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Jul 28, 2016
Prof. Zhu’s paper published in Chemical Reviews (Impact factor 37.3)
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu‘s research on Wood-Derived Materials for Green Electronics, Biological Devices, and Energy Applications was published in the Chemical Reviews journal. This comprehensive review of wood-derived biomaterials covers three highly topical application: biological devices, paper electronics, and clean energy. The relationship between material structure, properties and applications were well discussed. Related News This Could […]
Jul 28, 2016
$2.5M NSF grant for Critical Infrastructure Resilience
ECE professors Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, Ali Abur, & Edmund Yeh, MIE assistant professor Jacqueline Griffin, CEE professor Jerome Hajjar, COS professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, CCIS professor Stacy Marsella, and Kostas director Peter Boynton were awarded a $2.5M NSF grant for the “Identification and Control of Uncertain, Highly Interdependent Processes Involving Humans with Applications to […]
Jul 27, 2016
2016 IEOM Detroit Conference Best Track Paper Award
MSIE student Mehul Patel and MIE Assistant Professor MD Noor E Alam won the Best Track Paper Award at the 2016 IEOM Detroit Conference for their paper on "Data Analytics and Visualization in Analyzing Mortality Records".
Jul 26, 2016
A Fascination with Bicycles
MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Jim Papadopoulos was featured in Nature for his lifetime obsession with the mechanics of the way a bicycle works.
Jul 20, 2016
Vaziri Awarded $250K NSF Grant
MIE Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri was awarded a $250K NSF grant for the "Computational Design of Programmable Lattice Material Systems". Abstract Source: NSF Lattice materials can be engineered to exhibit desired bulk properties by controlling, through design and fabrication, the spatial arrangement of one or more base materials at smaller dimensional scales than the bulk […]
Jul 14, 2016
Assembly of Nanoelements
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina & ECE Professor Nicol McGruer were awarded a patent for “Directed assembly of carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles using nanotemplates”.
Jul 14, 2016
Microfluidic Calorimeter
MIE Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski was awarded a patent for his designs for a microfluidic calorimeter system & its method of use. Abstract Source: USPTO Systems and methods are disclosed herein for a microfluidic calorimeter apparatus. A microfluidic calorimeter system includes a calorimetry apparatus and a processor in connection with the apparatus. The apparatus includes […]
Jul 14, 2016
Revolutionizing the Future of Transportation
Students from Northeastern University and 5 other universities have formed the OpenLoop team hoping to win the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition created by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Source: News @ Northeastern They are 81 strong and hail from Northeastern and five other top universities and colleges. For 10 months, they have been meeting face-to-face weekly […]