

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.

Testing the durability of new probes

Nov 8

News & Events

Making hockey safer

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

Nov 5

Energy & Environment

Closing the food loop

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

Nov 3

Energy & Environment

Optimizing power grid simulation

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

Nov 1

Advanced Manufacturing

A hands-free, hands-on approach

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

Oct 29

News & Events

Getting answers you want and support you need

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

Oct 27

Health & Biomedicine

Whitehead featured on NPR’s TED Radio Hour

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.

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

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

Engineer, entrepreneur, investor, sailor

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.

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.

Finding community

Oct 4

Energy & Environment

Who’s paying for your Uber?

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

Sep 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Team builds tools, innovations to support federal investment

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

Sep 29

News & Events

Allen Robinson named new director of CMU-Africa

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

Sep 27

News & Events

From engineering to law

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

Sep 24

Energy & Environment

Jaramillo placing new tool in energy planners’ hands

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

Sep 22

Health & Biomedicine

Resetting the standard in orthopedics

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.

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.

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

Jahanian accepts GEM Consortium Academic Leadership Award

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.

Research paper

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.

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.

Building friendships and future success

Aug 26

Health & Biomedicine

Sense and signal

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

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.

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.

Aug 10

Advanced Manufacturing

Tuning synthetic collagen threads for biohybrid robots

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.

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

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.

Pushing through nanopores: Genetic sequencing with MXene

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.

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Research paper

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.

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Research paper

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.

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.

Optimizing pharmaceutical development

Jul 6

News & Events

Rocket girl

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.

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.

Jun 18

Cyberphysical Systems

Fabric-friendly sensors

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

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.

Novel methods for making ceramics could abate environmental problems.

One thing leads to another

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.

Research paper

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).

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.

Rethinking the rink for hockey safety

May 14

Energy & Environment

What’s left out of energy models? You.

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.

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.

Apr 26

Health & Biomedicine

Hitting a home run for artificial organ research

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.

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

From Twitter to traffic predictor

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.

Research paper

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.

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.

Car-free days lead to cleaner air

Apr 1

News & Events

Students climbed the mountain together

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.

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.

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.

News & Events

Chris McComb: Wrangling Manufacturing Data by Using Machine Learning

Mechanical Engineering's Chris McComb explains his team's work to make machine learning and data analytics more accessible to small manufacturers.

News & Events

Bin He: Neuroengineering and Dynamic Brain Mapping

Biomedical Engineering Professor Bin He discusses his research in functional neuroimaging using electromagnetic signals.

News & Events

Destenie Nock: Equitable Energy Planning in SubSaharan Africa

Dr. Destenie Nock and Ph.D. student Charles Van-Hein Sackey discuss their research on equitable decision making and energy planning in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work in this video has been partially supported by NSF [Grant 2121730]. Nock also acknowledges the Wilson E Scott Institute for Energy Innovation where she is an energy fellow. Relevant Papers: Sackey, C. V. H., Levin, T., & Nock, D. (2022). Latent demand for electricity in sub-Saharan Africa: a review. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ac5fb2/meta Sackey, C. V. H., & Nock, D. (2022). The need for agricultural productive uses in the national electrification plan of sub-Saharan African countries—a call to action for Ethiopia. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ac611e/meta Nock, D., Levin, T., & Baker, E. (2020). Changing the policy paradigm: A benefit maximization approach to electricity planning in developing countries. Applied Energy, 264, 114583. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261920300957

News & Events

Engineering Design I: Methods and Skills

MechE's Rahul Panat and his students discuss the Engineering Design I course, including the goals of the class, their projects, and what they've learned.

News & Events

Elizabeth Dickey: Electron Microscopy for Engineering Better Materials

Materials Science and Engineering Department Head Beth Dickey uses electron microscopy to analyze the fundamental level of materials, such as electronic ceramics, so we can understand how they change over time.

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