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Sep 15, 2023
Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Sep 14, 2023
Designing Exoskeletons to be More Versatile and Accessible
Bouve/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd, in collaboration with Aaron Young from Georgia Tech, was awarded a $800,000 NSF grant for “Towards Task-Agnostic and Device-Agnostic Ankle Exoskeleton Control for Mobility Enhancement.”
Sep 08, 2023
Spinout Company Fourier LLC To Revolutionize Thermal Management
After pioneering thermoforming technical ceramic matrix composites (CMC’s) last year, MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb and Jason Hoffman-Bice, PhD’22, mechanical engineering, created spinout company Fourier LLC to commercialize their groundbreaking innovation in thermal management.
Sep 08, 2023
Developing Eco-Friendly Cooling Solutions
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s spinout from his lab at Northeastern, Planck Energies, has received a $275,000 NSF grant for “Climate-Eco-friendly Biocoating for Passive Cooling of Infrastructure.”
Sep 01, 2023
India’s Landing on the Dark Side of the Moon Is Cheered, Now Comes the Hard Part of Space Exploration
After India’s successful moon landing, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh and ECE Professor Taskin Padir are excited to see what the future holds for lunar exploration and what role robots will play.
Aug 25, 2023
ASME Design Engineering Division Best Paper Award
Haonan Fan, PhD’24, mechanical engineering, received the 2023 Best Paper Award of the ASME Design Engineering Division for “DC Motor Velocity Control With Integral Retarded Controller Under Unintentional Delay” at the 2023 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.
Aug 23, 2023
$3M Award for Prestigious NSF Research Traineeship To Study Impacts of Technology Platforms
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun was awarded a $3 million NSF grant to develop a National Research Traineeship (NRT) program called “Platforms for Exchange and Allocation of Resources (PEAR),” which will study the impact of digital platforms on society.
Aug 22, 2023
Northeastern’s Underwater Robotics Team Takes 8th at First Competition
Northeastern Underwater Robotics team designed and built an underwater robot that placed 8th at the MATE World Championships.