News
May 13, 2026
Zheng Selected as 2026 NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected as a 2026 NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow, a 10-week residential research program, to work on advanced energy and power systems for space applications.
May 07, 2026
Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
May 06, 2026
New Project Combines Biology, Music, and Math to Display Limb Regeneration
A project named “Morphogenesis,” led by Garret Compston and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, uses Alan Turing’s pattern with musical representation to portray the biological process behind how individual cells, tissues and organs develop their specific shapes and structures when the embryo is still developing.
May 04, 2026
Ergun & Jing Win POMS Humanitarian Operations Best Paper Competition
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun and her recently graduated PhD student Weijia Lluvia Jing won the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) best paper competition for their paper “Enhancing the Effectiveness and Responsiveness of Humanitarian Food Aid Delivery Services Through Data-Driven Optimization.”
Apr 28, 2026
Akcay Named Finalist for Best Paper at IISE Annual Conference
MIE Associate Professor Alp Akcay has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 IISE Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Division Track Paper Contest at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference, to be held in Arlington, Texas.
Apr 21, 2026
Improving How Machines Perceive and React to the World
MIE Associate Professor Laurent Lessard was awarded a $374K NSF grant for “Optimization-Based Methods for State Estimation”.
Apr 21, 2026
The Engineer Behind Clean Combustion & Sustainable Fuels
MIE Distinguished Professor Yiannis Levendis leads pioneering research in clean combustion and sustainable fuels, developing innovations like recyclable iron fuel and wildfire-resistant technologies to solve critical environmental challenges.
Apr 21, 2026
End of the Semester Brings Innovative Projects
As the semester wraps up, Northeastern Global News explores a handful of interesting final projects from a variety of Northeastern students.