Galante Event: Breaking Down Barriers to Creative Solutions with Dr. Khosrowjerdi
2020-02-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 102 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 102 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The Galante Engineering Business Program is excited to host Breaking Down Barriers to Creative Solutions with Dr. Khosrowjerdi (KJ) on February 13th, 2020 in ISEC 102 from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
In addition to teaching in the Mechanical Engineering department at Western New England University, Dr. KJ has also been designing and building fully automated mechatronic systems and providing consulting services in the area of factory automation, process control, mechanical testing, water, wastewater, and nitrogen monitoring systems, database management and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to local and national companies. In this seminar, you will learn how he has designed, built, and implemented numerous integrated systems for Spalding, Smith and Wesson, Lamb Knitting Machines, FN Manufacturing (South Carolina), Remington, National Guard, United Aerospace, Shaeffler, Barden Bearing, Entwistle, Newall Rubbermaid, Sig Sauer, Stanley Black & Decker and many more. Dr. KJ is honored to share with you his 40 years of experience in teaching and working with over 100 companies in the fields of mechatronics and consulting services.
Please RSVP by Feb. 10th. Feel free to reach out to Galante@northeastern.edu with any questions.

Team Leadership Step-by-Step: Prepare Your Leadership Style(s)
2020-02-14 13:00 - 13:30 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
20 minute lessons at 1 pm (almost) every Friday, open to all!
Questions? Contact Ted at ted.johnson@northeastern.edu
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Sewing Machine
2020-02-14 15:30 - 16:00 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the Brother sewing machine. Learn how to operate the sewing machine while sewing your very own pillow
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Engineers Week: Cool Women Hot Careers
2020-02-15 09:00 - 15:30 | Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan), 360 Huntington Ave, 240 Egan, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Cool Women/Hot Careers, hosted by the College of Engineering and the Society of Women Engineers, is a great way for high school students (especially sophomores & juniors in high school) who love math and science to learn more about the field of engineering and meet some of our women engineering students.
9:00 am – Registration and light breakfast
9:30 am – Keynote Speaker
10:00 am – Introduction and Overview of Engineering
10:30 am – Student Panel
11:45 am – Break
12:00 pm – Lunch at a Northeastern dining hall with women engineering students
1:00 pm – Engineering Activities
3:15 pm – Wrap up & Departure
(Optional ½ hour campus tour at 3:30 pm)
Parents, teachers, and guidance counselors are welcome as well.
Reserve your spot by February 12th
http://bit.ly/CWHC2020

Engineers Week: Info Booth
2020-02-18 09:00 - 11:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
We are celebrating National Engineers Week! Come learn about the events, activities and distinguished speakers on campus.
Free donuts and COE swag.
Curry Student Center Crossroads

Engineers Week: Harnessing Metamaterials to Manipulate Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves
2020-02-18 10:30 - 11:30 | 138 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 138 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Dr. Xin Zhang, Professor, Boston University
Location: 138 ISEC
Metamaterials have been intensively studied and applied to a broad range of practical applications ranging from wireless communications to magnetic resonance imaging. Photonic metamaterials consisting of subwavelength “meta-atoms” have received enormous interest due to their extraordinary and unprecedented optical properties. Specifically, the effective permittivity and permeability can be tailored and reconfigured to construct metamaterial devices by modulating or actuating the constituent meta-atoms. By leveraging microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology, we have developed functional metamaterial devices to manipulate and detect the terahertz waves. In addition, metamaterials exhibit extraordinary near-field properties to control electric and magnetic field distribution. I will introduce our progress on intelligent magnetic metamaterials to enhance the signal to noise ratio of magnetic resonance imaging. Besides electromagnetic metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials for sound wave shaping and silencing will also be discussed.
Xin Zhang received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher and then a Research Scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She then joined Boston University (BU) as a Faculty Member, where she is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and the Photonics Center. Dr. Zhang is the Associate Director of the Boston University Nanotechnology Innovation Center and Director of both the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Teachers (RET) Sites in Integrated Nanomanufacturing at Boston University.
Dr. Zhang’s research interests are in the broad areas of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS or microsystems) and metamaterials (acoustic, electromagnetic, nonlinear, photonic, terahertz, tunable, etc.). She has published 160+ papers in interdisciplinary journals, become both US and EU-US National Academy of Engineering Invitee (ages: 30-45), and is an Elected Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, APS, ASME, IEEE, NAI, and OSA, and Associate Fellow of AIAA.
Hosted by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar: Murat Kocaoglu
2020-02-18 11:30 - 12:30
Location: ISEC 138
Causality: From Learning to Generative Models
Abstract:
Causal inference is fundamental for multiple disciplines ranging from medical research to engineering, statistics, and economics. It is also central in machine learning and is now becoming a core component of artificial intelligence research. Although causal inference has been studied for a long time in various fields under different frameworks, today we need tools that can process a large number of variables to handle modern large datasets. The graphical approach to probabilistic causation advocated by Judea Pearl and others provides a way to compactly represent the causal relations using directed acyclic graphs and paves the way for the design of algorithms that can answer causal questions for many variables.
In this talk, Kocaoglu first provides a friendly introduction to causality and explain why causal understanding is important. As his first contribution, he will propose a framework called entropic causal inference for inferring the causal direction between two variables from data. He will show that entropy can be used to capture the complexity of a causal mechanism. Further, if the true direction has a simple mechanism, we can identify it from data. The entropic causal inference framework leverages tools from information theory for causal inference. As his second contribution, he will show how we can apply causality in deep generative models – deep neural networks used for modeling complex data. He will demonstrate how to define and train a causal deep generative model, called CausalGAN for generating images with labels. As an extension of generative adversarial networks (GANs), CausalGAN allows sampling not only from the observed data distribution but also from the interventional distributions of images. He will conclude with future directions for causal inference and its applications in supervised learning and reinforcement learning.

Bio:
Murat Kocaoglu received his B.S. degree in Electrical – Electronics Engineering with a minor degree in Physics from the Middle East Technical University in 2010. He received his M.S. degree from the Koc University, Turkey in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Ozgur B. Akan, and PhD degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Alex Dimakis and Prof. Sriram Vishwanath. He is currently a Research Staff Member in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in IBM Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His current research interests include causal inference, generative adversarial networks, and information theory

Engineers Week: MIE Industry Panel
2020-02-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan), 360 Huntington Ave, 240 Egan, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Have you been wondering how am I going to land a job? Does my first job matter in terms of my career? The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering welcomes you to attend our Industry Panel as part of Northeastern’s 2020 Engineers week. We are bringing in alums who are working in a number of fields and have experience from senior levels at GE, to new employees at Boston Engineering. This panel will give both undergraduate and graduate students a look into what its like developing a career in Engineering and giving them a good idea of what to expect when they enter the workforce after completing a Northeastern Degree.
Panelists:

Bob KursmarkChief Consulting Engineer, GE and Founder & Chief Consultant, Experium Engineering Consulting

Marshal DoughtyProject Engineer at NeuroLogica

Rouzbeh AminiAssociate Professor, Northeastern University

Victoria HuntMechanical Engineer, Boston Engineering

Aysun CeyhanFM Global, Staff Vice President, Manager of Advanced Analytics

Hosted by the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department.

Vacuum Degassing Chamber
2020-02-18 15:30 - 16:00 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the vacuum degassing chamber. Learn how to operate the vacuum pump and hold the chamber at a particular pressure
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3D Printing Prusa
2020-02-19 10:30 - 11:00 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the Prusa 3D printer. Learn how to load filament, start a print job, and remove prints from the print bed
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar: Arjuna Madanayak
2020-02-19 11:00 - 12:00
Location: ISEC 138
Multidimensional Signal Processing Circuits for Low-SWaP Multi-Beam Arrays
Abstract:
In this talk, array processing circuits that exploit the computing paradigm of approximate computing are explored. Low-size, -weight, and -power consumption (SWaP) algorithms and circuits are proposed to achieve thousands of fully-digital beams for emerging applications. The proposed low-SWaP multibeam digital beamformers use approximate computing to enable up to 90% smaller circuit complexity compared to FFT-based techniques used to achieve multiple orthogonal RF beams. Furthermore, the proposed array processing systems exploit wave physics to improve the performance of key signal processing components in wireless base stations. Specifically, the spatiotemporal causality properties of electromagnetic plane waves – as described in Special Theory of Relativity – are used in novel multi-port transceiver circuits to improve energy efficiency, reduce additive white Gaussian noise, and improve linearity of array receivers at the physical layer. The multi-dimensional frequency-domain region of support (ROS) of all propagating plane waves, which correspond to wireless propagation channels, are shown to be confined inside the “Light Cone”. The region of spacetime outside this light cone is a void (elsewhere) within which wireless communications signals cannot propagate. A “cone of silence” appears in the multidimensional spacetime frequency domain, which demarcates a conical region outside of which waves do not exist. The aim is to spatio-temporally shape noise and transceiver distortion into this electromagnetically silent region so that their presence does not affect the performance of arrays. The technique enables multi-port versions of LNAs, ADCs, and DACs for array processing that exploits noise and shaping in multiple dimensions in space and time to greatly improve performance.
Bio:
Dr. Arjuna Madanayake is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University. His research interests include multidimensional signal processing, array processing, FPGA and digital systems, microwave circuits, VLSI, analog and mixed-signal circuit design, fast algorithms, digital signal processing, alternative computing, wireless communications, mm-wave systems and 5G/6G topics, sub-THz and THz systems, satellite communications, wireless sensing and imaging, radar sensing, computing architecture, internet of things (IoT), RF sensing for unmanned aerial systems, and electronic warfare. He started an Assistant Professorship at the University of Akron in Ohio in 2010, and received early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2015. Dr. Madanayake was selected as the most outstanding candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computing Sciences category for the NSERC 2009 Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship competition. Dr. Madanayake completed a postdoctoral associateship in 2009 in which he explored multidimensional signal processing and FPGA circuits for beamformer aperture arrays as part of the Canadian Square Kilometer Array (SKA) effort. He completed the Ph.D. and M.Sc. both in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary, specializing in multidimensional signal processing, circuits and systems, especially FPGA systems. In his current tenured appointment at FIU, Dr. Madanayake directs the RF, Analog and Digital (RAND) Circuits Lab at FIU which has been conducting multiple projects funded by 3 DARPA, 3 ONR and 7 NSF awards. Arjuna tries to pursue elephant conservation and rural development in Sri Lanka, and high-end audio engineering as hobbies.

3D Printing Form 2
2020-02-19 11:15 - 11:45 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the Form 2 3D printer. Learn how to start, wash, and cure a print job
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Engineers Week: Photochemistry as a Tool for imaging, Priming and Therapy
2020-02-19 11:45 - 13:25
Dr. Tayyaba Hasan, Professor, Harvard Medical School Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard-MIT
236 Richards Hall
Optically Activated Nanomedicines: Photochemistry as a Tool for imaging, Priming and Therapy
Tayyaba Hasan, PhD
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Optical activation of materials leads to thermal, photochemical and radiative processes which can be captured for response-based therapeutic design. The ability to use light as a reagent to control drug release further allows for the fabrication of light controllable intelligent multiagent constructs that attack multiple pathways making the nanomedicines more effective against cancer. Combination therapy is a fairly well accepted standard for cancer treatment and management of other diseases. Typically, these are administered separately with their own pharmacokinetics, hitting targets at different times which reduces the synergism potential. Nanomedicines, to some extent can overcome this limitation by delivering the multiple agents to the target site at the same time provided there is synergism in any aspect of the agents. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemistry-based process that is approved for several clinical applications world-wide. It involves the exposure of light activatable molecules to appropriate wavelengths that leads to the generation of active molecular species that is responsible for targeted death. There are many unique attributes to this process. Because of the requirement of light and the photosensitizer being present at the same place at the same time there is an additional level of selectivity. Neither light alone nor the photosensitizer have an effect on target cells by themselves. In addition to the direct cytotoxic effect, the photodynamic activation primes the microenvironment in a process call PhotoDynamic Priming (PDP) to enable a more potent response to conventional treatments so the PDP becomes an enabler of other treatments, particularly when administered in a Nanoplatform. Strategies for syntheses and applications in biology and medicine will be discussed.

Bio: Tayyaba Hasan, Ph.D., is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and is a Professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She is a leader in photochemical approaches to treatment and diagnosis using targeted strategies and incorporating nanotechnology. She is an inventor of the FDA approved photodynamic treatment of the leading cause of blindness in the western world, Age-Related Macular Degeneration used in millions of treatments. Her impact on Global Health includes two of her inventions of simple, smart phone-based, low-cost devices, which are being evaluated in clinical studies for treatment of oral cancer and antibiotic identification, in India and Thailand respectively. In recognition of her translational work and innovations she was the recipient of the NIH’s Pioneer Award in Biomedical Optics, Bench to Bedside Translation. She was awarded the Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award in recognition of trailblazing contributions to the field of Photodynamic Therapy, clinical translation and leadership to the photonics community. She has received four Lifetime Achievement awards from leading scientific organizations including the International Photodynamic Association. She has approximately 300 publications and has 12 US issued patents. She leads 2 multicenter international NCI funded programs for developing and translating innovative treatments of oral, pancreatic and skin cancers.
Hosted by Chemical Engineering

Engineers Week: Engineering a Long-lasting Pill
2020-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Location: 333 Curry Student Center
Helen Markewich, Bioengineering Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University
Dr. Ambika Bajpayee, Bioengineering Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Engineering a Long-lasting Pill
Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee in the Department of Bioengineering is working to develop a pill that unfolds to a structure in the stomach too large to pass to the small intestine. This way, the pill remains in the stomach for a month, slowly releasing medication in the face of mechanical and chemical digestive forces. In this event, Prof Bajpayee will present her work on this new type of pill. Then, Prof Bajpayee and Prof Markewich will show attendees how to create their own “pill” according to a set of design constraints. Attendees will observe how their design unfolds in a “stomach”.
Dr. Ambika Bajpayee works on drug delivery to connective and charged tissues such as cartilage, meniscus, intervertebral disc and mucosal membranes. Her lab utilizes concepts of nanomedicine and bio-electrostatics to design polypeptides and protein-based carriers for targeted and sustained delivery of small molecule drugs, protein growth factors, antibodies and genetic materials to specific intra-tissue and intra-cellular target sites inside connective tissues. A main focus is on using charge interactions and other binding mechanisms to rationally design drug carriers that can penetrate through the dense matrix of avascular, negatively charged tissues. Her lab is also interested in understanding mechanisms leading to degenerative joint diseases (e.g., osteoarthritis) due to ageing and traumatic injuries. The group strives to combine basic science with translational research to develop biomedical technologies.
Dr. Helen Markewich is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Her specialty is lab-based and hands-on learning. She received her PhD from Cornell University and her BS from Georgia Tech. She also worked in biotech and in the water industry.

Power Tools
2020-02-19 13:00 - 13:30, 2020-02-20 10:30 - 11:00 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the hand drill, impact driver, and dremel rotary tool. Learn how to drill pilot holes, drive screws, and sand wood
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Engineers Week: PhD Engineering Research Expo
2020-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Experience innovation firsthand! Engineering PhD students show their research in cutting-edge areas, from robotics, computer vision and biomechanics to nanomedicine, cell- tissue engineering, and machine learning, at the second annual poster/oral presentation research exposition. Let the competition begin!
Curry Student Center Ballroom

Advanced Hand Tools
2020-02-20 11:15 - 11:45 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the arbor press, tap and die kit, and ultrasonic cutter. Learn how to use each tool effectively
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar: Dimitrios Skarlatos
2020-02-20 12:00 - 13:00 | 136 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 136 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Location: ISEC 136
Rethinking Operating System and Hardware Abstractions for Good and Evil
Abstract:
Current hardware and operating system abstractions were conceived at a time when we had minimal security threats, scarce compute and memory resources and limited numbers of users. These assumptions are not true today. On one hand, attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown have shown that current hardware is plagued by vulnerabilities. On the other hand, new emerging cloud paradigms like microservices and serverless computing have led to the sharing of computing resources among hundreds of users at a time. In this new era of computing, we can no longer afford to build each layer separately. Instead, we have to rethink the synergy between the operating system and hardware from the ground up.
In this talk, Skarlatos will focus on rethinking the virtual memory abstraction. First, he will introduce Microarchitectural Replay Attacks, a novel family of side-channel attacks that exploit existing virtual memory mechanisms. These attacks leverage the fact that, in modern out-of-order processors, a single dynamic instruction can be forced to execute many times. Then, he will describe Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables, his proposal to rebuild the virtual memory abstraction for parallelism. Finally, he will conclude by describing ongoing and future directions towards redesigning the hardware and the operating system layers.
Bio:
Dimitrios Skarlatos is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), working with Professor Josep Torrellas. His research lies at the intersection of computer architecture, security, and operating systems. He particularly enjoys questioning the fundamental assumptions behind computer design decisions. He builds practical solutions that improve the performance and bolster–or sometimes break–the security guarantees of computing systems.
Dimitrios is a UIUC College of Engineering Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. He is the recipient of the W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award, the David J. Kuck Outstanding MS Thesis Award, the UIUC Computer Science Excellence Fellowship, a 2020 MICRO Top Picks in Computer Architecture, and a 2019 MICRO Top Picks Honorable Mention. He was invited to participate in the Rising Stars in Computer Architecture workshop. He has earned an MS from UIUC and a BS in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in Greece.

Desktop CNC Mill
2020-02-20 13:00 - 13:30 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to the desktop CNC mill
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Engineers Week: Anticipating The Future Built Environment
2020-02-20 15:00 - 16:00 | 102 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 102 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Gerald E. BuckwalterChief Operating and Strategy Officer,American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
In celebration of National Engineers Week, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University will host American Society of Civil Engineers Chief Operating and Strategy Officer Gerald Buckwalter for a Distinguished Seminar.
This event is brought to you in partnership with the Boston Association of Structural Engineers (BASE), Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (BSCES), and the Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts (SEAMASS).
This seminar takes place in 102 Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC), located at 805 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02120, a short walk from the Ruggles Orange Line station.
Anticipating the Future Built Environment
ABSTRACT: From climate change to autonomous vehicles, engineers are confronting a variety of environmental challenges, demographic shifts and technological changes that will require a drastic rethinking of how we build, operate, and maintain our infrastructure systems. Planning for the future is difficult for nearly every organization. ASCE decided to launch the Future World Vision project to help meet this challenge. We compiled and winnowed more than 100 global macrotrends to examine six important sociopolitical, economic, environmental, and technological trends as key drivers of change for future built infrastructure. Our desire is that the Future World Vision project will establish ASCE and civil engineers as bold thought leaders, provide a platform to envision the future built environment and ultimately optimize future system performance and the benefit to society, and be a next-generation tool that interacts and resonates with those who will create the future built environment—the next generation of civil engineers. The Future World Vision platform is an immersive computer model, using gaming engines, that will create virtual future worlds with evocative visuals, multiple characters and rich narratives that explore holistic city, community and neighborhood systems, including the cultural, social, economic, political, ethical and environmental aspects at different scales. This platform will enable engineers to ask the right questions about a future built environment that doesn’t exist yet, contemplate solutions, postulate the resulting benefit to society – well in advance of starting to design those solutions. This will enable us to better prepare engineers today for possible future needs and challenges.
BIO: Gerald (Jerry) E. Buckwalter has more than 35 years of varied executive leadership in general management, business development, strategy and innovation, program operations and policy development spanning military, government, international, and commercial domains. He is the Chief Operating and Strategy Officer of ASCE, overseeing all aspects of internal operations including Finance, Administration, Engineering, Lifelong Learning, and Human Resources. Prior to joining ASCE, Mr. Buckwalter was a Northrop Grumman Corporate Director of Strategy. His responsibilities included reshaping the company’s business portfolio, mergers and acquisitions, long-term strategies, innovation initiatives, and professional development. Among many distinguished service positions, Mr. Buckwalter was a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council reporting to the White House from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Buckwalter earned a degree in Physics from Monmouth University and has extensive continuing education at George Washington University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Engineers Week: Engineering for Everyone Expo
2020-02-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Looking for something to do during vacation week? We are looking for engineers in the making. Come and be inspired and enrich your understanding of engineering. Students of all ages are invited to join us for this free event!
We welcome all aspiring scientists, engineers, and inventors to Be Inspired at the Engineering Expo in celebration of National Engineers Week. Families, parents, children are all invited to join us! Learn more about engineering through a variety of activities, experiments, and demonstrations. Meet students pursuing engineering pathways at Northeastern University and have a great time learning new things!
Where: NU’s Curry Student Center McLeod Suite (318-322)
When: Friday, February 21, 2020 (10:00am – 12:00pm)
Activities will be led by representatives from a variety of our engineering student clubs and organizations: NUTRONS, AIAA, BMES, GWISE, IEEE, IISE, Maker Club, STEMOut and more, as well as by outside organizations such as Cambridge Science Festival.

Engineers Week: First Year Engineering and Innovation Center Open House
2020-02-21 10:00 - 18:00 | 368 SN, 360 Huntington Ave, 368 SN, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Swing by the First Year Engineering Center for fun and interactive puzzles and games created by College of Engineering students! Don’t forget to grab a laser cut or 3D printed keychain or puzzle. You can learn about laser cutters or 3D printing and also watch as your key chain is created. This is a great activity for families.

Black Excellence in the Making
2020-02-21 13:00
The Graduate Students of Color Collective Presents
Black Excellence in the Making
Two graduate students will be discussing how to succeed within their area/field of study and will provide advice to both grads and undergrads on steps that are necessary to achieve their career goals. Both Danzel and Jeanelle will also elaborate on the skills, tools, and resources that are available to students as well as explain the meaning of Black Excellence.
Location: JDOAAI 2nd floor study space
RSVP neugscc@gmail.com
First 20 people receive free professional headshots.

Team Leadership Step-by-Step: Prepare Your Leadership Soft-Skills
2020-02-21 13:00 - 13:30 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
20 minute lessons at 1 pm (almost) every Friday, open to all!
Questions? Contact Ted at ted.johnson@northeastern.edu
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MathWorks Collaboration Day
2020-02-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan), 360 Huntington Ave, 240 Egan, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The MathWorks SMART Laboratory
Northeastern University
Collaboration Day Event
Financial Services and Computational Finance with MATLAB
Chris Garvin
Senior Software
Engineer Manager
Financial Services encompasses an array of application areas such as investing, banking, econometric modeling and risk management. Increasingly sophisticated software tools are being developed to provide financial products that give professionals a competitive advantage in this space.
This presentation will highlight industry segments and application areas illustrating how MathWorks applies computational finance tools and solutions to this space. You will learn about asset allocation, sentiment analysis and algorithmic trading using MATLAB.
The first example will walk you through the steps to build an asset allocation strategy based on hierarchical risk parity and compare the results to a traditional mean variance methodology. Next, a deep learning model will be used to classify the sentiments of Tweets as positive or negative. Sentiment analysis is used in investment decision making. Finally, we will explore how a rule-based model is used to make trading decisions.

Bio:
Chris Garvin is a senior software engineering manager and principal software engineer leading the Computational Finance software development team. He has been at MathWorks since 1993. He has guided the development of products that serve the Financial Services and FinTech space and has been the primary developer of the Financial, Database, Datafeed and Trading Toolboxes and Spreadsheet Link. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Union College and an MBA certificate from Northeastern University.

Keynote Address – Raytheon Amphitheater 1:30 — 2:30 pm
Poster session and demonstrations – Raytheon Amphitheater 2:30 – 3:30 pm
MathWorks employees, Northeastern students and faculty will demonstrate their current work.

List of demos from MathWorks that will be given from 2:30 to 3:30:

Text Analytics and sentiment analysis
Hierarchical risk parity
Image Transmission and Reception Using WLAN Toolbox and One PlutoSDR
Modulation Classification with Deep Learning
Urban Channel Link Analysis and Visualization using Ray Tracing
Real-time ECG waveform segmentation using a deep network
Embedded Architecture Modeling and Targeting

For more information, contact:
Miriam Leeser
mel@coe.neu.edu

Basic Soldering
2020-02-21 15:30 - 16:00, 2020-02-25 13:00 - 13:30 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
This workshop is an introduction to soldering. Learn how to solder two wires together and apply heat-shrink tubing using a Weller soldering station and an SMD Rework station
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Cyber Physical Systems and Telecommunication Network Webinar
2020-02-24 10:00 - 11:00
Consider attending the below webinar to meet the Program Director of Cyber Physical Systems and Telecommunication Networks, and learn more about our Co-op Program! The webinar will feature a talk by the graduate program director, Dr. Peter O’Reilly of the Cyber Physical Systems and Telecommunication Networks programs.
From this 60-minute info session, you’ll walk away with an understanding of:

The CPS and TNET programs in general, core and elective courses, and program options
Specific parameters for admissions
How to pursue a paid 4-8 month industry co-op as part of your degree plan

WEBINAR REGISTRATION:
https://zoom.us/j/282750934
Let us know if you can attend by submitting an RSVP here.

Bioengineering Webinar
2020-02-25 10:00 - 11:00
Consider attending the below webinar to learn more! The webinar will feature a talk by the Associate Chair for Research, Mark Niedre of the Bioengineering
From this 60-minute info sessions, you will walk away with an understanding of:

The Bioengineering program in general, core and elective courses, and program options
Specific parameters for admissions
How to pursue a paid 4-8 month industry co-op as part of your degree plan

WEBINAR REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
https://zoom.us/j/304839345
Let us know if you plan to attend!
