News
Apr 23, 2014
Afternoon at the ‘museum’
It’s April 9, and a seventh grader from the James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is standing on a rotating platform on the third floor of Northeastern’s Snell Engineering building holding onto a spinning bicycle wheel. “When you take physics later,” says Yoshua Rozen, E’18, “you’ll learn all about the conservation of […]
Apr 22, 2014
3rd Patent in 3 Months
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded his third patent in three months for inventing a “Directed assembly of a conducting polymer”. His other two patents this year were for a "Multi-biomark biosensor" and a "Method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit".
Apr 11, 2014
SREC Engineering Award
BSME student Robinson Greig was awarded the SREC Engineering Award at this year's RISE Expo for "Gather – Enhanced Short-Term Social Event Discovery and Planning". The application, "Gather", is meant to provide an easy solution for users who want to plan events and activities together with existing or new friends.
Apr 11, 2014
Entrepreneurship Excellence
Amir Farjadian (BioE PhD), Qingchao Kong (MIE PhD), Carlo Sartori (MIE BSMS), & Constantinos Mavroidis (MIE Prof) received an Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award at this year's RISE Expo. The $5K Entrepreneurship Award is given to the presentation that earns the highest honors during the exhibition.
Mar 24, 2014
2nd Patent in 2 Months
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina & Research Associate Professor Sivasubramanian Somu were awarded a patent for their Multi-biomarker Biosensors. Professor Busnaina's previous patent was a a "Method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit".
Mar 20, 2014
Pursuing Vertical Flight
Congratulations to mechanical engineering student Craig Schmidt, Jr. who was awarded the 2014-15 Richard M. Carlson scholarship from the Vertical Flight Foundation. The Vertical Flight Foundation was founded in 1967 and its scholarship program was established in 1977. Since 1980, four hundred scholarships have been awarded.
Mar 20, 2014
Congratulations to recipients of the FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants
19 COE faculty were recipients of FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $500K dollars of investment in research.
Mar 20, 2014
Muftu Appointed ASME Associate Editor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Professor Sinan Muftu has been appointed the Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology. The journal features articles by tribologists from all over the world and it is a great resource for scientists and researchers.