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Sep 23, 2024
SFPE 2024 Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication
MIE Distinguished Professor Yiannis Levendis is one of 15 collaborators who received the 2024 Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication in the field of fire technology from the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) for their paper “The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Outdoor Fire Fighting.”
Sep 19, 2024
Zheng Selected for Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40
Yi Zheng, MIE associate professor and founder of Planck Energies, has been named a 2024 “40 Under 40” honoree by the Boston Business Journal. Zheng was selected from over 300 nominees in the greater Boston area for his excellence in academics, business leadership, and community service.
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Advanced X-Ray Technology for Enhanced Imaging
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung was awarded a patent for creating an “X-ray detector with interdigitated network.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for 3D Auxetic Composite Structures
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li was awarded a patent for “Three-dimensional auxetic composite structures.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Internally Cooled Nozzle for Enhanced Additive Manufacturing
MIE Assistant Professor Ozan Özdemir was awarded a patent for designing an “Internally cooled aerodynamically centralizing nozzle (ICCN) .”
Sep 17, 2024
Student Club Is Innovating To Lower the Cost of Satellites
Matthew O’Rourke, E’25, mechanical engineering, and Rachel Rakushkin, E’26, electrical engineering, were awarded Mosaic Prototype awards from Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education for their work developing technologies to reduce the cost of satellite components as part of the Project Horizons student club.
Sep 09, 2024
Machine Learning Models Applied to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Research
A recent paper, “Self-Help Groups and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: An Investigation Using a Machine Learning-Assisted Robust Causal Inference Framework,” by MIE Associate Professor Muhammad Noor E Alam and his research team was published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics and featured in the The ASAM Weekly, a newsletter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Sep 09, 2024
Reversing Global Warming Effects With Cooling Paint
Through his startup, Planck Energies, MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng is developing a cooling paint that reflects heat waves away from and draws existing heat out of buildings. It could reduce carbon emissions and electricity usage by reducing the need for air conditioning.