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Matteo Rinaldi and Zhenyun Qian

Mar 12, 2024

Patent for Designing Zero-Power Sensors for Crop Water Management

ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Associate Research Professor Zhenyun Qian were awarded a patent for “Zero-power wireless system for crop water content monitoring.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering

hongli zhu

Mar 12, 2024

Patent for Biodegradable Alternative to Plastic

MIE Associate Professor Hongli Zhu received a patent for “Natural fiber composites as a low-cost plastic alternative.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Alireza Ramezani

Mar 12, 2024

Ramezani Receives NSF CAREER Award to Design Robots to Navigate Tight and Complex Spaces

ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani was awarded a $681,000 NSF CAREER Award for “Dynamic Locomotion with Plasticity for Remote Sensing in Crawlspaces.” The research seeks to harness the exceptional agility, efficiency, and speed of legged and rotary-wing robots and adapt them specifically for use in crawlspaces, which can contain significant data for scientific and other discoveries.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mona Minkara

Mar 12, 2024

Minkara Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Immune Response with AI

BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was awarded a $827,000 NSF CAREER award for “Decoding the Code of Glycan-Collectin Interactions: Computational Engineering of Surfactant Proteins for Tailored Glycan Recognition.” The project objectives are to better understand and improve the binding of collectins to glycans and artificial intelligence tools will be employed to help develop design rules for the improved collectins. This research could drive the development of improved vaccines and therapies.

Bioengineering

Mar 11, 2024

Ganguly Team Awarded Funds to Develop Urban Visualization and Data Analysis Toolkit

Industry partner Kitware, a software development company who is collaborating with CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and his research team, was awarded $1.6 million in DOE Phase II SBIR funds for the development of an Urban Visualization and Data Analysis Toolkit to address urban climate change threats. The Northeastern team will develop translational quantitative methods for the analysis of interconnected infrastructure systems.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 11, 2024

Northeastern COE Students Win 2nd Prize in DASSH Challenge 2024

A COE student team placed second in the 2024 Designing Actionable Solutions for a Secure Homeland (DASSH), a student challenge focused on solving simulated homeland security problems created by Soft Target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat Reality (SENTRY) research center and Arizona State University’s Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 08, 2024

Using Machine Learning to Predict Cancer Treatment Response

Ram Hariharan, an associate teaching professor and director of engineering programs in Seattle, discusses how he is developing machine learning tools to predict responses to cancer immunotherapy and democratize access to these treatments.

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

Mar 06, 2024

Hajjar Earns AISC Special Achievement Award for Steel Diaphragm Research

CDM Smith Professor and CEE Department Chair Jerome F. Hajjar is one of five individuals recognized by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) with a 2024 Special Achievement Award.

Civil & Environmental Engineering