News
Dec 03, 2008
COE Alum named Chief Technology Officer
Ian Kaye, a '96 graduate of Northeastern with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, has been promoted to chief technology officer of UltraCell Corporation®.
Nov 19, 2008
Prof. Mavroidis awarded $1M NSF grant
Breakthrough robotic technology from Northeastern University has once again received funding from the National Science Foundation. Two inventions for stroke rehabilitation by engineering professor Constantinos Mavroidis and his team will be funded over the next three years with the amount totaling more than $1 million. In partnership with the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s […]
Nov 11, 2008
Metghalchi named to Executive Committee
Hameed Metghalchi has been selected as a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Executive Committee. ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods. Founded in […]
Nov 08, 2008
8 New IGERT Fellows Selected
Students selected for the IGERT Fellowship program are studying the technical and political aspects of decision-making as it relates to diagnostics of roads and bridges. The first cohort of Intelligent Diagnostics (ID) IGERT Fellows join Northeastern University and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez from diverse technical backgrounds including physics, computer and information science, […]
Oct 31, 2008
NU inaugurates homeland security ALERT center
Northeastern launched its newly funded Center of Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. Northeastern University will inaugurate the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) on Thursday, October 30, 2008. ALERT, a new research Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation & Response, is […]
Oct 23, 2008
Collaboration between COE Nanomanufacturing Center and Physics yields high-impact result in journal Nanotechnology covered on PhysOrg.com
"Large scale 3D vertical assembly of single-wall carbon nanotubes at ambient temperatures." Nanotechnology 19 (2008) 455309. Faculty Leaders: Ahmed Busnaina, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Director, Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and Sri Sridhar, Physics, Director, Electronic Materials Research Institute. For the past several years, researchers have been trying to take advantage of carbon nanotubes’ good electrical properties for future […]
Oct 20, 2008
9th Annual Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference and THz Imaging and Spectroscopy Workshop
The RICC is the perfect setting for dialogue among members of the academic, industrial and government communities interested in collaboration in subsurface sensing and imaging.This year's RICC will focus on several areas that are of great interest to the Gordon-CenSSIS community. Gordon-CenSSIS presents the 9th annual Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference (RICC) on Wednesday, October 29th […]
Aug 09, 2008
Dr. Beverly Jaeger – Olympic Line Judge
COE Gateway Faculty member, Dr. Beverly Jaeger, is a line judge for tennis matches at the Beijing Olympic Games. Dr. Jaeger, a senior academic specialist in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering, finds parallels between officiating and teaching. “Working to develop better observational and listening skills has served well in each of these roles,” she says, […]