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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.

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.

Foundation for the future

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

ChemE’s 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.

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

Recognizing AI’s misinformation

Sep 29

Health & Biomedicine

Celebrating Black in Microbiology Week

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.

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.

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.

Simulating engineering experiments at home or in the lab

Sep 14

Advanced Manufacturing

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

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.

Sep 11

Energy & Environment

Is systemic racism literally built into our cities?

EPP 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.

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

Nanoparticles to immunize plants against heat stress

Aug 11

Cyberphysical Systems

Cutting vehicle emissions and inspections via IoT

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.

Research paper

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

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

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

Sensing tire wear

Jul 17

Health & Biomedicine

Engineering ways to keep doctors safe from COVID-19

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

Jul 14

News & Events

2020 Dean’s Early Career Fellowships awarded

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

Jul 9

Energy & Environment

COVID and pollution

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

Research paper

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Jul 6

Energy & Environment

Alumni write books to combat climate change

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

Jul 2

Advanced Manufacturing

Installing windows with help from robots

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

Jun 29

Cybersecurity

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.

Jun 26

News & Events

Johnson received NSF CAREER Award

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

Jun 24

Health & Biomedicine

A new platform for neural recording from large brains

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

Jun 19

Health & Biomedicine

Calcium helps build strong cells

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

Research paper

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

Molding masks against coronavirus

Jun 12

Advanced Manufacturing

Unlocking PNA’s superpowers

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

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Research paper

Jun 10

News & Events

Peter Adams named head of EPP

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

Jun 9

Cyberphysical Systems

Smile, you’re on Camaroptera

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

Jun 5

Energy & Environment

The future of pesticides and fertilizers

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

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

A remote control for neurons

Jun 1

News & Events

Elizabeth Dickey named head of MSE

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

May 28

Energy & Environment

Air pollution, simplified

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

May 26

Energy & Environment

Electricity for all

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

Research paper

May 22

Robotics

First real-time physics engine for soft robotics

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

May 20

Health & Biomedicine

Analyzing cells for future biomedical devices

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

May 18

Artificial Intelligence

Remote fever-scanning technologies

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

May 14

Cyberphysical Systems

Building smart cities with taxis

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

May 11

News & Events

Engineering alumnus shares 100 years of stories

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

May 7

Energy & Environment

Prescribed burns may introduce new atmospheric toxins

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

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

Working against the clock

Apr 30

COVID-19

Yağan receives emergency NSF grant to help fight COVID-19

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

Apr 27

Energy & Environment

A big comeback for a little switch

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

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Apr 23

Health & Biomedicine

Dynamic source imaging the brain

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

Apr 20

Health & Biomedicine

Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces

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

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

Behind the shield

Apr 16

News & Events

Pick your own project

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

Apr 14

Artificial Intelligence

Managing necessary bias in AI

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

Apr 10

Artificial Intelligence

Outsmarting a virus

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

Research paper

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Apr 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Microneedle patches available for COVID-19 fight

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

Apr 3

COVID-19

CMU-Africa mobilizes to continue classes during COVID-19

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

Apr 1

COVID-19

The Remote Student Experience at CMU-SV

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

Mar 27

COVID-19

Move to remote research invites innovation

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

Mar 23

Advanced Manufacturing

Engineering faculty win Carnegie Science Awards

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

Mar 17

News & Events

The Value of Information

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

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.

Healing large wounds fast

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.

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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.

Research paper

Research paper

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.

Feb 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Feet beyond fiction

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

Feb 14

Cyberphysical Systems

Heating and cooling that anticipates your needs

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

Research paper

Feb 11

Artificial Intelligence

Capturing physiological signals with an app and a tap

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

Feb 6

Advanced Manufacturing

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

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

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.

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

Study verifies a missing piece to urban air quality puzzle

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.

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Research paper

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.

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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.

Dec 23

Health & Biomedicine

Using exosomes for drug delivery

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

Dec 20

Robotics

Pushing robotics uphill

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

Dec 18

Energy & Environment

A more efficient way to turn saltwater into drinking water

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

Dec 16

Advanced Manufacturing

Creating an on-off switch for heat

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

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.

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

A gnu way to control room temperature

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.

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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.

Oct 31

News & Events

A celebration of collaboration

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

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.

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

Six things you should know about AI from experts 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.

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Sep 19

Health & Biomedicine

Exploring frontiers in biomedical engineering

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

Sep 16

Cybersecurity

Power-full sound waves

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

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.

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.

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

Optimizing ride-hailing systems

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.

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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.

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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.

Aug 1

Advanced Manufacturing

3D printing the human heart

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

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.

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

Untangling electric car policies

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.

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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.

Jun 24

Advanced Manufacturing

Transforming ideas into reality in Tech Spark

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

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Toward Multifunctional Liquid Metal Composites

Soft composites that use droplets of gallium-based liquid metal have the potential for transformative impact in multifunctional material engineering. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method to synthesize composites with high stretchability, negligible electromechanical coupling, Joule-heated healing and reprocessability, and electrical and mechanical self-healing that can be printed. This approach to controlled assembly represents a widely-applicable technique for creating new classes of liquid metal composites with unprecedented multifunctionality.

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Gerald Wang: Understanding nanoscale structural and transport phenomena

CEE’s Gerald Wang studies how particles move. By understanding small interactions, he and his group can find better ways to model the big picture, whether it's pedestrians walking in a crowd or chemical molecules separating from a mixture.

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RFID Tattoo WiTech Lab

The RFID tattoo is a device for voice-impaired patients who can still make facial movements for speaking but cannot produce sound. This video describes how the device works.

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Rahul Panat: Developing a 10-second COVID-19 antibody test

MechE's Rahul Panat reveals the fastest known COVID-19 antibody test with high sensitivity due to a unique, 3D printing technology and an electrochemical reaction.

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Conrad Tucker: Using AI to Generate VR Environments

MechE’s Conrad Tucker discusses his work of using artificial intelligence to explore solutions in virtual reality for educational purposes.

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