News
Oct 04, 2016
MIE Faculty & Student win IEOM Awards
MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Mohammad Dehghani was awarded the IEOM Outstanding Track Chair Award and was awarded 2nd place for the IEOM Doctoral Dissertation Competition Award at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) in Detroit, Michigan, September 23-25, 2016. PhD student Tasnim Ibn Faiz received 2nd place for the IEOM Graduate Student […]
Sep 26, 2016
Taslim Receives Patent for Non-Rotating Wind Energy Generator
MIE Professor Mohammad Taslim was awarded a patent for his "Non-rotating Wind Energy Generator". Abstract Source: USPTO In an embodiment of the invention, a non-rotating wind energy generator uses the fluid flow principles of vortex shedding and transverse galloping to generate oscillatory motion of a beam, and alternators, optionally located near both ends of the […]
Sep 20, 2016
Competing for a Cause
Even though Josh Levin, ME'17, didn't make it all the way through stage 2 of the American Ninja Warrior finale, his driving motivation was to raise awareness of organ donation to benefit his rock climbing mentor Stacey Li Collver. Source: News @ Northeastern Josh Levin had given American Ninja Warrior everything he had. When he […]
Sep 20, 2016
Josh Martin wins Young Stress Analyst Competition
MIE PhD student Joshua Martin won the first prize in the Young Stress Analyst Competition after giving his invited lecture on Magnetic 3D Printing. He spoke in front of the British Society for Strain Measurement in Exeter, England.
Sep 16, 2016
ME Alumnus Who Invented EpiPen Elected to National Inventors Hall of Fame
The co-op program allowed alumnus Sheldon Kaplan, ME'62, to be able to go to college and later invent the famous Epi-Pen for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for.
Sep 16, 2016
Hashemi & Vaziri Published in Scientific Reports
MIE Professor Hamid Nayab-Hashemi and Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri were published in Scientific Reports for their article on "Curved Beam Computed Tomography based Structural Rigidity Analysis of Bones with Simulated Lytic Defect: A Comparative Study with Finite Element Analysis". Abstract: In this paper, a CT based structural rigidity analysis (CTRA) method that incorporates bone intrinsic […]
Sep 15, 2016
Vaziri Gives Plenary Lecture at International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics
MIE Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri gave a plenary lecture on "Multifunctional and Programmable Cellular Materials with Self-Similar Hierarchy" at the BSSM's 11th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics
Sep 15, 2016
Creating Robots with Lifelike Movements
MIE Assistant Professor John Whitney led the Disney Research team that created Jimmy, a robot that moves with lifelike speed and grace.