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Mar 17, 2015
VOTERS featured in Boston Globe
Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors (VOTERS) was featured in the Boston Globe for their van which detects where potholes and road problems are as it is driving.
Mar 17, 2015
Caleb Donnelly – Scholar and Athlete
Celeb Donnelly, BS/MS’16, not only has a 3.99 GPA in Chemical Engineering but as a walk-on guard for the NU basketball team, helped lead the team to their first NCAA tournament opportunity.
Mar 16, 2015
Harris awarded Patent for High Performance Magnets
ECE & ChE Professor Vincent Harris was awarded a patent for creating Cobalt Carbide-Based Nanoparticle Permanent Magnet Materials.
Mar 16, 2015
Analyzing Speed Wobble
MIE Assistant Academic Specialist Jim Papadopoulos was interviewed by the English magazine, Cyclist for his work on bicycle and motorcycle shimmy (unstable steering vibrations).
Mar 11, 2015
Prosthetic “Farm Arm”
MIE capstone students designed a prosthetic “farm arm” which would allow agricultural workers with an amputation to continue to be able to operate machinery.
Mar 11, 2015
Hajjar Interviewed by Boston Herald about Aging MBTA Bridges
CEE Chair & Professor Jerome Hajjar was interviewed by the Boston Herald over concerns about the MBTA bridges that are "structurally deficient".
Mar 06, 2015
Fe Oxide Recrystallization
CEE Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova was awarded a $140K NSF Grant to study the “Recrystallization of Stable Iron Oxides in Reducing Environments” Abstract Source: NSF Iron (Fe) oxides are abundant in soils, sediments, and rocks. Like most minerals, Fe oxide minerals undergo transformation reactions as their surroundings change. These transformations can result in the incorporation or […]
Mar 05, 2015
Assistant Professor Ningfang Mi Receives NSF CAREER Award
ECE Assistant Professor Ningfang Mi has been awarded a $459K NSF CAREER Award for her project, Capacity Planning Methodologies for Large Clusters with Heterogeneous Architectures and Diverse Applications.