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Mar 07, 2022
Designing a Solar-Driven Water Desalination System
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was awarded a $250K NSF grant to develop a “Solar Evaporator-Based High-Efficiency Water Desalination System.”
Feb 09, 2022
MIE’s Ruthie Nelson Receives Student of the Year by ASEE, Co-op and Experiential Division
Ruthie Nelson, E’21, mechanical engineering, was recognized as one of several Students of the Year by the American Society of Engineering Education, Cooperative and Experiential Education Division, which honors not only her strengths as an engineer, but her attitude and willingness as a student learning from her different co-ops.
Feb 08, 2022
Mastering Puzzle Strategies
MIE Associate Professor Laurent Lessard has developed a strategy to win games like Wordle. Here’s how to win at Wordle, every time Main photo: Laurent Lessard, associate professor in the […]
Feb 04, 2022
Spring 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Spring 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Jan 27, 2022
Fall 2021 Spark Fund Awardees
BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti, ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng are recipients of Spark Fund Awards, which help Northeastern researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype.
Jan 18, 2022
Understanding the Mechanics of Mesoscale Photomechanical Coupling
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai was awarded a $340K NSF grant for “Mesoscale Photomechanical Coupling in Photoactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers.”
Jan 11, 2022
Creating 3D Crystalline Nanostructures Using an Electric Field
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina & Director of the Kostas Nanoscale Research Center Siva Somu were awarded a patent for “Three-dimensional crystalline, homogeneous, and hybrid nanostructures fabricated by electric field directed […]
Jan 03, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Francisco Loth
Francisco Loth joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in January 2022 as a Professor with a joint appointment in Bioengineering.