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Announcing the 2025 SSOE Co-op Student & Employer of the Year

Fall 2025 Senior Design Expo

Student innovation on display at the Fall 2025 Senior Design Expo

Exciting Chemistry

Breakthrough catalyst insight may unlock new possibilities for safer water disinfection

Renerva Inc. approved for first-in-human FDA clinical trials

Pitt-based startup aims to reduce chronic pain in amputees and prevent painful neuroma formation

Reluctant Researcher Turned First Author

Pitt Undergraduate Andrew Ashmar Helps Engineer Bioplastics That Can Disappear

Pitt INFORMS Student Chapter Builds Community, Makes the Grade

Pitt’s Mai Abdelhakim Receives IEEE Excellent Service Award

From Light to Logic

McMaster Scientists and Pitt Engineers Demonstrate First Functionally Complete Logic Gate in a Soft Material Using Only Light

INSITES, a New Pitt Industry Consortium, Gains Momentum

Unfolding the truth about bladder function

Pitt team reveals new insights on how the bladder actually works

The Swanson School of Engineering

Creating an environment of academic excellence, transdisciplinary research, community engagement, and lifelong learning.

Since 1846, engineering programs at the University of Pittsburgh have helped to transform our region, the nation, and the world. Swanson School faculty and students are at the forefront of developing solutions to create a better future. The Swanson School focuses on our health, our planet, and the ingenuity that keeps us competitive with recognized programs in sustainability, energy systems, advanced manufacturing, bioengineering, micro- and nanosystems, computational modeling and advanced materials development.

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