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Jul 06, 2020
SPIRAL Receives 2 Best Paper Awards at PETRA
Two papers from SPIRAL researchers received best paper awards at PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference.
Jul 06, 2020
Ioannidis Selected to Work with The National Technical University of Athens
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis was awarded a fellowship by the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program (GDFP) to travel to Greece.
Jul 06, 2020
PhD Student Rashida Nayeem finalist for Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at The International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020
EE PhD student Rashida Nayeem, advised by Prof. Dagmar Sternad, was a finalist for the Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation for her paper “Transient Behavior and Predictability in Manipulating Complex Objects.”
Jul 01, 2020
COE Presents at the 2020 ASEE’S Virtual Conference
College of Engineering faculty, staff, and students, published and presented virtual papers at the American Society for Engineering Education – Virtual National conference.
Jul 01, 2020
Solar-Powered Water Desalination System to Address Water, Energy Crises
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng recently received a $355,408 Soleeva Energy Innovation Award to develop a functional interfacial structure for solar driven water desalination and purification. The system would also […]
Jun 29, 2020
CEE Alumni Spotlight: Physics-guided Probabilistic Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Under Climate Change
In a newly released paper, published in Scientific Reports, CEE alumni Drs. Udit Bhatia and Evan Kodra examine new methods for improving earth systems models.
Jun 26, 2020
A Planned Gift: It’s Just Good Chemistry
Jeffrey Kontoff, E’74, MS’76, knew that landing a full-time job during the deep recession of the mid-1970s would be challenging. As a chemical engineering major at Northeastern, he had held […]
Jun 26, 2020
Living the American Dream
Growing up in rural New Zealand, David Salmon, MS’65, electrical engineering, seized every technical opportunity, building radios, electric motors, and model planes from scratch. His school-vacation jobs included laboring on wharfs, houses, and barns. He scraped sludge from the feeder of a fertilizer factory and the tanks of a paper mill. He surveyed land for a new road and measured the strength of concrete samples. “I realized I would not be satisfied with any of those jobs as a career,” Salmon says. “I was motivated to continue studying.”