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Jul 18, 2011

Isaacs & Busnaina Awarded $1.2M Grant

MIE Professors Jackie Isaacs and Ahmed Busnaina have received an $1.2M NSF grant to use LCA methods to determine the ethical, legal, and societal impacts of scaling nanomanufacturing to commercial production.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 18, 2011

ASME is Making a Splash

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers student group designed and built a solar-powered boat that placed 8th in the sprint event at the national collegiate Solar Splash competition in Iowa.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 14, 2011

Cipolla Awarded for his Dedicated Service

MIE Professor John Cipolla is the recipient of an ASME Dedicated Service Award for his 20 years of involvement and leadership in the Center of Education at ASME.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 05, 2011

Benneyan Wins Best Paper

MIE Professor James Benneyan and Jordan Peck won the best paper award at the 2011 Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium for “Using Prediction to Improve Patient Flow in a Health Care Delivery Chain”.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 15, 2011

Inspiring Future Students Through Robotics

Northeastern students and alumni mentored high schoolers during the 7th annual FIRST Robotics Beantown Blitz competition — one of the largest off-season robotics events in the New England area.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

people in seminar sitting at round tables in meeting room watching a speaker present

Jun 14, 2011

Engineering a Healthcare Solution

MIE Professor James Benneyan is investigating ways to use systems engineering to improve the healthcare system by optimizing treatments, patient safety and quality of care.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 13, 2011

Improving Tomorrow’s Leaders

The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program cohosted a conference with MIT to discover ways to improve engineering leadership education across several universities.

Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 27, 2011

Retention Through Coop

MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi, STEM Director Claire Duggan, and Multicultural Engineering Director Richard Harris were awarded a $99K NSF grant to determine if student retention is increased by participation in coop.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering