News
Jun 09, 2014
Erb and Minus Awarded EAGER Grant
MIE Assistant Professors Randall Erb & Marilyn Minus were awarded a $135K NSF EAGER grant to fabricate and disperse suspensions of colloidally-assembled hierarchical ceramic fillers for discontinuous fiber composite materials
May 20, 2014
Periodic Buckling Pattern
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty members’s Jim Papadopoulos, Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Ashkan Vaziri, and PhD students Babak Haghpanah & Davood Mousanezhad were featured on the cover of Proceedings of Royal Society A for “Buckling of regular, chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs under a general macroscopic stress state”. Proceedings A has published many influential articles on Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences […]
May 19, 2014
Capstone Group Wins 3rd
After winning “Most Impactful Project” in the Northeastern University capstone program, College of Engineering seniors Robert Eley, Margaret McGuire, and Paige Burke travelled to Philadelphia for the regional ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC). The group presented a poster on the project titled: Cancer Detection by Means of Mechanical Palpation. Their success continued as they were awarded third […]
May 09, 2014
Eminent Service to Education
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor John Cipolla was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Edwin F. Church Medal for eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness of mechanical engineering education. The $2500 award was established in 1973 by Edwin F. Church, Jr., who was a devoted member os ASME. Cipolla’s areas […]
May 07, 2014
Dirt & Crystalline Interfaces
Advised by MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu, PhD student Changjian Wang published an article in the EPL (Europhysics Letters) journal entitled “Shear Accommodation in Dirty Grain Boundaries”. The paper is based on simulations to study the effects of dirt on crystalline interfaces. Wang is part of Moneesh's Group for Simulation and Theory of Atomic-Scale Material Phenomena (stAMP), which […]
May 07, 2014
Outstanding Thermodynamics
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Hameed Metghalchi was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Edward F. Obert award for outstanding paper on thermodynamics. Professor Metghalchi’s research interests include fundamentals of combustion and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. At Northeastern, he currently leads two courses, Thermodynamics and General Thermodynamics. Professor Metghalchi is also affiliated with the […]
May 07, 2014
National Scholarship
Congratulations to IE junior Ashley Tokarz who was awarded the Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The $3K scholarship is granted to outstanding undergraduate students who are pursuing a degree in Industrial Engineering. Students cannot directly apply for IIE scholarships, instead they must be nominated by department heads or faculty members.
May 07, 2014
Sampling Frozen Specimens
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a patent for developing “Systems, methods, and devices for frozen sample distribution”. Much of Dr. Ruberti's research is based on biomechanics. His patent allows for the removing of a frozen sample from a frozen specimen without the specimen having to be thawed.