Student Research News
Sep 13, 2017
LSAMP Scholars Participate in International Research in China
As part of a $3.5M NSF grant led by Assistant Dean Richard Harris and MIE Professor Hameed Metghalchi, in collaboration with five other universities, a group of LSAMP Scholars participated for the first time in international research at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
Sep 06, 2017
PhD Students Win 2017 RERC on AAC Research Award
Two Northeastern PhD students won a 2017 Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC) Award. Fernando Quivira and Matt Higger’s Shuffle Speller project won the 2017 RERC on AAC Student Research and Design Competition. The competition is designed to advance understanding and enhance augmentative and alternative communication technologies to improve […]
Aug 28, 2017
Research in Extreme Conditions
Alek Razdan, PhD, Computer Engineering, 2021—This is the Antarctic Ocean in winter. It’s the last place anyone would want to be—unless you’re trying to solve a climate change mystery. An international crew of scientists, including Northeastern graduate student Alek Razdan, recently returned from a two-month expedition to the Ross Sea off the coast of Antarctica. […]
Aug 25, 2017
Engineering for People
Kritika Singh, BS, Bioengineering, 2020—As a high school sophomore in Alexandria, Virginia, Kritika Singh, E’20, bioengineering, had an experience that changed the course of her life. A student at the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Singh applied for and received a summer internship in Boston, where she worked for Acetylon Pharmaceuticals. […]
Aug 18, 2017
Research and Roman Ruins: ChE Undergrad Emma Milloway Travels to Tarragona, Spain
ChE student Emma Milloway, E'21, spent her first study abroad on a Research Exchange Program at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili studying the effects that heavy metals have on the growth of micro algae.
Aug 17, 2017
International Research Exchange Program Leads to Summer in Spain for ChE Undergrad
ChE student Daniel Rourke, E'19, spent two months studying at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain as part of the ChE Exchange Program.
Aug 15, 2017
Academic Involvement and Interdisciplinary Research
Meryem Pehlivaner, PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2018— A fourth-year PhD student in the Ekenseair Group, Meryem Pehlivaner develops innovative materials for a variety of applications, including biomedical, environmental, and industrial. Most recently, Pehlivaner worked on a project where she created an electrode with an interdisciplinary team from Cornell University. This cutting-edge research led to a story […]
Aug 14, 2017
Underwater Robot Examines Ice in Antarctic Ocean
An international crew of scientists, including computer engineering PhD student Alek Razdan, who works with ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, recently returned from a two-month expedition to the Antarctic Ocean where they launched the Jaguar, an autonomous underwater vehicle, to examine the ice in winter months.