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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.
Sep 05, 2024
A Bio-Inspired Approach to Material Design
MIE Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Nash, PhD’23, and Associate Professor Yaning Li published their research, “On-demand Auxeticity and Co-existing Pre-tension Induced Compression Stage in a Sandwich Design With Kinematically Constrained 3D Suture Tiles,” in Nature Communications.
Sep 03, 2024
Alpha Fund Award for Pioneering Innovation With Finder @ Social
Surya Sai Brahmendra Ramoju, MS’24, data analytics engineering, received the Alpha Fund Award from Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education for his commitment to fostering transformative change in the digital sphere as founder of Finder @ Social.
Aug 30, 2024
The Necessary Risks of Space Exploration
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh says the stranding of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the International Space Station reflects the inevitable risks of space travel that are necessary to endure to learn more about the universe.