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Nov 14, 2025
Modeling Powder Behavior to Prevent Battery Swelling and Degradation
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research on “Modeling the powder plasticity of porous electrodes for the prediction of battery breathing and swelling prior to degradation” was published in the Journal of Power Sources.
Nov 14, 2025
Zheng Named One of Greater Boston’s Ten Outstanding Young Leaders
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected as one of the 2025 Ten Outstanding Young Leaders (TOYL) in the area of Energy, Climate, & Construction by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
Nov 12, 2025
New Deployable Structures Create Artificial Gravity Space Habitats
MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton and his research team have worked on developing new deployable structures that can be used to create artificial gravity space habitats for astronauts.
Nov 10, 2025
Martagan Nominated for M&SOM Best Associate Editor Award
MIE Associate Professor Tugce Martagan was nominated for the Best Associate Editor Award by the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Journal (M&SOM) in recognition of her timely, rigorous, and thoughtful assessment of manuscripts.
Nov 07, 2025
Northeastern Nominates 6 COE Students for Prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Druhi Bhargava, E’24, computer engineering; Amanda Ferrante, E’26, bioengineering and biochemistry; Kevin Giordano, E’26, mechanical engineering and physics; Victoria Robbins, E’22, chemical engineering; Nishita Roy, E’26, bioengineering, and Zhenming Yang, E’26, electrical and computer engineering were were six of nine nominated by Northeastern for the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, which develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
Nov 07, 2025
Patent for the Smart Super-Material That Blocks Heat and Boosts Signals
MIE Professor Randall Erb was awarded a patent for “Thermally conductive boron nitride films and multilayered composites containing them.”
Nov 04, 2025
Advancing Innovation and Impact: Highlights from the Northeastern NAI Chapter Fall 2025 Event
MIE Professor Randall Erb and ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig both participated in the annual meeting of Northeastern University’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter to bring together innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Oct 31, 2025
Strategy for Inventors Placing Talent in Complex Innovation Networks
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari’s research on “Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms’ innovation” was published in the Strategic Management Journal.