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May 6, 2005

ECE Students Win "Meeting of the Minds" Awards

Think only faculty and graduate students do research at Carnegie Mellon? Think again. At this spring's 10th annual "Meeting of the Minds" undergraduate research symposium, 400 Carnegie Mellon students exhibited projects, including nearly 45 from ECE. Several ECE students won awards at the symposium competitions, which were sponsored by corporations, departments, honor societies, and individuals.

May 5, 2005

Tasting Success at Carnegie Mellon

They may already “melt in your mouth, not in your hands,” but picking out the red M&Ms® just got a little easier, thanks to our student inventors, who made machines to color-classify the candy. More than ten teams of pupils demonstrated their automated M&M sorters for the final project in Mechatronic Design during the undergraduate research symposium, the “Meeting of the Minds.”

April 4, 2005

Engineering the Family Car of the Future

In the future will we still drive our cars, or will our cars drive us?

The latter may be closer to the truth, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers who are creating the new car of the future, equipped with wireless networks and Global Positioning Satellite technology to keep drivers and passengers safe and on time wherever they are headed.

April 1, 2005

Carnegie Mellon's Collaborative Research is Driving Force Behind Revolutionary New Tool for Writing Software Codes

A collaborative research team led by Carnegie Mellon University's José M.F. Moura has developed a new set of software tools that may revolutionize the way computer code is written. The team involves ECE faculty members Moura and Markus Püschel, and Maria Manuela Veloso, a professor with the School of Computer Science, as well as David Padua, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jeremy Johnson, a professor of computer science at Drexel University.

March 1, 2005

The Feynman Lecture Series

After a successful run last year, ECE Professor Jim Hoburg and the office of the vice provost for education are again showing Richard Feynman's seven lectures on The Character of Physical Law. Professor Feynman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, presenting the talks for the 1964 Messenger Lecture Series at Cornell University.