News
Jul 28, 2022
Revolutionizing the Tissue Repair Process
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, created the spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics to develop a new process to repair soft tissue.
Jul 22, 2022
Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists
Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts […]
Jul 14, 2022
Jamali Awarded Young Investigator Grant for Army Research on Colloidal Crystals
Safa Jamali, assistant professor, mechanical and industrial engineering (MIE), has been awarded a $360K, three-year grant from the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program for research on the synthetic creation […]
Jul 14, 2022
Using Background Checks to Find Trends in Gun Purchases
MIE Professor Rifat Sipahi and mechanical engineering student Xu Wang, PhD’25, have been studying firearm background checks to determine trends in gun acquisitions. What is driving gun purchases in the […]
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.