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May 19, 2025

Jamali Receives 2025 Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award

MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali received the prestigious 2025 Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from The Society of Rheaology.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 14, 2025

Mechanical Engineering Student Named Knight-Hennessy Scholar

Matthew Coughlin, E’25, mechanical engineering, has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University, becoming the fifth Husky to receive the prestigious fully-funded graduate scholarship.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 14, 2025

Zheng Receives 2025 Top Ten Chinese American Outstanding Youth Award

MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was a recipient of the 2025 Top Ten Chinese American Outstanding Youth Award by the Los Angeles Post and the All-America Chinese Youth Federation in Los Angeles.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Moneesh Upmanyu folding a piece of purple paper

May 14, 2025

Patent for Origami-Inspired Morphing Wing Design

MIE Professor Moneesh Upmanyu was awarded a patent for “Variable morphing wing using surface actuated origami folds.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

two students standing next to each other looking at the camera

May 14, 2025

Students Win First Place at UK National Unibots Competition

The London Northeastern Robotics Club secured first place in the 2025 National Unibots Competition held at the University of Cambridge, besting 10 other teams with its robot that incorporated a vacuum motor, which gave it an edge against its competitors. 

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 12, 2025

Northeastern’s Boston Campus Hosts Inaugural Magnetics Workshop

The Inaugural NU Cross-College Magnetics Center Workshop, hosted at Northeastern’s Boston campus on May 7, 2025, brought together dozens of participants from the university’s Boston, Burlington, and Portland campuses.

Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Moneesh Upmanyu standing outside among plants

May 09, 2025

New Computational Model Enables Alloy Design for Real Materials

MIE Professor Moneesh Upmanyu’s new research paper, “Solute-drag Forces From Short-time Equilibrium Fluctuations of Crystalline Interfaces,” was selected as an Editor’s Pick by the Journal of Applied Physics. He discovered a faster, cost-efficient, and more accurate computational model for alloy design of real materials.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 08, 2025

Zheng Moderates Photonics Panel at CLEO 2025

MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng moderated the panel discussion, “Next-Gen Photonic Metamaterials: Innovations in Light, Heat, Devices, and AI,” at the 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, OPTICA, and APS.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering