News
Aug 04, 2014
Winner of Young Investigator Award
Tuba Okutuca, PhD, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2005—alumna recently won the Young Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation. Her research studies support the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) production of micro-channel heat sinks with nano-fluids as the working fluid, and their application in microchip cooling. The project is funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council […]
Aug 01, 2014
ALERT Research Opportunity Comes Early
Lyda Sallaway, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2015—In the summer following her freshman year, Sallaway got a job conducting experiments on backscatter X-ray imaging technology, which is used to perform full-body scans at airports throughout the country. She secured the position through her role in Northeastern’s Investing in Tomorrow’s Engineering Leaders (ITEL) program, which provides […]
Jul 31, 2014
Family Health Scare Leads to Healthcare Systems Engineering
Kendall Sanderson, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2013—To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve is the efficient routing of delivery trucks around the country. When Sanderson learned he could apply this skill to the healthcare industry to prevent mistakes like those made with his mother, he knew he’d found […]
Jul 31, 2014
Industrial Engineering Co-op Follows IBM to Philippines
Shuntaro Okuzawa, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2013—“I was looking at everything from individual processes to entire departments from a bird’s eye view,” said Okuzawa. “My work is all about looking at the bigger picture, what individual tasks fit into a day-to-day operation,” Okuzawa said. “You start with a lot of outdated documents and, through […]
Jul 31, 2014
Northeastern Engineering announces 8 Young Investigator Awards in 2013-2014
These faculty recognitions bring the total young investigator awards in the college to 39, including 25 NSF CAREER and 10 DOD Young Investigator awards.
Jul 29, 2014
Co-op Leads to NASA Dream
Written by Liz Duffy, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Class of 2011. “I chose Northeastern for the co-op program,” recalls Duffy. “I saw it as a way to get to NASA.” She was right. Duffy started out her career with the government agency as a co-op student in the Planetary Sampling Acquisition and Handling group, which develops and […]
Jul 29, 2014
Nanoscale Templating
MIE’s Ahmed Busnaina, Moneesh Upmanyu, & Sivasubramanian Somu were awarded a patent for “Highly organized single-walled carbon nanotube networks and method of making using template guided fluidic assembly”
Jul 23, 2014
Inside the NASA Langley Research Center
ME student Craig Schmidt, Jr. explains the awesome experiences he is having participating in a NASA internship.