News
Jul 22, 2025
New Innovative App That Tracks Seizures
Muskaan “Mukki” Gill, E’25, mechanical engineering and history, developed an app that helps individuals to track and manage their seizures. Gill came up with this idea after witnessing her brother’s struggle with recurring seizures.
Jul 17, 2025
Fall 2025 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 co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Jul 15, 2025
Patent for a Solar Device That Makes Fresh Water
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was awarded a patent for “Photothermal evaporator for a desalination system and method of manufacture.”
Jul 15, 2025
Innovative Heat-Conductive Plastic Prevents Overheating of Electronics
MIE Professor Randall Erb and Daniel Braconnier, PhD’23, mechanical engineering, give insight into their research and development of a lightweight plastic-ceramic composite that can conduct heat and can be used to cool down advanced electronics.
Jul 02, 2025
Developing Data-Enabled Methods for Material Characterization and Design
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and Research Scientist Wei Li were awarded a $500,000 NSF three-year grant for “Mechanics Informatics for Learning Constitutive Models: Theory, Computation, and Uncertainty Quantification.”
Jul 02, 2025
Zheng Selected as Fulbright Scholar Awardee
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected to receive the distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award for 2025-2026.
Jun 23, 2025
NSF CAREER Award To Advance Multi-Agent Network Optimization Foundations
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour was awarded a $515,000 NSF CAREER grant for “Foundations of Scalable, Fast, and Online Decentralized Manifold Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks.” The project takes a substantial step toward the development and adoption of decentralized manifold optimization in large-scale, multi-agent optimization. Manifold optimization is instrumental in control and engineering applications.
Jun 16, 2025
Mars Rover Team Takes Third at International Competition
A Northeastern University student team was a finalist in the University Rover Challenge of The Mars Society, where they placed in the top three at the competition. They competed in Utah with 39 teams from around the world against schools like the University of Michigan, Cornell, as well as teams from Japan, Bangladesh, Turkey, and more.