Northeastern University College of Engineering

Engineers Week: Anticipating The Future Built Environment
2020-02-20 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 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, 2020-02-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2020-03-11 10:30 - 11:00 | 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!

ECE Seminar: Faculty Openings in a Unique International Institute for Global Impact in Multidisciplinary Engineering
2020-02-25 16:00 - 17:00 | 442 Dana, 360 Huntington Ave, 442 DA, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Philip Krein, Executive Dean, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute
Overview:
Come learn about the many open faculty positions at a new campus in China (bring resumes!). The Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI) is a joint engineering college on the new Zhejiang University (ZJU) International Campus in Haining, China, about 120 km southwest of Shanghai. ZJUI is a unique peer partnership of two leading global universities. The programs and research themes build on more than 100 years of University of Illinois involvement in China, and decades of active research collaborations between the two partners. ZJUI conducts teaching and research in broad program themes of advanced materials and devices engineering sciences; information and data sciences; and energy, environment, and infrastructure sciences. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Numerous faculty positions are open in these disciplines, computer science, materials engineering, mathematics, and related fields.
A short talk will be given that describes how projects and issues in China illustrate fundamental global development challenges. Examples are presented in terms of infrastructure, energy, environmental impact, advanced manufacturing, data sciences, and other major topics. In each case, innovations in the United States and in China have huge potential global impact if they can be scaled up and applied broadly. The talk discusses how a new generation of science and engineering faculty with multidisciplinary interests and global aspirations will be developed to lead global impact. It will also be an opportunity for Northeastern graduate students to learn more about how to apply for faculty positions at ZJU-UIUC.
Biography: Philip Krein holds the Grainger Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also Executive Dean of the Zhejiang University/University of Illinois Institute in Haining, China, and a faculty member at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. From 2003 to 2014 he was a Founder and Director of SolarBridge Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX, a developer of long-life integrated inverters for solar energy. He holds 42 U.S. patents. His current research interests include power electronics, machines, electric transportation, and renewable energy, with an emphasis on nonlinear control approaches. Dr. Krein received the IEEE William E. Newell Award in Power Electronics and is a past President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and a past Chair of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a Foreign Expert under the China 1000 Talents Program.

COE Global Co-op Info Session- Graduate Students
2020-02-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan), 360 Huntington Ave, 240 Egan, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
COE Graduate Students- Join the College of Engineering Global Co-op team in learning about co-op opportunities abroad for Summer II/Fall 2020. Topics discussed will include- Search techniques and global positions in your field; What to consider when interested in Global Co-op; Information on logistics, ie. housing, transportation, and safety; Tips, tricks, and resources to help get you there! You will also meet and hear from students returning from their Global Co-op.
RSVP on the NUcareers Events Calendar.
Attendance to one of the sessions is REQUIRED if you plan to do a Global Co-op in Fall 2020. Please reach out to Sally Conant, s.conant@northeastern.edu, or Kristina Kutsukos, k.kutsukos@northeastern.edu, COE Global Co-op Coordinators, for additional information.

Location: Raytheon Amphitheater

Python in Biotech
2020-02-25 18:00 - 19:00
Learn the fundamentals of data science and how to tackle engineering problems in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry in IV 016
Please download Anaconda (ver 3.7) before attending.

Sewing Machine
2020-02-26 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 Brother sewing machine. Learn how to operate the sewing machine while sewing your very own pillow
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar: Lili Su
2020-02-26 11:00 - 12:00 | 138 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 138 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Location: ISEC 138
Learning with Distributed Systems: Adversary-Resilience and Neural Networks
Abstract:
In this talk, Su will first talk about how to secure Federated Learning (FL) against adversarial faults.
FL is a new distributed learning paradigm proposed by Google. The goal of FL is to enable the cloud (i.e., the learner) to train a model without collecting the training data from users’ mobile devices. Compared with traditional learning, FL suffers serious security issues and several practical constraints call for new security strategies. Towards quantitative and systematic insights into the impacts of those security issues, Su and her team formulated and studied the problem of Byzantine-resilient Federated Learning. Su proposed two robust learning rules that secure gradient descent against Byzantine faults. The estimation error achieved under our more recently proposed rule is order-optimal in the minimax sense.
Then, she will briefly talk about her recent results on neural networks, including both biological and artificial neural networks. Notably, her results on the artificial neural networks (i.e., training over-parameterized 2-layer neural networks) improved the state-of-the-art. In particular, they showed that nearly-linear network over-parameterization is sufficient for the global convergence of gradient descent.
Bio:
Lili Su is a postdoc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, hosted by Professor Nancy Lynch. She received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017, supervised by Professor Nitin H. Vaidya. Her research intersects distributed systems, learning, security, and brain computing. She was the runner-up for the Best Student Paper Award at DISC 2016, and she received the 2015 Best Student Paper Award at SSS 2015. She received UIUC’s Sundaram Seshu International Student Fellowship for 2016, and was invited to participate in Rising Stars in EECS (2018). She has served on TPC for several conferences including ICDCS and ICDCN

Power Tools
2020-02-26 13:00 - 13:30, 2020-03-12 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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Advanced Hand Tools
2020-02-26 13:45 - 14:15 | 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: Kai Sun
2020-02-27 11:00 - 12:00 | 442 Dana, 360 Huntington Ave, 442 DA, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Location: Dana 442
Seminar Title: A More Resilient Power Grid with Faster-Than-Real-Time Stability
Abstract:
Since the northeast blackout of 1965, cascading blackouts have continued to happen on power grids in the North America and other countries. For a grid operator, it is vitally important to be aware of real-time stability and reliability margin for the current grid state under possible disturbances. However, a real-world power grid is an extremely complex, nonlinear network system. For instance, the bulk electric system of a US power grid is typically modeled by nonlinear DAEs on 5,000+ electric machines and 50,000+ nodes. Fast stability analysis and simulation of such a large-scale dynamical system subject even to a single disturbance is quite challenging. In the next decade, renewable generation, such as power electronics-interfaced distributed energy resources, will reach 30%-50% in power grids of many countries. That can further increase the complexity of a power grid, change its dynamic characteristics and bring more uncertainties and challenges to real-time grid operations. For a more resilient grid, the power industry is looking forward to emerging technologies that enable “faster-than-real-time” stability assessment and adaptive, distributed control to prevent and mitigate cascading power outages. The speaker will share his visions and research in this field and introduce two promising enabling approaches established with ongoing supports from NSF and DOE: 1) faster-than-real-time grid simulation using a semi-analytical approach, and 2) grid stability assessment and control based on a new method named “Nonlinear Modal Decoupling” and the utilization of wide-area measurements and distributed energy resources.
Bio:
Kai Sun is an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also a faculty member with the NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center for Ultra-Wide-Area-Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT). He received his Bachelor’s degree in automation in 1999 and his Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering in 2004 both from Tsinghua University, Beijing. He received the National Top 100 Doctoral Dissertations Award in 2006 from the Ministry of Education of China. Before joining the University of Tennessee, Dr. Sun was a project manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) from 2007 to 2012 for R&D programs in the area of grid operations, planning and renewable integration. Earlier, he worked as a research associate at Arizona State University, Tempe.
Dr. Sun received EPRI Chauncey Award, the institute’s highest honor, in 2009, two best papers awards from IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meetings in 2014 and 2015, NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the “Most Valuable Players” Award by North American Synchrophasor Initiative and DOE in 2016, and the Professional Promise in Research Award twice in 2016 and 2019 by the College of Engineering, the University of Tennessee. Dr. Sun authored one book titled Power System Control under Cascading Failures and 70+ journal publications. He is currently an associate editor with four IEEE journals including IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Access and IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy.

3D Printing Prusa
2020-02-27 13:00 - 13:30, 2020-03-10 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 Prusa 3D printer. Learn how to load filament, start a print job, and remove prints from the print bed
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3D Printing Form 2
2020-02-27 13:45 - 14:15, 2020-03-10 11:30 - 12:00 | 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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DURABLE Exhibition Opening
2020-02-27 18:00 - 20:00
DURABLE is an exhibition about sustainability in the built environment curated by CEE faculty David Fannon and Matthew Eckelman, as well as Architecture faculty Michelle Laboy and Peter Wiederspahn. Precedent buildings, physical objects, and LCA data illustrate how buildings that endure for generations while constantly adapting to ever-changing human needs sustain both human life, and the planet on which we build.
The exhibition runs from February 21 to May 31 at BSA Space at 290 Congress Street, Boston. All are welcome at the opening reception, on Thursday, February 27th from 6-8pm, please RSVP here.

Silicon Valley Open House
2020-02-28 08:00 - 17:00
Join us on April 4th at the San Francisco Bay Area campus. Meet faculty and staff to discover more about your program of interest including the MS in Information Systems and the MS in Cyber-Physical Systems-IOT programs. Event details are below
April 4, 2020 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Bay Area
6024 Silver Creek Valley Rd, San Jose, CA 95138
Register here.

Chemical Engineering Webinar
2020-02-28 10:00 - 23:00
Consider attending the below webinar to learn about Chemical Engineering graduate offerings. The webinar will feature a talk by the graduate program director, Dr. Richard West of the Chemical Engineering Department.
WEBINAR DETAILS:
Topic: Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University
Date: Friday, February 28
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM EST
From this 60-minute info sessions, you will walk away with an understanding of:

The Chemical Engineering 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 or research (if PhD)

WEBINAR REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
Let us know if you plan to attend!

Team Leadership Step-by-Step: Lead Your Team
2020-02-28 13:00 - 13:30 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States

Vacuum Degassing Chamber
2020-03-11 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 vacuum degassing chamber. Learn how to operate the vacuum pump and hold the chamber at a particular pressure
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