News
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Karthikeyan Baskaran
Karthikeyan Baskaran joined the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2026 as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Oakland, California.
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Xiu Liu
Xiu Liu joined the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2026 as an Assistant Professor in Oakland, California.
Sep 04, 2026
Inaugural Summer Program Connects Engineering Students to Seattle Robotics Industry
Northeastern University’s inaugural seven-week “Summer In Seattle” program gave undergraduate engineering students hands-on experience in the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant robotics ecosystem through immersive coursework, industry site visits, and simulation projects.
Sep 03, 2026
Interdisciplinary Team Receives NSF FIRE Grant to Study FireScreens for Wildfire Safety
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis, CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia, Affiliated Faculty Michelle Laboy, and MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton were awarded a $1.06M NSF Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) grant for “Investigating Potential Solutions to Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Structural Hardening.”
Sep 02, 2026
Thermal Management Breakthroughs Developed for Extreme Space Environments
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng spent his summer collaborating with NASA engineers to develop advanced thermal management materials, including heat-harvesting cells and phase-change gels, designed to prevent battery explosions and withstand extreme space environments.
Aug 28, 2026
What do teachers think about AI?
COE Industrial Engineering Professor Abe Zeid, Executive Director Claire Duggan, and Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director Jennifer Love of the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education are working on the NSF-funded project “Modernizing Education: Using AI to Improve Students’ Learning and Build Skills for the Future” with 30 local high school STEM teachers.
Aug 14, 2026
Alum Named to ASME’s 2026 Watch List for Robotics Work at Tesla
Tesla manufacturing engineer and Northeastern University alum Joshua Joseph, MS’23, mechanical engineering, has been named to ASME’s 2026 Watch List for his work pioneering autonomous mobile robot deployment and human-robot collaboration frameworks in factory settings.
Aug 13, 2026
MIE PhD Students Selected Among Top 3 Teams in MIT Incubator Program
Mechanical engineering PhD students Brett Emery and Jacob Miske finished among the Top 3 teams in the Spring 2026 cohort of Blueprint by The Engine, an eight-week Tough Tech program hosted by MIT’s nonprofit incubator where they showcased their venture, InLoop.