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First-Ever National Offshore Wind Research Center

CEE Professor Andrew Myers, CEE/MIE Associate Research Professor Nathan Post, and CEE CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a consortium of forty partners, were selected to join a first-of-its-kind $11.9 million DOE research center, Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), dedicated to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment across the nation. It will focus on workforce development, targeted research, and partnerships and strategies to embed equity in offshore wind development.

Time Magazine Names Northeastern Research-supported Company’s Turbine Towers to Best Inventions of 2023 List

Time Magazine selected the spirally welded wind towers as one of “The Best Inventions of 2023,” highlighting the innovative and efficient approach developed by Keystone Tower Systems with support from CEE Professor Andy Myers.

Faculty and Staff Awards 2023

Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2022-2023 academic school year. COE Distinguished Faculty Award Yun Raymond Fu, ECE Auroop Ganguly, CEE Luke Landherr, ChE Sinan Müftü, MIE Mark Niedre, BioE Alison Nogueira, Co-op Nian Sun, ECE Constantinos Mavroidis Translational […]

Northeastern Hosts Offshore Wind Tech Week

Northeastern University hosted the International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, which drew together members of the scientific community, researchers, academia and the offshore wind engineering industry from around the world.

CEE Hosts Offshore Wind Symposium

Northeastern University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department hosted the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Symposium 2022 featuring keynote speaker former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III.

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T-Omega Wind Start-up is Redesigning Wind Turbine Platforms

The start-up T-Omega Wind, founded by CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and Senior Research Engineer Jim Papadopoulos, is using a new type of wind turbine platform that will be more flexible and efficient than current models.

Andrew Myers, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern received a $1.7 million grant by Massachusetts Clean Energy Center's (MassCEC) Catalyst and InnovateMass programs, which will support the develop of an innovative floating wind turbine.

CEE Spinout Wins Accelerator Grant to Continue Wind Energy Research

CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers, an expert in structural engineering, and Senior Research Engineer Jim Papadopoulos, an expert in structural/mechanical design, recently founded a startup company developing novel offshore wind energy solutions spun out from research conducted at Northeastern University. Now, their startup T-Omega Wind has received a new grant to continue development.

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Northeastern-spinoff Wins 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast

CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and Part-time faculty Jim Papadopoulos were named winners of the 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast for their startup, T-Omega Wind.

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Myers Awarded MassCEC Grant for Innovative Floating Wind Turbine

CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and co-inventor Jim Papadopoulos were one of 18 groups awarded funding from a new $1.7M grant by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) Catalyst and InnovateMass programs in support of clean energy startups and research teams across the Commonwealth.

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NGSEA wins Graduate Student Chapter of the Year

The Northeastern Graduate Structural Engineering Association (NGSEA) was selected by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Local Activities Division as the Graduate Student Chapter of the Year.

SEI President Glenn Bell Talks the Future of Structural Engineering

Structural Engineering Institute’s new president, Glenn Bell, recently visited Northeastern to deliver a seminar on his future vision for structural engineering.

Myers Receives $899K NSF grant to Optimize Thin-Walled Tube Towers

CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers, in collaboration with John Hopkins and Vestas Wind Systems, was awarded an $899K NSF grant for “Optimization of Infrastructure-Scale Thin-Walled Tube Towers including Uncertainty.”

The Great Potential of Offshore Wind Farms

CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers was interviewed by Science for the Public about the Great Potential of Offshore Wind Farms.

The Potential to Power the Nation

CEE Chair Jerome Hajjar, Associate Professors Andrew Myers, Luca Caracoglia, and CCSH Professor Jennie Stephens are researching ways to build safe and effective offshore wind farms that have the capacity to power the entire country.

Developing a National Agenda for Research on Offshore Wind Resiliency

CEE Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar and CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers received a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to develop a national agenda for research on offshore wind energy infrastructure.

COE to Represent NU at NAE

Sagar Kamarthi (MIE) has been selected as a panel speaker and Andrew Myers (CEE), Yunsi Fei (ECE), & Edgar Goluch (ChE) have been invited to participate at the National Academy of Engineering's eighth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.

Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northeastern

Northeastern has awarded grants to two groups of faculty to promote Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northeastern.

Myers Awarded $500K NSF CAREER Award

CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers was received a $500K NSF CAREER award for his project entitled "Advancing Multi-hazard Assessment and Risk-based Design for Offshore Wind Energy Technology."

The Sustainability of WInd Energy

CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers discusses the sustainability of offshore wind farms, with the first wind platform in the U.S. being installed off the coast of Block Island last month.

Building a Steel Bridge

NUASCE Steel Bridge Team, led by captain Christine Lai, placed second in minimizing deflections at the 2015 New Eng­land Steel Bridge Com­pe­ti­tion.

Harnessing Wind Energy

Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Andrew Myers was awarded a $200K National Science Foundation grant to develop a reliability-based design for constructing advanced wind turbines. Dr. Myers is the Principal Investigator at the Northeastern University Sustainable Structures Group. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Steel Construction and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Creating Sustainable Cities

COE faculty Andrew Myers, Jerry Hajjar, Carey Rappaport, Michael Silevitch, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, and Matthias Ruth are working on improving the sustainability of the urban environment.

Andrew Myers wins CEE Excellence in Teaching Award

The CEE Department is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Andrew Myers was selected to receive the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award.

New Research Grant on Offshore Wind Farms

CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers,Professor & Chair Jerry Hajjar, and Sanjay Arwade, Associate Professor at UMass Amherst, have received a new $325K research grant from NSF on Reliability-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Farms.

New Faculty Spotlight: Andrew T. Myers

Andrew T. Myers joined the department in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Myers' research interests are centered on a combination of multi-scale experimental testing, computational simulation, and probabilistic modeling of physical systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and Geomechanics in 2009 at Stanford University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering at […]