News
Aug 20, 2013
21st Century Drinking Water
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering associate professor Kai-tak Wan, professor Sinan Muftu, & Civil and Environmental Engineering assistant professor April Gu were awarded a $400K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to find a biomechanical model for predicting and improving water filtration and bioremediation. All three Professors are directors of successful labs at Northeastern University; Dr. Wan runs the Micro/Nano Biomechanical […]
Aug 16, 2013
Living out Childhood Dream
Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering student Craig Schmidt, Jr. who was one of 20 students across the country to win a 2013-15 NASA Aeronautics and Space Program Scholarship and Internship. NASA Internships are educational hands-on traineeships that provide unique NASA-related research and operational experiences for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students as well as educators. These […]
Aug 12, 2013
Mars Rover, One Year Later
Megan Richardson, a Mechanical Engineering student (class of 2010), connected with the NASA JPL at a SWE National conference, obtained a co-op, and joined them after graduation to work on the Mars Rover project. Liz Duffy, Mechanical Engineering’11, followed and now Rachael Tompa (class of 2014) is the current co-op there.
Aug 09, 2013
Laser of the Future
ECE & MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has created the world’s first plasmofluidic lens which can manipulate light at much smaller scales using a tiny laser beam just a few micrometers wide. Source: News @ Northeastern Hold a magnifying glass over the driveway on a sunny day and it will focus sunlight into a single […]
Aug 04, 2013
Don’t delay: Early engineering intro pays off
When Mohit Bhardwaj was a freshman in high school he traveled from his home in Lusaka, Zambia to Boston. with Lead America. For nine days, he and a group of 19 other students from around the globe studied leadership and engineering at Olin college. They learned to work on teams building Lego robots, popsicle stick […]
Jul 30, 2013
Origami unfolds a new tissue engineering strategy
Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, has been around for more than a millennium, but associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering Carol Livermore is now using it to create solutions in an emerging multidisciplinary field in medicine: tissue engineering. “There are lots of reasons to wish that we could make human spare parts,” said Livermore, […]
Jul 07, 2013
Deformation of Thin Shells
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri was featured on the back cover of the Soft Matter journal for "Localization of Deformation in Thin Shells under Indentation." Soft Matter has a global circulation and interdisciplinary audience with a particular focus on the interface between physics, biology, chemical engineering, materials science and chemistry. The journal appeals to […]
Jul 01, 2013
Challenge accepted
A record 21 Northeastern alumni, representing 14 companies, have been selected as finalists in the MassChallenge 2013 Accelerator Program. Out of an applicant pool of more than 1,200 companies from 40 countries, 128 companies have been chosen to join the 2013 Class of MassChallenge Global Finalists. Northeastern is the third most represented university in this year’s class […]