Constantinos Mavroidis Translational Research Award
This Award recognizes and rewards outstanding College of Engineering researchers for accomplishments in applying research innovations to advance technology development. These research awards are established to confer honor upon individuals, who, by their contributions to their applied research, have brought recognition to themselves, the College and Northeastern University as an exemplar of our focus on experiential engineering education.
Eligibility
- All full-time faculty and research staff in the College of Engineering are eligible.
- Past recipients are not eligible for a period of five years after receiving the award.
Qualifications:
All candidates must have:
- demonstrated an ability to conduct original research at Northeastern;
- developed innovative experimental techniques and/or instrumentation and/or novel invention;
- received acceptance of applied research results by industry and/or government agencies in problem areas identified by those entities; and
- achieved a technology development that shows promise of generating intellectual property interest by industry as demonstrated by metrics such as products developed, contracts for industrial funding, process adoption, licensing of copyrights and/or patents.
Nomination and Selection Process
Nominations may be initiated by College of Engineering faculty, research staff, and department chairs. Once the nomination process has concluded, the respective department chair for each faculty nominee or manager for each staff nominee will be contacted to complete a Recommendation Form before all materials are sent to the appropriate Awards Committee for evaluation. The Committee will then make recommendations to the Dean of the College for final selection.
The nomination packet should consist of ONE pdf file submitted through the Nomination Form below (multiple submissions for the same nomination will not be accepted) containing the following:
- one letter of nomination including the names of the nominator(s) and the nominee which should include the rationale for the nomination and pertinent accomplishments and a summary of the nominee’s translational research conducted at Northeastern, including evidence of translational metrics as defined above; the letter will be preferably one page and a maximum of two pages in length;
- an updated CV of the nominee.
Nomination Form
If you have any questions, please email coefacdev@northeastern.edu.
Past Recipients
| 2025 | Sarah Ostadabbas | ECE |
| 2025 | Mehrdad Sasani | CEE |
| 2024 | Yanzhi Wang | ECE |
| 2024 | Yi Zheng | MIE |
| 2023 | Andrew Myers | CEE |
| 2023 | Wei Xie | MIE |
| 2022 | Yiannis Levendis | MIE |
| 2022 | Mohsen Moghaddam | MIE |
| 2021 | Auroop Ganguly | CEE |
| 2021 | Jeff Ruberti | BioE |
| 2020 | Xiaoning Jin | MIE |
| 2020 | Nian Sun | ECE |
| 2019 | Miriam Leeser | ECE |
| 2018 | Yun Raymond Fu | ECE |
| 2018 | Ming Wang | CEE |
| 2017 | Randall Erb | MIE |
| 2017 | Edgar Goluch | ChE |
| 2016 | Ahmed Busnaina | MIE |
| 2016 | Vincent Harris | ECE/ChE |
| 2015 | Nader Jalili | MIE |
| 2014 | Constantinos Mavroidis | MIE |