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Aug 06, 2026
Northeastern’s Ahmed Busnaina Named 2026 NextFlex Fellow
Ahmed Busnaina, Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University and director of the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials, has been named a 2026 NextFlex Fellow. He was inducted alongside three other honorees during NextFlex’s annual recognition ceremony at the 2026 Innovation Day event.
Aug 05, 2026
Patent for AI Driven Digital Twin System to Improve Factory Efficiency
MIE Teaching Professor Mohammad Dehghani was awarded a patent for “Digital twin modeling and optimization of production processes.”
Aug 04, 2026
Industrial Engineering Student Builds AI Agent to Repair Chemical Plant Blueprints
Sierre Ternoey, E, industrial engineering, developed an agentic AI tool during a research co-op in Germany that reads error reports and automatically fixes chemical plant process flow sheets.
Aug 04, 2026
Student Startup Creates Hands On STEM Toy to Inspire Young Engineers
Mechanical engineering students Nicolas Bejar and Mason Kim co-founded NextTile, a patent-pending student startup supported by the IDEA venture accelerator that creates modular, magnetic building block toys to provide hands-on STEM education for elementary students.
Jul 31, 2026
Robotics Student Helps Maritime Startup Map Unexplored Ocean Environments
Shalini Agrawal, MS, robotics, completed a co-op at maritime startup Orpheus Ocean, developing critical camera integration and navigation software to enable low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles to map unexplored deep-sea environments.
Jul 30, 2026
MIE PhD Wins ASME SHTC HTD K-9 Best Presentation Award
Xuguang Zhang, MS’22, PhD, mechanical engineering, advised by MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng, received the ASME SHTC HTD K-9 Best Presentation Award at the ASME 2026 Summer Heat Transfer Conference for his presentation, “Additively Manufactured Hybrid Cooling Designs for High Performance Li-Ion Pouch Cell Thermal Management,” which details battery safety research developed through an ongoing collaboration with the NASA Glenn Research Center.
Jul 30, 2026
New AI Design Framework Uses Light to Pack More Data Into Ultrathin Materials
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $448K NSF grant for “Pushing the Multiplexing Limit in Metasurfaces via Physics-Informed and Data-Driven Approaches.”
Jul 30, 2026
New All Terrain Robot Snuffs Out Wildfires With Liquid Nitrogen
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis and a team of students have developed an all-terrain, mobile prototype robot that utilizes a residue-free cryogenic spray to safely suppress and smother dangerous wildfire hotspots before they expand out of control.