Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering

At the Innovation Palooza and Rothberg Catalyzer Impact-a-Thon, we celebrate innovation—everything about innovation—the innovators, what they innovate and create, and how they do it. We give people a hard social problem, and they have up to a week to solve it. This year’s problem was about creating medical devices to assist people during natural disasters.

We caught up with three of our own myths and legends at the CMU Spring Carnival. Hear what they had to say.

Mechanical Engineering faculty member Sheng Shen describes his work developing low-density, multi-functional materials that have a broad range of applications in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical technologies.

Chris Bettinger, associate professor of materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering, is working with his laboratory to develop brain-machine interfaces made of hydrogel-based electronics, which are less likely to cause brain injuries while stimulating or recording from the nervous system.

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Venkat Viswanathan discussed the potential to use batteries for sustainable transportation and aviation.