Student Research News
Nov 14, 2014
Poster Winners from ACSC Conference
ECE undergraduate students Neel Shah, Tushar Swamy, and Harrison Dimmig, under the supervision of David Kaeli & Yunsi Fei, won Best Cyber Security Solution for 2014 at the ACSC Annual Conference.
Sep 22, 2014
PhD Student Wins Young Researchers Forum Award from IEEE Conference
Congratulations to Nimet Yildirim, a Ph.D. student in the bioengineering program and in the CEE department, advised by CEE Prof. April Gu and MIE Prof. Ahmed Busnaina, along with the coauthors Jin Young Lee, Han Chul Cho and Sivasubramanian Somu, for winning the Young Researchers Forum Award from the 2014 IEEE Biosensors & Bioelectronics conference.
Aug 07, 2014
Interning Inside NASA Langley Research Center
Craig Schmidt, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2017—Preparing a military helicopter for a crash test is a strange experience. You spend three months designing equipment, fabricating parts and preparing instrumentation, only to crash it all into the ground at 40 miles per hour. The physical products of the effort are a set of high speed videos, crash […]
Aug 01, 2014
Bioengineering a Better Treatment
David Walsh, PhD, Bioengineering, 2016—Every two months, Northeastern bioengineering graduate student David Walsh’s 91-year-old grandmother goes to the doctor to receive a drug injection into her eyes. She has wet age-related macular degeneration. There is no cure, only this invasive, recurring treatment. To solve this problem, Walsh is developing a device that will provide valuable […]
Aug 01, 2014
ALERT Research Opportunity Comes Early
Lyda Sallaway, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2015—In the summer following her freshman year, Sallaway got a job conducting experiments on backscatter X-ray imaging technology, which is used to perform full-body scans at airports throughout the country. She secured the position through her role in Northeastern’s Investing in Tomorrow’s Engineering Leaders (ITEL) program, which provides […]
Jul 31, 2014
Family Health Scare Leads to Healthcare Systems Engineering
Kendall Sanderson, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2013—To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve is the efficient routing of delivery trucks around the country. When Sanderson learned he could apply this skill to the healthcare industry to prevent mistakes like those made with his mother, he knew he’d found […]
Jul 23, 2014
Inside the NASA Langley Research Center
ME student Craig Schmidt, Jr. explains the awesome experiences he is having participating in a NASA internship.
Jul 11, 2014
Congratulations Caroline Webb
Caroline Webb, a student of Chemical Engineering, is the recipient of a 2014 Provost Undergraduate Research Award in the amount of $1,000. Recipients of this award are funded by the Provost's Office and are overseen by full-time Northeastern faculty members. Students are also encouraged to present the results of their research at campus-wide events such as RISE, which […]