News
Aug 29, 2024
Creating a Device To Detect Epileptic Seizures
In collaboration with ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun, Mukki Gill, E’25, mechanical engineering and history, is developing Zor, a portable device that can predict when its user is about to have an epileptic seizure. She received a second place Women Who Empower Award from Northeastern in the Powering a Healthy Tomorrow Award category, and an honorable mention in the undergraduate category.
Aug 16, 2024
National Co-op Student of the Year Thrives in Clean Energy Career
Two co-op experiences helped Kelly O’Connell, E’16, civil engineering, finetune her career focus to energy systems, which led her to adjust her coursework, select a minor in mechanical engineering, and complete a final co-op in her chosen field of sustainable energy.
Aug 07, 2024
Three Co-ops and Global Experiences Lead to Dream Job in Transportation
Michael Tormey, E’20, civil engineering, developed a foundation in urban transportation planning during three co-ops and global experiential learning opportunities and is now putting those skills to work as a neighborhood transportation planner in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jul 24, 2024
Robotics Student Awarded 2024 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship
Sophia Jonas, MS’26, robotics, is one of seven new fellows selected for the 2024 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship, which supports students from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM fields pursuing robotics degrees.
Jul 22, 2024
ECE PhD Receives Best Student Paper Finalist Award at IFAC SYSID 2024
Mohammad Alali, PhD’25, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award from the 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2024), which was held at Northeastern, for his paper “Kernel-Based Particle Filtering for Scalable Inference in Partially Observed Boolean Dynamical Systems”.
Jul 18, 2024
ECE PhD Student Wins FLEX 2024 Future Student Poster Award
Yilmaz Arin Manav, PhD’28, electrical engineering, won first place at the Innovators of the Future Student Poster Award session at FLEX 2024 (SEMICON West) for his research on “Flexible Hybrid Electronics Metrology Enabled by GHz Ultrasound.” He works in ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji’s Autonomous Integrated Microsystems Lab and is a student at the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation.
Jul 10, 2024
Robotics Student Awarded Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship
Oscar De La Garza, MS’25, robotics, is participating in an internship at Amazon Robotics as part of being named one of just seven students awarded the 2023 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship. The fellowship supports emerging leaders in science from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM, awarding scholarships, mentorship, and career opportunities.
Jul 08, 2024
Fall 2024 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a July to December 2024 co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.