Northeastern University College of Engineering

SHPE 2023 National Convention
2023-11-01 - 2023-11-05
COE Graduate Admissions is excited to attend the SHPE National Convention again this year in Salt Lake City, UT! Learn about our graduate engineering programs available across the U.S. and Canada at the Career Fair & Graduate Expo on November 3rd-4th! Northeastern University will be hosting a Hospitality Suite on November 1st at 7:30pm.

LGBTQ+ Job Fair
2023-10-30 15:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Do you want to join an LGBTQ-inclusive workplace?
The Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce invites job seekers to attend our next LGBTQ+ Job Fair at Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center.

Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2023)
2023-10-29 16:00 - 18:00
Join Chemical Engineering Graduate Admissions at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2023). Find us at the Graduate Studies & Career Fair, and our Academic Coordinator Cindy Rinear will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate programs.

Ugur Can Yilmaz PhD Proposal Review
2023-10-27 16:00 - 17:00
Title:
Robust and Computationally Efficient Three-Phase State Estimation for Large-Scaled Unbalanced Power Systems
Date:
10/27/2023
Time:
4:00:00 PM
Committee Members:
Prof. Ali Abur (Advisor)
Prof. Mahshid Amirabadi
Dr. Bilgehan Donmez
Abstract:
Power system monitoring is crucial for ensuring the stability and reliability of electrical grids, allowing for the timely detection of anomalies and potential faults, thus facilitating proactive maintenance and preventing widespread outages. The growing need and interest in real-time monitoring of large distribution networks motivated by the rapid population of renewable sources, EVs etc. demand an accurate, robust and computationally efficient three-phase state estimation framework which is capable of handling unbalanced operation in asymmetrical structured networks.
The challenge common to distribution system state estimation are twofold: (1) while the phase angle of any of the bus voltages can be chosen as the angular reference in the state estimation formulation of positive sequence networks, the same approach does not readily extend to three-phase distribution network state estimation problem and (2) the scalability of the estimation in terms of computational performance for very large-scaled networks is not trivial without compromising the robustness of the estimator. In this study, a novel state estimation formulation will be presented which facilitates correct solution irrespective of the existence of buses with perfectly balanced voltages. The new formulation is general. It yields accurate results in any three-phase power system irrespective of its operating conditions (balanced or highly unbalanced), configuration (isolated microgrid, connected to transmission system, etc.) and whether or not it contains any synchronous generators. Additionally, this research introduces innovative methodologies aimed at enhancing the efficacy of the state estimator for application in distribution networks. It is ensured that the computational efficiency of the estimator remains viable while the robustness is guaranteed, even when dealing with highly extensive power networks using a parallel distributed state estimation framework. At the core of the proposed approach are two partitioning algorithms that enable efficient parallelisation of computations both for radial and meshed networks. All the methodologies have been formulated, implemented, and their effectiveness confirmed through preliminary results employing straightforward test scenarios.

Khoury Fireside Chat with Kashmir Hill
2023-10-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Join Khoury Dean Elizabeth Mynatt for a thought-provoking fireside chat on AI with New York Times columnist Kashmir Hill. The event will be held on Friday, October 27 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. in the Fenway Center and will be moderated by Associate Professor David Choffnes. This event will include insights from Hill, along with a question-and-answer section and a networking reception.
Hill is the author of Your Face Belongs to Us, a national bestseller released last year that tells the story of a “small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it.”
Registration for the event is required.
Register

NAI Workshop
2023-10-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Embracing our century-long leadership in experiential education, translational research, and global presence, Northeastern’s chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) serves to empower inventorship and entrepreneurship across the innovation ecosystem by recognizing, inspiring, educating, and connecting, members of the academic and industrial communities.
Please join us for the National Academy of Inventors Northeastern Chapter board meeting.
Special guests include Luis Brito of Beam Therapeutics and Deirdre Saunders of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds.
Curry Student Center, Room #340

Florida Atlantic University Graduate and Professional School Fair
2023-10-26 11:00 - 15:00
Calling all Owls! Join COE Graduate Admissions at Florida Atlantic University’s Graduate and Professional School Fair in Boca Raton! Join us to learn about our graduate engineering programs and Northeastern’s newest campus in Miami!

SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference
2023-10-26 - 2023-10-28
Join COE Graduate Admissions at SACNAS 50th NDiSTEM Conference. Meet us at the Graduate School and Career Expos and an Admissions representative will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate engineering programs.

WE23
2023-10-26 - 2023-10-28
Join COE Graduate Admissions at Society of Women Engineers (SWE) WE23 Conference. Find us at the Career Fair and an Admissions representative will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate engineering programs.

Chemical Engineering Fall Seminar Series: Professor Kevin Van Geem
2023-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 | 010 Behrakis, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Driving Sustainability: Empowering Chemical Engineering for a Net Zero Process Industry
Due to our increasing awareness of the impact of climate change on our society, unit operations in our manufacturing processes, including those in chemical industry, have to be greenified and made less dependent of fossil resources. One option is to use plastic waste or biomass, but this is less straightforward than what is generally believed. Additionally there is so-called electrification of the chemical industry. This is still in its infancy but there are many scientific and technological challenges to be solved. These important but far from trivial energy and materials transitions require not only the introduction of new ways of heat management and other, often not yet fully explored, chemical conversion processes in which green electrons are used, but also the development of new materials including large-scale heating coils, easily chargeable battery systems as well as catalyst materials. For each of these developments, there is the issue of materials scarcity as well as durability as the introduction of these production processes should also be cost effective and overall more sustainable than the existing ones.

Kevin Van Geem is full professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University (UGent). He is director of the Center of Sustainable Chemistry and director of the board of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. He is CTO of CAPTURE, an inter-university platform grouping 100 faculty members of different universities with ambition to accelerate radical technological innovations in the field of sustainable resource recovery. His main research interest is reaction engineering in general, with a focus in particular the transition from fossil to alternative resources such as biomass, CO/CO2 and plastic waste. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar of MIT and visiting professor at Stanford. He is in charge of the pilot plants for chemical recycling, oxidative coupling of methane, steam cracking, biomass pyrolysis and super dry reforming. He is the author of more than two hundred scientific publications, has 3 patents and he is managing director of his own spin-off company on modelling steam cracking. He is involved in electrification, process intensification, machine learning & data mining, drug design, scale-up and process modelling.

Baolin Li PhD Proposal Review
2023-10-24 13:00 - 14:00
Title:
Making Machine Learning on HPC Systems Cost-Effective and Carbon-Friendly
Date:
10/24/2023
Time:
1:00:00 PM
Committee Members:
Prof. Devesh Tiwari (Advisor)
Prof. Ningfang Mi
Dr. Vijay Gadepally
Abstract:
The end users want the machine learning (ML) training/inference services to be lightning-fast. However, the cost, incurred by service providers, to support these lighting-fast ML services is often prohibitively high. Large-scale HPC and data centers are struggling to keep their cost low as they provide faster ML services, while the excessive demand for these services is already negatively impacting our environment due to the large carbon footprint of ML services. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on better understanding the complex trade-off among performance, cost, and environmental footprint of ML models.
This dissertation asks three simple questions: (1) Is slower hardware always worse? (2) Is more expensive hardware always better? (3) Should we always strive to design and train ML models with the highest possible accuracy? As this dissertation reveals, the answers to these questions are more complex than what the conventional wisdom suggests. In fact, simplistic answers — based on first-order intuitions — can lead to missed opportunities in terms of performance efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and carbon footprint.
In this dissertation, we build multiple novel frameworks to demonstrate that mixing slower-and-cheaper hardware with faster-and-expensive hardware can unlock much higher performance- and cost-effectiveness than using only faster-and-expensive hardware configurations. But, unlocking this potential requires a careful design — a design that carefully exploits the diversity in ML inference workload characteristics and adapts to varying ML inference request loads. Next, this dissertation demonstrates that while the highest-possible-accuracy ML models are desirable, using such models can have a severe negative environmental impact. To mitigate this challenge, this dissertation builds an experimental framework to reduce the carbon footprint of ML inference services. The key idea, behind this framework, is to mix the lower-quality ML models with higher-quality ML models intelligently and share the hardware resources during inference query execution to reduce the excessive carbon footprint of high-quality ML model inference, esp. during the periods when a data center’s energy source has high carbon intensity. The extensive experimental evaluation confirms that significant carbon emission reductions can be achieved with transient, very minimal, and configurable loss in accuracy.
As we make rapid advances in the era of large-language models (LLMs) and foundation models, the novel methods and open-source tools presented in this dissertation will enable us to build ML services faster but cheaper and in an environmentally sustainable manner

Mentor Mix & Mingle
2023-10-23 15:00 - 16:30
Whether you and your mentee(s)/mentor(s) have already connected this year, or still need to do so, this is a great moment to connect over snacks and drinks. Please join us on October 23, 2023 from 3-4:30pm. Please check your email for the location.

PlusOne Information Session
2023-10-19 18:00 - 19:00
Learn about the PlusOne Accelerated Master’s Degree Program
A master’s degree can provide you an additional level of expertise in an area aligned with your career goals. As a currently enrolled Bachelor of Science (BS) student in the College of Engineering at Northeastern, you have the opportunity to earn a Master of Science degree (MS) in an accelerated time period with the PlusOne program. Once accepted into the program in an approved PlusOne pathway, which is a BS and MS PlusOne combination, you can earn an MS degree with, in most cases, just one extra year of study beyond your undergraduate degree program.
In this virtual information session, College of Engineering undergraduate and graduate academic advisors will provide an overview of the PlusOne program to give you the knowledge and next steps to take advantage of the program if you choose.
What you will learn:

What is PlusOne
Benefits of the program
Eligibility
Co-op considerations
Financial considerations
Selecting your pathway
Academic advising resources
Timeline to apply
The application process
Course registration
Transitioning to graduate school

Annual AI Career Fair
2023-10-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The Institute for Experiential AI is hosting its annual career fair on October 19th! Companies including Bose, Travelers Insurance, ODSC, and Verisk will be attending. Registration is FREE and there is an option to upload your resume as well!
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 9 am – 3 pm
Location: Curry Student Center, Indoor Quad

VIAS3D Regional Academic Meeting 2023
2023-10-19
The VIAS3D Academia team & Dassault Systems is very excited to invite you to the first New England Regional Academic Meeting on October 19th at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts.
Join this academic networking space as a knowledge hub for students and academics.
Exchange ideas and experiences related to technology, updates, and engineering solutions to keep up with and excel within the industry.
Register and receive more information about the free conferences led by VIAS3D and Dassault Systèmes experts, followed by conversations afterparty.

AI Business Leaders Conference
2023-10-18 09:00 - 17:00 | East Village, 17th floor, 360 Huntington Ave, East Village 17th floor, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Hi Everyone! Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI is hosting an AI Business Leaders Conference on Wednesday, October 18th from 9am to 5pm! If you are studying AI or Data Science, or interested in learning more about it, join us! There are top industry leaders speaking from companies including Meta, T-Mobile, Fidelity, McDonalds, Verizon, as well as many Northeastern experts. Tickets are usually $200 for in-person attendance, but students have access to the virtual component for FREE using the code STU23VIRT!

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Graduate School Fair
2023-10-16 18:00 - 20:00
COE Graduate Admissions is excited to meet students at the Rose-Hulman’s Graduate School Fair! Join us to learn about our graduate engineering programs!

Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month at the Museum of Science
2023-10-14 10:00 - 2023-10-15 16:00
ECE Associate Professor Canek Fuentes Hernandez will be a featured speaker during the Museum of Science’s celebration of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month during the weekend of October 14th and 15th, with two full days of fun science and cultural offerings. Hernandez’s talk will be on October 15th at 2:30 PM, and he will discuss his journey in STEM and research in organic electronics.
Programming will include featured speakers, family activities, enlightening live presentations, a special community storytelling event, and Boston-area performances and community groups.
Event website

NACME Annual Conference & Gala @ Washington, DC
2023-10-14 08:00 - 10:00
Join COE Graduate Admissions at NACME Annual Conference in Washington DC starting Thursday, October 12th to Saturday, October 14th. Key a special eye out for the University Fair on Saturday, October 14th, 2023 at 8 a.m. to ask your questions about Graduate Engineering programs at Northeastern!

Family & Friends Weekend 2023
2023-10-13 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for a fun weekend with your family and friends. Explore the Snell Engineering Center during an Open House and learn more from Dean Gregory Abowd during a Brunch & College Conversation event. Enjoy yummy food and grab some swag. Please see details below for information on both events.
Join us on October 13 from 4-5pm for an Open House and Reception at Snell Engineering Center, Floors 1+3.
Join us on October 14 from 10-11am for a Brunch and College Conversation with our Dean at the Curry Student Center West Addition.

UC San Diego Virtual Graduate & Professional Schools Fair
2023-10-12 13:00 - 17:00
COE Graduate Admissions is excited to meet students at the UC San Diego VIRTUAL Graduate School Fair! Join us to learn about our graduate engineering programs.

SASE National Conference
2023-10-12 - 2023-10-14
Join COE Graduate Admissions at the SASE National Conference. Meet us at the STEM Career Fair and one of our Admissions representatives will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate engineering programs.

Library Webinar: Getting Started with Zotero
2023-10-10 12:00 - 12:45
Learn how to use Zotero to increase your efficiency. Zotero is a free, open-source tool that lets you quickly create bibliographies and in-text citations in your chosen reference style. This online session will cover: how to install Zotero, how to export references from a database to Zotero, how to create groups to organize your research information, how to create an online account, and how to use Zotero with Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
This workshop is at 12:00pm Eastern Time.
Register at bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops.
You will receive the Zoom link for this webinar via email one hour before the event.

Thorlabs is Coming to Northeastern
2023-10-10 10:00 - 2023-10-11 16:00
Thorlabs Mobile Lab on Campus
Thorlabs will be bringing their mobile photonics lab to Northeastern’s campus at Centennial Common (near Meserve Hall) for two days.
Tuesday, October 10 (10 am – 4 pm)
Thorlabs will present their Intro to Photonics Experience. This event is intended for anyone interested in learning about photonics applications such as biomedical optics and imaging, spectroscopy, and data communications. Attendees will have the opportunity for hands-on interactions imaging inside their finger with optical coherence tomography (OCT), seeing how different wavelengths interact with molecules in the air, transporting electrical signals with light, and seeing how optical fiber works.

Wednesday, October 11 (9 am – 12 pm / 1 pm – 4 pm)
Thorlabs will conduct hands-on sessions with the Quantum Optic Educational Kit. Three 1 hour sessions will be available in the morning and repeated in the afternoon based on the topics below. Interested individuals must register for these sessions by Wednesday, Oct 4 to ensure the proper amount of equipment is available:

Quantum Optics Registration Page

Generate and detect single photons.
Measure coincidences to see the difference between classical and quantum sources.
Align an interferometer to demonstrate single photon interference.

This event is open to all faculty members and student researchers interested in learning more about photonics.

Time: Tuesday 9 October 2023 10:00-4:00
Wednesday 10 October 2023 9:00-4:00
Location: Centennial Common near Meserve Hall.
Contact: Prof. Chuck DiMarzio dimarzio@ece.neu.edu

Indigenous People’s Day on Indigenous Community, Scholarship, and Research
2023-10-09 12:00 - 13:00
On Monday, October 9, 2023, in recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, please join us for a panel presentation from across our Northeastern University Native community for a discussion on Indigenous Community, Scholarship, and Research.
We welcome Chaplain Patricia St. Onge (Haudenosaunee and Quebecoise, adopted Cheyenne River Lakota) who will offer an opening blessing, followed by presentations on current scholarship by Professor Ellen Cushman (Cherokee Nation); Professor Sebastian Ebarb (Choctaw Apache); and Professor Natalee Kehaulani Bauer (Kanaka Maoli).
Register

SOURCE, the Showcase of Opportunities for Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor
2023-10-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Learn more about what cutting-edge research and creative endeavors look like at Northeastern. Talk one-on-one with faculty from across the colleges about their work – and learn how you can get involved in projects during your time at Northeastern.
SOURCE is a collaboration between Bouvé College of Health Sciences; College of Arts, Media and Design; College of Engineering; College of Science; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; D’Amore-McKim School of Business; and Khoury College of Computer Science. It is coordinated by Undergraduate Research and Fellowships on behalf of the Office of the Chancellor.
Please write to URF@Northeastern.edu with any questions.

Spinout Networking Event
2023-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
We are thrilled to announce a unique networking and educational event, reserved exclusively for the innovative minds of Northeastern University’s spinout companies. Mastering the art of the elevator pitch not only enhances your prowess in navigating in-person events but also significantly bolsters your capability to captivate potential investors. Consider this an investment in both your personal growth and the trajectory of your startup. Looking forward to hearing your compelling narratives.
Northeastern Curry Student Center #433
Register

Library Webinar: Getting Started with Mendeley
2023-10-05 12:00 - 12:45
Are you interested in learning how to better organize your PDFs and research sources? Using Mendeley can help you become more organized and efficient throughout the research process: from when you first begin to explore your topic to when you are adding citations to your paper. In this online session, you will learn how to download Mendeley and set up an account, organize your research sources and PDFs, annotate PDFs, and create in-text citations and bibliographies.
This workshop is at 12:00pm Eastern Time.
Register at bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops.
You will receive the Zoom link for this webinar via email one hour before the event.

Binghamton Fall 2023 Graduate and Professional Schools Fair
2023-10-05 11:00 - 15:00
Meet COE Graduate Admissions at Binghamton’s Fall 2023 Graduate and Professional Schools Fair! We look forward to meeting Binghamton’s students and answering your questions about our graduate engineering programs.

Gordon Institute Virtual Information Session
2023-10-04 17:30 - 18:30
Learn how you can earn a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Leadership as a stand-alone certificate or in combination with one of twenty-three 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 completing the program, more than 88% of the 2022 class reported increased leadership responsibility, while more than 50% of the 2022 class reported being promoted within one year of graduation.
Our Director of Admissions will answer your application questions for Fall 2024.
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.
