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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 […]
Nov 25, 2013
Nickerson Awarded Scholarship
Matthew Nickerson, a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering BS/MS student, is the recipient of a $5000 James D. Arangio Scholarship. The family of James D. Arangio ’62 has established a scholarship fund in the name of their father James to benefit one deserving student with a similar passion and dedication to the field of Mechanical Engineering and […]
Nov 21, 2013
To treat cancer, is the force strong with nanorobots?
Every day, more than 20,000 people around the world succumb to cancer, according to statistics compiled by the World Health Organization. Thousands more continue to suffer through treatment and its side effects. Since the drugs used to kill cancer cells are just as toxic to neighboring healthy cells, researchers have long coveted a drug delivery method […]
Nov 20, 2013
A better motor for the Mars Rover
In the world of robotics, identifying actuators that are strong and compact is probably one of the most important open technological problems yet to be resolved. More often than not, the mechanical elements that translate data into doing are big, rough, and generally unfriendly for use in everyday robotics, said Dinos Mavroidis, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and […]
Oct 30, 2013
Upmanyu Featured on Cover
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu was featured on the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C for his research of "Vapor-liquid-solid growth of serrated GaN nanowires: shape selection driven by kinetic frustration." Journal of Materials Chemistry C is a weekly journal in the materials field. The journal is interdisciplinary, publishing work of international significance on all aspects of materials chemistry […]
Oct 11, 2013
How to develop cutting-edge technologies faster
When DuPont introduced Nylon in the 1940s, its creators had no idea that the material would be a critical component in today’s automobile engines. It took just as long for the world’s third-largest chemical company to develop a new kind of Nylon specifically for the auto industry. This story isn’t unique. Many of today’s technologies—from […]
Oct 01, 2013
Dynamic Motions of Lead
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professors Moneesh Upmanyu and Yung Joon Jung were featured in Scientific Reports for their research in "Liquid metal nanodroplet dynamics inside nanocontainers." Scientific Reports is a primary research publication from the publishers of Nature, covering all areas of the natural and clinical sciences.