As EPP enters its 50th year, we are celebrating the pioneers and milestones that created a first of its kind department that put policy at the heart of engineering.

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Smart design for a safer world

Engineering and Public Policy has an enduring legacy of interdisciplinary training for engineers. This photograph features an early course in the department’s history, teaching students to design for product safety.

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Engineering the future

How Ed Rubin built a new department at Carnegie Mellon to solve the problems of a changing world.

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Testing Pittsburgh’s waters: a look back at EPP history

Long before environmental testing and reporting were standard practice, Carnegie Mellon students were building the foundation right here in Pittsburgh. This archival footage from the 1970s captures students from the Department of Engineering and Public Policy out in the field, analyzing local air and water quality.

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A new kind of engineer: Granger Morgan and the EPP legacy

Kicking off the 50th-anniversary series, founding head Granger Morgan reflects on pioneering a groundbreaking curriculum at Carnegie Mellon that brought policy into the heart of engineering.