Welcome to Media Relations at the College of Engineering

HandTalk: Converting Sign Language into Sound
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette featured ECE students' Meeting of the Minds research. HandTalk is a sensor-equipped glove that can translate gestures into spoken words on a cell phone.

The Entrepreneurial Dean
Dean Pradeep Khosla talks with the Kamla Bhatt Show about entrepreneurship, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration at Carnegie Mellon, as well as the new center for mobile research to be located at both the Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley campuses.

We Are What We Eat
ScienceDaily covers Christopher Weber and Scott Matthews' upcoming article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology that shows it's dietary choice, not food miles, that most determines a household's food-related climate impacts.

CIT Again Ranks in Top 10
CIT has been named one of the top graduate schools in the country. It was ranked seventh by U.S. News & World Report in the annual list of "America's Best Graduate Schools" released on March 28.

Invisibility Cloak
Science Daily discusses how MSE's Michael Bockstaller and Chemistry's Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter's famed "invisibility cloak" for nanoparticles. 

What Makes Sugar Explode?
In response to the deadly fire at the Imperial Sugar Company plant in Georgia, Chemical Engineering Head Andy Gellman helps Slate explain what makes sugar explode.

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