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Dec 13, 2024

Inventing Innovative Solutions for Neurodivergent Children To Develop Motor Skills

Students in Northeastern’s Enabling Engineering class developed a musical ball as a tool for a sixth-grade autistic child with a genetic disorder and neurological differences to help develop gross motor skills in an engaging and exciting way.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 12, 2024

Engineering Management Team Takes Third Place at ASEM Case Competition

Two Northeastern University engineering management student teams, Team 1 and Team Alpha, competed in the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) Student Case Competition, with Team 1, advised by MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Manish Ranjit, placing third in “The People’s Choice Award” for the Live Best Case Presentation Competition.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 11, 2024

New Faculty Spotlight: Alp Akcay

Alp Akcay joins the mechanical and industrial engineering department in January 2025 as an associate professor.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 11, 2024

New Faculty Spotlight: Tugce Martagan

Tugce Martagan joins the mechanical and industrial engineering department in January 2025 as an associate professor.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 02, 2024

Alumnus-Founded NapSpin Aims To Reshape Restaurant Work

Mike Foley, E’17, mechanical engineering, developed and launched the startup NapSpin, which produces machines that automate rolling silverware into napkins. Now with support from Northeastern’s GAP fund, Foley hopes to expand beyond the restaurant market to hospitals, hotels, and cruise ships.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 27, 2024

Using Exoskeletons To Increase Mobility

Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd is leading a team of graduate students, including Fatima Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, to create a battery-powered exoskeleton that is intended to assist people with mobility issues and enable complex movements without causing discomfort. He co-authored research published in Nature on a new lower-limb exoskeleton.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 22, 2024

Three COE Students Apply for 2024 Fulbright

Talin Calikyan, E’25, mechanical engineering, Molly Johnson, E’25, bioengineering and biochemistry, and Joshua Piatok, E’25, bioengineering, applied for a Fulbright Scholarships. Calikyan is pursuing a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Spain, while Johnson applied for a Fulbright Study/Research (S/R) in New Zealand, and Piatok is seeking a Fulbright S/R in Germany.

Bioengineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 20, 2024

Zheng Receives ASME Rising Star Award

MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng received an ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering Award in recognition of his NSF CAREER award in “Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer for Enhanced Thermal Infrared Energy Conversion and Cooling.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering