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Jul 08, 2024

Fall 2024 AJC Merit Research Scholars

Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a July to December 2024 co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 08, 2024

Developing the World’s First Sub-THz Satellite Network Platform

ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet, MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and ECE/COS Professor Ken Duffy, in collaboration with the Morehead State University Space Science Center, were awarded a $750,000 NSF grant for the “Development Towards a Community Research Platform for Sub-THz Satellite Communication Networks.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 08, 2024

Using AI To Save Lives on the Battlefield

Liam McEneaney, MS’25, engineering and public policy, is working with ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and MIE Teaching Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton, and in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Lab, to develop an AI-powered computer program that will accurately and quickly fill out tactical combat casualty care cards for injured soldiers on its own on the battlefield by processing video and audio from medics in real time, and quickly sending the digital card to hospital staff. 

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 08, 2024

Northeastern Recognizes Women Innovators

Kaitlin McCarthy, E’09, civil engineering, won first place in the Experienced Alumnae category in the 2024 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards from Northeastern University, while Mukki Gill, E’25, mechanical engineering and history, placed second for the Powering a Healthy Tomorrow Award and received an honorable mention in the undergraduate category. Additionally, Nicole Guadagno, E’25, mechanical engineering, received an honorable mention for her work on Remetra in the undergraduate category, and Fatema Janahi, E’22, computer engineering, and MS’22, engineering management, received an honorable mention for Palm in the graduate category.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 03, 2024

Advancing Ultra-Fast Sound Technology

MIE Assistant Professor Yoseob Yoon’s research on “Terahertz Phonon Engineering With van der Waals Heterostructures” was published in Nature. He has discovered a way to create atomically thin transducers that could one day enable quantum computing at room temperature.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 25, 2024

Exploring the Potential of Frictional Mechanical Metamaterials

MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li was awarded a $531,056 NSF grant to explore a new category of mechanical metamaterials:  “Frictional Mechanical Metamaterial.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Juner Zhu

Jun 24, 2024

Advancing EV Battery Technology

MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ford University Research Program (URP) designated for developing advanced EV battery cell models.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 20, 2024

Industrial Engineering Capstone Team Modernizes Parachute Inspection for U.S. Army

Four industrial engineering students received several awards, including the Capstone Day Judges Award, for their Parachute Quality Assurance Modernization Capstone Design project presented at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Conference in Montréal. The students, who worked with the U.S. Army Personnel Airdrop Systems team, digitized a paper-based system for recording parachute component measurements.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering