News
Jul 12, 2012
Awarded for Service Learning
Senior Academic Specialist Susan Freeman received the President's Volunteer Service Award for her continued commitment to the Citizen Schools through their apprenticeship model. She provides opportunities for COE undergraduates to participate in Service Learning in the local community, sharing their engineering skillsets with middle school students. Citizen Schools is dedicated to helping all children discover […]
Jul 09, 2012
Sparking Engineering Ideas
As part of an ITEST grant, led by MIE professor Abe Zeid & associate professor Sagar Kamarthi, two videos that encourage students to pursue engineering have won a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver & Bronze Telly Award. View the videos here. The ITEST program through research and model-building activities seeks to build understandings of best practice […]
Jul 03, 2012
Leeser Awarded $500K NSF Grant
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser was awarded a $500K NSF to Ensure Reliability and Portability of Scientific Software for Heterogeneous Architectures. Miriam Leeser joined the faculty at Northeastern University in January 1996. Her specialty is Computer Engineering. She received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and Diploma and PhD degrees in Computer Science from […]
Jul 02, 2012
Ruberti & Kowalski Awarded Patent
MIE Associate Professors Jeff Ruberti & Gregory Kowalski have been awarded a patent for creating a "Nanoloom for controlling polymer assembly". Dr. Ruberti is the director of the EMERL. He has extensive industry experience having worked on helicopters at Sikorsky Aircraft, the International Space Station life support system at Hamilton Sunstrand and on polymeric systems […]
Jul 02, 2012
Mavroidis Receives Patent
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis has been awarded a patent for his design of a Virtual Ankle and Balance Trainer System. Dr. Mavroidis is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. His research interests include: Rehabilitation Robotics Nanorobotics and Nano-Medicine Medical Robotics Rapid Prototyping of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems Smart Material Based […]
Jun 26, 2012
Moving past Qatar’s carbon economy
Mechanical and industrial engineering researchers at Northeastern University have been awarded three, three-year grants totaling $785,000 from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. According to its website, the nonprofit organization aims to support Qatar on its journey from a carbon economy to a modern knowledge-based economy. Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi and Ashkan Vaziri, a professor and […]
Jun 26, 2012
Nadine Aubry appointed as dean of the College of Engineering
Northeastern University Provost Stephen W. Director has announced the University’s appointment of accomplished scholar Nadine Aubry as dean of the College of Engineering, effective September 1, 2012. Aubry comes to Northeastern from Carnegie Mellon University, where she most recently was Raymond J. Lane Distinguished University Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. A widely […]
Jun 22, 2012
Chipping away at cancer
In the last two decades, the number of deaths from colorectal cancer has steadily declined, according to the American Cancer Society. While some of the decrease can be attributed to better treatment practices, early detection is another primary factor. Nonetheless, colorectal cancer is still the second leading cause of death among men and women in […]