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  Carnegie Mellon University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carnegie Mellon's 103 acre (0.4 km²) main campus is three miles (5 km) from downtown Pittsburgh, between Schenley Park and the Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland neighborhoods.
Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the neighboring University of Pittsburgh.
Carnegie's vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University   (1782 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon Trademark Use
Carnegie Mellon asserts ownership over its name and any other mark, logo, insignia, seal, crest, design, symbol or any combination of these that have come to be associated with Carnegie Mellon.
Carnegie Mellon's trademarks are intended to present a positive image of the university.
The use of any Carnegie Mellon trademark by student organizations or groups or any third party (unless approved by the university Office of Innovation Transfer) must be approved in writing by the Trademark Licensing Office prior to production of each item.
www.cmu.edu /policies/documents/Trademark.html   (1273 words)

  
 Employer Profile: Carnegie Mellon University
The lifeblood of Carnegie Mellon University is the talented faculty and staff who bring their expertise and dedication to the university.
Carnegie Mellon also has campuses in California and the Arabian Gulf nation of Qatar, and is expanding its international presence in Europe and Asia with master's programs and other educational partnerships.
Carnegie Mellon's unique mix of strengths in technology, business, public policy and the arts is distinctive among national research universities.
chronicle.com /jobs/profiles/3061.htm?pg=i   (531 words)

  
 Photo Album - Andrew Carnegie
These steel beams, embossed with the name "Carnegie," are two of many donated(as a result of the efforts of well-known Astronomer and Optician, John A. Brashear) by the Carnegie Steel Company to the University of Pittsburgh, in 1905, for the construction of the new Allegheny Observatory in Allegheny City, Pa.(now part of Pittsburgh).
Dominating the skyline of "Carnegie Tech," Hamerschlag Hall was one of the original buildings of the Carnegie Technical Schools in Pittsburgh.
Opened in 1900, Carnegie Mellon University is now a national leader, in education, in the fields of computer science, robotics, engineering, public and private management, and drama.
andrewcarnegie.tripod.com /photoalbumAndrewCarnegie.htm   (916 words)

  
 ASEE PRISM - Mar 2003 - America's Newest Export   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Students at Georgia Tech Lorraine have the option of enrolling in a double degree program, so that at the end of their studies they emerge with degrees from both Georgia Tech and one of a half dozen French engineering institutions with which Tech has developed partnerships.
While Georgia Tech has built quite a presence abroad, Carnegie Mellon and Michigan are still in the early stages of their involvement.
Carnegie Mellon was exploring the possibility of establishing a presence somewhere in Europe when Greek entrepreneur Socrates Kokkalis offered to partner with the Pittsburgh institution.
www.prism-magazine.org /mar03/export.cfm   (2466 words)

  
 US Universites and Colleges Program - Carnegie Mellon University
When the school was renamed Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912, it took another important step in its transition into one of the nation's leading private research universities.
Carnegie Mellon's position of leadership in the arts and in technology is unusual in higher education today.
Carnegie Mellon is recognized as a pioneer in the uses of computing in education.
www.usuniversities.com /listingsp3.cfm/listing/5024   (305 words)

  
 Fanfare surrounds visit of Carnegie kin from Scotland
So, as the trustees of Carnegie Mellon University, the school great-grandfather Andrew started 100 years ago, gather to honor his descendants, they'll be presenting the Founder's Medallion to a Scottish sheep and cattle herder who didn't even attend college.
Thomson, accompanied by her brother-in-law, Gavin Suggett, was dressed in the Carnegie family tartan as she greeted hundreds of guests at last night's reception inside Dinosaur Hall at The Carnegie and got a look at what her great-grandfather did with his money.
Andrew Carnegie, who died in New York in 1919, was a living presence in the life of Thomson, who rattled off names, dates, places with the familiarity of family.
www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20001020carnegie5.asp   (659 words)

  
 Working at Carnegie Mellon | Human Resources @ CMU
Carnegie Mellon is a national research university of about 9,500 students and 4,000 faculty, research and administrative staff.
Carnegie Technical School was founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, whose vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers.
Carnegie Mellon makes a full range of benefits programs available to eligible employees, including health benefits, tuition assistance and on-site child care.
hr.web.cmu.edu /prospective/cmu   (317 words)

  
 Alumni: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University's Tech Bytes series gives alumni and friends a special glimpse into the innovative and educational programs and research being conducted at the university.
Tech Bytes features Carnegie Mellon speakers describing these initiatives and their impact on our society.
The Tech Bytes program is part of Carnegie Mellon's commitment to keeping you informed about the latest developments in a variety of high technology fields.
www.cs.cmu.edu /alumni/tbb.html   (510 words)

  
 History | Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The school, founded in 1900 by a grant of funds by the Scottish immigrant industrialist Andrew Carnegie, was to be known as Carnegie Technical Schools and was to train mechanics and professionals for careers in industry.
The founder and patrons of the Carnegie Technical Schools saw it as their goal to create a particularly American fusion of the Ecole Polytechnique (founded in Paris to train engineers and technicians) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (founded in Paris to train artists and architects).
Carnegie Tech's first Professor of Architecture, Henry Hornbostel, was himself a student at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts (in 1895 - 97).
www.arc.cmu.edu /cmu/about_sa/history.jsp   (1687 words)

  
 CMU Mechanical Engineering :: History
In 1900, when steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie announced to the City of Pittsburgh his intention to build a "first class technical school" for the sons of local steel mill workers, he had no idea what he had started.
In less than a century (most prominent engineering colleges are much older), Carnegie Mellon University has grown from Andrew Carnegie's four small programs to the academic excellence of the world-class research university it is today.
Over the next five decades, Carnegie Tech became well known not only for its engineering and science programs, but also for its progressive programs in drama and fine arts.
www.me.cmu.edu /default.aspx?id=history   (235 words)

  
 Defense Tech: Darpa's Smart, Mean, Off-Road Drone
By the time you read this, Carnegie Mellon roboticists and Darpa chieftains will be rolling out their latest mechanical warrior: a six-and-half-ton, six-wheeled unmanned behemoth called Crusher.
The clever, almost leg-like way the wheels attached would allow Crusher (like its predecessor, Carnegie's Spinner robot) to climb steps bigger than four feet, and tackle slopes with a 40 degree grade.
Carnegie and Darpa will be talking up Crusher's off-road toughness today.
www.defensetech.org /archives/002367.html   (451 words)

  
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In 1967, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute of Research to form Carnegie Mellon University.
The undergraduate population is 4,544 and the graduate population is 3,024.
Carnegie Mellon offers single sex residence halls, coeducational residence halls, on and off-campus apartments on and off-campus houses and fraternity and sorority houses.
mati.eas.asu.edu:8421 /p1000/schoolinfo/CARNEGIE_MELLON_UNIVERSITY   (232 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar / About
Carnegie Mellon is a national research university of about 10,000 students and 4,500 faculty, research and administrative staff.
Carnegie Mellon Qatar Campus offers students in the Gulf access to one of the most highly regarded universities in the United States.
The university today consists of seven colleges and schools, the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the David A. Tepper School of Business, the School of Computer Science and the H.
www.qatar.cmu.edu /about/index.php?pg=faqs   (368 words)

  
 47.005 SYNCHRO-CYCLOTRON, Science Service Historical Image Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Estimated cost of the Carnegie Tech atom smasher is one million dollars, toward which support in the amount of $580,000 has been received from the Buhl Foundation of Pittsburgh, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Creutz of Carnegie Institute of Technology uses a search coil to measure the magnetic field of a 1000 ampere, 1/14 scale working model of the electromagnet which will form an important part of Carnegie’s 200 million volt synchro-cyclotron.
Carnegie has received support for the project totaling $580,000 from the Buhl Foundation of Pittsburgh, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
americanhistory.si.edu /collections/scienceservice/047005.htm   (361 words)

  
 Carnegie Institute of Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Carnegie Institute which operates the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, see that article.
The Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Tech), the predecessor to Carnegie Mellon, was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools.
Carnegie Mellon's college of engineering took on the name of Carnegie Institute of Technology.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnegie_Institute_of_Technology   (477 words)

  
 Tech Times | Tubas at Carnegie
And the TTTE has scheduled several special "Carnegie preview programs" so local audiences won’t have to miss out on the show, including a hometown performance at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 21, in Wattenbarger Auditorium.
The Tech Times is published for faculty, staff and friends of Tennessee Tech University by the Office of Public Affairs.
Tech Times is automatically distributed to faculty and staff.
www.tntech.edu /techtimes/2003/03_01/01_17/tubas_carnegie.html   (276 words)

  
 Pop City - What's next for computers at Carnegie Mellon
It was only five decades ago that the computer age began, at what was then Carnegie Tech, when Professors Herbert Simon and Allen Newell invented “a thinking machine” the size of a garage.
This month Carnegie Mellon University celebrates with CS50, a series of events scheduled April 19th through 22nd, that highlights the stunning progress of computer science in the last half century.
Much closer to reality, an easier to grasp technology comes in the form of the pert, red-lipped Pearl the Nursebot, a joint project between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon which is currently being field tested in Pittsburgh.
www.popcitymedia.com /features/cmu50.aspx   (1133 words)

  
 Pittsburgh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Mall of Carnegie Tech in the spring of 1957.
Carnegie Tech was operating a 450 MeV cyclotron.
Out of their love and respect for Andrew Carnegie, the Tech band men were wearing Scottish costume.
www2.physics.umd.edu /~yskim/prince/pgh.html   (2177 words)

  
 Cline Library Photo Finding Guide: Carnegie-Cal Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The seeds for the 1937 Carnegie-Cal Tech trip were initially planted by vertebrate paleontologist John Campbell Merriam, Director of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, who recognized a need for a systematic study of t he geology of the Grand Canyon.
The Carnegie-Cal Tech trip is perhaps best known as the trip which was passed by Haldane ¨Buzz¨ Holmstrom on his remarkable solo voyage through the Grand Canyon.
Also of note is that the Carnegie-Cal Tech group was the last to see two of the largest and most intimidating rapids on the Colorado: Separation and Lava Cliff.
www.nau.edu /library/speccoll/guide/c/caltech.html   (287 words)

  
 TIME.com: Carnegie Tech at 50 -- Nov. 6, 1950 -- Page 1
Under Presidents Arthur A. Hamer-schlag (1903-22) and Thomas S. Baker (1922-35) Carnegie Tech developed one of the best departments of metallurgy in the U.S., gathered one of the top coal-research staffs in the world.
With Carnegie Tech's football team in a long losing streak, Doherty refused to go into the market for better players, took the Skibos out of big-time football entirely ("Perhaps you came to the wrong school," he snapped at protesting students).
Soon Tech students were spending a fourth of their time in the social sciences and humanities—not to learn a mass of facts about these subjects, but to understand the disciplines behind them.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,813725,00.html   (717 words)

  
 College Football Hall of Fame
Carnegie Tech's Howard Harpster was a such a strategist whose ability to pull off the unexpected brought him acclaim as one of the great Eastern quarterbacks of the late 1920's.
He rarely threw interceptions and led Carnegie Tech to a 7-1 record in 1928, garnering All-America laurels along the way.
In 1933, at the youthful age of 25, Harpster became Carnegie Tech's head coach.
collegefootball.org /famersearch.php?id=20003   (249 words)

  
 The Tartan Online : The Carnegie Tech that almost was
Although the founding of the Carnegie Technical Schools took place in 1900 with Andrew Carnegie’s proposal to fund the school, it was another five years before the groundbreaking of the campus itself.
In the intervening time, land was acquired from the city of Pittsburgh (30 acres adjoining Schenley Park) and a competition was held between prominent architects to create a design for the campus.
One of the original intents of the Schools’ location was to have easy access to the Carnegie Library and Museums across Junction Hollow, and the different competition entries treated this relationship differently.
thetartan.org /2006/4/17/pillbox/tech_buildings   (818 words)

  
 Semper Victurus - September 2003
Led by the inimitable and flying colonel from the blue grass regions of Kentucky, Jack Elder, the Rockmen plunged, dove, twirled, and twisted to a slim victory of 7 to 0.
Notre Dame counted only eight first downs against Tech’s three, and the latter were not made until late in the third quarter when a sudden flurry arose after the Fighting Irish had made their touchdown and had relaxed a bit.
It was a bitter defeat for Carnegie but their defense was just a wee bit undetermined.
www.irishlegends.com /Pages/semper/semper55.html   (710 words)

  
 CMU Nobel winner John Pople dies at 78   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His decision to leave his native England to join the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Mellon Institute in 1964 generated headlines and caused a political uproar in the British Parliament over the "brain drain" of British scientists headed for the United States.
Pople, who retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 and was a professor at Northwestern University, died Monday of colon cancer at the Chicago home of his daughter, Hilary Pople.
In those days, before the 1967 merger with Carnegie Tech, Mellon Institute officials saw him as key recruit as they tried to expand the institute's reputation beyond applied research to include a vigorous basic science program.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04078/287523.stm   (864 words)

  
 Blue Bell Design: Dedication
In the 30's, when he was there on a football scolarship, Tech was a powerhouse in football.
Aunt Hilda is also a Tech alum and the two have been very giving to the university over the years.
I was always made to feel special because I am the one of the family who followed in their footsteps by going to their beloved Carnegie Tech.
www.bluebelldesign.com /Dedication1.htm   (425 words)

  
 Douglas Cooper: Civic Murals
The east wall shows Oakland in the foreground and looks across Junction Hollow to the campus as it appeared in its last years as Carnegie Tech when I was a student there.
Douglas Cooper graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1970 with a Bachelor of Architecture.
He is Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon and was Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts from 1994-1996.
www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/dcooper/universitymural.html   (769 words)

  
 History - Carnegie Mellon University
Since its founding in 1900 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Mellon University has focused on finding real solutions to the problems facing society.
Whether they attended Carnegie Technical Schools (1900-1912), Carnegie Institute of Technology (1912-1967) or Carnegie Mellon University (1967-present), our alumni became the innovators of their generation who made a difference in the world.
Learn more about Carnegie Mellon by reading about the values of the university and the advancements made under each administration.
www.cmu.edu /about/history   (89 words)

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