News
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 […]
Jun 26, 2013
Hands-on Skill Retention
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski & Assistant Academic Specialist Bridget Smyser received the DELOS Best Paper Award for “Examining skill retention from a redesigned laboratory course to capstone design sequence”. The Division of Experimental and Laboratory-Oriented Studies is concerned with the laboratory component of engineering curricula. Thus, it consists of people who […]
Jun 21, 2013
Body of work
Sandra Shefelbine has always been interested in the human body as a mechanical system: “The lungs are gas exchangers and the heart is a pump,” said the associate professor of engineering. As an undergraduate simultaneously studying heat transfer and evolutionary biology, she realized that the system of parallel arteries and veins in arctic birds’ legs, […]
Jun 13, 2013
The science of sculpture, nano-style
The next breakthrough in highly efficient battery technologies and solar cells may very well be nanoscopic crystals of silicon assembled like skyscrapers on wafer-scale substrates. An important route for growth of these nanoscale “whiskers”—or nanowires—involves alloyed metal droplets. Moneesh Upmanyu, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has been using computational tools […]