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Jul 13, 2022
Startup Developed From Cooling Paper Research
MIE Professor Yi Zheng and Andrew Caratenuto, PhD’24, mechanical engineering, created the startup company Planck Energies to develop a cooling paper they designed that could reduce cooling needs. Northeastern researchers […]

Jul 12, 2022
Best Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2022
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour and his collaborators from Vanderbilt, INRIA, and Telecom Paris received the best paper award at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal […]

Jul 08, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Tong Ma
Tong Ma joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor.

Jun 27, 2022
Drug Supply Shortages Have Existed Long Before the Pandemic
MIE Associate Professor Jacqueline Griffin and Professor Özlem Ergun say that supply chain shortages are due to the limited number of manufacturers and manufacturing sites; manufacturing quality concerns; and, most importantly, limited information sharing between supply chain stakeholders.

Jun 27, 2022
Zheng Receives 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng has been selected to receive the prestigious 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award from 3M Corporation. This competitive award recognizes outstanding young faculty who were nominated by […]

Jun 24, 2022
Jung and Upmanyu Develop First Silicon Nanowires that Operate as an Ultrawide-bandgap Semiconductor
The research of mechanical and industrial engineering professors Yung Joon Jung and Moneesh Upmanyu on “Catalyst-free synthesis of sub 5nm silicon nanowire arrays with massive lattice contraction and wide-band gap” has been published in Nature Communications. The researchers developed silicon nanowires that operate as an ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor—a first in the world of silicon, potentially revolutionizing the integration of etched silicon nanowires into UWBG device applications.

Jun 09, 2022
Aerospace Minor Taking Off in Seattle
An eight-week residency in Seattle, that includes dozens of industry site visits, is a core part of a new aerospace minor in the College of Engineering that launched in the […]

Jun 09, 2022
MatrixSpace Startup Works to Connect People and Intelligent Machines
MIE Associate Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo’s startup MatrixSpace is working to improve the collaboration between humans and artificially intelligent machines, while still keeping humans in charge.