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Mar 28, 2024
How Congestion Pricing is Shaping the Future of Transportation
CEE Professor Peter Furth explains the benefits of congestion pricing following the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s approval of New York City’s final proposal.
Mar 27, 2024
Exploring Dissipation Engineering in Hybrid Magnonic Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, in collaboration with Boston University, was awarded a $420,000 NSF grant for “Harnessing Magnonic Nonreciprocity Through Dissipation Engineering.” This project will investigate the principals of energy dissipation in magnonic systems and engineering approaches for manipulating dissipations.
Mar 27, 2024
Potential Causes of Baltimore Bridge Collapse from a Structural Engineering Perspective
CEE Professor Jerome Hajjar explains the potential causes of the catastrophic Baltimore bridge collapse in which several people died, and the risks posed by older bridges and large commercial shipping vessels.
Mar 26, 2024
Willits Elected to AIMBE Board of Directors
ChE Professor and Chair Rebecca Willits was elected to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer on the board of directors for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for 2024-2026. Willits is also a Fellow of AMBIE and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Mar 25, 2024
Three Northeastern Faculty Selected as AIMBE Fellows
Bouvé/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong, and ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu were selected as Class of 2024 Fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Mar 21, 2024
Field Experts Discuss the Monitoring of Microplastics in the Massachusetts Bay
At a full-day workshop, CEE professor Loretta Fernandez, and members of research organizations, academia, and industry discussed microplastics in local water systems and proposed solutions to prevent potential health impacts as the plastics degrade.
Mar 20, 2024
Securing Health Care Infrastructure Against Potentially Devastating Cyberattacks
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu advises the health care industry to more effectively protect its infrastructure from hackers who can infiltrate medical devices such as cancer radiation therapy machines.
Mar 20, 2024
“Emerging Investigators” Are Studying Flow of Soft Materials through Tiny Spaces
Barrett Smith, PhD’24, chemical engineering, and ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi were recognized for their work focusing on soft materials flowing through small spaces in the “Emerging Investigators” series of Soft Matter, which published their paper, “In Situ Polymer Gelation in Confined Flow Controls Intermittent Dynamics.”