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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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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, […]

Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 06, 2013

Off to the races

UPDATE, June 19, 2013: Northeastern’s solar boat team took first place in the visual pre­sen­ta­tion, second place in the tech­nical report, and 10th overall at the 2013 Solar Splash competition. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 05, 2013

Journey to a cleaner future

Upon arriving in Los Angeles in Sep­tember 1984 as a doc­toral stu­dent at the Cal­i­fornia Insti­tute of Tech­nology, Yiannis Lev­endis decided to take a walk. Within min­utes of begin­ning his […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering