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Mar 23

MSE students win big with doctoral research at 3MT championship Opens in new window

MSE Ph.D. students earned first place overall, the People’s Choice Award, and the Alumni Choice Award at the Carnegie Mellon Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.

Mar 21

Bold initiative to make hockey safer returns for sixth year Opens in new window

CMU students strive to make ice hockey safer for players regularly blocking 100 mph shots.

Mar 17

CMU to Lead NASA Space Technology Research Institute Opens in new window

A new NASA Space Technology Research Institute (STRI) led by Carnegie Mellon University seeks to shorten the cycle required to design, manufacture, and test parts that can withstand the conditions of space travel through constructing models for qualification and certification.

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Pistorius helps create industrial decarbonzation partnership with a $1.5 million NSF grant

MSE’s Chris Pistorius and colleagues create the Industrial Decarbonization Analysis, Benchmarking, and Action (INDABA) partnership with a $1.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation.

WIRED

Feinberg quoted on lab-grown skin technology

BME/MSE’s Adam Feinberg was quoted in a WIRED article about “edgeless” engineered tissue that Columbia University Medical Center researchers are working on and, recently, successfully transplanted. Feinberg commented on the importance of vascular quality in tissues, and a path for making these technologies more available.

Carnegie Mellon University

Finalist Wang shares her 3MT Challenge competition strategies

MSE’s Yingqiao Wang is set to compete in CMU’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Championship, a competition that challenges doctoral students to translate their complex research to a broad audience—all in three minutes. After studying past performances, Wang realized that most of the past participants spent nearly half their time explaining the problem their research was grounded in. “This is a key point to help the audience understand the research and connect it to real life,” Wang says.

Science Daily

Rollett collaborates on research detecting additive manufacturing defects in real-time

Building upon prior research partnerships, MSE’s Tony Rollett engaged with colleagues at the University of Virginia on “Machine learning–aided real-time detection of keyhole pore generation in laser powder bed fusion,” which was published in Science Magazine in January 2023.

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