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Oct 12, 2018
Energy Conference Highlights the Power of Collaborative Transformation in Clean Energy
Northeastern University’s Energy Conference 2018 (NUEC18), hosted and organized by the student-run Energy Systems Society, brought together 250 guests from eclectic backgrounds, ranging from faculty of different universities, industry professionals, students, and energy enthusiasts.

Oct 04, 2018
Heydari Voted as CESUN Chair-Elect
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari was voted as chair-elect of the executive committee for the Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN), with the anticipation of assuming the chair position in 2020.

Oct 03, 2018
New Engineering Academic Programs
Northeastern’s College of Engineering has added several new degree programs including a BS in Electrical Engineering and Music, a BS in Environmental Engineering and Health Sciences, a BS/JD in Mechanical Engineering and Law 3+3, a BS/MS in Environmental Engineering, and an MS in Robotics as well as minors in Healthcare Systems Operations and Robotics.

Sep 26, 2018
MIE/ECE Faculty Awarded $1.5M AFRL Grant
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CCIS/ECE Affiliated Faculty Chris Amato were awarded a $1.5M Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) grant for “Robust Decentralized Classification and Coordination Algorithms for Swarms of SUAS.”

Sep 25, 2018
Creating Robots for Safer Human Interactions
MIE Assistant Professor John Whitney and Khoury/MIE Affiliated Faculty Robert Platt were awarded $750K NSF grant for creating “A New Robotic Arm for Contact-Rich Manipulation”. Abstract Source: NSF People with […]

Sep 17, 2018
Paper by Associate Professor Liu Selected as Back Cover for Laser & Photonics Reviews
A paper by MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected for the back cover of Laser & Photonics Reviews’ September 2018 issue. The paper, titled Efficient Generation of Microwave Plasmonic Vortices […]

Sep 16, 2018
Embark, Volume II Published
Embark, Northeastern’s Undergraduate Engineering and Applied Sciences Review, has published their second volume. Go check it out here! Research was executed by undergraduate students across an array of fields. Content […]

Sep 07, 2018
$1.2M NSF Grant to Develop Objective Pain Assessment Sensing System
Yingzi Lin, MIE associate professor and director of the Intelligent Human-Machine Systems Lab, to lead $1.2M NSF grant to develop a Continuous Objective Multimodal Pain Assessment Sensing System (COMPASS) that improves pain assessment and management, reduces opioid dependency and advances the field of pain management research and patient safety.