Swanson School of Engineering

Congrats to Sylvanus Wosu, Brandon Grainger, Robert Kerestes, Melissa Bilec, David Vorp, Albert To, Bopaya Bidanda, Kent Harries, Fang Zheng Peng, and Gelsy Torres-Oviedo! They will be recognized this month at Pitt's 2026 Faculty Honors Convocation. news.engineering.pitt.edu/ten-swanson-sc…

Pitt's own Peyman Givi (@PittMEMS) has received the Carnegie Tech 2026 Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award from Carnegie Mellon University. Congratulations! news.engineering.pitt.edu/cmu-honors-alu…

In celebration of Women's History Month, we recognize our amazing faculty for their dedication to student success, game-changing research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Thank you for everything you do!

Congratulations to Pitt’s Joe Szczur (@PittCivilEnvEng)! The Engineers'​ Society of Western PA has honored him with its prestigious 2026 William Metcalf Award for his tremendous work transforming roadways and building community. news.engineering.pitt.edu/from-highways-…

Congratulations to Pitt’s Youngjae Chun (@Pitt_IE) and Stephen Emery! The interdisciplinary team has received an additional $1.2 million in funding from the NIH to advance their novel, minimally invasive fetal shunt designed to treat fetal hydrocephalus. news.engineering.pitt.edu/the-potential-…

Lev Khazanovich and Julie Vandenbossche (@PittCivilEnvEng) have been awarded a $600,000 NCHRP grant to research longitudinal cracking in concrete highways and develop models to predict this road failure. news.engineering.pitt.edu/a-new-model-fo…

Happy to see our recent paper featured on the cover of @ACSPublications Applied Engineering Materials doi.org/10.1021/acsaen… @PittEngineering @PittMEMS #MyACSCover #ACS #LaserInducedGraphene #Kirigami #FlexibleElectronics #Graphene #Manufacturing #WearableElectronics

Congratulations to Fang Peng (@PittECE)! IEEE recently honored him with its prestigious Medal in Power Engineering for his work to transform Z-source and modular multi-level converter technology. news.engineering.pitt.edu/ieee-honors-pi…

Exciting new research from Mostafa Bedewy, Paul Leu, and Mirza Sahaluddin! Inspired by kirigami, they're using laser technology to develop flexible, transparent barriers that can block electromagnetic noise and harmful radiation. news.engineering.pitt.edu/designing-tran…

Congratulations to Sabrina Helbig (@PittECE)! Innomotics has awarded her the 2026 Peter Hammond Award, which recognizes a remarkable Pitt graduate student working to advance the field of electric power conversion. news.engineering.pitt.edu/10-year-annive…

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Ohodnicki on being named permanent director of Pitt's Center for Energy! news.engineering.pitt.edu/paul-ohodnicki… @PittEnergy

Pitt’s Cyber Energy Center has received Phase Two funding from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to advance research and real-world testing designed to protect the nation’s most essential infrastructure. news.engineering.pitt.edu/from-research-…

This February, Brandon Grainger (@PittECE) attended the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science award event to recognize remarkable middle and high school leaders in STEM and to get them thinking about engineering education and career pathways. news.engineering.pitt.edu/powering-a-bri…

Pitt students Iyan Nekib (BS ECE ’25 ) and PJ Granieri (@PittECE) had an amazing opportunity to partner with Microsoft to solve a real-world issue in the OpenEBS Mayastor storage engine. It gave them a crash course in cloud-native computing. news.engineering.pitt.edu/two-heads-in-t…

Congratulations to Lei Fang @PittCivilEnvEng! He has received a $372,882 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to use data analysis and machine learning to reveal subtle behaviors in turbulence that today’s models miss. news.engineering.pitt.edu/uncovering-pat…

Pitt’s own Albert To and Wei Xiong @PittMEMS have received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop interlocking interfaces that will transform how unlike materials are joined. news.engineering.pitt.edu/transforming-t…

🚀 So proud of @danshiwarski’s achievement! Huge congrats on engineering a game-changing cardiovascular research tool and getting featured by @PittEngineering! 🎓👏 🔗 News clip: news.engineering.pitt.edu/an-open-source… 🔗 Device publication: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Jillian Zitcovich, Anthony Spadafore, Joaquin Tristan, Jack Wasco and Alexis Shafer! The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society has recognized them with PES scholarships. news.engineering.pitt.edu/five-pitt-elec…

Intl coverage of the 1st structural engineering manual for bamboo continues in @SustainabltyMag! Kudos to co-authors David Trujillo (@uniofwarwick), Kent Harries (@PittCivilEnvEng), Sebastian Kaminski (@Arup), @INBARofficial, & Luis Felipe Lopez (BASE)! sustainabilitymag.com/news/is-bamboo…

A hearty congratulations to our @PittMEMS alumnus and WWII veteran Mitchell Angelos BSMechE '50 on his 100th birthday! fox43.com/article/news/l…