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Aug 29, 2018
Studying the Deep-Sea Rocks from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Harry Brodsky, who will be graduating with a BS in mechanical engineering as well as a combined geology & physics BS degree next spring, spent part of his summer 3,300 meters beneath the ocean’s surface in the submarine Alvin studying deep-sea rocks.
Aug 29, 2018
INFORMS Receives 2018 Student Chapter Award
For the second year in a row, and the third since the club’s formation, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at Northeastern was one of the schools awarded the Student Chapter Cum Laude Award.
Aug 13, 2018
Levendis Awarded $240K NSF Grant
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis was awarded a $240K NSF grant to determine the “Combustion characteristics of pulverized torrefied biomass for use in co-firing boilers”.
Aug 07, 2018
2018 MMDF Workshop Report is Out
The very productive 2018 Multimodal Data Fusion (MMDF) workshop hosted in March 2018 at Northeastern resulted in insightful discussion and productive suggestions for moving the field of multimodal data fusion forward in the coming years.
Aug 02, 2018
Vaziri & Nayeb-Hashemi Win TAML 2018 Excellent Paper Award
MIE Professors Ashkan Vaziri and Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi won the Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML) 2018 Excellent Paper Award for their paper “Elastic properties of chiral, anti-chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs: A simple energy-based approach”.
Aug 02, 2018
Designing Metamaterials with Origami Shapes
Mechanical engineering PhD student Soroush Kamrava is researching ways to incorporate origami ideas with metamaterials to create objects that can collapse, absorb energy, and then spring back into place.
Aug 01, 2018
Jung and Kar Awarded Patent for Ultrasensitive Ion Detector
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ultrasensitive ion detector using carbon nanotubes or graphene”.
Jul 26, 2018
Developing Alternatives to Rare Earth Materials
ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis and ECE Professor Vincent Harris are working on alternatives to rare-earth metals which are used from everything from smartphones to guided missiles to reduce our reliance on China.