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Feb 19, 2025
Patent for Automated Control of Drone Swarm Networks
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Associate Research Professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for “Software defined drone network control system.”
Feb 19, 2025
Patent for Contactless In-Bed Pressure Estimation
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was awarded a patent for “Method and system for in-bed contact pressure estimation via contactless imaging.”
Feb 18, 2025
$2M DARPA Award for MEMS Inertial Sensor To Revolutionize Navigation Systems
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Professor Matteo Rinaldi, Professor David Horsley, and Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $2 million DARPA grant for “Enabling Higher Scale Factors in Gyroscopes Through soFt and LacAlized interface-States in microelectromecHanical resonators (FLASH).”
Feb 14, 2025
2025 Goldwater Scholarship Nominee
Eda Erdogmus, E’26, bioengineering, was nominated for a 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a highly competitive, merit-based award for outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering who are interested in pursuing careers in research.
Feb 12, 2025
Adaptive Prosthetic Ankle for Amputees
Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd is developing a Variable-Stiffness Ankle (VSA) prosthetic to address the limitations of current fixed-stiffness prosthetics by dynamically adapting to users’ movements for enhanced comfort and mobility.
Feb 11, 2025
Ebong and Bajpayee Receive Prestigious PECASE Award
ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong and BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee were awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to outstanding early career scientists.
Feb 11, 2025
Bioengineering Capstone Team Improves Healthcare in Rural Maine
As part of their capstone project, bioengineering students developed Flextab, a circular silicon-based tab that replaces stickers on an electrocardiogram (EKG), after learning about healthcare professionals’ needs in rural Maine working with the Roux Institute at Northeastern.
Feb 07, 2025
Understanding Superconductivity With Graphene
ECE/COS Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong published research on “Superfluid Stiffness of Twisted Trilayer Graphene Superconductors” in Nature. Written in collaboration with researchers at Harvard and MIT, Fong uses ideas from resonant circuits to measure superfluid stiffness, providing deep insights into the nature of unconventional high-temperature superconductivity.