News
Soyster Gets High Honor
MIE Professor Allen Soyster received the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Lifetime Achievement Award which is the Institute of Industrial Engineer’s highest and most esteemed honor. May 21, 2013
Stopping Cyber Criminals
ECE Assistant Professor William Robertson, Associate Professor Engin Kirda, and Professor David Kaeli are working with multiple agencies to protect against cyber crimes. May 20, 2013
Heart Healthy Nanotechnology
ChE professor & chair Thomas Webster is working to develop an injectable, conductive nano-material to help regenerate heart tissue following a heart attack or cardiac disease. May 16, 2013
Awarded for Alternative Power
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis has been awarded the 2013 George Westinghouse Gold Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his distinguished service in the power field. May 8, 2013
Proactive Solutions
CEE Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova is using his NSF CAREER grant to develop methods to minimize the environmental impact of quantum dots that are released into waste streams and aquatic environments. May 7, 2013
Breaking Healthcare Barriers
Working with Indiana University, MIE Assistant Professor Ayten Turkcan Upasani was awarded $159K by PCORI to develop an efficient system to make sure underinsured people get the healthcare they need. May 7, 2013
A Revived Steel Bridge Team
The NU Steel Bridge team competed at the ASCE New England Regional Steel Bridge Competition which enhances a students’ education by challenging them to conceptualize, design, erect, and test a steel structure that maximizes performance and economy. May 6, 2013
Manipulating Virtual World
Using concepts from Iron Man, a team of ECE capstone students have developed a Gesture Operated Computer Aided Design tool (goCAD) to move computer objects with hand movements. May 6, 2013
Great Honors for Prof Kaeli
ECE Professor David Kaeli is being named a Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Distinguished Professor and his NUCAR lab has been designated a HSA Academic Center of Excellence. May 6, 2013
Organizing Healthcare
Kendall Sanderson, IE’13, is fulfilling a life long dream of increasing the efficiency of the healthcare system by working with Professor James Benneyan at the Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute. May 3, 2013
Lehman Awarded NSF Grant
ECE Professor Brad Lehman was awarded an $150K NSF grant to develop smart power detection devices for photovoltaic installations. April 29, 2013
Best Season Ever!!
The Northeastern Mini Baja team took 2nd place in the endurance test and 3rd place overall out of the 100 teams that competed at the BAJA SAE Tennessee competition resulting in the best finish in the team’s history. April 26, 2013
Brassitos Wins NASA Fellowship
Mechanics MS student Elias Brassitos is the recipient of a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to contribute innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic future. April 24, 2013
Increasing IVF Success
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his "Phase subtraction cell counting method" to accurately count the cells in an embryo to increase the probability of a healthy transfer during fertility treatments. April 23, 2013
Self-Shaping Composites
MIE Assistant Professor Randall Erb’s research was featured in Nature Communications for his efforts in replicating naturally occurring shape-changing materials with synthetic hydrogel composites. April 18, 2013
Real World Solutions
Under the direction of Daniel Dulaski, a team of CEE capstone students have devised a method to reduce traffic congestion at a busy North Attleboro intersection. April 12, 2013
Webster is Outstanding Editor
ChE professor & chair Thomas Webster was awarded the Dove Press Outstanding Editor's Award for his leadership as the founder and current editor of the International Journal of Nanomedicine. April 12, 2013
Spider Silk Body Armor
Chemical Engineering seniors Thomas Khoury, Robert Jones, and Richard Salvucci won the Northeast Bioengineering Conference Senior Capstone Design Competition for their project which uses spider silk as improved body armor. April 8, 2013
Know When Teeth are Clean
Congratulations to Ameya Mehendale (ChE’13), Jeff Kent (ChE), Esfandiar Kaikhosrowzadeh (ChE’13), Samuel Levine (ME), Getao Li (IE) and Dan Shores (ME) who won the Engineers for the Greater Good (EGG) competition for their design of a smart toothbrush that could detect the presence of plaque and bacteria on teeth.
April 8, 2013
New Advisor of the Year
CEE Assistant Academic Specialist Kathryn Schulte Grahame was awarded the New Advisor of the Year Award for her work with GWISE (Graduate Women in Science & Engineering) by the NU Campus Activities office. April 1, 2013
Students Start New Group
NU’s chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society, which started this past fall, offers students regular opportunities to meet with research faculty and practicing biomedical engineers. April 1, 2013
NUTRONS off to World Championships
The NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, won the 2013 Boston Regional
Competition and will compete at the World Championship later this month
in St. Louis. April 1, 2013
Senior Receives High Honor
ECE Senior Fernando Quivira is a recipient of the Harold Hodgkinson Award in recognition of scholastic achievement, leadership, coop, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. This is one of the highest honors that a senior at Northeastern can receive. March 28, 2013
Looking at the Big Picture
Shuntaro Okuzawa, a senior BS/MS Industrial Engineering student, spent his coop at IBM in the Philippines helping to restructure the organization to make it more efficient. March 28, 2013
People’s Choice Winners
Congratulations to the mechanical engineering team of students who won the Greatest Entrepreneurial Potential award at RISE 2013 for their "vi-RABT: Virtually-Interfaced Robotic Ankle & Balance Trainer". March 26, 2013
Outstanding Student Researchers
Congratulations to the team of computer engineering BS students who won the Excellence in Innovation award at RISE 2013 for their FilterLight project: a low-cost, human-powered UV water filtration system. March 26, 2013
Grad Wins Peebles Award
Recent Mechanical Engineering PhD graduate Jiayi Shi is the recipient of the Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science. March 19, 2013
Next Generation Printing
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina has developed a new faster, cheaper, and more versatile method of 3-D printing that could lead to a wave of new innovation not currently feasible. March 18, 2013
Inventing a Better Antenna
ECE Professors Carmine Vittoria & Vincent Harris were awarded a patent for creating an “Antenna Module having Reduced Size, High Gain, and Increased Power Efficiency”. March 12, 2013
Learning From Disaster
CEE Professor Matthias Ruth is determining how to best rebuild cities to protect them against disasters by studying L’Aquila, Italy which was devastasted by a 2009 earthquake. March 11, 2013
Webster is Keynote Speaker
ChE professor & chair Thomas Webster will be the keynote speaker at the NSF sponsored Columbia-US workshop on Nanotechnology in Energy and Medical Applications. March 11, 2013
Creating a Cyber Defense
ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor William Robertson reviews the new rules being set by the Obama administration to allow the military to defend against a major cyberattack. March 5, 2013
Senior Wins Compass Award
CEE BS/MS student, Andrew Childs, will receive one of nine 2013 Compass Awards which is given to the NU seniors whom show the most leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern. March 5, 2013
A Step Closer to Cloaking
ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei is developing a method to incorporate active electronic circuits into metamaterials to prevent frequency bandwidth problems. March 4, 2013
Congratulations Sarah Brown
ECE PhD student Sarah Brown was awarded the Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year award for her excellent scholastic performance and her dedicated service to NSBE. February 25, 2013
Congratulations Joseph Hollman
ECE PhD student Joseph Hollmann won an NSF East-Asia Pacific Summer Institute fellowship in which he will be working on computational modeling of light propagation in random media. February 25, 2013
Harris Selected as Fellow
Assistant Dean Richard Harris will be inducted in April as a Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences for his extraordinary scientific accomplishments and service to the science community and the public. February 20, 2013
Congratulations Craig Schmidt
Craig Schmidt, ME’16, was awarded the 2013 Kelly Future Engineers Scholarship for his commitment toward a career in engineering, his academic performance, and an outstanding essay. February 19, 2013
Webster Named AIMBE Fellow
Chemical Engineering chair Thomas Webster was selected to be a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering February 15, 2013
Congratulations
Senior IE student Kendall Sanderson was selected to receive Northeastern’s 2013 Outstanding Co-op Education award for his work in the healthcare profession. February 11, 2013
Cleaning Up Nanoparticles
MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri was featured in Industry Week for “Taming the Nanotech Risks” which looks at simple methods to clean up after a nanoparticle spill. February 11, 2013
Creating a Brand New Field
Using the observations he made while studying spider silk,
CEE Assistant Professor Steven Cranford has developed a new field of study,
Materiomics, which considers all parts of a structure collectively. February 6, 2013
Hajjar Selected as SEI Fellow
CIV Chair & Professor Jerome Hajjar has been selected to be a Fellow of SEI for his leadership and mentoring in the structural engineering profession. February 1, 2013
Larese-Casanova Awarded CAREER Grant
CEE Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova has been awarded a $404K NSF CAREER grant to explore the degradation of quantum dots that are released into waste streams and aquatic environments. February 1, 2013
Chowdhury Gets NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $278K EAGER NSF Grant for creating Cognitive Radio Enabled Spectrum Aware Intelligent Vehicular Networks. January 30, 2013
Fu Awarded $1M NSF Grant
ECE and CCIS Assistant Professor Raymond Fu won a $1M NSF grant to develop an at-home knee osteoarthritis rehabilitation therapy utilizing automated data analysis. January 30, 2013
Busnaina Awarded Patent
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded a patent for designing a “3D Nanoscale Circuit Interconnect & Method of Assembly by Dielectrophoresis” January 29, 2013
Aligning for Strength
MIE Assistant Professor Marilyn Minus is using carbon nanotechnology to develop strong composite fibers that will rival those currently available but at a much cheaper cost. January 29, 2013
Awarded for Health & Safety
ChE Professor Ron Willey is the recipient of the Norton H. Walton/ Russell L. Miller Award in Safety/Loss Prevention which is the highest honor from the Safety and Health Division of AIChE. January 25, 2013
Leader in Sustainability
For the 3rd year in a row, NU is one of the top 4 “greenest” in the world according to Greenmetric World University Ranking AND has received the highest score on the Princeton Review’s “Green College Honor Roll” January 17, 2013
Congratulations Qi Wang
Qi Wang, a Bioengineering PhD student, won “Best Presentation” at the Annual AIChE meeting for his research in “The synthesis of selenium nanoparticles via a simple fast reaction and its antibacterial application”. January 15, 2013
Taking Top Honors
The top three winners at the 2012 Draper Technical Challenge Competition hosted by NSBE were all NU students. Congratulations Oliver Maurice (MIE), Samantha Kendrick (CEE), and Idriys Harris (ECE)! January 15, 2013
Journey of Experience
ECE PhD student Sarah Brown was featured in Diversity/Careers for how her experiences at Northeastern from undergraduate to graduate shaped her career goals. January 15, 2013
Bringing Experience to Life
Using her experiences from co-op and as president of the student chapter of EWB, recent Civil graduate Ann Polaneczky has landed a job at Partners in Health building a hospital in Haiti. January 14, 2013
Redeveloped Alternative
Under the direction of associate professor Jeffrey Ruberti, a team of MIE capstone students have redesigned the fasteners used for hernia repair to be more low-cost and reliable. January 11, 2013
Hazard Detecting Vehicles
The research developed by the VOTERS center (led by CEE Professor Ming Wang) for detecting road hazards was featured in Popular Science. January 10, 2013
Lombardi Named Editor in Chief
ECE Professor Fabrizio Lombardi has been named the inaugural Editor in Chief of the new open-access journal, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. January 4, 2013
Ruberti Awarded Patent
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a patent for his methods in creating “Collagen Fibrillar Construction”. January 4, 2013
2 Capstone Teams Study Hand Tremors
Under the direction of Andrew Gouldstone, two teams of MIE capstone students are working to help people with hand tremors. One team developed a writing grip and testing procedure for improving legibility and writing performance while the other team developed a pen to collect grip tension data that can be used for diagnosis. January 3, 2013
Sznaier Joins the less than 1% of CSS Members with this Distinction
ECE Professor Mario Sznaier was presented with the 2012 IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award for his scientific contributions to multi objective robust control, dynamic vision & imaging, and identification and for his outstanding service. December 18, 2012
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Interested in doing research? Participating in an undergraduate research program allows students to enhance their learning experiences while still in school. December 11, 2012
Cities and Climate Change
CEE Professor Matthias Ruth is the co-editor in chief of the newly established Urban Climate journal which looks at the relationship between urban dynamics and climate change. December 11, 2012
Optimizing Growth for the Cure
ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons is re-engineering the way a Madagascar periwinkle plant grows so that it can boost the production of the anti-cancer drugs that it creates December 10, 2012
Honoring Contributions
MIE Professors James Benneyan & Vinod Sahney are 2 of the 10 people that will be honored at the 2013 Society of Health Systems conference for their significant contributions to the society and healthcare IE profession. December 3, 2012
Creating Smart Bandages
ChE Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch is developing a method to use electrochemical sensors in bandages to monitor any bacteria growth at a microscopic level to prevent infection. December 3, 2012
Next Generation Healthcare
Associate Professors Rifat Sipahi (MIE), Andrew Gouldstone (MIE) and Deniz Erdogmus (ECE) were featured at Northeastern’s Pop Up Open Lab Experience: Interactive and Personal Health Technologies. November 21, 2012
Green Computing
Northeastern has partnered with the recently opened Massachusetts Green High Performance Computer Center which will provide the computing power required to solve complex engineering problems. November 20, 2012
New Professional Masters Degree Available
The Master of Science in Sustainable Building Systems integrates
elements of an architectural engineering program with construction
management. November 19, 2012
Nano Scale Antennas
ECE Associate Professor, Hossein Mosallaei is using nanoantennas to manipulate light beams to create higher resolution imaging and more sensitive devices November 9, 2012
Recreating the Magnet
ChE Professor Laura Lewis was featured by NewScientist for her research in creating a non-rare earth magnet that are increasing needed in green technologies. November 9, 2012
Jung’s Research featured in Scientific Reports
MIE Associate Professor Yung Joon Jung’s research on creating “Transparent, flexible supercapacitors from nano-engineered carbon films” was featured in Nature’s Scientific Reports. October 31, 2012
Energy System of the Future
MIE Associate Professor Yung Joon Jung and postdoc Hyunyoung Jung have created a thin transparent and flexible supercapacitor that will be used to store energy for the devices of the future. October 31, 2012
Managing Large Projects
The Construction Industry Institute has awarded CEE Professor Ali Touran $250K to determine the most effective way to manage large construction project portfolios. October 17, 2012
The Organization of Cells
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri’s research in determining the dynamics of how cells organize into multicellular communities or aggregates was featured in PLOS ONE. October 17, 2012
Nanomaterial Tissue Growth
The new chair of Chemical Engineering Thomas Webster is proving that using nanoparticles rather than the current methods improves tissue regeneration and causes implants to last longer. October 17, 2012
Jung featured in Nano Letters
MIE Associate Professor Yung Joon Jung’s research on creating a high power supercapacitor using CNT-CNC 3-D hybrid nanostructures was featured in the Nano Letters journal. October 12, 2012
Impacting the World
The new dean of COE, Nadine Aubry, hopes to add new degree programs and international opportunities to showcase what an engineering program can do. October 11, 2012
Uncovering Hidden Costs
CEE Professor Matthias Ruth is showing how the economic costs of environmental impacts might outweigh the benefits of creating a new Canadian oil pipeline. October 10, 2012
Congratulations Patrick Lupfer
Patrick Lupfer, CEE’13, was recently ranked #1 out of 5,579 ROTC cadets on the U.S. Army Cadet Command’s National Order of Merit List. October 9, 2012
NSF Highlights Ganguly's Work
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly’s is featured in the October edition of NSF’s Current newsletter for his work in showing how climate change will effect the world’s water supply. October 4, 2012
Congratulations Craig Schmidt
Craig Schmidt, ME’16, has been selected as a 2012/13 PES Scholarship Plus recipient which supports students interested in pursuing a career in the power and energy industry. September 28, 2012
Slow Economy Employment
MIE Coop Coordinators Karen Kelley & Lorraine Mountain were awarded “Best Presentation” at the 2012 National CIEC conference. They will receive this award at the next National CIEC in Arizona in early 2013. September 28, 2012
Improving Power Systems
ECE professors Ali Abur and Hanoch Lev-Ari were awarded a $400K NSF grant to use synchronized measurements to determine where faults are in power systems. September 27, 2012
Wan & Muftu Receive $185K Grant
MIE associate professor Kai-tak Wan and professor Sinan Muftu have been awarded an $185K NSF grant to study Mechano-Lipidomics and Mechano-Cytosis of Drug Delivery Liposomes. September 26, 2012
Emergency Wireless Signal
Under the direction of Masoud Salehi, a team of recent ECE graduates designed a robot capable of extending a wireless signal for emergencies as part of their senior capstone design project. September 24, 2012
A Better Social Experience
ECE and CCS Assistant Professor Raymond Fu is working on developing algorithms to rapidly analyze content on social media sites to make for a better user experience. September 17, 2012
Teaching and Tennis Judge
In addition to serving as a Gateway Faculty member, MIE Senior Academic Specialist Beverly Jaeger recently served as a line judge at the 2012 US Open held in New York City. September 10, 2012
Ruberti Gets $1.1M Grant
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a 3-year $1.1M grant from the National Eye Institute to determine the “Mechanobiology of Matrix Production by Corneal Fibroblasts”. September 10, 2012
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
This scholarship is provided as a continuing source for highly qualified
scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college
students who intend to pursue careers in these fields. Deadline: November 12, 2012.
September 1, 2012
Protecting Aquatic Systems
CIV Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger was awarded a $285K NSF grant to study how to reduce nitrogen inputs into lakes and streams due to human activities which are causing increased toxic cyanobacterial blooms August 29, 2012
Mi Receives NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Ningfang Mi was awarded a $272K NSF grant to develop techniques to handle software and hardware failures of large scale computing systems. August 29, 2012
Cybersecurity Training
Professors & Associate Deans David Kaeli (ECE) & Agnes Chan (CCS) and Assistant Professor Will Robertson (ECE & CCS) were awarded a $4.5M NSF grant to train the next generation in cybersecurity August 28, 2012
Congratulations Young Lae Kim
Electrical Engineering PhD student Young Lae Kim is a recipient of the Provost’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship. The award offers support to PhD candidates so they may spend their final semester writing.
August 27, 2012
Improving the Microchip
MIE/CHN researchers Sivasubramanian Somu, Ahmed Busnaina & Jun Huang have developed a nanosized inverter that can be used in making microchips. August 27, 2012
Promoting Engineering Education
MIE Assistant Professor Andrew Gouldstone and ECE Associate Professor Waleed Meleis have been invited to represent Northeastern at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. August 27, 2012
Water Powered Energy
The Ocean Renewable Power Company is using the designs for the Helical Turbine invented by MIE Professor Emeritus Alexander Gorlov to create a giant tidal powered turbine generator in Maine. August 27, 2012
Separating the Good & Bad
ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda has developed a new software tool called PubCrawl to detect and contain malicious web crawlers without effecting normal browsing capacities August 23, 2012
Measuring Nano-Vibrations
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi is using the $300K DARPA Young Faculty Award he received earlier this year to develop a device capable of detecting the resonances of IR and THz wavelengths. August 20, 2012
REUs Enhance Research
Over 20 engineering students presented their findings recently after completing Northeastern’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program which allowed them to build research skills while solving real-life problems. August 13, 2012
Visions from Mars
MIE Alum Megan Richardson who started as a coop and was later hired at NASA JPL in CA is part of the MSL team that recently placed the rover on Mars. August 9, 2012
Carrier Awarded $430K Grant
ChE Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier received a $430K grant from NIH to determine the “Impact of Lipids on Intestinal Mucus Transport and Structural Properties”. August 7, 2012
Hurricanes & Wind Farms
CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers and Professor Jerome Hajjar were awarded an $325K NSF grant to determine the hurricane risk assessment of offshore wind farms. August 7, 2012
Congratulations Ming Wood
MIE middler Ming Wood was selected as the recipient of the $2500 Robert L. Peaslee-Detroit Brazing and Soldering Scholarship which will be presented at the AWS conference in Las Vegas. August 6, 2012
Capstone Goes National
The 1st place ECE spring capstone team iCRAFT (eye Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology), under the direction of associate professor Waleed Meleis, was recently featured on CNN’s “Start Small Think Big.” August 6, 2012
Selenium Remediation
CEE Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova & Assistant Academic Specialist Annalisa Onnis-Hayden were awarded a $305K NSF grant to reduce selenium pollution by using oxygen isotopes. July 31, 2012
Creating Underwater Networks
ECE professor Milica Stojanovic has been awarded an $120K NSF grant to develop a mobile underwater communications network for use in areas like environmental monitoring, security, and aquaculture. July 31, 2012
Congratulations
Assistant Dean Rachelle Reisberg won the Best PIC V & Best Overall Paper at the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition for “The Effect of Cooperative Education on the Self-Efficacy of Students in Undergraduate Engineering”. July 31, 2012
Ruberti Gets $240K Grant
Working with Duke University, MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a 4-year $240K grant from the National Eye Institute to study lipid receptors in age-related macular degeneration. July 24, 2012
Best Season Ever!!
The Northeastern Mini Baja team finished the season in 4th place overall out of 233 teams in the North American three-event series. In the final event held in Wisconsin, the
team placed 19th in the endurance race, and
23rd overall out of 120 teams. July 12, 2012
Awarded for Service Learning
Senior Academic Specialist Susan Freeman received the President's Volunteer Service Award for her continued commitment to the Citizen Schools through their apprenticeship model. She provides opportunities for COE
undergraduates to participate in Service Learning in the local community,
sharing their engineering skillsets with middle school students. July 12, 2012
Carrier Awarded $1.8M Grant
ChE Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier received a $1.8M grant from NIH to develop a method of predicting the effect that ingested lipids have on the absorption of drugs and nutritional supplements. July 10, 2012
Enhancing Engineering
Northeastern hosts the 2012 NSF CMMI Engineering Research & Innovation Conference which focuses on “Engineering Transformation through Partnerships”. July 9, 2012
Improved Water Quality
CEE Associate Professor April Gu has developed a sustainable chemical-free method of recovering the phosphorus used in bioremediation before it wreaks havoc on our water supply. July 9, 2012
Sparking Engineering Ideas
As part of an ITEST grant, led by MIE professor Abe Zeid & associate professor Sagar Kamarthi, two videos that encourage students to pursue engineering have won a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver & Bronze Telly Award July 9, 2012
Busnaina, McGruer, & Adams Receive 2nd Patent
MIE Professors Ahmed Busnaina & George Adams, and ECE Professor Nicol McGruer have been awarded a 2nd patent for their “Bistable nanoswitch” July 5, 2012
Leeser Awarded $500K NSF Grant
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser was awarded a $500K NSF to Ensure Reliability and Portability of Scientific Software for Heterogeneous Architectures.
July 3, 2012
Mavroidis Receives Patent
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis has been awarded a patent for his design of a Virtual Ankle and Balance Trainer System. July 2, 2012
Ruberti & Kowalski Awarded Patent
MIE Associate Professors Jeff Ruberti & Gregory Kowalski have been awarded a patent for creating a "Nanoloom for controlling polymer assembly". July 2, 2012
Meet Our New Dean
On September 1, Nadine Aubry joined COE as our new Dean. An expert in fluid mechanics, she will make COE a leader in experiential research and education. June 26, 2012
NUChip to Detect Cancer
Through interdisciplinary research, a group of graduate students from ECE, MIE, and Pharmacy under the direction of Professor Ahmed Busnaina and Vladimer Torchlin have developed a chip that uses nanoparticles to detect colorectal cancer earlier. June 22, 2012
Gu Awarded for Reviews
CEE Assistant Professor April Gu is a recipient of the 2012 Environmental Science & Technology Excellence in Review Award for her contributions to the journal over the past year. June 22, 2012
Making Bicycling Safer
CIV Professor Peter Furth is creating a system to map out a city’s traffic stress in order to make it safer for bicyclists to get around. June 20, 2012
Benneyan Wins 3rd Center
MIE Professor James Benneyan was awarded an $8M Health Care Innovation Award to establish a Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. June 18, 2012
Triangulating Landmines
Margery Hines, a PhD student in ECE, won a $2000 NSF Judges’ Choice Award for her walking robot based mine detection video presentation at the National NSF IGERT Online Video & Poster Competition in Washington, DC. June 13, 2012
Screening for the Cure
Sean Burns, ChE’13, a Steamboat Foundation Scholar, is using his coop experiences to work with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to improve the screening of which drugs might be effective at curing cancer. June 12, 2012
Bringing Water to Town
CEE capstone students working with Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger and EWB have developed a piping system to provide clean drinking water in Bbanda, Uganda. June 11, 2012
Modular Flight Camera
Under the direction of ECE Professor Bahram Shafai, a group of capstone students have created an easy to assemble and transport remote-controlled surveillance helicopter. June 6, 2012
Sustainable Buildings
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, has received a $250K NSF grant to develop a “Design for Deconstruction” method for building construction by creating sustainable steel structures. May 24, 2012
Benneyan Becomes IIE Fellow
MIE Professor James Benneyan was selected to become a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for his significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial engineering. May 24, 2012
IPS Being Field Tested
CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were featured in Civil Engineering for their upcoming field tests using Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) to prevent soil liquefaction during earthquakes. May 23, 2012
Life Cycle of Anesthetics
Civil & Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman is determining what type of effect that the anesthetic gases used in the healthcare industry have on the environment. May 22, 2012
Nayeb-Hashemi & Vaziri Awarded $785K in Grants
MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri have received three multi-national QNRF grants in the areas of health and sustainability. May 21, 2012
Yeh Receives Fellowship
ECE Associate Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship to develop improved internet and wireless technologies. May 18, 2012
Mapping Protein Shape Shifting
ECE Professors Lee Makowski, Dana Brooks, and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus have been awarded a $657K NSF grant to determine the "Precise Characterization of Conformational Ensembles". May 17, 2012
Generations of Hard Work
David Luzzi, Executive Director of the Strategic Security Initiative, has been awarded the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor for significant contributions in his field. May 15, 2012
Fighting Cyber Threats
ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was selected as the inaugural Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor for Information Assurance for his work in cybersecurity. May 15, 2012
Jaeger Wins 2 ASEE Awards
MIE Senior Academic Specialist Beverly Jaeger has won BOTH of ASEE’s Spread the Word & Campus Representative awards for recruiting the most new Professional members & maintaining the highest % of faculty membership. May 15, 2012
Making Clean Water For All
Under the supervision of professor Mohammad Taslim, a team of MIE capstone students have developed a solar- powered desalination system to help the world’s water crisis.
May 11, 2012
Jung Awarded $309K NSF Grant
MIE Associate Professor Yung Joon Jung has been awarded a 309K NSF grant to create optoelectronic devices made from carbon nanotubes and silicon. May 10, 2012
Rinaldi Receives DARPA Award
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi is the recipient of a $300K DARPA Young Faculty Award which supports the next generation of engineers who will work on DoD and national security issues. May 8, 2012
Selected As Editor-in-Chief
ECE Professor Brad Lehman will be appointed Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal starting in 2013. May 8, 2012
Congratulations Khabat Ebnabbasi
ECE PhD student Khabat Ebnabbasi was selected for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship award. Only six such fellowships are awarded worldwide. May 8, 2012
ALERT Wins Grand Prize
A group of ECE graduates and professors from ALERT won the top prize of $10,000 for their entry of “Next Generation Millimeter-Wave Body Imaging for Concealed Threat Detection” in the 2012 National Security Innovation Competition. May 4, 2012
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards. May 2, 2012
Nanoribbon Twists & Turns
MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu has shown that crystalline nanoribbons twist and turn similar to the leaves of a rhododendron based on their width and shape. May 2, 2012
Carbon Nanotubes Bundle Up!
MIE Associate Professors Moneesh Upmanyu and Yung Joon Jung were published in Nanoscale for their research in “Bundling Dynamics Regulates the Active Mechanics and Transport in Carbon Nanotube Networks and their Nanocomposites” May 1, 2012
Congratulations to the winners of the ECE Capstone Competition!
- 1st Place: iCRAFT (eye Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology)
- 2nd Place (tied): Board Games over IP
- 2nd Place (tied): HyCycle - Electricity Generating Bicycle
Modeling an Explosion
ChE Professor Ron Willey received the Bill Doyle Best Paper Award at the 2011 AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium for modeling a 2007 reactor explosion at T2. It was one of the hottest articles published in 2011 in the field of chemical engineering & process safety. April 27, 2012
Outstanding Reviews
MIE Professor Hameed Metghalchi has been selected as one of the best reviewers of 2011 for the International Journal of Applied Energy. April 25, 2012
Helping Those in Need
Gina Palino, CEE’13, has been reaching out as the EWB-NEU Program Director for Uganda to help teach the Bbandans about their water supply. April 25, 2012
Great Team Finish!!
The NU BAJA team placed 2nd in the endurance race and finished 4th overall out of 100 teams at the Auburn, Alabama competition. April 25, 2012
Congratulations BESS
The Black Engineering Student Society won big at the NSBE Annual Convention: •National Chapter of the Year Award, •APEX Award - Highest % of Members with a GPA >3.0, •BCA scholars - Jason Lee & Neel Shah, and •National TORCH Member of the Year - Oliver Maurice April 14, 2012
Congratulations Neel Shah!
Neel Shah (ECE ’14) is the recipient of this year’s Barry M. Goldwater Scholar award. This national award is considered to be one of the most competitive science scholarships in the country. April 13, 2012
Congratulations Bo Li!
MIE PhD candidate Bo Li is one of this year’s recipients of the Outstanding Graduate Research Awards which are presented to those students whom have contributed significant accomplishments in research. April 13, 2012
Congratulations Lauren Brown
IE master’s candidate Lauren Brown is the recipient of this year’s Graduate Experiential Learning Award for her significant accomplishments in experiential learning. April 13, 2012
SMART Lab Opens
The new engineering MathWorks Systems Modeling and Radio Technology (SMART) Laboratory will be home to the next developments in high-tech simulation and advanced computing. April 12, 2012
Protecting the Environment
CIV Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger won the 2012 New England
Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) in recognition of his exceptional work and commitment to the
environment. April 11, 2012
Calculating Cell Interaction
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri was featured in the Biophysical
Journal for his work in determining the effect of growth factors on
cell-cell adhesion. April 4, 2012
One of the Best in the US
ECE Professor Brad Lehman was selected by The Princeton Review as one of
the Top 300 Professors in the Country that make lasting impacts in the
lives of their students. April 4, 2012
Outstanding Student Researchers
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Research, Innovation &
Scholarship Expo: Adam Morgan (BSME), Joseph Robinson (BSEE), Jeffrey
Breugelmans (PhDIE), and Richard Ranky (PhDME) March 30, 2012
Congratulations David Walsh
David Walsh, a PhD student in Bioengineering, has received a NSF
Graduate Research Fellowships that recognizes and supports outstanding
students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. March 30, 2012
Congratulations ChE Seniors
ChE Seniors Thomas Dusseault & Emma Chory are recipients of NSF
Graduate Research Fellowships that recognize outstanding students in
NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing a graduate degree. March 30, 2012
Making Impossible Possible
ChE Professor Laura Lewis was featured by National Geographic for her
work with ARPA-E in creating a rare- earth free magnet currently only
found in meteorites. March 30, 2012
INSIGHTS in Professional Master of Science Programs
Read our newsletters to find information about our Professional Master of Science Programs, including alumni success stories, faculty & student portraits and industry highlights. March 30, 2012
Congratulations Lauren Gianino!!
Lauren Gianino (ChE ’12) is a recipient of the Harold Hodgkinson Award
in recognition of scholastic achievement, leadership, coop, and service
in voluntary organizations and activities. This is one of the highest honors that a senior at Northeastern can receive. March 29, 2012
Raising Money for a Cause
The Catalyst program was created to raise money to support student
projects like sending EWB to Bbanda to improve the water supply or
sending the Mini Baja team to Oregon to compete. March 28, 2012
Top of the Magnetic Class
The article written by ChE PhD graduate Brian Plouffe, Associate
Professor Shashi Murthy & Professor Laura Lewis on "Thermomagnetic
determination of Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticle diameters for biomedical applications" was one of the top 25 articles of 2011! March 28, 2012
Mavroidis Receives Patent
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis has been awarded a patent for his
design of a Electro-Rheological Fluid device for use in brakes and
actuators. March 27, 2012
On to Nationals for ChemECar Team
At the 2012 Northeast Regional AIChE ChemECar Competition, the NU
ChemECar Team won 1st Place in the race, AND won the poster competition
for most creative car. March 21, 2012
NUTRONS Win in NYC
The NUTRONS, Northeastern’s FIRST Robotics team, won the 2012 New York
City Regional FIRST Robotics Competition with help from their alliance
teams. March 20, 2012
Self-Stable Bicycles
MIE Assistant Academic Specialist Jim Papadopoulos was featured in Discover Magazine’s 100 Top Stories of 2011 for his article in Science. March 19, 2012
Guiding Cell Movement
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri is developing "traffic patterns" to enhance the directionality and speed of a cell’s movement in the body to promote faster healing. March 14, 2012
One Word: Engineering
"Whether you, your child, or both are financing college, to earn a
decent return on that investment your student needs to base academic
choices at least in part on employment trends…If your child has the
aptitude, he/she should pursue an engineering degree... End of
discussion." ~Ali Velshi, chief business correspondent, CNN© March 14, 2012
Congratulations Erika Moody
IE Senior Erika Moody is the 1st place recipient of the IIE James W.
Barany Student Award for Excellence to be awarded in May at the IIE
Annual IE Conference and Expo 2012 in Orlando. March 13, 2012
Congratulations Nazli Caner
Bioengineering PhD candidate Nazli Caner is one of only 5 recipients of
the OARSI Young Investigators Scholarship which will be presented at the
OARSI Congress in Barcelona in April. March 12, 2012
Water Affected by Population
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly’s computational model of the
world’s future water supply shows that population growth has a greater
impact than climate change. March 9, 2012
Reinventing The Magnet
ChE Professor Laura Lewis and ECE Professor Vince Harris have received a $3.5M DOE grant to create a rare-earth-free magnet as part of the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) Program. March 6, 2012
Coop Fuels Career Goals
Civil Engineering Senior Kristen Blackbird worked on coop with Gilbane
Building Company during the construction of the new George J. Kostas
Research Institute for Homeland Security. February 29, 2012
Rethinking an Old Problem
Under the supervision of Assistant Academic Specialist Daniel Dulaski, a
team of Civil capstone students, are trying to develop a solution to
leesen the congestion in Boston’s North End. Their work was recently highlighted in the North End Regional Review.
February 29, 2012
Capstone Acts as a Real World Experience
A group of capstone students, under the direction of MIE Professor
Constantinos Mavroidis, have designed a rehabilitation glove to increase
fine motor control of the hands of patients post-stroke. February 29, 2012
Harris is Top in the World
ECE Professor Vincent Harris has been identified to be in the top 1% of
the world's most cited scientists from 2000-2010. His top 50 papers have
been cited on average more than 44 times each. February 29, 2012
Alshawabkeh Elected Fellow
CIV Professor Akram Alshawabkeh has been selected as a fellow of ASCE in
recognition of his outstanding contributions to the profession. February 28, 2012
Combining Fields of Study
PhD graduate Brian Plouffe was able to expand on the research interests
of ChE Associate Professor Shashi Murthy and Professor Laura Lewis to
create a miniaturized version of a magnet-activated cell sorting (MACS)
device to detect cancer cells. February 24, 2012
Increasing Cell Motility
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri is featured in the journal
Langmuir for showing how changing the geometry of a cell can enhance the
cell’s motility. February 16, 2012
Metghalchi Receives ASME Dedicated Service Award
MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi is the recipient of an ASME
2011 Dedicated Service Award for his years of loyal service to ASME. February 10, 2012
Vaziri Awarded NSF CAREER Award
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ashkan
Vaziri has been awarded a $400K NSF CAREER grant to study “Functional
Biomimetric Materials with Extreme Topology”. February 2, 2012
Jalili Selected as Fellow
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Nader Jalili has been selected as a fellow of ASME. January 27, 2012
Tracking MassDOT Performance
CIV Professor Ali Touran has teamed up with Pioneer Institute to create a
Massachusetts Transportation Dashboard to monitor how MassDOT is using
tax dollars to reduce traffic congestion and increase throughput &
safety. January 24, 2012
Erdogmus Awarded $95K NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus is working with OHSU to apply
statistical machine learning technology to minimize any errors that
occur during clinical laboratory tests. January 23, 2012
Erdogmus Awarded CAREER Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus has been awarded an $505K NSF
CAREER grant for “Signal Models, Channel Capacity, and Information Rate
for Noninvasive Brain Interfaces”. January 19, 2012
Failure by Design
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, has designed a system that
would allow replaceable steel fuses to absorb the forces of an
earthquake and save the building from damage. January 17, 2012
Getting More Out of Exercise
A group of capstone students, under the direction of MIE Professor
Constantinos Mavroidis, created the Android app SQUID that monitors
exercise routines via a sensor-equipped shirt. January 5, 2012
Interested in Joining a Student Chapter?
Check out the Spring 2012 schedule of student chapter meetings to learn more. January 3, 2012
Alumni Used Coop to Obtain Dream Job
Maureen Dutton, E'91, was able to use her coop experiences she obtained
at Northeastern to achieve her childhood dream of working at NASA. December 20, 2011
Metghalchi Takes the Lead
MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi will become the
Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology on
January 1, 2012. December 19, 2011
Ganguly Featured by NSF
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly’s paper about rainfall extremes
over India will be published in the February 2012 issue of the Nature Climate Change journal and is highlighted on the NSF website. December 19, 2011
Congratulations!
Beverly Jaeger, Richard Whalen, Susan Freeman, & Stanley Forman won Best Paper
at the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference for their paper “Service-Learning
vs. Learning Service in First-Year Engineering: If We Cannot Conduct
First-Hand Service Projects, is it Still of Value?” December 16, 2011
Congratulations Carla Cherchi
CIV PhD student, Carla Cherchi, was awarded Best Student Paper SETAC for
her paper "Impact of Nano Titanium Dioxide Exposure on Cellular
Structure of Anabaena Variabilis and Evidence of Internalization." December 16, 2011
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
The College of Engineering has launched an REU website where
undergraduate students may seek out research opportunities to expand
their academic, intellectual and personal development, both internally
at Northeastern University and externally at other institutions. December 14, 2011
Kowalski Awarded Patent
MIE Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski has been awarded a patent for
his work in “Ultra-Sensitive Temperature Sensing and Calorimetry”. December 13, 2011
Honoring Engineering Leaders
The Bernard M. Gordon Tribute to Engineering Leadership Archway was
recently unveiled to inspire and educate visitors with stories of ten
top engineering leaders. December 13, 2011
Scanning for Answers
MIE sophomore Lyda Sallaway is working with ALERT and the Investing in
Tomorrow’s Engineering Leaders (ITEL) program to determine what types of
objects appear in an image when using backscatter X-ray technology. December 2, 2011
Luzzi takes helm of Strategic Security Initiative
David E. Luzzi has assumed new responsibilities as founding executive
director of Northeastern’s Strategic Security Initiative. Dr. Luzzi, who
joined the university in 2007 as dean of engineering, will play a key
role in advancing security-related research and collaborations to drive
Northeastern’s national leadership in this critical domain. November 30, 2011
Gupta: Book of the Month
MIE Professor Surendra Gupta’s book “Green Supply Chain Management:
Product Life Cycle Approach” was selected as Book of the Month by
Industrial Engineer Magazine. November 14, 2011
MIE Receives Best Paper
MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi, Assistant Professor Reza Sheikhi, and PhD student Mehdi Safari received the 2010 ASME Systems Analysis Best Paper Award for their "Analysis of local entropy generation via large eddy simulation of turbulent flows". November 14, 2011
Wrinkles Under Pressure
Physics World featured MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s research that was published in the Physical Review Letters journal for his work in determining the wrinkling properties of pressurized elastic membranes under tension. October 28, 2011
ASME salutes Prof. Jalili
MIE Associate Professor Nader Jalili was recognized by ASME for his
exemplary service as a general chair of the ASME 2011 International
Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information
in Engineering Conference. October 27, 2011
Knowing the Subject Matter
Congratulations Maureen McCaffrey & Laura Pagani, whose team took
1st place at the SWE National conference. 20 COE SWE students cheered
them on in Chicago! Congratulations to Hillary Tracy for receiving a SWE
Boston section scholarship. October 26, 2011
CANstructing for Charity
The NU Chapter of Chi Epsilon received an honorable mention for their
Costa Rican Red-Eyed Tree Frog at the regional 2011 CANstruction
competition. October 21, 2011
Monitoring Patient Recovery
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis is embedding dynamic sensors into
medical braces that would allow doctors to monitor the progress of a
patient’s physical therapy. October 14, 2011
Engineering Patient Care
MIE Professor James Benneyan is working with the Boston-based Center for
Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) to use
system engineering methods to make healthcare safer and more efficient. October 14, 2011
Giving Back to the Community
The ASCE student group was awarded the ASCE 2011 Region 1 Distinguished
Chapter Award for their work in redesigning a garden in the Fenway for
use by people with special needs. October 11, 2011
Busnaina, Adams & McGruer Receive Patent
MIE Professors Ahmed Busnaina & George Adams, and ECE Professor
Nicol McGruer have been awarded a patent for their “Bistable
nanoswitch”. October 7, 2011
Correcting Healthcare
MIE Professor Vinod Sahney uses systems engineering principles to
redesign the healthcare system to improve treatment, patient safety and
quality of care. September 29, 2011
Mavroidis Receives 2 Patents
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis was awarded 2 patents this month
for "Instrumented handle and pedal systems for use in rehabilitation,
exercise and training equipment" AND "Gear Bearing Drive". September 28, 2011
Creative Engineering
Using engineering design principles while on coop in Paris, CIV senior
Chris Nasif designed a steel reinforcement system that allow buildings
to be more earthquake resistant. September 28, 2011
Congratulations Emily Nelson!
Emily Nelson, BSChE 2012, has been selected as one of the recipient's of
this year's AIChE Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer National
Scholarship Award. September 26, 2011
Leading the University’s Security Initiative
Dean David Luzzi has been appointed the executive director of the
University’s Strategic Security Initiative and will help further develop
the university’s security agenda. September 22, 2011
Redesigning the Internet
ECE Associate Professor Edmund Yeh is working with NSF’s Future Internet
Architecture Program to develop a method that would relieve network
congestion and privacy concerns when surfing the internet. September 22, 2011
The Transformation of Homeland Security
ECE Professor and co-director of CenSSIS Michael Silevitch discusses
the changes in the countries homeland security since 9/11. Silevitch was
also quoted in an article from Fox news. September 9, 2011
Improving Penmanship
MIE Assistant Professors Rifat Sipahi & Andrew Gouldstone and Senior
Academic Specialist Beverly Jaeger received a $270K NSF grant to create
a “Smart Pen” to assist people with fine motor control disorders. September 8, 2011
Detecting Mines Using GPR
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport was awarded a $200K NSF grant to
incorporate a high resolution ground penetrating radar system into a
walking robot to locate land mines and other IEDs. September 6, 2011
Cyber-Physical Systems
ECE Assistant Professors Gunar Schirner, Deniz Erdogmus, and Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded an $1.25M National Science Foundation grant to develop “Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems.” August 31, 2011
Creating the Super Magnet
ChE Professor and Chair Laura Lewis has received an $155K NSF grant to
use high-anisotropy L10 materials to create rare-earth-free permanent
magnets materials. August 31, 2011
Building a Better Tomorrow
ECE professors Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and former COE professor Alex
Stankovic secured a $2.3M grant from the NSF and the Dept. of Energy to
help develop the nation's next generation of electric power transmission
grids. August 29, 2011
Mapping the Human Genome
ChE Professor Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, working with LSU, was awarded a
$276K grant to create a device using nanowires that will screen RNA and
DNA sequences as part of NIH’s $1000 Genome Project. August 24, 2011
Monitoring Air Quality
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor
Stefano Basagni were awarded an $170K NSF Grant to develop a series of
networks to monitor air pollution. August 22, 2011
Detecting Traffic Patterns
CIV Professor Peter Furth was awarded a $230K NSF grant to develop an
algorithm that will control traffic lights based on communicating with
the signals from neighboring intersections. August 18, 2011
Preventing Ground Failure
CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were awarded a $1.2M NSF grant to use Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) to try and prevent ground liquefaction from occuring under structures during earthquakes. August 16, 2011
COE Alum appointed MassDOT Highway Adminstrator
Frank DePaola, a MS’84 graduate in civil engineering, has been appointed
the highway administrator for the Massachusetts Department of
Transportation. August 16, 2011
One of the Top Articles
ECE Associate Professor, Hossein Mosallaei’s paper “Array of Planar
Plasmonic Scatteres Functioning as Light Concentrator” is one of the top
downloaded articles in July 2011 from the journal Optic Letters. August 15, 2011
Studying a Cell at a Time
ChE Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch was awarded a $174K NSF grant to
use nanofluidic electrochemical detection and optics as an improved
method for studying individual bacterial cells. August 15, 2011
Developing Dissipation Plan
CIV Professor Dionisio Bernal was awarded a $160K grant from NSF’s
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to estimate damping in
buildings during earthquakes. August 11, 2011
Upmanyu Awarded $320K Grant
MIE Associate Professor, Moneesh Upmanyu received a $320K NSF grant to
use computational analysis to study the formation of nanocrystals in
semiconducting nanowires. August 10, 2011
Sasani Receives NSF Grant
CIV Associate Professor Mehrdad Sasani was awarded a $540K grant from
NSF’s National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to determine the
effect of seismic activity on reinforced concrete framed buildings. August 2, 2011
Strength of Particle Bonds
MIE Assistant Professor Andrew Gouldstone and Professors Teiicho Ando
& Sinan Muftu were awarded a $400K NSF grant to determine how the
bonding of particles is affected by ultrasonic vibrations. August 2, 2011
Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger
was awarded a $61K NSF grant to determine what environmental impacts
affect the life cycle of phytoplankton. July 25, 2011
Sipahi Awarded DARPA Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi received a $300K DARPA grant for
his research “Model-Free Algorithms to Assist and Control Human-Task
Missions against Dynamic Environments.” July 25, 2011
$2.5M Gift for Endowed Faculty Chair
Entrepreneur Arthur Zafiropoulo has donated $2.5M to establish a new
College of Engineering endowed faculty chair, one of the highest
recognitions that a faculty member can receive. July 20, 2011
Kirda Receives NSF Grant
ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was awarded a $486K NSF
grant to develop tools to automatically detect when a malicious bot is
trying to connect to a computer host. July 20, 2011
Isaacs & Busnaina Awarded $1.2M Grant
MIE Professors Jackie Isaacs and Ahmed Busnaina have received an $1.2M
NSF grant to use LCA methods to determine the ethical, legal, and
societal impacts of scaling nanomanufacturing to commercial production. July 18, 2011
ASME is Making a Splash
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers student group designed and
built a solar-powered boat that placed 8th in the sprint event at the
national collegiate Solar Splash competition in Iowa. July 18, 2011
Cipolla Awarded for his Dedicated Service
MIE Professor John Cipolla is the recipient of an ASME Dedicated
Service Award for his 20 years of involvement and leadership in the
Center of Education at ASME. July 14, 2011
Sun Receives $450K Grant
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun has been awarded a $450K grant from
Semiconductor Research Corporation for his work in Tunable Inductors
& Transformers for Filters, LNAs, and PAs. July 12, 2011
Search and Rescue Robot
A group of capstone students, under the direction of ECE Professor
Charles DiMarzio, developed a life-saving robot that searches a disaster
stuck area for survivors by detecting where cell phones are. July 6, 2011
Benneyan Wins Best Paper
MIE Professor James Benneyan and Jordan Peck won the best paper award at
the 2011 Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium for
“Using Prediction to Improve Patient Flow in a Health Care Delivery
Chain”. July 5, 2011
Congratulations Ye Zhao
ECE graduate student Ye Zhao won a "Best Student Presentation Award" at
the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference for his paper "Fault
Analysis in Solar PV Arrays under: Low Irradiance Conditions and Reverse
Connections". June 29, 2011
Early Detection of Skin Cancer
Under the supervision of Associate Professor Masoud Salehi, a team of
ECE capstone students, created a Structured Illumination Microscope that
will be able to detect skin cancer much faster than today’s methods. June 21, 2011
COE Alum Takes Archery High-Tech
Robert Donahoe, EE‘85, combined his knowledge of engineering and
intellectual property law to form Full Flight Technology, which improves
an archers understanding of arrow speed, flight dynamics and bow
performance. June 15, 2011
Creating Disaster Resistant Structures
Professor Jerome Hajjar discusses emerging research at Northeastern
University to develop new types of buildings and bridge systems that can
help cities zones withstand hazards such as earthquakes and hurricanes. June 15, 2011
Inspiring Future Students Through Robotics
Northeastern students and alumni mentored high schoolers during the 7th
annual FIRST Robotics Beantown Blitz competition -- one of the largest
off-season robotics events in the New England area. June 15, 2011
Engineering a Healthcare Solution
MIE Professor James Benneyan is investigating ways to use systems
engineering to improve the healthcare system by optimizing treatments,
patient safety and quality of care. June 14, 2011
Ratilal Awarded $150K Grant
ECE associate professor Purnima Ratilal, has received a $150K NSF grant
to develop a system to detect the movements of marine animals in
near-real-time to minimize the impact of man-made activities on their
populations. June 14, 2011
Lending a Mind-Controlled Hand
Under the direction of Associate Professor Waleed Meleis, a team of ECE
capstone students, created a Disability Assistant Robot With i (Eye)
Navigation (DARWiN) that would allow a disabled people to interact with
things around the house. June 13, 2011
Improving Tomorrow’s Leaders
The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program cohosted a conference with MIT
to discover ways to improve engineering leadership education across
several universities. June 13, 2011
Real-World Academics
CIV Professors Ming Wang, Dionisio Bernal, and Jerome Hajjar organized
the 2011 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference which focused on
academic research and real-world applications. June 13, 2011
Brain Controlled Flight Simulater
A team of ECE capstone students, supervised by Associate Professor
Waleed Meleis and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus, created a system
to fly the simulated plane in FlightGear using a person’s brainwaves. May 31, 2011
Retention Through Coop
MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi, STEM Director Claire
Duggan, and Multicultural Engineering Director Richard Harris were
awarded a $99K NSF grant to determine if student retention is increased
by participation in coop. May 27, 2011
Engineers Without Borders Newsletter
Read about all the great contributions to society that the members of the EWB group provide. May 27, 2011
Controlling Home Power Usage
Under the direction of Professor Bahram Shafai, a team of ECE capstone
students, developed a breaker box that monitors a home’s electricity
usage to let users set priorities of when things should be used. May 27, 2011
Voice-Controlled Movements
A group of ECE capstone students, under the direction of Professor
Bahram Shafai, designed a voice controlled wheelchair that can navigate
around obstacles and prevent the chair from going near stairwells. May 24, 2011
From Paper to Reality
The ASCE group was able to use the experience they received in the
classroom to improve the design of their canoe during the NE Regional
Conrete Canoe competition. May 5, 2011
Generating Environmentally Friendly Power
Professor Emeritus Alexander Gorlov has been nominated for the 2011
European Inventor Award for his invention of the enviromentally friendly
Gorlov Helical Turbine. The winner will be announced on May 19 in
Budapest, Hungary. May 4, 2011
Metghalchi Awarded Medal
MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi is the recipient of the ASME
James H. Potter Gold Medal that recognizes eminent achievement or
distinguished service in the field of thermodynamics. May 4, 2011
Staying One Step Ahead
ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda is focused on how to keep
applications secure from the latest viruses and cyber-security threats. May 3, 2011
Eye-Tracking Controller
Jeffrey Breugelmans, a PhD in Industrial Engineering, developed a device
that tracks a person’s eye movement to control the navigation in video
games. May 3, 2011
Jampole Wins Chi Epsilon National Scholarship
CEE Senior Ezra Jampole, the President of the NU Chi Epsilon chapter,
has won the 2011 Chi Epsilon Joseph L. Brandes National Scholarship.
The award recognizes a student’s outstanding academic work and
extracurricular activities, particularly in Chi Epsilon. April 27, 2011
Real Life Problem Solving
MIE Junior Brian Racca was able to use the experience he learned in the
classroom while on his recent coop to improve the design of a nuclear
reactor valve at The Weir Group PLC. April 26, 2011
Seniors win Prestigious NSF Fellowships
Dana Peck, BSCE’11 and Sarah Brown, BSEE’11 received NSF Graduate
Research Fellowships that recognize outstanding students in
NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based MS and
PhD degrees. April 22, 2011
Tracking Cancerous Cell Scatter
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri has received a $270K NIH grant
to generate a quantitative analysis of how epithelial cells scatter
during cancer development. April 19, 2011
Congratulations NU ASCE
The NU chapter of ASCE finished in sixth place when competing against 15
area teams with their new lighter design in the 2011 New England
Regional Conrete Canoe competition. April 15, 2011
Inspiring Student’s Futures
The Bernard M. Gordon Tribute to Engineering Leadership Archway was dedicated to inspire and educate visitors by honoring some of the top engineering leaders. April 13, 2011
Hands-On Learning
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi and Associate Professor Nader
Jalili received a $40K grant from MathWorks to develop a new hands-on
mechatronics course using MathWorks products. April 12, 2011
The Students Speak
Congratulations to all those faculty that were chosen as Outstanding Teachers of the College of Engineering based on student's TRACE evaluation reports. April 11, 2011
Outstanding Student Researchers
Congratulations to all the winners from the NU Research &
Scholarship Expo: Anna Craver (BSME), Katherine Dixon (BSME),
Christopher Flanagan (BSME), Brittne Lynn (BSME), Mason Riley (BSME),
Saber Talebi Anaraki (MSME), Chuanwei Zhuo (PhDME), Hari Chauhan
(PhDCE), Zheng Gong (PhDEE), David Reed (PhDEE), Duong Tran (PhDEE), and
Brian Plouffe (PhDChE). April 7, 2011
ECM Stiffness Regulates Growth
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri was featured in the latest issue
of the Journal of Cell Science describing how physical changes in the
cellular microenvironment could play a role in cancer progression. April 6, 2011
Congratulations Nicholas Daggett
Nicholas Daggett, ME’11, is the recipient of the Harold D. Hodgkinson
Award, which recognizes distinguished scholastic achievement,
professional potential, volunteer service, coop, and demonstrated
qualities of character, personality & leadership. It is one of the highest honors that an Northeastern senior can achieve. April 4, 2011
Congratulations Lauren Gianino
Lauren Gianino, a senior in Chemical Engineering and the Tau Beta Pi
vice-president elect for '11-'12, won a TBP scholarship for $2000 based
on high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of
future contributions to the engineering profession. March 29, 2011
Investing in Clean Energy
Distinguished MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis has been awarded up to $40K
from MTTC and MassCEC to demonstrate the commercial viability of his
clean energy technology. March 24, 2011
Benneyan is Keynote Speaker
MIE Professor James Benneyan gave the keynote speaker address on the
quality and safety of the US healthcare system for the American Society
for Healthcare Engineer’s PDC Annual Conference. March 17, 2011
Harris Selected as Klein Lecturer
ECE Professor Vincent Harris has been selected as this year’s Robert D.
Klein University Lecturer. This award honors faculty members who have
contributed to their field of study and share the fruits of that
scholarship with the University and the general public. March 11, 2011
Mavroidis Awarded $270K Grant
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis has been awarded a $270K NSF grant
to develop an inexpensive customizable sensor which will increase the
comfort levels of individuals that wear mechatronic devices. March 11, 2011
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards. March 10, 2011
COE Alum Modernizes GPS Technology
John Betz, a ME'79, PhD'84 graduate in Electrical Engineering, has
contributed to modernizing the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS)
and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs). March 1, 2011
Turning the Theoretical into Reality
Under the direction of Beverly Jaeger, a group of freshman engineering
students are working to improve the gear used by service dogs to help
the disabled. Click here for a video from their recent meeting with guide dogs Bronson and Jozsi. February 28, 2011
Measuring Interatomic Distances
ECE Professor Lee Makowski has received a $280K NIH grant to develop
MADMAX, a Multi-wavelength Anomalous Diffraction using Medium Angle
X-ray solution scattering, for the precise measurement of conformational
changes in proteins. February 22, 2011
Receiving the Highest Honor
MIE Professor James Benneyan has been awarded the Smalley President’s
Award, the highest honor from the Society for Health Systems for his
lifelong service to the healthcare IE profession. February 22, 2011
Teaching Students Through Video Games
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has developed
Geckoman!, an online video game, that teaches middle-school students
about nanoscience. February 17, 2011
Chory Chosen as a Pioneering Leader
Emma Chory, ChE’12, has been selected as a Steamboat Scholar. The summer
program provides talented undergrads prestigious internships with Grant
Partners to cultivate their leadership skills. February 16, 2011
Passing Knowledge On
STEM
Associate Professor Christos Zahopoulos has received the IEEE-USA
Professional Achievement for Individuals Award for “sparking
precollegiate interest in technology and engineering careers” through NU’s RE-SEED program. February 15, 2011
Malima is CIMIT Finalist
Asanterabi Malima, a PhD in ECE, has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare for his research project “Highly Sensitive Micron Scale In-vivo Biosensor for Multiple Biomarker Detection”. February 11, 2011
Factoring in Delays
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi has developed an “intelligent”
algorithm that takes into account time delays in areas such as traffic
flow, supply chain management, and human biology. February 9, 2011
Carrier Awarded $230K Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Rebecca Carrier received a $230K grant from NIH
to development a natural matrix-based cell delivery vehicle for delivery
of RPCs to the subretinal space to promote retinal regeneration. February 7, 2011
Brooks and DiMarzio Receive $65K NSF Grant
ECE professor Dana Brooks and associate professor Charles DiMarzio have
been awarded a $65K NSF grant to develop a computationally-enhanced
optical imaging infrastructure. February 7, 2011
Potential Life Saving Coupler
Under the direction of Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti, a team of MIE
capstone students, developed an "anastomotic coupler" that could quickly
reconnect tiny blood vessels that currently take hours to repair during
surgery. February 4, 2011
360° Solar Food Dehydrator
Under the direction of Professor Mohammad Taslim, a team of MIE capstone
students, designed an inexpensive 360-degree solar food dehydrator for
use in preventing food spoilage in developing countries. February 2, 2011
Solving a Global Challenge
Under the direction of Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti and the
Cambridge-based coop employer Joule Unlimited, Inc., a team of MIE
capstone students, developed a bioreactor that turns sunlight and carbon
dioxide into clean energy. January 28, 2011
Gorlov nominated for European Inventor Award
Professor Emeritus Alexander Gorlov has been nominated for the 2011
European Inventor Award for his invention of the helical turbine for
power and propulsion systems. This is Europe's highest distinction for
inventors worldwide. January 24, 2011
Sipahi on Cover of IEEE Control Systems Magazine
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi’s article “Stability and
Stabilization of Systems with Time Delay, Limitations and Opportunities”
is featured on the cover of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. January 19, 2011
Attempting to Prevent Arthritis
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi
& Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri are using 3D imaging models of
knee joints to develop methods to treat and prevent osteoarthritis. January 13, 2011
Lightning Fast Results
The NU Computer Architecture Research group, under the direction of ECE
Professor David Kaeli, is developing supercomputing technology to
pinpoint the location of objects or people 10-15x faster than
traditional methods. December 23, 2010
Congratulations Katherine Ziemer
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Katherine Ziemer has been
elected to serve as a member of the AIChE Board of Directors for the
next 3 years. December 23, 2010
Emerging Leaders Selected
Civil students Ann Polaneczky and Matt Walsh were named as "Emerging Leaders" by Engineers Without Borders-USA
for their clean-water systems that were built in Honduras and Uganda.
There were only 9 given this distinction out of 12,000 members. December 9, 2010
Congratulations!!!
The paper titled "Collaborative Adaptation of Cognitive Radio Parameters
Using Ontology and Policy Approach", authored by Shujun Li, Mieczyslaw
Kokar, David Brady and Jakub Moskal, won the Best Paper Award in the
R&D Track at the 2010 Wireless Innovation Technical Conference. December 8, 2010
Redeveloping the Magnet
ChE Chair Laura Lewis is leading a group developing environmentally
friendly magnets that do not rely on the rare earth elements (REEs) that
are currently required to create supermagnets for clean energy products. December 8, 2010
Students Awarded Patent for Capstone Project
MIE Graduates Bruce Eidinger, Kendra Mcgrath, Joshua Rigberg, Peter
Callaway, and Mark Macomber have been awarded a patent for their 2005
capstone project entitled "Hydrocephalus shunt system quick connector
assembly". December 6, 2010
Congratulations Sheba Goklany
Sheba Goklany, a PhD student in Chemical Engineering, is an award
recipient of the International Student Poster Competition hosted by the
International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering. November 18, 2010
Nayeb-Hashemi & Vaziri on Cover of Orthopaedic Research
MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan
Vaziri’s article on “Effect of frontal plane tibiofemoral angle on the
stress and strain at the knee cartilage during the stance phase of gait”
is featured on the cover of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. November 18, 2010
We Need Your Help
Help define the University’s Long Range Plan. Email your feedback to lrp@neu.edu or visit www.neu.edu/lrp. November 12, 2010
Congratulations AIChE ChemECar Team
At the recent national AIChE meeting, the NU ChemECar Team took 1st Place in the Poster Competition, won 6th Place in the race, AND received an Outstanding AIChE Chapter recognition. November 12, 2010
COE Alum appointed as Rutgers ECE Chair
Athina Petropulu, ME’89, PhD’91 has been appointed the new chair of the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Rutgers
University School of Engineering in New Jersey. November 9, 2010
Vaziri on Cover of Soft Matter Journal
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ashkan
Vaziri’s article on "High Aspect Ratio Wrinkles on a Soft Polymer" is
featured on the cover of the latest issue of Soft Matter. November 3, 2010
Article Voted Top in Past Decade
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun’s paper on “Giant Electric Field Tuning
of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic Heterostructures” has been
selected as one of the 10 most outstanding full papers & featured
articles in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials. October 27, 2010
Bringing Research to Reality
ECE Professor Michael Silevitch spoke at the recent Research and
Industrial Collaboration Conference about the importance of research
collaboration to solve global security issues. October 26, 2010
COE Alum wins Young Investigator Award
Tuba Okutucu, a PhD‘05 graduate in Mechanical Engineering, won the Young
Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation for her
research on MEMS Production of Microchannel Heat Sinks with Nanofluids
as the Working Fluid and their Application in Microchip Cooling. October 20, 2010
Leaders in Engineering
Jackie Isaacs, Deniz Erdogmus, and Kate Ziemer have been invited to
speak at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering
Education Symposium. October 12, 2010
Impact of TiO2 Nanoparticles
CEE Assistant Professor April Gu’s research was featured in the latest issue of Chemical & Engineering News describing how TiO2 nanomaterials are affecting the carbon and nitrogen cycles of aquatic ecosystems. October 8, 2010
Mosallaei Receives 2 Grants
ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei has won a Multidisciplinary
University Research Initiative (MURI) award for Tunable Optical
Metamaterials and a AFOSR grant to exploit dielectric and plasmonic
particles for nanoscale energy engineering. October 4, 2010
Students win Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation
Under the advisement of Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski, a team of
MIE capstone students, has won the Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation
from the National Braille Press for designing an inexpensive Braille
embosser. October 4, 2010
Ratilal Awarded $1M NSF Grant
Purnima Ratilal, associate professor of ECE, has received a $1M NSF
grant to develop a Lightweight Towed Area Receiver (LTAR) to remotely
monitor and image large areas of the ocean environment September 30, 2010
Creating Artificial Corneas
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti has been awarded a $380K grant from
the National Eye Institute for his work in engineering biomimetic
corneal constructs. September 30, 2010
Moving Society Forward
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, is a recipient of a 2010 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for his work in creating building structures that are earthquake proof. September 29, 2010
Understanding Animal Behaviors
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus has been awarded a $156K NSF
grant to develop computational models that will track primate social
behaviors unobtrusively. September 28, 2010
How Food Affects Drug Delivery
ChE Assistant Professor Rebecca Carrier was featured in the latest issue
of Chemical & Engineering News to explain her computational models
of how foods interact with medications. September 28, 2010
Studying Coordinated Interaction
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Dagmar Sternad, has
received a $1.6M NIH grant to test how the brain controls a person’s
movements and coordination. September 24, 2010
CHN Partners with NIOSH
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has signed an agreement
with NIOSH to advance research and guidance for occupational safety and
health in nanotechnology. September 22, 2010
Joining at the Microscale
MIE Professor Teiichi Ando has been awarded a $137K NSF grant to join
materials together at the microscale using nanoheater structures leading
to new ways to build microscale devices. September 22, 2010
Vaziri Awarded $75K EAGER Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri has received a $75K NSF EAGER
grant to use shell mechanics concepts to study the nonlinear behavior of
a number of inorganic and biological systems. September 21, 2010
CHOT featured in US News & World Report
James C. Benneyan, program director of the Center for Health
Organization Transformation & Professor of MIE, was featured in
latest issue of US News & World Report. September 20, 2010
Podlaha Awarded $300K NSF Grant
ChE Associate Professor Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy has received a $300K
NSF Grant to study the electrochemical codeposition of molybdenum and
tungsten alloys to catalyze electrolytic hydrogen production. September 14, 2010
Congratulations Stephen Michna
Stephen Michna, a 2010 Civil Engineering graduate, is one of 5 U.S.
students who has been awarded a 1-year fellowship to pursue a Master’s
degree in Industrial Management in Belgium by the Flemish government. September 13, 2010
Congratulations Stephanie Fernandez
Stephanie Fernandez, currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering, has been selected as 1 of 100 GEM Fellows nationwide! September 13, 2010
Breaking Ground for the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security
September 10, 2010 was the historic groundbreaking for the George J.
Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security which will facilitate
university researchers’ work in such fields as cryptography, data
security, information assurance, robust infrastructure, and energy
harvesting. September 10, 2010
ChE Alum Donates $12M
Chemical Engineering Alumnus George J. Kostas has donated $12M to build a
homeland security research facility on Northeastern's Burlington
Campus. This is the largest donation for capital in the University's
history. September 9, 2010
Cancer Fighting Flowers
ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons is using a $550K NSF grant
to develop a method to boost the production of anti-cancer drugs that
are produced by the Madagascar periwinkle plant. September 7, 2010
DiMarzio Awarded Second Patent this Year
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio has been awarded a patent for
“Opto-acoustic signal detection with coherent confocal microscopy”. September 7, 2010
Kaeli Receives $350K Grant
ECE Professor David Kaeli, has been awarded a $350K NSF grant to improve
hardware and software reliability issues for future computer systems. September 7, 2010
Congratulations!!!
Nicholas Dagget & Brent Sisson, both seniors in Mechanical
Engineering, are award recipients of this year’s Association for Energy
Engineers Scholarship Foundation. September 7, 2010
Murthy Selected as Emerging Investigator
ChE Assistant Professor Shashi Murthy was selected for publication in a
special edition of Lab on a Chip which features the top 22 Emerging
Investigators of 2010 in the field of microsystems and microfluidics. August 30, 2010
Neural Network Challenge
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus was chosen to be one of five finalists in the international DIADEM
(Digital Reconstruction of Axonal and Dendritic Morphology) Challenge.
This competition hopes to map the neural networks of the brain to create
breakthroughs in the field of neuroscience. August 30, 2010
A Dream Come True
ECE Senior Timur Starobinets was able to use his coop experiences to
land his dream job at SpaceX, a company missioned to become the first
private company to launch a mid-to-heavy lift rocket into space. August 30, 2010
Weighing in on a Problem
Under the direction of Associate Professor Sinan Muftu, a team of MIE
capstone students, developed a portable, thin, flexible scale that can
monitor a person’s body weight and can be conveniently used anywhere. August 17, 2010
Gouldstone and Jaeger Awarded $293K Grant
MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone and Associate Academic Specialist
Beverly Jaeger received a $293K NSF Grant to explore activities in
Thermal Spray Processing and Volcanology. August 17, 2010
Monitoring Water Quality
Xioadan Ruan, a CEE PhD student under the direction of Associate
Professor Ferdi Hellweger, has been testing bacteria levels in the
Charles River in hopes that it will once again be swimmable. August 10, 2010
COE Alum Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Moira McSpadden, a ME‘97 graduate in Information Systems, was selected
to receive a Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship - considered the
"Rhodes Scholarship" for teaching. July 26, 2010
Commercializing Nanotechnology
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a 5-yr $2M
grant from the John Adams Innovation Institute to help commercialize
their nanomanufacuring technologies for consumers. July 21, 2010
Extracting the Cure from Flowers
ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons has received a $550K NSF
grant to increase the production of highly-valued medicinal alkaloids
from the Madagascar periwinkle plant. July 19, 2010
Double Congratulations
Ismail Ilker Delice, a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, received the
Best Presentation in Session Award at the recent American Control
Conference as well as a $5K Ferretti Fellowship from the MIE Department
for his outstanding academic standing. July 15, 2010
Creating a First Alert Helmet
Under the direction of Associate Professor Sinan Muftu, a team of MIE
capstone students, developed a helmet that could measure the severity of
head injuries after a fall and alert first responders to the
significance of the damage. July 14, 2010
Studying Skill Acquisition
ECE Professor, Dagmar Sternad, has received a $324K NIH grant to
discover the acquistion, adaptation, and control of skilled movements in
order to restore sensorimotor function in neurological disorders. July 13, 2010
Niedre Awarded $1.3M Grant
ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, has received a $1.3M R01 grant
from NIH to develop a new high-resolution fluorescence imaging system. July 12, 2010
Congratulations
ECE Professor Emeritus John G. Proakis has been awarded a Honorary
Doctorate degree in Digital Communications and Signal Processing from
the University of Athens in Greece. July 7, 2010
Mosallaei Receives Patent
ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei has been awarded a patent for
his work in “Dielectric and magnetic particles based metamaterials”. July 6, 2010
Hashemi & Vaziri Receive $300K
MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan
Vaziri have received a multi-national grant from QNRF for their "Novel
approaches for structural protection in the oil, gas, and petrechemical
industry". July 6, 2010
Creating a Sticky Situation
MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri is trying to replicate the
adhesion properties of a gecko’s footpad for use in controlling small
high-tech microrobots or smart adhesives. June 30, 2010
Bernal Receives NSF Grant
CIV Professor Dionisio Bernal received a $130K NSF grant to explore his
research Algorithm-Fused High Performance Damage Detector: Optimal
Sensor Distributions. June 28, 2010
Congratulations
Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman, Rich Whalen, & Rebecca Payne won Best
Paper for PIC III as well as Best Paper Overall at the 2010 ASEE Annual
Conference for their paper “Successful Students: Smart or Tough?”. Both
awards will be announced in the November issue of Prism. June 28, 2010
Prof. Vittoria and Harris receive an additional $250K NSF Grant
ECE Professors Carmine Vittoria and Vincent Harris received another NSF
grant to continue their work with single phase magnetolelectric
materials at room temperature using cation engineered hexaferrite
structures. June 21, 2010
Upmanyu Receives ONR Grant
MIE Associate Professor, Moneesh Upmanyu received an $93K grant from the
Office of Naval Research for his research “Particle Strengthening of
Alloyed Interfaced”. June 9, 2010
Trying to Save the Forest
The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program has provided ChE Freshman
Kassi Stein an opportunity to create a sensor that would identify the
presence of the destructive Asian longhorn beetle in trees. May 27, 2010
In Search of a Cause
Akram Alshawabkeh, a CIV professor, is investigating the causes for high pre-term birth rates. His program Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) is funded by NIEHS. May 17, 2010
Keeping Loved Ones Safe
Under the advisement of Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio, a team of
ECE capstone students, created a wireless wrist device that contacts
emergency officials if a person falls or has changes in their vital
signs. May 14, 2010
Tracking the Path of Cells
ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, is developing a way to monitor
rare cells circulating in the blood stream in hopes of treating cancer
and other illnesses. May 14, 2010
Congratulation Aislinn Weldon
Aislinn Weldon, a junior in Industrial Engineering, has won the AREMA
Committee 37 - Signal Systems Scholarship provided by the American
Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA). May 14, 2010
CHN Receives More Funding
The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research Center for High-rate
Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received an additional $350K in funding from
the National Science Foundation to continue its industry-leading
research. May 11, 2010
Benneyan Joins Forces
MIE Associate Professor James Benneyan, has received $232K from the National Science Foundation to join the Center for Healthcare Organization Transformation (CHOT), which is currently hosted by Texas A&M and Georgia Tech. May 10, 2010
Turning Plastic into Clean Energy
A team of MIE undergraduate and graduate students, under the advisement
of Professor Yiannis Levendis, have developed a way to convert
non-biodegradable plastic into clean energy without releasing harmful
emissions. May 10, 2010
Harris Wins Vision Award
Richard Harris was the unanimous choice by the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute for the Vision Award
which is given to an individual who best exemplifies unusual courage
and conviction, foresight, and leadership in championing quality
education, human rights, and leadership for positive community change. May 3, 2010
Congratulations Alex Avekians
ChE graduate student Alex Avekians won the first place student poster
award at the recent Electrochemical Society conference for the paper
“Enhancement of ORR by Electrodeposited CoFePt Multilayered Alloys”. April 28, 2010
Isaacs Wins Best Paper Award
MIE Professor Jackie Isaacs received the ASEE Best Paper Award for the
paper “Assessing the Effectiveness of Using a Computer Game to Bridge a
Research Agenda with a Teaching Agenda”. April 28, 2010
Congratulations Kareem Ghobrial
Kareem Ghobrial, MIE’10 is the recipient of the Harold D. Hodgkinson
Award, which recognizes distinguished scholastic achievement,
professional potential, volunteer service and experiential experience,
as well as demonstrated qualities of character, personality and
leadership. It is one of the highest honors that an Northeastern senior can achieve. April 28, 2010
Harris Receives Social Justice Award
Richard Harris, the Director of Multicultural Engineering, won the
Faculty/Staff Award as part of the 2010 Excellence in Social Justice
Awards. April 28, 2010
Congratulations BESS
The Black Engineering Student Society (BESS) won the Unit/Group Award as part of the 2010 Excellence in Social Justice Awards. April 28, 2010
Congratulations GEB
The Graduate Engineering Bridges student group was nominated for a 2010 Student Life Award. April 23, 2010
Sacco Awarded Distinguished Chemist
Professor Albert Sacco, Jr. has received the 2010 Distinguished Chemist Award by the New England Institute of Chemists. April 23, 2010
Making Your Home Energy Efficient
ECE students Marc Neuwirth, Kris Eberle, Hannah Echo, Josh Tappan and
Sean McGrath, built a system to monitor a person’s home
energy-consumption, allowing users to control their appliances remotely
as part of their senior capstone project. April 22, 2010
Congratulations Katherine Ziemer
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Katherine Ziemer received the
Vice President’s Award for Outstanding Advisor Involvement for her work
with the AIChE student group. April 22, 2010
Congratulations Rachelle Reisberg
Director of Women in Engineering, Rachelle Reisberg, has won the ASEE
2010 Denice D. Denton Best Paper Award for her work titled "The Effect
of Gender on Support and Self-Efficacy in Undergraduate Engineering
Programs". April 22, 2010
Prof. Harris and Vittoria receive $375K DARPA Grant
ECE Professors Vincent Harris and Carmine Vittoria have received a $375K
DARPA grant for creating low frequency magnetic field sensors for the
detection of IED and other terrorist threats. April 21, 2010
Mind Controlled Remote Vehicle
ECE students Saumitro Dasgupta, Mike Fanton, Jonathan Pham, and Mike
Willard, built a brain interface to navigate a mobile robot remotely.
The team won first place in the senior capstone project competition. April 16, 2010
Undergraduate Research Funded
ECE Professors Michael Silevitch & David Kaeli received a $250K NSF
REU grant for their program BIOSENSE, in which students research
subsurface sensing and imaging techniques. April 13, 2010
Alshawabkeh Wins NIH Grant
Akram Alshawabkeh, a CIV professor, has received a $9.8M NIH/NIEHS grant
to study the underlying environmental causes of preterm birth rates on
the island of Puerto Rico. April 13, 2010
Engineers Without Borders Newsletter
Read about all the great contributions to society that the members of the EWB group provide. April 13, 2010
COE Paved the Way to the Coop Model
As COE celebrates their accomplishments over the last 100 years,
including the creation of the coop program, they are looking forward to
see what they can accomplish in the next 100 years. April 12, 2010
Murthy Awarded $1.9M Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Shashi Murthy has been awarded a $1.9M R01
grant from NIH to create a new generation of microfluidic systems that
are capable of isolating key cell types, such as stem and progenitor
cells, for use in regenerative medicine. April 9, 2010
Congratulations BESS Team
The Black Engineering Student Society (BESS) won the Technical Outreach
Community Help (TORCH) Chapter of the Year Award for the second year in a
row. April 5, 2010
Driving Better with a Keyboard & Mouse
The Virtual Environment Laboratory, directed by Ron Mourant, has
developed a computer game that will help new drivers learn how to
respond to hazards and road conditions. April 5, 2010
Congratulations ChemECar Team
At the recent Northeast Region AIChE Meeting in Orono, ME, the NU ChemECar Team
- Qualified for the National competition,
- Won First Place in the poster competition, AND
- Won the Most Creative Drive award
Making Antennas Smaller & Faster
ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei is researching ways to create
antennas that are smaller, faster, and more energy efficient than any
current technology. March 18, 2010
Carrier Awarded NINDS Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Rebecca Carrier and Bouve professor Mansoor
Amiji were awarded a $475K NINDS grant to examine a “nano-emulsion”
system of delivery that will allow drugs to cross the blood-brain
barrier. March 18, 2010
New Chair Receives Grant
The new CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, was awarded a $54K NSF
grant for his research in using steel foams to dissipate energy and
prevent buckling in steel structures. March 18, 2010
Gouldstone Receives Teetor Award
MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone has been selected as a 2010 SAE Ralph R.
Teetor Educational Award recipient. This Society of Automobile
Engineers award recognizes and honors younger educators who are
preparing the future engineers to meet society's challenges. March 2, 2010
Sensor Shirt is Real-World Solution
MIE students designed a shirt to monitor the movements of a pitcher. By
studing the mechanics of the pitch, they can determine if a player’s
technique starts to worsen which might result in an elbow injury. March 1, 2010
Ozsecen is CIMIT Finalist
MIE graduate student Muzaffer Yalgin Ozsecen is a top finalist for the
2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare for his project “Synchronized
Blood Pressure Measurement Device”. Winners will be announced in June. March 1, 2010
Congratulations Schmidt, Chin, & Bintz
David Schmidt, Jennifer Chin & Caitlyn Bintz, all ME‘10 students,
are recipients of the Spring 2010 Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
for their project “Biosensor measurement and analysis of human stress
levels during public speaking”. February 25, 2010
Sipahi Awarded $100K NSF Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi has been awarded a $100K NSF grant
to create a portable, low-cost mechatronics based device capable of
writting Braille letters for the blind. February 25, 2010
Congratulations Seniors
Laura Carey, CEE’10, Kareem Ghobrial, MIE’10, and Jennifer Hardy,
MIE’10 were selected as recipients of the 2010 Northeastern Outstanding
Co-op Awards. Only 16 seniors are selected each year for these awards. February 24, 2010
COE Alum & Author is One of the Top Consultants
Mark Kelly, a BS‘79 graduate in Civil Engineering and renowned roofing expert, announced the release of his new book, AMERICAN ROOFING: Roofing in America.
Mark is one of the top 20 roofing consultants in the United States as
presented by the CARE Center for the Advancement of Roofing. February 18, 2010
EWB is Premiere Chapter
Northeastern’s Engineers Without Borders group was selected as a 2009
EWB-USA Premiere Chapter and will be receiving an award at the 2010
International Conference in Denver. Only seven chapters are chosen each
year out of EWB's 250+ chapters! February 17, 2010
Congratulations Ivan Goryachev & Matthew Van Dyke
Ivan Goryachev & Matthew Van Dyke, both ME‘13 students, are
recipients of the Spring 2010 Provost Undergraduate Research Awards for
their project “Blue Light Project: Redesign of Photodynamic Therapy
Device for Dermatological Treatment”. February 10, 2010
Mosallaei Awarded $490K Grant
ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei, received an ONR grant to
conduct fundamental research on Active Metamaterials Antennas &
Sensors (ACT-METAS). February 5, 2010
Niedre awarded $400K grant
ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, received a NIH grant for his
research project "Tomographic In Vivo Flow Cytometer for Counting Rare
Circulating Cells". February 2, 2010
Lin Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
Yingzi Lin, Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Industrial
Engineering, has received a $400K NSF CAREER for “Bridging Cognitive
Science and Sensor Technology: Non-intrusive and Multi-modality Sensing
in Human-Machine Interactions”. February 1, 2010
Sheahan’s NIH Grant Renewed
CIV professor and acting chair Thomas Sheahan, has had his NIH grant
renewed for his research on creating a reactive mat to remediate
contaminated sediments and reduce health risks January 28, 2010
Developing Images Faster
ECE Professors Miriam Leeser and David Kaeli have created a method to
develop medical images 10 to 1000x faster than current technology using 3D video graphics, which will lead to faster diagnoses. January 28, 2010
DiMarzio Receives Patent for Research
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio has been awarded a patent for
“Enhanced detection of acousto-photonic emissions in optically turbid
media using a photo-refractive crystal-based detection system” January 26, 2010
Sun Receives Additional Funding
Nian Sun, an ECE Associate Professor, received an additional $76K
towards his NSF CAREER award that investigates novel spin-spray
synthesis methods for magnoelectronic films at low temperature. January 20, 2010
Gu & Wan Receive $150K DOE Grant
CEE assistant professor April Gu and MIE associate professor Kai-tak
Wan, have received a grant from DOE to explore how nano-scale cell
surface characteristics dictate the microbial transport and migration
behavior in contaminant remediation. January 13, 2010
Gu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
April Gu, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
has received a $430K NSF CAREER grant to determine the levels of
contaminants and toxicity in water supplies using prokaryotic real-time
gene expression profiling. December 23, 2009
Precision in Surgery
MIE Associate Professor Nader Jalili is devising a method to use
nanorobots in non-invasive cancer surgery that is far more precise and
safer than methods that are now available. December 21, 2009
Busnaina Receives $1.6M from Department of Defense
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina’s team was one of 34 Massachusetts groups
selected to receive funding from the Department of Defense. Their
research is focused on developing carbon nanotube enhanced power sources
that are better than current battery technology. December 21, 2009
Training Engineering Leaders
The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program has provided ECE graduate
student, Michael Maker, a valuable pathway into his research in retinal
disease at IMI Intelligent Medical Implants, GmbH. December 18, 2009
Lending a Helping Hand
MIE students develop glove designed to provide stroke victims regain
fine motor skills. The ATLAS bimanual rehabilitation glove provided a
real-world solution as a senior capstone project. December 18, 2009
Kaeli Awarded $1.3M NSF Grant
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor David Kaeli, has been
awarded a 3-year NSF grant for $1.3M to create a testbed model that will
be able to adapt to new biomedical imaging applications and computing
platforms. December 11, 2009
Kaeli Selected as IEEE Fellow
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor David Kaeli, has been
selected as a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to profile-guided
optimization algorithms and dynamic branch prediction designs. December 7, 2009
Stojanovic Selected as IEEE Fellow
Milica Stojanovic, associate professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of IEEE for her contributions
to underwater acoustic communications. December 7, 2009
Creating a Defect/Error-Tolerant nanoDSP Architecture
ECE Professor Fabrizio Lombardi has been published in the recent issue of ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems for his research on developing a new nanosystem architecture for
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications.
December 7, 2009
Breaking New Ground in Cornea Implants
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti is using “Hybrid Tissue
Engineering” to create cornea tissue from collagen that can be used for
human transplants. December 4, 2009
Congratulation Dogus Meric
Dogus Meric, a Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD student, won
first place in the abstract competition held at the Northeast
Geotechnical Graduate Research Symposium. His research is on remediation
of contaminated sediments using a reactive mat. November 20, 2009
Congratulations Robert Tillman
CEE Associate Professor Robert Tillman, has been selected to receive the
best CEE division speaker award for his session “Discovering Magical
Partnerships within Your Campus”. He will be recognized for this
achievement at the annual CIEC conference in February. November 19, 2009
Answering The Challenge
The National Academy of Engineering has issued the “Grand Challenges for
Engineering” which includes restoration and maintenance of urban
infrastructure. CEE Professors Sara Wadia-Fascetti and Ming Wang are
leading the VOTERS (Versatile Onboard Traffic mbedded Roaming Sensors)
project, which will develop onboard multi-sensor technology that will
detect structural flaws in roads and bridges. November 19, 2009
Making The World Safer
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Carey Rappaport is working
with three of the COE Research Centers to increase the safety of this
nation. He is the associate director of CenSSIS and ALERT and a lead
researcher of VOTERS. November 16, 2009
Sun Receives $50K for Research
Nian Sun, an ECE Associate Professor, received $50K from Northrop
Grumman Corporation for bringing up collaborative research on high
performance miniature antennas with Northrop Grumman. November 13, 2009
Helping Stroke Victims Recover
Constantinos Mavroidis, Professor and Director of the Biomedical
Mechtronics Laboratory, was featured by MIT’s Technology Review for his
work in creating portable robotic devices that can be used in the
rehabilitation of patients that have suffered a stoke. November 13, 2009
Chemical Engineering Students are National Champions
A group of 10 ChE students won 1st place at the National AIChE ChemECar competition in which they had to power and control a car by a chemical reaction. Another group of 3 won the SACHE Student Design Competition for Safety in Design. November 12, 2009
Making Our Drinking Water Safe
April Gu, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
is exploring ways to make removing polluntants from wastewater more
efficient and cost effective. Her research is funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and the Water and Environmental Research
Foundation (WERF). November 6, 2009
SWE Team Comes in 3rd in Collegiate SME "Subject Matter Experts" Competition
Mariah Dellea (ME'13) and Kerri Liss (IE'13), were part of a 5 person team that placed 3rd in Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Subject Matter Expert Bowl contest at the SWE National Conference. November 6, 2009
Murthy’s Research featured in Langmuir Journal
Shashi Murthy, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, is featured
in the American Chemical Society’s Langmuir journal for his efforts of
trying to minimize/eliminate shunt occlusion in the treatment of
hydrocephalus. November 4, 2009
Vaziri Wins $360K Air Force Young Investigator Award
MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri has received the Air Force Young
Investigator Award to study bio-inspired interfaces for hybrid
structures. October 23, 2009
Prof. Harris and Vittoria receive $400K NSF Grant
ECE Professors Vincent Harris and Carmine Vittoria received a $400K NSF
grant to study electric field tunable microwave magnetic passive
devices. October 13, 2009
Jung Awarded $100K NSF Grant
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Yung Joon Jung
has been awarded a 3-year grant from NSF to develop ultra-high
performance carbon nanotubes for use in extremely narrow interconnects. October 13, 2009
Murthy’s Research featured in Analytical Chemistry
Shashi Murthy, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, is featured in the October 7 edition of Analytical Chemistry for his method for separating cells using a deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) microfluidic device. October 8, 2009
New Interdisciplinary Bioengineering PhD program
The new Bioengineering PhD program combines biosciences and engineering together to create six immersion tracks for students to choose from. October 5, 2009
Ruberti Receives $785K NEI Grant
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti
has received a 2 year $785K grant from NIH’s National Eye Institute for
his continued research on Engineering Biomimetic Corneal Constructs. October 1, 2009
Trying to Keep the World Structurally Sound
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Ming Wang has received
funding from NSF, FHWA, and NIST to develop sensors for bridges and
roadways to keep them safe. Wang is internationally recognized as in
expert in monitoring the structural health of bridges, tunnels, and
other infrastructure. September 23, 2009
Congratulations to Joan Dela Cruz
Congratulations Joan Dela Cruz, BSME'13, who has won the Igor Sikorsky
Scholarship which covers 50% of tuition for the first year. Recipients
also participate in internships at Sikorsky Aircraft. Dela Cruz is only
the second COE NUPRIME student to win this award. September 21, 2009
Sipahi Awarded $200K NSF Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi has been awarded a $200K NSF grant
to reveal the complex interplay between the topology, time delays, and
the stability of dynamical systems that couple across networks. The
project will have impacts in the fields of networked control systems,
human-in-the-loop dynamics and epidemiology. September 18, 2009
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this years College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards. September 18, 2009
Congratulations to Dana Peck
Dana Peck, CIV'11, is the recipient of a $1500 SWE National - Jill S.
Tietjen Scholarship. She is currently on coop in Perth, Australia doing
research for Professor Tom Sheahan's NSF project on offshore geohazards. September 16, 2009
Congratulations to Megan Richardson
Megan Richardson, ME'10, is the recipient of a $5000 SWE National -
General Electric Women's Network scholarship. She is currently on coop
at California's NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. September 15, 2009
Dialogue of Civilizations Project might lead to Bicycle Lane
After 6 students attended a month-long engineering class in the
Netherlands on sustainable transportation, they have designed a method
to add a bicycle promenade to the carriage path on Commonwealth Avenue.
They gave a presentation to Newton residents during a recent City Hall meeting explaining their proposal. September 14, 2009
Sznaier and Camps Win NSF Award
ECE Professors Mario Sznaier and Octavia Camps have won a $415K NSF
grant to develop new methods to extract information very sparsely
encoded in extremely high dimensional data streams, with applications to
aware environments, autonomous vehicles and systems biology. September 9, 2009
New Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Bioengineering
The College of Engineering is now offering a new interdisciplinary PhD
Degree program in Bioengineering. The program takes advantage of the
strong multidisciplinary research taking place at the interface of
biology and engineering at Northeastern. September 3, 2009
CHN Receives $12M Renewal Grant
The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research Center for High-rate
Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $12.25 million renewal grant from
the National Science Foundation to continue its industry-leading
research. August 25, 2009
ECE Junior wins 2-year fellowship in Information Assurance
Ryan Whelan, a junior in ECE, has been awarded a NSF Scholarship for
Service Fellowship. Designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of
federal information assurance professionals that protect the
government's critical information infrastructure, this scholarship is
administered through Northeastern's Institute for Information Assurance. August 24, 2009
Gu Wins 2 Grants to Study Wastewater Treatment Processes
April Gu, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
has received a $297K NSF grant and a $230K grant from the Water and
Environmental Research Foundation (WERF) to study the impact of
wastewater derived organic nitrogen and refractory organic phosphorus. August 20, 2009
Caracoglia to Study Wind Effects on Buildings
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Luca
Caracoglia, has received a $430K NSF CAREER grant to study how wind
effects tall buildings. August 3, 2009
Professor Dy Awarded $470K NSF Grant
Associate Professor Jennifer Dy of Electrical and Computer Engineering
will be developing a method to analyze data using multiple clustering
views by studying skin lesions and cancers. July 27, 2009
Jung Awarded $200K NSF Grant
Assistant Professor Yung Joon Jung, of Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering, has been awarded a 3-year grant from NSF to develop a new
class of hybrid composite structures based on highly organized SWNT
architectures and polymer materials, for high performance functional
flexible systems. July 27, 2009
Prof Erdogmus Receives Second Grant
Denis Erdogmus, an ECE Assistant Professor, has received a $500K NSF grant to develop a brain interface controlled icon-based language generation system that aims to increase speed of communication for persons with severe disabilities. He recently received a $695K grant from NIH.
July 23, 2009Solving Real Problems with Real Solutions
Professor Michael Silevitch spoke at the recent Advanced Smart Materials
and Smart Structures Technology workshop about the importance of
working out real-world problems with the people that are striving to
solve these issues. July 20, 2009
Touran Elected Secretary of Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section
Ali Touran, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, was featured by the Boston Society of Civil Engineers
Section, BSCES News, for his long and distinguished career and now most
recently for his election as Secretary of BSCES. July 14, 2009
Caracoglia Wins a NSF CAREER Award
Luca Caracoglia, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, has won a CAREER award, the NSF's most prestigious award
for junior faculty, to determine wind hazards on tall buildings. July 10, 2009
NEHCEP is Newest Engineering Center
The New England Healthcare Engineering Partnership (NEHCEP), led by MIE
professor James Benneyan, will use engineering methods to improve the VA
health care system to provide better overall care. July 7, 2009
New Energy Systems Master's Degree
Starting in the fall, the College of Engineering will offer a new degree
for a Masters of Science in Energy Systems. This program integrates the
technology side of energy systems development with the financial
planning needed to effectively implement them. July 1, 2009
Prof Erdogmus receives $695K grant
Denis Erdogmus, an ECE Assistant Professor, has received a 5-yr grant
from NIH, to design a noninvasive brain computer interface to help
patients with locked-in syndrome (LIS) by detecting their responses to
rapid serial visual presentations. June 29, 2009
Prof Kaeli Awarded NSF grant
David Kaeli, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has
received a 4-yr NSF Scholarship for Service Award, which will provide
scholarships to talented students in Information Assurance technologies
so as to protect our national cyber infrastructure. June 29, 2009
Niedre Awarded $360K Grant
ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, was one of seven local scientists
to receive grants from the Massachusetts Life Science Center to develop a
non-invasively method for detecting rare cells circulating in the
blood. June 26, 2009
Prof Ando Selected as Fellow
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Teiichi Ando has been selected as a Fellow of ASM International. June 26, 2009
Drop of Blood to Lead to Heart Health
Shashi Murthy, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, is working
on bringing his diagnostic tool, which will monitor a patients
cardiovascular health to hospitals in the next couple of years. He will
not be satisfied until high risk patients are benefiting from the
device. June 22, 2009
EWB Featured by State Department
The Engineers Without Borders group is highlighted on www.America.gov, which is used to promote the nation's image in the world. The group was also recently featured on the Cambridge-based TV series "Civil Engineering Today".
June 22, 2009
Historical Brooklyn Bridge Built to Last
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Mishac Yegian has
determined that the Brooklyn Bridge could withstand an earthquake that
registers a 6.5 on the Richter Scale without any damage to its
foundation. June 17, 2009
Tracking Cancer Tumors Digitally
ECE Associate Professor Jennifer Dy is developing a computer algorithm
that will try to track the movement of tumors that will allow for
detection and targeted treatments. June 12, 2009
Master of Science Degree Program in Energy Systems
The Graduate School of Engineering offers a Master of Science degree
program in Energy Systems. The program integrates the technology side of
energy systems with the financial planning needed to effectively be
implemented. June 10, 2009
COE to gain new Center for Healthcare Systems Engineering
MIE Associate Professor, James C. Benneyan, will be the Executive
Director of the New England Healthcare Systems Engineering Research
Center. The center is funded by the US Dept of Veterans Affairs and will
receive $3.4M/yr. June 10, 2009
Prof. Gouldstone is Recipient of Best Paper Award
MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone was the recipient of the Journal of
Thermal Spray Technology Best Paper Award at the International Thermal
Spray Conference for his paper "On the Role of Bubbles in Metallic Splat
Nanopores and Adhesion". The work shows that the first hundred
nanoseconds of liquid droplet impact strongly effects surface adhesion. June 3, 2009
Prof. Harris and Vittoria receives $1.4M for research on magnetics
Professors Vince Harris and Carmine Vittoria receive $1.4M from the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Navy, and Air Force
for advanced magnets and their use in next generation microwave
electronics. June 2, 2009
EWB to Design Clean Water System for Bbanda, Uganda
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is again designing a clean water system
but this time in Bbanda, Uganda. The group is almost finished on their
project in El Chaguite, Honduras that designed a similar water system. June 2, 2009
A Single Drop of Blood can Expose Heart Disease
Shashi Murthy, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, has
developed a credit card-sized device that uses less than a drop of blood
to discover if a patient has heart disease. June 1, 2009
NSF Grant to Help New Generation of Students
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded NU a new grant aimed
at providing scholarships to students interested in pursuing a degree in
science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. May 28, 2009
NU to host 2009 IEEE International Accessing the Future Conference
As part of IEEE's 125th anniversary, this conference will focus on the next
generation of technology that will be available in the next 5-10 years. May 27, 2009
Congratulations Chad Boutet
Chad Boutet, a junior in Civil Engineering, has won the PB Rail
Engineering Scholarship provided by the American Railway Engineering and
Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA). May 26, 2009
COE Alum receives a NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
Lester M. Cohen, a BS'73 and MS'77 graduate in civil engineering, has
been selected to receive a NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for
his work on the James Webb Space Telescope program. May 26, 2009
COE Alum nominated by President Obama to Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration
Winslow Sargeant, an '86 graduate with a bachelors’s degree in
electrical engineering, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to
serve as Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the Small Business
Administration. Dr. Sargeant is currently the managing director of
Madison-based Venture Investors. May 26, 2009
Using SWNT to enhance sensing applications
ECE Assistant Professor Mehmet Dokmeci has developed a method of using
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNT) on complementary metal oxide
semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry that will lead to the creation of new
sensor systems. May 15, 2009
Determining Water Toxicity Using Prokaryotic Real-Time Gene Expression
April Gu, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering is
calculating toxicity levels of pollutants in water samples
using prokaryotic real-time gene expressions. May 15, 2009
Creating Nano Building Blocks
Using low L/D aspect ratios, MIE Assistant Professor Yung Joon Jung and
his graduate students, have demonstrated the benefits of using nanocups
and ring geometries. May 11, 2009
Image Based Software Solutions
Dana Brooks, professor of ECE, has been investigating a method to use
image based modeling software for use in biomedical research. May 5, 2009
Getting the Most out of the Coop Experience
Sean Mayo, a 2009 graduate of ECE, using the experiences he gained from
the classroom and coop, has landed himself a dream job at Apple. He
already has several patents from working there on his last coop. Sean
was recently awarded the William Jefferson Alcott Award for his
outstanding performances. May 5, 2009
Congratulations Christopher W. Stivers
Christopher W. Stivers, a 2009 Mechanical Engineering graduate, has been
awarded a Tau Beta Pi graduate Fellowship. He plans on pursuing a
degree in Biomedical Engineering. May 4, 2009
Increasing Opportunities for Women
The NSF ADVANCE grant will help increase the number of women in academic science and engineering careers. April 30, 2009
Congratulations to John Oldham
John Oldham, a Chemical Engineering PhD student, is the recipient of the
Dissertation Writing Fellowship for the 2009 Summer Semester. The award
is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and offers financial support
to Ph.D. candidates so they may spend their final semester writing. April 30, 2009
Improving Performance of Solar Cells
NU researchers from Chemical Engineering have found that using potassium
on the surface of nanotubes can significantly enhance the performance
of the solar cells. April 29, 2009
Yener elected ASEE Fellow
Yaman Yener, Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate School has been
elected a Fellow of ASEE. The fellow grade is conferred upon an active
member of ASEE who has been a member for at least 10 years, in
recognition of outstanding contributions to engineering or engineering
technology education. April 29, 2009
Moving Up in the Ranks
The College of Engineering's Graduate School has moved up in the US News & World Reports ranks of the Top Engineering Graduate Schools from 65 to 60. April 29, 2009
Capstone students create 3D Computer Interface
Five seniors from ECE are the 1st place winners of the 2009 Senior
Capstone projects. Justin Schunick, Mark Hollenbeck, Luke Shaheen, Scott
Gillette, and Glenn Black built a low-cost human computer interface
that tracks a user's movement. April 29, 2009
Congratulations to the 2009 Student Affairs Scholarship Winners
The Student Affairs office awards scholarships to recognize the contributions of our student leaders on campus. Thomas I Atkins Social Justice Scholarship: Gidley Dorlus, ME’13 & Babatunde Ogunfemi, EE’13; The Karen T. Rigg Shining Torch Scholarship: Joyce Salomon, EE’12; The Joseph Spear Scholarship: Thomas Peacock, ME’10; The Greg Jarvis Memorial Scholarship: Stephen Asay, IE’09 April 22, 2009
Creating a New Standard
Thomas Sheahan, professor and acting chair of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, is trying to create an ASTM standard test that will be able
to help determine soil and foundation responses due to manmade and
seismic activity. April 14, 2009
Engineers make the World a Better Place
By becoming an engineer, you have an excellent opportunity to develop
and improve the way we live our lives. Three engineering students were
recently interviewed by Network World to share their thoughts on how Northeastern has prepared them for their careers. April 10, 2009
AIChE group promoting engineering to K-12
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) group is reaching
out to young students to help them connect with science and engineering
programs in their areas. April 7, 2009
Communicating Underwater Wirelessly
Milica Stojanovic, associate professor of ECE, is researching
communicating underwater to explore the oceans and see what they have to
offer. Whether it be exploring wreckage or finding new resources,
wireless communications could revolutionize current methods. April 2, 2009
AIChE Group Tests Their Knowledge
The AIChE student group created their own version of the TV series "Are
you smarter than a 5th grader" but they were testing themselves against
freshman engineering knowledge. March 30, 2009
Congratulations to Mathew Gabak
Mathew Gabak, ME'09, has won the Inspiring Social Justice Poster
Contest sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity
and UNITE (Unifying Northeastern Identitites Through Education). March 30, 2009
Critical Population Density Brings Order to Chaos
Purnima Ratilal, assistant professor of ECE, has been published in the latest issue of Science for her research on imaging fish shoals that verifies general theories about the behavior patterns of large groups of animals. March 27, 2009
Making the World a Little Greener
Matilda Urie, a senior mechanical engineering student, was been hired by
a Scotland firm to "help develop clean, energy-producing turbines—it’s
the right thing to do to preserve our planet." March 23, 2009
MCAA wins 1st place in national competition
Congratulations to the Mechanical Contractor Association of America's
student group for winning 1st place in the national MCAA's 2008-2009
student chapter competition. March 20, 2009
Nutrons Mentor Local High School Students for FIRST Robotics Competition
The NUTRON'S "Ask an Engineer" program assists teams with engineering
questions. Volunteers in the program include: Kyle Henry: Senior, Josh
Miranda: Grad Student, Neil Cameron: Middler, Steve Guerrera: Alum, Zach
Shapiro: Alum, Amy Sauger: Sophomore, Andrew Bates: Freshman, Kim Masi:
Sophomore, Corey Balint: Sophomore, Eric Williams: Sophomore, Tom
Bottiglieri: Middler, Antonio Rufo: Catholic Memorial Senior, Matt
Skillin: Wentworth (former Boston Latin student), Don Goldthwaite:
Advisor March 17, 2009
COE Alum named CEO of Vertis Communications
Quincy L. Allen, a '82 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical
engineering, and longtime executive of Xerox Corporation, has been
appointed chief executive officer of Vertis Communications. March 17, 2009
George Kent receives Outstanding Coop Coordinator Award
Congratulations to George Kent for receiving the 2009 Outstanding Coop
Coordinator Award which will be presented to him at a ceremony on April
2, 2009. Only two individuals from the university are choosen for this
award each year. March 11, 2009
Polyimide Ripples Created with Focused Ion Beam
Professor Ashkan Vaziri, an assitant professor in Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering, working with a team of scientists from three
other universities, has been able to create specific nanoscale designs
on the surface structure of polyimide by using focused ion beam (FIB)
irradiation. March 10, 2009
Busnaina's nanotechnology research to help improve manufacturing
Ahmed Busnaina, William Lincoln Smith Professor and director of the
Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), is investigating ways of
manufacturing materials which will allow structures and patterns down to
20nm or smaller using room-temperature and non-vacuum processes. February 26, 2009
Northeastern to co-lead workshop on Advanced Magnetic Materials and their Applications with India
Laura H Lewis, Cabot Professor and chair of Chemical Engineering, Vincent G. Harris, William Lincoln Smith Chair and director of the CM3IC, and research scientist Dr. C.N. Chinnasamy,
will co-lead a joint Indo-US “Conference on New Directions and Novel
Applications in Magnetism” at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
(IITB), March 1 – 4, 2009. February 20, 2009
NU FIRST Robotics team gets ready for competition
The NUTRONS are again preparing to compete in the upcoming FIRST Boston
Regional Robotics Competition in March. The team won first place in this
contest in 2007. February 19, 2009
Article by Prof. Shashi Murthy featured in Macromolecules
Incorporation of Linear Spacer Molecules in Vapor-Deposited Silicone Polymer Thin Films February 18, 2009
Prof Yegian's research on the Cover of Civil Engineering Magazine
Prof. Mishac Yegian's modeling of the Brooklyn Bridge evaluates its ability to withstand a 2,500-year seismic event. February 11, 2009
Prof Hellweger demonstrates that photosynthesis genes affect the fitness of marine species
Ferdi Hellweger, assistant professor in civil and environmental
engineering, has found using a computer simulation that eliminating
photosynthesis genes from marine viruses will negatively impact the
fitness of these viruses causing them to die out. February 9, 2009
COE Alum Receives 2 Prestigious Awards
Satish Maripuri, an '88 graduate with a master’s degree in computer
systems engineering, has received two prestigious business awards: the
Bharat Samman Parvasi 2008 Award and the Hind Rattan 2009 Award. February 3, 2009
Vittoria named Life Fellow of IEEE
Professor Carmine Vittoria has been elected a Life Fellow of the IEEE
for for his contributions to the understanding of the microwave
properties of magnetic materials and their applications in microwave
technology. January 20, 2009
COE Alum appointed President of Millipore's Bioscience Division
Jon DiVincenzo, a '88 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering, has been appointed President of Millipore's Bioscience
Division and member of its Corporate Executive Committee. January 8, 2009
Prof. Marengo named 2008 most distinguished alumnus
Prof. Edwin Marengo was named the 2008 most distinguished alumnus of the
Technological University of Panama in the category of research,
innovation, and technological development. The university grants five
awards to the most distinguished alumni of the year, in five different
categories. January 6, 2009
$9 Million Grant Awarded to Assess the Condition of Bridges and Roadways
The VOTERS (Versatile Onboard Traffic
Embedded Roaming Sensors) project, led by Prof. Ming Wang and Sara
Wadia-Fascetti, will gather accurate, up-to-date condition information
on roadways and bridges using compact instrument packages installed in
cars and trucks. January 6, 2009
Congratulations to Roni Mittelman and Dilber Gamsiz
Roni Mittelman, an Electrical Engineering PhD student and Dilber Gamsiz, a Chemical Engineering PhD student, are recipients of the Dissertation Writing Fellowships for the 2009 Spring Semester. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and offers financial support to Ph.D. candidates so they may spend their final semester writing.
January 2, 2009Purnima Ratilal is winner of Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
This is the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers. December 22, 2008
Chemical Engineering Graduate Students to Participate in International Exchange
ChE Ph.D. students Courtney Pfluger and Mariam Ismail have been invited
by the The Younger Chemists Committee of the American Chemical
Society Northeastern Section (NESACS) and the NESACS Education Committee
to participate in an educational exchange program to take place in
Essen, Germany, on March 8-15, 2009, as guests of the Jungchemikerforum
(Young Chemists Committee, JCF) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
(German Chemical Society, GDCh). December 17, 2008
Engineers Without Borders visit Honduras
Check out the EWB student website for video from their latest trip to
Honduras and their focus on providing clean water to the village of Los
Planes. December 17, 2008
Engineering students partner with Greek firm to invent robotized cleaning system for solar panels
A group of MIE students have designed a groundbreaking, robotic cleaning
system for solar panels that has been submitted for a patent. December 12, 2008
Necmiye Ozay receives CDC best student paper award
Necmiye Ozay, an Electrical Engineering graduate student, is the
recipient of the best student paper award at the Conference on Decision
and Control (CDC) for her paper entitled "A sparsification approach to
set membership identification of a class of affine hybrid systems",
co-authored with M. Sznaier, C. Lagoa and O. Camps. December 10, 2008
Fabrizio Lombardi named Fellow of IEEE
Professor Fabrizio Lombardi has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE for
his contributions to testing and fault tolerance of digital systems. December 10, 2008
Engineers without Borders student group to return to Honduras
After being named "Project of the Month" in October, Engineers without
Borders return to Honduras to continue work with their new water system. December 10, 2008
Professor’s aim – better bike paths
Engineering professor and bike enthusiast Peter Furth, along with his
civil engineering students, is involved in projects for building better
bike paths. December 5, 2008
Prof. Niedre Finds Early Photon Imaging Detects Lung Cancer
A novel, high-resolution fluorescence imaging system may be used to detect lung cancer at early stages. December 5, 2008
COE Alum named Chief Technology Officer
Ian Kaye, a '96 graduate of Northeastern with a bachelor’s degree in
mechanical engineering, has been promoted to chief technology officer of
UltraCell Corporation®. December 3, 2008
Chairman of Board receives New York Life’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
Sy Sternberg, MS '68, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Northeastern
and Chairman of the Board at New York Life Insurance Company, received
New York Life’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. December 3, 2008
Dr. Sara Wadia-Fascetti named Director of Northeastern’s ADVANCE Program
Dr. Sara Wadia-Fascetti, who has served as Associate Vice Provost for
Faculty Advancement since 2005, will assume the role of Director of
ADVANCE and Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Development,
effective immediately. December 2, 2008
A Clearer Picture of Cancer
Mark Niedre, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
at Northeastern, developed a new high resolution method for in vivo
fluorescence imaging. November 25, 2008
Prof. Mavroidis awarded $1M NSF grant
Robotics projects for stroke rehabilitation receive major federal grants. November 19, 2008
Engineering students lend Conservancy a hand
NU Chapter of ASCE has partnered with the Charles River Conservancy to
repair the eroded slope on the Boston side of the Eliot Street Bridge. November 13, 2008
Metghalchi named to Executive Committee
Hameed Metghalchi has been selected as a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Executive Committee. November 11, 2008
8 New IGERT Fellows Selected
Students selected for the IGERT Fellowship program are studying the
technical and political aspects of decision-making as it relates to
diagnostics of roads and bridges. November 8, 2008
Computer Finds Molecules Causing Diseases
Mehdi Tahoori, assistant professor of ECE, was featured for research focused on schizophrenia, major depression & cancer at UPI.com.
Researchers say they have created an algorithm that can identify genes
& proteins most likely to cause such complex diseases. November 6, 2008
NU inaugurates homeland security ALERT center
Northeastern launched its newly funded Center of Awareness and
Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT), a Department of
Homeland Security Center of Excellence. October 31, 2008
Ribbon-Cutting for ALERT
Inauguration of the DHS Research Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation & Response. October 28, 2008
NU chapter of Engineers Without Borders chosen as "Project of the Month"
EWB has been chosen as "Project of the Month" for their work in the Yoro
district of Honduras to help bring a clean reliable source of water to
villagers. October 23, 2008
Collaboration between COE Nanomanufacturing Center and Physics yields high-impact result in journal Nanotechnology covered on PhysOrg.com
"Large scale 3D vertical assembly of single-wall carbon nanotubes at ambient temperatures." Nanotechnology 19 (2008) 455309. Faculty Leaders: Ahmed Busnaina, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Director, Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and Sri Sridhar, Physics, Director, Electronic Materials Research Institute. October 23, 2008
Leo M. Falicov Student Award Winner
Zhuhua Cai, a Chemical Engineering PhD student, received The Leo M.
Falicov Student Award from the Magnetic Interfaces & Nanostructures
Division at the National AVS meeting for her presentation on MBE
Integration of BaM on Wide Bandgap 6H-SiC. October 22, 2008
Assistant Professor Mehdi Baradaran Tahoori's Research Article is the Cover Story in Science Signaling
Fault Diagnosis Engineering of Digital Circuits Can Identify Vulnerable Molecules in Complex Cellular Pathways. October 22, 2008
9th Annual Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference and THz Imaging and Spectroscopy Workshop
The RICC is the perfect setting for dialogue among members of the
academic, industrial and government communities interested in
collaboration in subsurface sensing and imaging.This year's RICC will
focus on several areas that are of great interest to the Gordon-CenSSIS
community. October 20, 2008
NSF Grant to Study Self-Efficacy and Retention of Female Undergraduate Engineering Students
Grant awarded to study how cooperative education and related on-the-job
experiences affect female undergraduate engineering students. October 17, 2008
Prof. Dokmeci's Carbon Nanotube Work Recognized
Assistant Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering Mehmet Dokmeci was presented with the Best Poster
Award at the 8th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, an honor
acknowledging promising research in experimental work involving carbon
nanotubes. October 17, 2008
Congratulations Kelly Trowbridge
Kelly Trowbridge, class of 2009, has been selected as one of the
recipient's of this year's AIChE Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer
National Scholarship Award. October 3, 2008
ECE Cell-Counting Collaboration Wins Paper Award
The Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 Best Techniques Paper award was
awarded to J.A. Newmark, W.C. Warger, II, C. Chang, G.E. Herrera, D.H.
Brooks, C.A. DiMarzio, and C.M. Warner for their paper entitled
"Determination of the Number of Cells in Preimplantation Embryos by
Using Non-invasive Optical Quadrature Microscopy in Conjunction with
Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy" This is truly an
interdisciplinary collaboration: the first author, Judy Newmark, is a
Biology PhD student, and the 2nd, Bill Warger, an ECE Phd student. September 19, 2008
$3.7M ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award
This NSF award engages a team of interdisciplinary faculty and
administrators to develop systemic approaches to increase the
representation and advancement of women in academic science and
engineering careers. September 4, 2008
Students Chosen for New Engineering/MBA Program
The first six students have been chosen for a new engineering program
starting this fall that combines business and engineering coursework,
allowing students to pursue engineering management positions or business
leadership roles. August 21, 2008
Dr. Beverly Jaeger - Olympic Line Judge
COE Gateway Faculty member, Dr. Beverly Jaeger, is a line judge for tennis matches at the Beijing Olympic Games. August 9, 2008
NU's Biotechnology Initiative and Professional Science Master's Degrees Underscored by New Federal Report
Through an innovative collaboration, chemists, physicists,
pharmaceutical scientists, researchers, biologists, and engineers at
Northeastern University are working to solve today’s pressing medical
and biological dilemmas. August 8, 2008
Green and Inexpensive SuperMagnets
The Center for Microwave Magnetic Materials and Integrated Circuits has
developed a green, one-step process for creating samarium cobalt
permanent magnets that could usher in a new breed of hybrid automobiles
using smaller, inexpensive motors. August 7, 2008
Galante Engineering BS/MBA Program
Alumnus Edward Galante has pledged $5 million to establish the Galante
Engineering BS/MBA Program, an interdisciplinary effort to hone top
students’ problem-solving and decision-making skills. August 5, 2008
Rick Scranton receives singular honor from ASCE
The American Society of Civil Engineers has established the Richard J. Scranton Outstanding Community Service Award. August 5, 2008
Engineering Design Project Helps Launch Startup
A group of Northeastern University students has defied the odds when
they helped to invent a biotech instrument that two years later turned
into a company. July 17, 2008
