Northeastern University College of Engineering

Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers (SASE) 2022 Midwest Regional Conference - Career Fair
2022-03-12 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Representatives from Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering will be participating in this event.

SxSW Conference: Creative Industries Expo
2022-03-13 10:00 - 2022-03-16 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Representatives from Northeastern University Graduate School of Engineering will be participating in this event.
The Creative Industries Expo is open to all SXSW Badges from March 13-16, 2022 from 10am – 5pm at the Austin Convention Center in Exhibit Halls 2-5.

Pi Day Prospective Student Webinar
2022-03-14 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Northeastern University’s Graduate School of Engineering encompasses top-ranked, highly selective, R1 research programs that combine rigorous academics with experiential learning and convergent research to prepare the next generation of engineering leaders to address the complex challenges of global society.

BMI Talk Global Study - MENA
2022-03-17 12:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)

Science on Tap
2022-03-18 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Raytheon Amphitheater (240 Egan), 360 Huntington Ave, 240 Egan, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Hosted by the COE PhD Council – Science on Tap is back in March with a special networking event to mingle with faculty, staff and other COE PhD students! There will be pizza, salad, beer & cider (as well as assorted seltzers and other non-alcoholic options).
Date: Friday – March 18, 2022
Location: Egan Raytheon Amphitheater (room 240)
Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Doors open at 3PM and will close at max capacity.
Open to all faculty, staff, and PhD students! Come join us, learn about science, and learn what else is happening across COE!

FPP Study in Canada - SEA
2022-03-19 04:00 - 08:00 (America/New_York)

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Convention
2022-03-23 - 2022-03-27

Open-Shell Molecules: A Radical Design for Organic Optoelectronic Materials
2022-03-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
ChE Seminar Series Presents:
Dr. Mark S. Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University
Abstract:
Open-shell molecules possess unpaired electron density (radical character), which makes them intriguing candidate materials for many optoelectronic applications. Air-stable structures have been reported, but most require lengthy synthetic sequences with limited generality. Our lab has developed a concise strategy for rapidly accessing a variety of bisphenalenyls from commercial starting materials. We used this method to synthesize a neutral biradicaloid, Ph2–s-IDPL, and several novel heteroatom-substituted, π-radical cations. One such molecule is O-substituted (Ph2-PCPL)(OTf), which displays electrostatically-enhanced, intermolecular covalent-bonding interactions that impart remarkable charge transport properties. Specifically, we have discovered that mixing soluble PCPL derivatives with polystyrenesulfonate (PSS) enables the formation of water-processable, n-type conductive organic films that demonstrate high optical transparency (>94% transmission), electrical conductivity (σrt < 117 S/cm), and electron mobility (μe < 322 cm2 V-1 s-1). In these composites, PSS not only serves as a counterion, but also promotes n-doping and solution-phase aggregation, which leads to molecular ordering in solid-state. We have also discovered a N-substituted, red emissive, π-radical cation [(Ph2-PQPL)(OTf)] that is structurally distinct from all other luminescent radicals, and achieves rare antiambipolar charge transport in field-effect transistors. N-substituted bisphenalenyls also display self-sensitized and reversible reactivity with dioxygen that shows potential for use in colorimetric oxygen sensors and for on-demand singlet oxygen release.
Bio:
Mark Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University with M.-Christina White developing catalytic C-H bond oxidation methodologies. As a Dreyfus postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jean Fréchet at U. C. Berkeley, he led a team developing polymeric and molecular materials for organic electronic devices. Since coming to Lehigh University, the Chen Lab has investigated the synthesis of open-shell organic molecules and their application to optoelectronic materials and devices. Mark is the recipient of several awards, including a Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Award (2015) and NSF CAREER Award (2021).
Please contact a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the zoom link to attend remotely.

Prepare for RISE
2022-03-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Join the CommLab to work on your RISE presentation and pitch. Open Office Hours on Thursday, March 24 from 5-6 pm ET. Register and join through Zoom.

Accessibility & Inclusion for Deaf Employees in Northeastern
2022-03-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join a panel discussion with Northeastern faculty & staff on making Northeastern accessible & inclusive for deaf employees on March 25th at 3 p.m. (ET) at ISEC 655, 6th floor & on zoom – https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/95320296228

Data-Driven Materials Design in the Quantum Regime
2022-03-29 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
JOINT SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
“Data-driven materials design in the quantum regime”
Professor Qjmin Yan, Temple University
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Zoom meeting link:
https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/93346146592
Materials design in the quantum regime calls for the integration of multitier materials information that goes beyond atomic structures since quantum behavior is often controlled by local symmetries and bonding environment. I will discuss how machine learning and data-driven approaches can be combined with physical principles to accelerate the discovery and design of solid-state quantum materials. Motivated by Pauling’s rules, I will show that local bonding environments (motifs) can be incorporated in a graph-based machine-learning architecture to make reliable property predictions for quantum materials including complex metal oxides. The proposed atom-motif dual network model demonstrates the feasibility of incorporating beyond-atom materials information in a graph network framework and achieves a state-of-the-art performance for predicting electronic properties. I will discuss how data-driven materials science can be combined with symmetry-based physical principles to guide the search for exotic topological phases and quantum defects in two-dimensional materials and their heterojunctions for quantum information processing, quantum sensing and other applications.
Dr. Qimin Yan is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. in from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley. In 2016, he joined the Department of Physics at Temple University as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include machine learning and data-driven discovery of solid-state quantum materials, quantum defects for quantum sensing, computing and information technologies, and functional semiconductors for energy conversion. He received the DOE Early Career Award in 2019 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2022.

COE Seattle Campus Webinar
2022-03-30 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about the Graduate School of Engineering’s programs offered at Northeastern University’s Seattle Campus.

COE Toronto Campus Webinar
2022-03-31 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about the Graduate School of Engineering’s programs offered at Northeastern University’s Toronto campus.

COE Vancouver Campus Webinar
2022-03-31 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about the Graduate School of Engineering’s programs offered at Northeastern University’s Vancouver campus.

Constructing a Specific Aims Page
2022-03-31 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Join the COE CommLab for an informative virtual workshop about how to build an effective specific aims page. As one of the most important parts of a proposal or grant, specific aims are often the only section reviewers read. In giving you the knowledge and tools to create your own effective specific aims page during this workshop, we will first break down the details and then have a group activity. We look forward to working with you! Register via Zoom.

WIE Faculty: Breaking Barriers in the Academy — Panel Discussion
2022-03-31 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
The College of Engineering is hosting a panel discussion for Women’s History Month. Featuring WIE (Women in Engineering) faculty who will share their journeys “Breaking Barriers” into Academy. The Society of Women Engineers and Sherman Center will be co-moderators for the panel. Rachel Graham will be the SWE co-moderator and Linda Yan is the Sherman Center co-moderator
Panelists include:

Loretta Fernandez – Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Mona Minkara – Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Rebecca Willits – Professor & Chairperson, Chemical Engineering & Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering

You must REGISTER to receive an email with information on accessing this virtual event.
Please reach out to Rachelle Reisberg: r.reisberg@northeastern.edu, Assistant Dean of Engineering Enrollment Management and Retention, for additional information.

COE Silicon Valley Campus Webinar
2022-04-01 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about the Graduate School of Engineering’s programs offered at Northeastern University’s Silicon Valley campus.

COE Portland Campus Webinar
2022-04-01 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about the Graduate School of Engineering’s programs offered at Northeastern University’s Portland campus.

CfD Conversations 03
2022-04-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Zoom Link
CFD Conversation Series: Design for Collaborative Robotic Environments
Robotic systems and devices are becoming ever more pervasive in our workplace environments. Rather than being machines that force their modalities of operation upon workers the promise is to create responsive systems that adjust and adapt their operations to human practices, supporting the emergence of new forms of work. A panel, curated by CfD faculty member Kristian Kloeckl (Art + Design, Architecture) looks at profound questions that arise as designers, architects, engineers and developers find new ways to address the emerging condition of collaborative robotic environments.

CfD Faculty Curator

Kristian KloecklAssociate Professor, Director Experience Design Lab, Department of Design, School of Architecture, Northeastern University
Kristian Kloeckl is Designer and Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s Department of Art + Design and the School of Architecture, coordinating the design graduate programs and directing the Experience Design Lab. His work probes the boundaries of experience interaction design in the context of today’s hybrid cities and investigates the role of performance-based and improvisational frameworks for design. Kloeckl is a PI for ongoing NSF-supported research on design for human-robot collaboration, author of “The Urban Improvise: Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities” (Yale University Press), and co-editor of “Workplace and Public Realm”. His work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Vienna MAK, the Singapore Art Museum and he is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Montreal World Design Summit, Hybrid City Conference, Platform Strategy Executive Symposium at MIT Media Lab, World Bank SDN Forum, Red Dot Design Museum Singapore, Austrian Innovation Forum, ICA Conference Taipei, and eGov Global Exchange Singapore. Kloeckl received his Masters degree in Industrial Design from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy and his PhD in Product and Communication Design from the University IUAV of Venice.

The Panelists

Keith Evan GreenProfessor, Director Architectural Robotics Lab, Department of Design + Environmental Analysis, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
Keith Evan Green is a full professor at Cornell University in Human Centered Design, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Information Science. Green’s Architectural Robotics Lab investigates a new frontier in human-machine interaction: meticulously designed, increasingly intelligent, cyber-physical environments that support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age. In architectural robotics, computation is embedded in the physical fabric of our living environments, manifested as robotic devices, furniture, and rooms. With support from NSF as Principal Investigator, Green and his ARL teams generate new vocabularies of design and new understanding of human-machine interaction in the spatial realm. In addition to numerous ACM and IEEE publications, Green’s book Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology (MIT Press, 2016) defines this emerging field. A registered architect and Senior Member of IEEE, Green earned B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Arch. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Daniel Cardoso LlachAssociate Professor, Co-Director CodeLab, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Cardoso Llach is Associate Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. His work explores issues ranging from social and cultural aspects of automation in design and construction, the politics of representation and participation in software, and new methods to understand design as a socio-technical phenomenon. He is the author of publications, exhibitions, and technologies — including the book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design — addressing these topics, and has been supported by the Graham Foundation, Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and Google’s Artists + Machine Intelligence program, among others. Daniel is a 2021-22 Pennsylvania Manufacturing Fellow; has been a research fellow at Leuphana (MECS), Germany, and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK; and holds a PhD and a MS (with honors) from MIT and a professional degree in architecture from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.

Taskin PadirAssociate Professor, Director Institute for Experiential Robotics, College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Taskin Padir is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. He received his PhD and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University. He is the Director of Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research Laboratory (RIVeR Lab). He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern. His research interests – include supervised autonomy for humanoid robots, shared autonomy for intelligent vehicles, and human-in-the-loop control systems with applications in exploration, disaster response, personalized in-home care, and nuclear decommissioning.

Campus planning for accessibility
2022-04-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 655 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Join Mr. Troy Leonard, senior campus planner at Northeastern to learn about campus planning for accessibility with the ALLIED project on April 1st, 2022 at 3 p.m. (ET) at ISEC 655, 6th floor & on zoom – https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/95320296228

CO-OP for Multidisciplinary Programs
2022-04-04 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about CO-OP for the Graduate School of Engineering’s MGEN MS programs (Cyber-Physical Systems, Data Architecture & Management, Information Systems, Software Engineering Systems, Telecommunication Networks).

Latinx Student Cultural Center Presentation
2022-04-05 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)

CO-OP in the College of Engineering Canadian Campuses
2022-04-06 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about how to participate in Northeastern’s signature CO-OP program when you are studying at one of the Graduate School of Engineering’s Canadian Campuses.

CO-OP for College of Engineering Departments
2022-04-07 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York)
Learn about CO-OP for the Graduate School of Engineering’s Department-based programs.

Yocket MS Fair - MENA
2022-04-07 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)

FPP Postgraduate Virtual Fair - Africa
2022-04-07 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)

Conversation with Collaborators across Continents: Ending the Neglect - Targeting Infectious Diseases of Poverty in Northern Kenya
2022-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Conversation with Collaborators across Continents
Topic: Ending the Neglect – targeting infectious diseases of poverty in northern Kenya
series presented by Global Studies and International Relations Program, College of Professional Studies, and The Africa Global Initiative, Northeastern University
Thursday April 7, 12 – 1pm ET
Featuring

Richard Wamai, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Northeastern University where he co-leads the Integrated Initiative for Global Health.
Hellen Nyakundi, MPH, is the program manager for the African Centre for Community Investment in Health

Register here

Yocket MS Fair - South Asia
2022-04-08 09:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)

Unlearning Ableism
2022-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 655 ISEC, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Join Michelle Wallace, Assistant director of NU LGBTQA association talk about Unlearning ableism at the ALLIED project’s final event on April 8th, 3 p.m. in ISEC 655
https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/95320296228

Design of Polymer Electrolytes with Superionic Ion Transport
2022-04-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
ChE Seminar Series Presents:
Rachel A. Segalman, PhD.
Department Chair, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract:
Progress toward durable, high-energy density lithium-ion batteries has been hindered by instabilities at electrolyte-electrode interfaces leading to poor cycling stability, and by safety concerns associated with energy-dense lithium metal anodes. Solid polymeric electrolytes (SPEs) can help mitigate these issues, however SPE conductivity is limited by sluggish polymer segmental dynamics. Transport through the free volume of ordered, superionically conductive domains results in decoupling of ion motion and polymer segmental dynamics. Although crystalline domains are conventionally detrimental to ion conduction in SPEs, we demonstrate that semicrystalline polymer electrolytes with labile ion-ion interactions and tailored ion sizes exhibit excellent lithium conductivity (1.6 mS/cm) and selectivity (t+~0.6-0.8). This allows for simultaneous optimization of typically orthogonal properties including conductivity, Li-selectivity, mechanics, and processability.
Bio:
Rachel A. Segalman received her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Université Louis Pasteur before joining the faculty of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories from 2004-2014. During a portion of this time she also served as the Materials Science Division Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. In 2014, she moved to UC Santa Barbara to be the Kramer Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials and became Department Chair of Chemical Engineering in 2015. In 2018 she also became the Schlinger Distinguished Chair of Chemical Engineering and the Associate Director of the UT/UCSB/LBL EFRC: Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems. She is the co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and an associate editor of ACS Macro Letters. Segalman’s group works on controlling the structure and thermodynamics of functional polymers for energy applications including polymeric ionic liquids and semiconducting and bioinspired polymers. Among other awards, Segalman received the Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award, the Dillon Medal from the American Physical Society, the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar. She is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

Please contact a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the remote link.
