News
Mar 30, 2026
Making AI in Healthcare Reliable with Dr. Burcu Ozek
Dr. Burcu Ozek is currently a Principal AI Scientist at Walkky after completing a PhD in industrial engineering at Northeastern. Looking back at her time with Northeastern, Ozeck shares the value of the LEADERs program and how her hands-on experience gave her the necessary skills to communicate across teams in her work with AI in healthcare.
Mar 23, 2026
New Space Engineering Club Set to Launch Their First Satellite
Northeastern’s Satellite Laboratory will be launching their first satellite with a resupply mission to the ISS. Coming from Aerospace NU, the club branched out to focus on their own ambitions, hoping to give Northeastern a permanent place for spacecraft engineering research.
Mar 16, 2026
NSF CAREER Award To Develop Next-Generation Energy Diagnostics
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu received a $630K NSF CAREER award for “Interpretable Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Analytics, Diagnostics, and Artificial Intelligence for Porous Electrodes.”
Mar 12, 2026
Industrial Engineering Students Publish Findings on Dual Substance Use and Treatment Success
The research conducted by Logan Kane, E’26, industrial engineering, in collaboration with Sahil Shikalgar, PhD’26, industrial engineering, in a data science workshop offered by MIE Associate Professor Md Noor E Alam on “Investigating the Effect of Secondary Cannabis Use on Treatment Discontinuation Among Individuals Undergoing Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment” was published in Substance Use & Misuse.
Mar 12, 2026
Zheng Named Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) for his “advances in micro/nanoscale radiative heat transfer via functional energy materials and metamaterials, energy storage, and solar desalination for efficient, sustainable energy systems.”
Mar 10, 2026
Patent for New Tool to Improve Accuracy of Injectable Drug Delivery
MIE Professor Hongwei Sun was awarded a patent to develop a “Multifunctional micropillar-enabled acoustic wave viscometer.”
Mar 03, 2026
Why Rechargeable Batteries Break Down Over Time
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research on “Electrode strain dynamics in layered intercalation battery cathodes” was published in Science.
Mar 03, 2026
Optimizing Energy Absorption in Lattice Structures via Intermediate Stochasticity
MIE Assistant Professors Juner Zhu and Ruobing Bai published their research on “Exploring the Role of Stochasticity in Lattice Structures for Crush Energy Absorption Capabilities” in Thin-Walled Structures.