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May 02, 2013

Family’s health scare helps student find calling

When he was just 7 years old, grad­u­ating senior Kendall Sanderson’s mother was diag­nosed with breast cancer. The tumor needed to be removed with emer­gency surgery, according to her son, […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 30, 2013

Congratulations COE Award Winners

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards. Outstanding Teachers of First Year Engineering Students: Thomas Gilbert, Chemistry; Susan Freeman, Engineering; John Lindhe, Mathematics; Bala Maheswaran, […]

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 24, 2013

Brassitos Wins NASA Fellowship

Mechanics MS student Elias Brassitos is the recipient of a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to contribute innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 23, 2013

Increasing IVF Success

Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his “Phase subtraction cell counting method” to accurately count the cells in an embryo to increase the […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 18, 2013

Self-Shaping Composites

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Randall Erb’s research was featured in Nature Communications, for his efforts in replicating naturally occurring shape-changing materials with synthetic hydrogel composites.  Nature Communications is a multidisciplinary journal […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 17, 2013

Ankle rehab, re-​​engineered

Ten months ago, Paul Douçot began con­tem­plating his tran­si­tion from under­grad­uate mechan­ical engi­neering studies to a grad­uate pro­gram in phys­ical therapy. “I didn’t want to abandon my engi­neering back­ground,” he said. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 16, 2013

Student engineers tackle real-​​world technical challenges

The most chal­lenging tech­nical prob­lems facing engi­neers and sci­en­tists today don’t have an easy answer. But proposing an approach is a crit­ical first step to moving toward research and devel­op­ment, according to North­eastern […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 04, 2013

FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients

22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering