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Oct 11, 2022
Bai and Zhu Awarded Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grants
MIE Assistant Professors Ruobing Bai and Juner Zhu were awarded the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME. The intent of the grant, […]
Oct 07, 2022
Ultra-Small Silicon Nanowires Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Industry
MIE Professors Yung Joon Jung and Moneesh Upmanyu have discovered a new, highly dense form of silicon that could revolutionize the semiconductor industry. Their research was published in Nature Communications.
Oct 07, 2022
A Lab Accident Might Lead to New Frontier in Electronics Design
A mistake made by MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb and Jason Bice, PhD’22, mechanical engineering, in the lab might lead to an entirely new class of ceramic materials.
Oct 07, 2022
Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Oct 07, 2022
Accelerating the Production of Tetratenite as Alternative to Rare-Earth Magnets
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, has developed a method to create tetratenite as an alternative to rare-earth magnets, of which she was awarded a patent.
Sep 29, 2022
Yong Receives ONR YIP Award To Help Create Autonomous Navy Ships
MIE Associate Professor Sze Zheng Yong was awarded a $750,000 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms With Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data.”
Sep 27, 2022
Solar Decathlon Team Looks To Design Net-Zero Housing Properties
The Northeastern Solar Decathlon team was a winner of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge, a distinction that came with $50,000 in funding. They are working to become the first collegiate Solar Decathlon Build Challenge team to build a multiunit, energy-efficient structure in an urban environment.
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation To Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.