• Carnegie Mellon’s Cagan, Jahanian, and alumnus Pitel elected to the National Academy of Engineering 2026 class. • Cagan leads Mechanical Engineering, pioneering design automation and medical tech innovations. • Jahanian, CMU’s 10th president, authored 100+ papers on distributed computing, network security, protocols. • Pitel, IEEE Fellow, holds 28 patents, won 2008 Gerald Kilman Innovator Award. • Cagan founded Integrated Innovation Institute, merging engineering, design, business for interdisciplinary product creation. • All three recipients exemplify CMU’s leadership in engineering research and education excellence.
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- Carnegie Mellon University celebrated the election of three of its own to the National Academy of Engineering’s 2026 class. Jonathan Cagan, the university’s head of Mechanical Engineering, Farnam Jahanian, CMU’s president, and alumnus Ira J. Pitel were all selected. The NAE election is one of the highest honors for engineers. Cagan is noted for design‑automation and medical‑technology research, Jahanian for work on distributed computing and network security, and Pitel for his contributions to power electronics and numerous patents. The inductees will be formally welcomed at the Academy’s October annual meeting.
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