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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.
Jun 08, 2022
Nano Energy Lab Receives ASTFE Honorary Recognition
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s research group (Nano Energy Laboratory) attended the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) 7th annual Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference to present topics ranging from ocean biomass-based energy functional material to photonic metamaterial to magnetic manipulation of nanoscale thermal transport.
Jun 06, 2022
S-POWER: A Successful Model Toward Equalizing Opportunities for Underrepresented Students
The S-POWER (Student Pathways Opening World Energy Resources) five-year NSF S-STEM grant for primarily students entering Northeastern from community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has been very successful and is now institutionalized in the college of engineering.
May 25, 2022
2022 Engineering Departmental Co-op Awardees
The College of Engineering Departmental Co-op team was proud to celebrate the 9th Annual Co-op Awards with our recipients on May 16, 2022, at the Cabral Center in the John […]
May 25, 2022
Kamarthi Receives IISE Fellow Award
MIE Professor Sagar Kamarthi was selected to receive the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Fellow Award. The Fellow award is the highest classification of membership in IISE and […]