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Oct 19, 2023
Aayushi Mishra Joins Northeastern CEE PhD Program as Inaugural Lizzy Warner Fellow
Aayushi Mishra, a new student in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded the inaugural Mary Elizabeth “Lizzy” Warner ’22 Fellowship.
Oct 18, 2023
Testing Extremes of Human Motor Control to Advance Robotics
Dagmar Sternad, university distinguished professor of biology, ECE, and physics, and her research group at Northeastern’s Action Lab, including mechanical engineering PhD student Mahdiar Edraki, are looking at extreme human movement to understand how humans manipulate complex objects, like whips.
Oct 16, 2023
Abu-Absi Receives 2022-2023 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award
Chemical engineering student Lina Abu-Absi, E’24, is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award.
Oct 16, 2023
Participation at the 130th ASEE Gala
Northeastern University’s College of Engineering had a strong presence of faculty and staff at the 130th Gala of the American Society for Engineering Education which took place on October 10th in Washington, D.C.
Oct 16, 2023
DARPA Young Faculty Award to Develop Ultra-Low Power Machine-Learning Hardware
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded up to $1M Young Faculty Award from DARPA for “Nano-Watt Power Machine-Learning Hardware Using Precision Analog Computing.”
Oct 12, 2023
Abowd Receives 10-Year UbiComp Impact Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was a recipient of the UbiComp 2023 10-Year Impact Award for his paper, “Instant Inkjet Circuits: Lab-based Inkjet Printing to Support Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Devices.” that was published in 2013. The award is given to papers published at the conference 10 years ago that have been deemed the most impactful over time.
Oct 09, 2023
Ostadabbas Receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award for her project titled “Live Stream Temporally Embedded 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation.” She is the first at Northeastern to receive this prestigious award.
Oct 04, 2023
Using Iron Powder as a Renewable Energy Source
MIE Professors Yiannis Levendis, Hameed Metghalchi, and Associate Professor Randall Erb were awarded a $600,000 NSF grant titled “A Study on Burning Iron Particles as Carbon-Free Circular Fuels with co-Generation of Value-Added Nanomaterials,” to improve the process of burning iron to produce carbon-free renewable energy.