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Nov 01, 2024
Maass Takes 2nd in INFORMS Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass won second place in the inaugural INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Teaching Excellence Award. The national award recognizes excellence in teaching in operations research and management science.
Oct 31, 2024
$3.6M ARPA-E Award To Extend Battery Life and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu, in collaboration with Dr. Fei Wang from Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics (PI), was awarded a $3,677,038 ARPA-E grant for “EV Battery Lifetime Extension With Material Intelligence (EVERMORE)” in the Catalyzing Innovative Research for Circular Use of Long-lived Advanced Rechargeables (CIRCULAR) program.
Oct 31, 2024
Revolutionizing Batteries With Nanotechnology
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina is using nanomaterials to enhance batteries by increasing their capacity and lifespan, changing how multiple industries could use and rely on power in the coming years.
Oct 24, 2024
Encouraging Maine Business Leaders To Adopt Data-Driven Practices
MIE/CEE Professor Jack Lesko, who is also director of engineering research at the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, co-led a study that revealed businesses in that state are behind international trends to implement what is known as Industry 4.0, or real-time data and automation standards.
Oct 24, 2024
Northeastern Team Places Third at Disney’s Annual Industrial Engineering Case Competition
Industrial engineering students Brendan Wang, E’27, Aiden Yee, E’27, and Mandy Hui, E’27, and Kaley Yang, DMSB’27, won third place at the annual Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Industrial Engineering Case Competition.
Oct 21, 2024
Sherman Center Co-ops Create Opportunities for Young Entrepreneurs
A co-op program at Northeastern’s Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship allows undergraduate and graduate students to spend their co-op cycle developing and managing a business. The program provides students with professional development opportunities, and it has launched multiple successful enterprises.
Oct 18, 2024
Shaping the Future With Clean Tech
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng participated as a panelist at the Climate Beacon 2024 conference. Zheng, who is also the founder of Planck Energies, a spinout company from his lab at Northeastern, discussed how advanced materials and clean technologies are making a positive impact on the environment and climate change.
Oct 17, 2024
Engineering for Women’s Health Conference 2024 Focuses on Interdisciplinary Solutions
Seeking to highlight the need for interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to women’s health, a group of bioengineering and mechanical engineering PhD students organized the inaugural Engineering for Women’s Health Conference 2024.