Pitt | Swanson Engineering
  • Taking Inventory of a Sustainable Campus
    Greenhouse Gas Inventory Shows Pitt�s Progress Toward Carbon Neutrality
  • Windows that Outsmart the Elements
    New Research Introduces Adaptable Smart Window Design that Can Heat or Cool a House
  • Partnering for a Powerful Future
    Pitt Energy GRID Institute Partners with Duquesne Light Co. to Modernize Electric Grid and the Workforce that Maintains It
  • Swanson School Ties for Most 2021-22 IEEE PES Scholars
    Seven Pitt Electrical Engineering students receive IEEE PES Scholarship Plus awards, and three-time recipient Eli Brock is named the John W. Estey top scholar in the region
  • Michael Cowan Receives 2021 CoMSEF Award from AIChE
  • Swanson School of Engineering Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
    MEMS' William "Buddy" Clark and ChemE's Steven Little are the 9th and 10th Pitt faculty to be selected as NAI Fellows since its inaugural class named in 2015
  • Up, Up and Away: ChemE undergrads participate in hot-air balloon challenge
  • Reshaping the Plastic Lifecycle Into a Circle
    360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. Here�s where it all went, and why the world must transform plastic use from linear to circular.
  • Creating Good Friction: Pitt engineers aim to make floors less slippery
    Swanson School collaborators Kurt Beschorner and Tevis Jacobs will use a NIOSH award to measure floor-surface topography and create a predictive model of friction
  • FDA Approval a Breath of Fresh Air for Pitt Startup ALung
  • Bridging Campuses and Increasing Opportunities in STEM
    Pitt and CMU will offer a joint MS-to-PhD program focused on AI, robotics, and neural engineering to increase the participation of underrepresented students in science and engineering
  • Covestro LLC and University of Pittsburgh collaborate to establish groundbreaking Circular Economy Program
    Collaboration will establish unique circular design curriculum for graduate and PhD students in the U.S.
  • Finding the Missing Piece in Global Oil Life-Cycle Assessment
    New Research in Nature Models the Relationship Between Carbon Impacts and Market Factors in the Oil Industry
  • Rural Health Centers Can Breathe Easy With the O2 Cube
    The durable, solar-powered device is a cost-effective option to make medical oxygen more accessible in developing nations, and it received $50K at the Pitt Innovation Challenge
  • 100 Years of Industrial Engineering at Pitt
    A look back at the beginnings, impact, and future of one of the first IE departments in the world
  • Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help Parkinson�s patients
  • Solar Rover Race in MEMS 0024
  • Sustainable Agriculture from the Bottom Up
    Pitt Researchers Receive $1.7MM to Rebalance the Nitrogen Cycle
  • Pitt undergrads take on the world at the Indianapolis Autonomous Challenge
  • Foiling Electronics Fraudsters
    Pitt Engineers Receive $553K from NSF to Develop Electronic Hardware that Thwarts Counterfeiting Attempts
  • Newly Patented Device Anchored in 50+ Years of Musculoskeletal Research
    A patent was issued for a magnesium-based suture anchor device developed by Pitt bioengineers and led by Dr. Savio L-Y. Woo
  • Does the Brain Learn in the Same Way That Machines Learn?
  • Catalysis Science and Technology Features Research from Pitt�s Mpourmpakis Group
  • Pitt-CMU Team Clinches $3M NSF Grant to Examine the Brain�s Internal States
  • Future-Proofing Infrastructure, Sustainably
    Melissa Bilec Joins $2MM NSF-funded Project to Design Climate-Adaptive Infrastructure