CMU Mechanical Engineering

Professor Shelley Anna has been selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Our department has had a junior faculty member selected for three consecutive years. Burak Ozdoganlar last year, and Phil LeDuc the year before. Read the official release here.

Professor Ed Rubin, is urging Congress to approve legislation designed to accelerate carbon storage technologies. He has worked on this problem as a member of the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC. This organization shared the prize with former Vice-President Al Gore. Professor Rubin introduced Al Gore at CMU's Commencement. You can view the intro here, and Vice-President Gore's speech here.

MechE's Jeremy Michalek has been awarded a National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award. Read more.

Department Head, Nadine Aubry, awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). See more here.

Plus! Read this write-up of Dr. Aubry from the CMU homepage.

Three of MechE's faculty have been awarded Faculty Awards this year by CIT: Jeremy Michalek has been given the George Tallman Ladd Research Award in recognition of his research, professional accomplishments, and potential; Jon Cagan, the Outstanding Research Award for helping to make CMU the world leader in the field of engineering design grammers; and Ed Rubin, the Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award for his pioneering research in the application of engineering methods to assess the environmental impacts of energy production. More information on CIT's Faculty Awads can be found here.

Professor Ed Rubin, who has a joint appointment between EPP and MechE, is among the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, as a contributor to the reports of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor Rubin's contribution was substantial, particularly as the coordinating lead author of the IPCC report on Carbon Capture and Storage. You can read more here.

According to the American Society for Engineering Education, MechE ranks among the top 40 producers of Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering graduates in the nation. Listing here.

CMU's Tartan Racing wins DARPA Urban Challenge. Our own Bill Messner is on the team. Read here an earlier article, that includes a humorous quote by him.

Distinguished alumni Edward T. Kirkpatrick passed away recently. Read more about his life here.

Carnegie Mellon is ranked 20th in the world in the London Times' "World's Top 200 Universities". Carnegie Mellon also made Sierra's 'Coolest' College List. These and other rankings can be found here. (PDF)

Professor Allen Robinson wins new awards totaling more than $1.5M to study air pollutant emissions from combustion systems. Read more here.

Professor Metin Sitti is written up in ScientificAmerican.com for another robot that imitates nature. This one "walks on water". You can read about one that climbs walls here.

Professor Jonathan Cagan was interviewed for a story for discovery.com regarding mood furniture! Not surprising considering his growing reputation in the product design field. You can read how Professor Cagan has encouraged Carnegie Mellon students to create more than 30 patentable ideas.

Members of Prof. Metin Sitti's NanoRobotics Lab, PhD students Steven Floyd and Chytra Pawashe, won the second prize in the first RoboCup 2007 Nanogram Competition in Atlanta. This competition involved designing and building a custom micro-robot less than 300 micrometers that could pass obstacles and play soccer on a flat surface precisely with computer control. Seven teams from around the world attended this competition.

Did you know? All five assistant professors hired by MechE since 2002 are winners of the National Science Foundation's prestigious Early Career Award. Read more here!

Department Head, Nadine Aubry, has been named chair of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Fifteen national societies are represented on the committee, with a combined membership of 475,000 engineers and scientists. Read more about USNC/TAM here.