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Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 02, 2025
Advanced Battery Modeling Framework Featured on Cover of Energy & Environmental Science
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research, “A Microstructural Electrochemo-Mechanical Model of High-Nickel Composite Electrodes Towards Digital Twins To Bridge the Particle and Electrode-Level Characterizations,” was featured on the back cover of Energy & Environmental Science.
Mar 27, 2025
3D-Printed Custom Insoles for Foot Pain Relief
MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton is developing 3D-printed custom insoles, using Viscous Thread Printing, to provide faster, more affordable, and accessible relief for chronic foot pain sufferers.
Mar 27, 2025
Advancements in Hybrid Robotics: Balancing Strength With Flexibility
MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton developed a hybrid—soft and hard—robot with enough torque to screw in a lightbulb and the flexibility not to crush the glass. His research, “Bridging Hard and Soft: Mechanical Metamaterials Enable Rigid Torque Transmission in Soft Robotics” was published in Science Robotics.
Mar 24, 2025
Undergrad Students Present at 2025 ASEE-NE Conference
Under the guidance of COE Distinguished Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, undergraduate engineering students published and presented papers at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Section Conference on March 22, 2025, in Bridgeport, CT.
Mar 19, 2025
Northeastern Hosts Conference To Advance Global Research in Mechanobiology
Northeastern’s inaugural Global Summit on Mechanobiology and Mechanomedicine Conference, organized by Ning Wang, professor of bioengineering and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology at Northeastern, brought together leading experts in mechanobiology from around the globe to share research and advance efforts to address pressing health issues.
Mar 19, 2025
MIE Grad Mixer Connects Students for Co-op Success
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering held a Grad Mixer on March 18, 2025, to bring together students who have co-op experience with students just beginning a co-op search.
Mar 13, 2025
NSF CAREER Award To Develop Stronger and More Versatile Adhesives
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai received a $650,000 NSF CAREER Award to improve the functionality of soft sticky adhesive materials so that they do not easily crack or break and can rapidly switch between adhesive and non-adhesive states.