A new initiative aims to provide significant financial relief to undergraduates from low- and middle-income families, ensuring that a quality education at CMU is within reach for all deserving ...

What can instructors do to support students?

Students come to the classroom with a broad range of pre-existing knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitudes, which influence how they attend, interpret and organize in-coming information. How they ...

Diversity and inclusion have a singular place among the values of Carnegie Mellon University. The Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion actively cultivates a strong, diverse and inclusive ...

The recent evolution of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, DALL-E 2, and GitHub Copilot, is impressive, as is the associated volume of media coverage. Are such tools an opportunity for or a threat to teaching ...

All too often, when students receive back a graded exam, they focus on a single feature – the score they earned. While this focus on “the grade” is understandable, it can lead students to miss out on ...

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Operations Management is concerned with planning, organizing, and supervising the design, development, and delivery of products and services. It provides conceptual frameworks and analytical tools to ...

Unfortunately, groups can easily end up being less, rather than more, than the sum of their parts. Why is this? In this section, we consider the hazards of group projects and strategies instructors ...

Lameck Beni and Eric Zhao graduated from CMU with degrees in mechanical engineering and are now pursuing their graduate studies thanks to CMU’s Rales Fellows Program.

Sodium polyacrylate is an example of a super-absorbing polymer. It is a cross-linked (network) polymer that contains sodium atoms. It absorbs water by a process called osmosis. When the ...

Technologies have become pervasive and fundamental to the operation of modern businesses. These technologies are at the core of today’s knowledge-based economy, fueling the development of innovative ...