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Sep 28, 2023
Hajjar Serves as President of Structural Engineering Institute Beginning October 2023
Jerome F. Hajjar, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, F.SEI, CDM Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, and member of the National Academy of Engineering, becomes the President of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) in October 2023.
Sep 25, 2023
Fall 2023 Department Showcase
On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 527 first-year and transfer students attended the COE’s Undergraduate Department Showcase to explore different engineering majors by connecting with faculty and upper-level students. Students will continue these major exploration conversations in GE1000 with their undergraduate academic advisor.
Sep 25, 2023
Designing New Chips for AI-Enabled Spectrum Perception
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia; in collaboration with Arjuna Madanayake from Florida International University, Vishal Saxena from the University of Delaware, and Jia Di from the University of Arkansas; was awarded a $2M NSF grant for “FuSe: Deep Learning and Signal Processing using Silicon Photonics and Digital CMOS Circuits for Ultra-Wideband Spectrum Perception.”
Sep 25, 2023
ChE Alum Chris Cogswell Named to AIChE 35 under 35
ChE alum Chris Cogswell, PhD’17, received the 2023 AIChE 35 Under 35 Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He will receive the award at the annual AIChE Conference, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in professional and scientific endeavors.
Sep 22, 2023
Creating New Sensor Technology
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Casella and Professor Matteo Rinaldi were awarded a patent for “Subharmonic tags for remote continuous and threshold sensing.”
Sep 22, 2023
Advancing All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
MIE Associate Professor Hongli Zhu received a $770,000 grant from the DOE Office of Science for “Uncovering the Mechano-Electro-Chemo Mechanism of Fresh Li in Sulfide Based all Solid-State Batteries through Operando Studies”.
Sep 21, 2023
New Methods to Improve Phosphorus Recovery
ChE/COS Assistant Professor Damilola Daramola’s research on “Considerations for Electrochemical Phosphorus Precipitation: A Figures of Merit Approach” was published by The Electrochemical Society.
Sep 20, 2023
Studying the Impact of Comics as Visual Learning Tools
ChE Distinguished Teaching Professor Luke Landherr was awarded a $300,000 NSF grant for “Conservation Principles, Illustrated: Analyzing the Impact of Informal Visual Learning Tools on Educational Engineering Through Comics.” The grant will study the impact of comics as visual learning tools by developing a series of comics and ConcepTest questions addressing concepts in a core introductory chemical engineering course.