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Jan 27, 2014
Students Win Paper Competition
Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) IE students Serpil Mutlu (PhD) and Rachel Miller (MS) won the 2014 Institute of Industrial Engineers graduate student healthcare paper competition for their paper "Optimizing Resident Based Teamlet Schedules to Improve Continuity in Primary Care". HSyE students seek to improve healthcare through research and engineering application methods. The Institute offers […]
Jan 23, 2014
Snow falls differently on the nanoscale
This time of year it’s not hard to imagine the world buried under a smooth blanket of snow. A picnic table on a flat lawn eventually vanishes as trillions of snowflakes collect around it, a crystalline sheet obscuring the normally-visible peaks and valleys of our summertime world. This is basically how scientists understand the classical theory […]
Jan 22, 2014
Huang Selected as Fellow
MIE Chair & Professor Hanchen Huang was selected to become a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his contributions to nanomechanics and nanofabrication. Dr. Huang's affiliations also include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.
Jan 13, 2014
Murthy to Select Features
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Shashi Murthy was appointed as a member of the Features Advisory Panel for the American Chemical Society’s journal Analytical Chemistry. Dr. Murthy joined Northeastern faculty in 2005 and is also secondarily an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and a Faculty Fellow at the Barnett Institute of Chemical […]
Jan 07, 2014
Smart bike pedals toward accident prevention
Every day, about two people in the U.S. succumb to fatal cycling accidents while more than 130 suffer harmful injuries. But in an era of increasing concern for the environment, cycling is an important mode of transportation, one that could begin to replace gas-guzzling cars, trains, and buses. Indeed, Americans could save the nation an […]
Dec 10, 2013
The (second) life of an inventor
Constantinos Mavroidis hasn’t always been an inventor. “It was the spirit that already exists at Northeastern that got me started,” he said. When the Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering came to Northeastern from Rutgers University in 2004, he had two patents issued to his name. Today he has more than three dozen that have been approved or […]
Dec 04, 2013
Are plastics the new natural gas?
Yiannis Levendis, Distinguished Professor Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern, keeps a photograph of a burning plastic foam cup tacked to the wall above his desk. Thick black smoke emanates from the receptacle, which, subsequent pictures reveal, was reduced to a sooty powder by the end of the combustion process. The photo represents a mission for Levendis, whose […]
Dec 02, 2013
Gupta: Book of the Month
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Surendra Gupta’s book “Reverse Supply Chains: Issues and Analysis” was selected as Book of the Month by Industrial Engineer Magazine. The magazine serves the diverse audience of professionals and students whose common interest is industrial engineering. Their mission is to provide useful, interesting, timely and thought-provoking content that addresses the broad spectrum […]