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Mar 19, 2022
Jerome F. Hajjar Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Jerome Hajjar, CDM Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to NAE is considered the highest professional distinction accorded to an engineer. Hajjar was recognized for his distinguished contributions to engineering for “development of design criteria and models for stability and seismic design of innovative steel and composite structures.”
Mar 17, 2022
Hajjar Leading NOWRDC Hurricane Resiliency Project
CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar is leading a multi-university $650K grant from the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium for “Ensuring Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation.”
Mar 17, 2022
Leeser Recognized as Charter Member of IEEE Distinguished Contributors
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser was recognized as a charter member of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Program. The program was introduced in 2021 to showcase the immense combined technical expertise and innovation power of its membership while recognizing volunteer commitment.
Mar 15, 2022
New Sutural Gabions will Resist Impact and Vibrations
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li, in collaboration with Jongmin Shim from the University at Buffalo, is leading a $667K NSF grant for “Bio-Inspired Impact-Resistant Phononic Sutural Gabions.”
Mar 14, 2022
SEDS Student Group Finalist in NASA BIG Idea Challenge for Innovative Robot Snake Design
A Northeastern University student team, advised by Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, electrical and computer engineering, was one of seven university teams selected as finalists in the 2022 NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge. The team’s project, titled “COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator,” received $174K in funds to further develop and test the technologies over the next 10 months. COBRA is a snake-like design for their robot which will allow it to traverse the extreme terrains on the moon’s surface.
Mar 14, 2022
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.
Mar 10, 2022
ECE PhD Students Nominated as Finalists for Best Paper at IEEE Conference
Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’23, and Onurcan Kaya, PhD’24, electrical engineering, have been nominated as finalists for the best student paper at the 2022 Joint conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum & the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium.
Mar 08, 2022
Modeling Data from Hurricane Impacts to Natural and Hybrid Infrastructure
CEE/MES Professor Qin Jim Chen, in collaboration with Navid Jafari from Louisiana State University, is leading a $765k NSF grant for “Integrated Numerical Modeling and Field Observations of Hurricane Impacts to Natural and Hybrid Infrastructure.”