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Aug 16, 2013
Living out Childhood Dream
Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering student Craig Schmidt, Jr. who was one of 20 students across the country to win a 2013-15 NASA Aeronautics and Space Program Scholarship and Internship. NASA […]
Aug 12, 2013
Mars Rover, One Year Later
Megan Richardson, a Mechanical Engineering student (class of 2010), connected with the NASA JPL at a SWE National conference, obtained a co-op, and joined them after graduation to work on the […]
Aug 09, 2013
Laser of the Future
ECE & MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has created the world’s first plasmofluidic lens which can manipulate light at much smaller scales using a tiny laser beam just a few […]
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 […]