News
Feb 09, 2024
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.
Feb 09, 2024
Weighing Airline Passengers for Precise Estimates
MIE Professor Mohammad Taslim explains the benefits of weighing airline passengers in addition to their luggage before a flight.
Feb 09, 2024
Eavesdropping Cyberthreats Through Modern Security Cameras
Research of ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu, who specializes in cybersecurity, uncovered a way to eavesdrop on most modern cameras, from home security cameras and dash cams to the camera on your phone. Called EM Eye, short for Electromagnetic Eye, the technique can capture the video from another person’s camera through walls in real time.
Feb 08, 2024
Hashmi Uses Spark Fund Award for Revolutionary Research
ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi received a Spark Fund Award from the Center of Research Innovation at Northeastern for her research to advance microfluidic tensiometry/elastometry technology, which promises to revolutionize the screening and optimization of elastic particles and fluid droplets.
Feb 08, 2024
Using Spark Fund Awards to Optimize Drug Delivery
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier is using the Spark Funds from the Center for Research Innovation at Northeastern to develop an algorithm-driven, streamlined process for drug delivery to potentially reduce dosages and side effects.
Feb 06, 2024
Developing Hybrid Battery Management Systems to Protect Freezing Batteries
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and MIE Professor Hongwei Sun are exploring how to better protect batteries from extreme temperatures by determining what happens during exposure and developing a temperature management system to regulate battery temperatures.
Feb 05, 2024
Maass and Kaya’s Research on Youth Homelessness Featured in ISE Magazine
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass and Alumna Yaren Bilge Kaya, PhD’23, (currently faculty at Columbia University) were featured in the February 2024 issue of ISE Magazine for their research on improving access to housing and support services for runaway and homeless youth.
Feb 02, 2024
Using Spark Fund Award to Revolutionize Thermoformable Ceramics
MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb and Jason Hoffman-Bice, PhD’22, are using the Spark Funds from the Center for Research Innovation at Northeastern to commercialize their work on thermoformable ceramic matrix composites through their spinout, Fourier. Their work has the potential to transform heat dissipation in electronics.