News
Feb 25, 2021
Improving Flood Monitoring Methods
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, CEE Professor Edward Beighley, and ECE Postdoc Tales Imbiriba were awarded a $98K grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for “Spaceborne Multispectral Image Fusion for Water Mapping and Flood Management”.
Feb 23, 2021
Frias Receives Black Heritage Award
Academic Program Assistant Luis Frias received the “Black Heritage Award” which is given to Northeastern staff and administrators in recognition of their years of dedicated service to Northeastern, to students, and in some cases to the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute.
Feb 22, 2021
Taking Stereotypes out of Facial Recognition Software
PhD computer engineering student Zaid Khan, PhD’24, and ECE/Khoury Professor Raymond Fu are working to remove racial bias out of facial recognition programs.
Feb 19, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Aileen Huang-Saad
Aileen Huang-Saad joins the Bioengineering department in February 2021 as an Associate Professor and Director of Life Science and Engineering Programs at the Roux Institute.
Feb 19, 2021
Creating Fire Retardant Insulation from Sustainable Resources
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli “Julie” Zhu was awarded a patent for “Fire-retardant nanocellulose aerogels, and methods of preparation and uses thereof”.
Feb 19, 2021
Training the Next Generation of Air Quality Forecasters
CEE Professor Yang Zhang worked with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to develop a training book on best practices for air quality monitoring and forecasting.
Feb 18, 2021
Celebrate National Engineers Week 2021
Join the College of Engineering February 21-27, 2021 for a variety of fun, informative, and inspirational activities and events to showcase the many ways that engineers are “Imagining Tomorrow” and celebrate the importance of the engineering profession to society and the world.
Feb 18, 2021
Alumni Highlight: A Generous Gift Establishes a New Fund
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is pleased to announce that an anonymous alumnus has established the CEE Faculty Seed Research Fund with a leadership gift in the hope of inspiring other alumni to contribute in support of the research of the CEE faculty. The annual income from the fund will support innovative and groundbreaking research […]