Northeastern University College of Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
2022-04-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about Electrical & Computer Engineering graduate programs at Northeastern University.

MS Robotics (ME) at Northeastern University
2022-04-19 09:00 - 10:00
Learn about the Master’s in Robotics (ME) program at Northeastern University

Chemical Engineering Graduate Programs
2022-04-19 10:00 - 11:00
Learn about Chemical Engineering graduate programs at Northeastern University

Learn about Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Graduate Programs at the College of Engineering
2022-04-19 11:00 - 12:00
Learn about the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department and its graduate programs during this interactive 1-hour webinar.

NAGAP Engineering Graduate School Fair
2022-04-19 11:00 - 15:00
Representatives from Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering will be participating in this event.

Civil + Environmental Engineering Graduate Programs
2022-04-20 08:00 - 09:00
Learn about Civil + Environmental Engineering graduate programs at Northeastern University

MS in Cyber-Physical Systems & Telecommunication Networks Programs
2022-04-20 08:00 - 09:00
Learn about MS in Cyber-Physical Systems & MS in Telecommunication Networks, two of the five Multidisciplinary Master’s programs at Northeastern University.

Data Analytics Engineering at Northeastern University
2022-04-20 09:00 - 10:00
Learn about the Data Analytics Engineering program at Northeastern University

The Space Revolution Featuring Rick Tumlinson
2022-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | 102 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 102 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
We are at one of the most pivotal moments in history: The space revolution is here, and if we leave it to Rick Tumlinson, an entire industry in space will be here before we know it.
One of the world’s top space visionaries, Tumlinson will take students on a rocket ride through his journey as a trailblazer in the fascinating field of space.
Rick Tumlinson
A pioneer of the space revolution, Tumlinson spent more than 30 years defining, enabling and founding many of the pillars of the frontier movement, including the private takeover of Russia’s Mir space station, the X-Prize, and the first private ticket to ISS—all aimed at achieving his end goal of discovering a method to reach any destination, at any time. Tumlinson is also a six-time congressional witness, whose findings have set the philosophies and legislative pillars of the commercial space industry, referred to as NewSpace, alongside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson.

CILS Seminar: BioBus
2022-04-20 12:00 - 13:30 | 142 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, 142 ISEC, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Come listen to Mollie Thurman, Chief Community Scientist, speak about the mission of BioBus, a renovated school bus that brings science to underprivileged schools/communities, and how graduate students of Northeastern can get involved.
*New physical location launching in the CILS Core Facility.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/ismTg26hdmqiCNLN6
Time: April 20th, 2022 at 12-1:30pm
Location: ISEC 142 or virtual
(Zoom link will be shown in the confirmation message once you complete this form and again in a reminder email 24 hours before the event)

MS in Information Systems, Data Architecture & Management, Software Engineering Systems
2022-04-21 09:00 - 10:00
Learn about MSIS, MSDAM & MSSES, three of the five Multidisciplinary Master’s Programs at Northeastern University.

Bioengineering Graduate Programs
2022-04-21 10:30 - 11:30
Learn about Bioengineering graduate programs at Northeastern University.

Fun Labs at the Boston Children's Museum
2022-04-22 10:00 - 15:30
36 interactive electronic games have been invented, built, and coded by first year engineers, and they will be exhibited for one day at the Boston Children’s Museum. Children and parents are invited to play these exciting games! This family friendly event is free with paid admission to the Boston Children’s Museum, located at 308 Congress St., Boston.

ECELEBRATION
2022-04-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Honoring Diversity in ECE – a celebration of Electrical and Computer Engineering students, faculty, and staff with marginalized identities! Register as an honoree to be awarded a certificate, or as an observer. Let’s reset and re-connect to build a stronger community rooted in mutual respect and empathy for one another. Monday, April 18th is the last day to register for Friday’s banquet.

First Year Engineering Expo
2022-04-25 08:00 - 17:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Please come to the Curry Student Center on Monday, April 25th to see Northeastern’s First-Year Engineering Students’ inventive projects, games, and exhibits.
Students will showcase original board games, interactive projects geared to teach children sustainability concepts, and prolific prototypes to help solve a wide range of problems.
Each project applies the engineering concepts introduced this past semester, which includes the Engineering Design Process, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Programming with C++ and Matlab, and controlling microelectronics with Arduino.

Northeastern University Graduate Open House
2022-04-26 - 2022-04-27
Join us for two information-filled days and learn more about studying at Northeastern.
Connect with faculty, staff, students, and admissions representatives through on-demand videos or live info sessions to see how Northeastern can support your academic and career journeys.
During this event, you’ll be able to:

Customize your schedule so you can get the specific answers you need.
Meet other prospective master’s and doctoral students from around the country.
Connect with current students and faculty for a firsthand look into our community and your college of interest.
Chat with Northeastern staff during our elective sessions, including enrollment counselors and members from Student Financial Services, Co-op and Experiential Learning, and more.

Get ready for our most informative and convenient open house event yet. You can see the agenda here and start planning your open house experience.
Register now to secure your spot and join us for our Graduate Open House on April 26 and 27.

FPP Postgraduate Virtual Fair - LATAM
2022-04-27 15:00 - 19:00

Learn About Northeastern University's Experiential Masters Programs
2022-04-28 09:00 - 10:00
Learn About Northeastern University’s Experiential Masters Programs (available to Domestic applicants only)
Register Here

Enabling Engineering Showcase
2022-04-28 11:00 - 13:00
Please come to the Enabling Engineering Showcase on Thursday, April 28, 11am-1pm ET in 002 Ell Hall where students will present their final design projects.
Enabling Engineering is a Northeastern University student group that designs and builds devices to empower individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities. Our students collaborate with clients on projects that provide greater independence, reduce medical burdens, and increase social connectedness. We help family members, clinicians, and teachers care for people with disabilities. By giving students the opportunity to participate in Enabling Engineering projects, we are training the next generation of engineers to be knowledgeable about, and aware of, the needs of individuals with disabilities.

Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
2022-04-29 15:00 - 16:15
Professor Edmund Yeh will give an invited seminar titled “Data-Centric Networking: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” in the Electrical Engineering Seminar Series at Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Friday, Apr 29, 2022
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Harvard John A. Paulson, School of Engineering and Applied Science, SEC LL2.221 or Virtually
In the era of big data, domain experts in various engineering and science fields are facing unprecedented challenges in data access, distribution, processing and analysis, and in the coordinated use of limited computing, storage and network resources. To meet this challenge, data-centric network design approaches such as Named Data Networking (NDN) have been proposed, which focus on enabling end users to obtain the data they want, rather than simply on communication between specific nodes.
In this talk, we present new frameworks for the optimization of key functionalities supported by data-centric networking, which are broadly applicable to content delivery networks, peer-to-peer networks, wireless heterogeneous networks, and distributed computing networks. The frameworks enable joint (in-network) caching, request routing, and congestion control, for optimizing metrics including routing costs, data retrieval delay, and content-based fairness. We meet the challenge of the underlying NP-hard problems by exploiting submodularity, matroid structure, DR-submodularity, and by leveraging tools including concave relaxation, stochastic gradient ascent, continuous greedy and Lagrangian barrier algorithms. We develop polynomial-time approximation algorithms with proven optimality guarantees, with particular emphasis on adaptive and distributed implementations. We further discuss the extension of these frameworks for jointly optimal wireless user association, interference management and content caching in wireless heterogeneous networks, and for jointly optimal computation scheduling, caching and request forwarding in distributed computing networks.
Finally, we discuss an ongoing project which applies the optimization frameworks and algorithms to facilitate data distribution and computation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) high-energy physics network, one of the largest data applications in the world.

CHME Department Award Ceremony
2022-04-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Blackman Auditorium, 360 Huntington Ave, Ell Hall, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Chemical Engineering is hosting its annual Department Award Ceremony in Blackman Auditorium on Friday, April 29, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm.

Forge Showcase
2022-05-02 19:00 - 20:30 | 010 Hayden Hall, 010 Hayden Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Forge is Northeastern’s home of builders, entrepreneurs, and leaders. No matter your major, we want to help you learn how to make impactful products and become an entrepreneur.
Showcase celebrates each team’s accomplishments from the semester, with pitching, tabling and refreshments. Come by The Sherman Center’s Makerspace located in the basement of Hayden Hall (right under the Dunkin Donuts) from 7:00 – 8:30pm on May 2nd, to see celebrate with us!

Generate Showcase
2022-05-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, 02120, United States
Generate is Northeastern’s student led design studio aimed at fostering entrepreneurial engineering on campus.
Showcase is Generate’s semester end event that celebrates our teams and their progress throughout the term. Stop by the Alumni Center on Wednesday, May 4th from 6:30-8:30 pm to listen in on presentations, hear from speakers, and take a look at all the hard work our teams have put in this semester. We hope to see you there!

Applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program: Grad Student Panelists and Faculty Share Advice and Insights
2022-05-17 15:00 - 16:00
Join the College of Engineering CommLab and the Khoury College Graduate Program, for a virtual panel discussion revealing the experiences and insights of doctoral students who have been awarded fellowships and the faculty who have helped support them through the process. The six panelists, responding to questions from the moderator and audience, will discuss such topics as the application or nomination process, tips for effective application statements and supporting materials, and the place of a fellowship award in one’s doctoral career.
Join through Zoom

Gordon Institute Virtual Information Session
2022-05-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2022-05-25 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-06-08 09:00 - 10:00
Learn how you can earn a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Leadership as a stand-alone certificate or in combination with one of twenty Master of Science degrees offered through Northeastern’s College of Engineering, College of Science, or Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
The National Academy of Engineering recognized The Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership (GIEL)for its innovative curriculum that combines technical education, leadership capabilities, and the “Challenge Project”: an opportunity for students to receive master’s level credit while working in industry.
By aligning technical proficiency with leadership capabilities, GIEL accelerates the development of high-potential engineers and prepares them to lead complex projects early in their careers. Upon completion of the program, more than 88% of the 2020 class reported increased leadership responsibility, while more than 50% of the 2020 class reported being promoted within one year of graduation.
Our Director of Admissions will be directly answering your application questions for Fall 2022.
You will have the opportunity to hear from Alumni on how The Gordon Institute propelled their engineering careers. Program professors will also be present to answer curriculum questions.

Modeling Quantum Information and Quantum Materials Problems
2022-05-19 15:00 - 16:00
JOINT SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM BY COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Modeling Quantum Information and
Quantum Materials Problems
Prof. Hai-Ping Cheng, University of Florida
Thursday, May 19, 2022; 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Hosts: Arun Bansil and Swastik Kar
Zoom meeting link
I will discuss how large-scale computational efforts based on model Hamiltonians informed by first-principles simulations with inputs from experiments have allowed us to gain unprecedented clarity in the microscopic mechanisms underlying macroscopic properties of materials. Such an approach is critically important for exploration of viable qubit candidates beyond the current technologies which are based on superconductors and ion traps. Covering six orders of magnitude in energy scales, magnetic couplings present a fundamental challenge to first-principles calculations. In this talk, I will highlight some of our recent work concerning inter- and intra-molecular spin-spin couplings, magneto-electric couplings, magnetic molecules on substrates and in junctions, and decoherence. I will also show results from simulations of interfaces and vertical junctions that consist of two topological insulators and 2D materials.
Dr. Hai-Ping Cheng is a Professor of Physics and Director of the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida. She currently leads the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials (M2QM). She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1988), was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago (1989-1991), and a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1992-1994). Her research interests include magnetic molecules for quantum information sciences, interface phenomena and transport across tunneling junctions, and reduction of thermal noise in amorphous oxides.

Women in Engineering
2022-05-25 09:00 - 10:00
A celebration of women in engineering with a panel of faculty, alumnae, and current student.

Ziyue Xu's PhD Proposal Review
2022-06-08 09:30 - 10:30 | 432 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
“High Efficiency RF Energy Harvesting and Power Management Circuits Techniques for IoT Application”
Abstract:
As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is continuing to grow, there is a need that a significant percentage these devices operate at ultra-low power (ULP) levels, either using harvested energy or using a small battery with a long lifetime. Energy harvesting techniques can help to achieve long lifetimes, but the system should be able to operate efficiently with a small amount of harvested energy and often from low voltages. Energy harvesting from solar, thermal, vibration, and radio-frequency (RF) are increasingly being used to realize batteryless operation for IoT and biomedical applications. A typical multi-input energy harvesting system including multiple energy transducers, maximum power point tracking (MPPT), matching network (MN), and DC-DC converter. Solar cells and thermoelectric generators have a few mV to hundreds of mV open-circuit voltage that require maximum power tracking to make sure the optimal power extraction is achieved. The piezoelectric transducer is modeled as AC source with internal resistance from 10s Ω to kΩ that requires AC-DC conversion, known as rectification to better use the energy. And the following DC-DC regulation stage is to regulate the output voltage to deal with the sudden change of the load or the input voltage drop. Among these techniques, RF energy harvesting system is particularly promising for biomedical and IoT devices where other sources are not readily available. Several of these applications are utilizing widely used WiFi and Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) communication standards. These applications along with the wirelessly-powered neural implantable medical devices (n-IMD) for neural stimulation and recording are also benefiting from ultra-low power (ULP) circuits and systems design advancements. Since the available RF power decreases rapidly with distance, it is desirable to design rectifiers that are able to operate with low incident power. This Ph.D. proposal presents a simplified design approach and analysis of RF energy harvesting rectifiers for different design objectives. The proposal also includes the design of a new self-biased gate (SBG) rectifier with a non-linear gate biasing technique. At lower power levels, the SBG rectifier drops the entirety of output voltage to create a higher gate bias. However, to address the issue of leakage at higher input power levels, the gate-biasing technique drops only a fraction of the output voltage. This approach helps to realize high efficiency across input power range. The fully integrated, high-efficiency SBG-based RF energy harvesting circuit can also provide a high output voltage of 9.3 V with a 30% end-to-end efficiency (PHE). Further, to enhance the available RF energy to a remotely located RF energy receiver, the proposal presents a highly efficient distributed RF beamforming technique. To improve the power delivery in the downstream power management circuits, a boost converter architecture that can reduce switching noise injection by changing its switching frequency is also presented. The associated power management system includes a boost converter operating in DCM, FVC and a digital control loop. The system is capable of providing a stable 1V supply for RF receiver front-ends with very low performance impact.

Committee Members:
Prof. Aatmesh Shrivastava (Advisor)
Prof. Marvin Onabajo
Prof. Nian X. Sun
