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Jun 10, 2024
Northeastern Researchers Participate in Inaugural ClimaTech Conference
ECE/Khoury Professor Jennifer Dy, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CEE Assistant Professor Julia Hopkins took part in the inaugural ClimaTech conference, joining hundreds of energy and technology experts from around the world who gathered to explore how protecting the environment can contribute to economic growth.
Jun 06, 2024
$1M Air Force Award To Harness Solar and Thermal Energy for Spacecrafts
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng, in collaboration with Faraday Technology Inc., received a $1 million research grant from the U.S. Air Force, for a “Concentric Ultra-Dark Solar-Thermal Absorber and Metasurface Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Power Conversion.”
Jun 05, 2024
Developing Next-Generation Durable and Sustainable Polymers
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai received a $110,000 Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for “Fracture and Toughening of Reconfigurable Polymers: Towards Next-Generation Durable and Sustainable Materials.”
May 20, 2024
Metghalchi Selected as HelioCon Featured Researcher
MIE Professor Hameed Metghalchi was selected as a Featured Researcher by the Heliostat Consortium for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power, and was invited to join the HelioCon Board of Advisors.
May 20, 2024
Northeastern Research Shows the Benefits of Shifting to Standardized Employment
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun and other Northeastern researchers presented findings that suggest both workers and platforms may benefit from a move away from the independent contractor model to standardized employment. The interdisciplinary research team studied the working behavior of the package delivery platform Deliv for the study.
May 08, 2024
2024 URF Scholars Recipients
Several engineering students received 2024 URF Scholars Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. URF Scholars are students who are graduating this year and who have earned a PEAK Experiences Award, applied for a distinguished fellowship, or participated in graduate school advising.
May 07, 2024
Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
May 07, 2024
Müftü Receives Honorary Doctorate From the Technical University of Iași
Sinan Müftü, COE Distinguished Professor, MIE, was awarded an honorary doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Iași (TUIasi) in Romania. Müftü has collaborated with this university since […]