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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jun 10, 2013
vi-RABT Project Wins Again
Congratulations to the team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students who won First Place at the 2013 Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day Poster Competition for their "vi-RABT: Virtually- Interfaced Robotic Ankle […]