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Jun 08, 2015
Anyone Can Do Whatever They Dream of Doing
Claudia Okonkwo, ChE’15, pursued her dream of becoming an engineer despite coming from an area of the world where women engineers are rare.
Jun 08, 2015
EWB Featured in American Surveyor
The Engineers Without Borders student group was featured in The American Surveyor for their efforts in building a water system for Bbanda, Uganda.
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Jun 08, 2015
Helping the Blind to Navigate Intersections
Under the direction of Associate Professor Waleed Meleis, a group of ECE capstone students developed an app to help those visually impaired navigate intersections.
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Jun 08, 2015
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi’s Research Featured In Nano Letters Journal
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi's research on "Graphene as a Massless Electrode for Ultrahigh-Frequency Piezoelectric Nanoelectromechanical Systems" was featured in the Nano Letters journal.
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Jun 08, 2015
Keivan Sadeghzadeh Receives American Statistical Association 2015 Natrella Scholarship Award
IE PhD candidate, Keivan Sadeghzadeh has been awarded the 2015 Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarship from the American Statistical Association (ASA).
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Jun 05, 2015
Congratulations to all 2015 Award and Scholarship Winners in CEE!
Congratulations to the students who received scholarships and awards at the 2015 CEE Brick Ceremony and several other ceremonies held by the university and by industry organizations throughout the region.
Jun 04, 2015
Bob Tillman Retires
Robert Tillman, who has served the Northeastern community for 39 years, is retiring in June 2015.
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Jun 01, 2015
Webster to Chair International Conference on Medical Applications of Novel Biomaterials and Nanotechnology
ChE Chair & Professor Thomas Webster was selected to Chair the 11th International Conference on Medical Applications of Novel Biomaterials and Nanotechnology.