News
Sep 10, 2021
Creating a Human Avatar in Remote Locations
A group of Northeastern University students led by MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney, has made it to the semifinals of the global Avatar XPrize competition which aims to create an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real-time.
Sep 07, 2021
Creating Stable Non-Critical Element Magnets
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, is leading a $2.1M Department of Energy grant, in collaboration with the University of Delaware, the Northeastern University Physics department, and the University of Warwick, UK, for “Designing Strong Stability in Non-Critical and Rare-Earth-Lean Magnetic Materials.”
Sep 02, 2021
Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Students in STEM Fields
MIE Professor Hameed Metghalchi and Assistant Dean Richard Harris were awarded a $250K NSF sub-award for the “Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Northeast LSAMP 2021-2026.”
Aug 27, 2021
Using Honey Bee Techniques to Manipulate Soft Materials
Recently hired MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Marguerite Matherne is studying how honey bees remove pollen pellets from their bodies to better manufacture and manipulate soft materials.
Aug 23, 2021
Advancing the Design of Nanoscale Photonic Devices
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “Non-Hermitian and Topological Plasmonic Devices for Light Manipulation at the Nanoscale.”
Aug 19, 2021
Unlocking the Full Potential of the Manufacturing Workforce with IXR
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam was awarded a $2M NSF grant for “Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality (IXR).”
Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Ozan Ozdemir
Ozan Özdemir joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2021 as an Assistant Professor.
Aug 12, 2021
Understanding of the Physics of Dense Suspensions
MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali, in collaboration with Lilian Hsiao from North Carolina State University, received a $794K NSF grant for “Visualizing statistical force networks in colloidal materials far-from-equilibrium.”