News
Sep 19, 2014
$3.9M Grant for Child Autism
The Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute, led by James Benneyan, is one of the recipients of a $3.9M NIMH grant for the early detection and treatment of autism.
Sep 15, 2014
Building Carbon Nanotubes
MIE Associate Professor Yung Joon Jung and his team of researchers have developed a method for constructing inter-nanotube junctions to make superior carbon nanotube arrays.
Sep 08, 2014
Vaziri has Featured Article
MIE Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s article about “Optimal Fractal-Like Hierarchical Honeycombs” was featured as an Editor’s Suggestion in the Physical Review Letters journal.
Aug 20, 2014
Ideas to Lead By
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, MS, Industrial Engineering, 1977—Learn more about him in a story published in Winter 2011/2012 issue of Northeastern Magazine. Career Success: Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, a minister and trusted senior advisor to Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, holds multiple posts in the Indonesian government that are considered vital to the nation’s development and sustainability goals. As […]
Aug 19, 2014
Fusing Nanotube Structures
MIE Associate Professors Yung Joon Jung, Moneesh Upmanyu, Carol Livermore-Clifford, and ECE Professor David Kaeli were awarded an $1.3M NSF grant to create high-performance carbon nanofibers.
Aug 15, 2014
SQUID Shirt
Squid is a sensitized, wearable compression shirt that integrates with a smart-phone and web database to monitor resistance exercises (e.g. weightlifting). Created by an Northeastern University interdisciplinary team of mechanical engineering, graphic design, and computer science students under the guidance of Professor Dinos Mavroidis (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE)) and Dr. Mark Sivak (jointly appointed […]
Aug 12, 2014
Battling Unemployment
MIE professor Abe Zeid, associate professor Sagar Kamarthi, & STEM Director of Programs & Partnerships Claire Duggan were awarded a $700K NSF grant to TRANSFORM liberal arts curriculum towards manufacturing.
Aug 07, 2014
Interning Inside NASA Langley Research Center
Craig Schmidt, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2017—Preparing a military helicopter for a crash test is a strange experience. You spend three months designing equipment, fabricating parts and preparing instrumentation, only to crash it all into the ground at 40 miles per hour. The physical products of the effort are a set of high speed videos, crash […]