News
Jun 09, 2022
NURobotics Team Goes from Dormant to One of Largest Groups on Campus
While the NURobotics team was not active during the pandemic, it has grown to 470 members and won the Phoenix Award in April for its rapid ground-up redevelopment and community engagement.
Jun 09, 2022
Rover Team Competes at Global Challenge
The Northeastern Mars Rover Team, advised by MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney, competed last week at the Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge with their robot named Watney Mark 3.0. From concrete to Martian dust, students prepare a rover for the upcoming global University Rover Challenge In recent weeks, those walking around Northeastern University’s Boston campus […]
May 11, 2022
Northeastern University Solar Decathlon Team Wins $50K in Contingent DOE Funding
Northeastern University’s Solar Decathlon team’s project won contingent approval to proceed in the 2023 Build Challenge from the Department of Energy (DOE) last month, a distinction that comes with $50,000 in funding.
Apr 26, 2022
Extracting Drinkable Water from the Mars Surface
A team of undergraduate engineering students built the PARSEC (Percussive And Rotary Surveying & Extracting Carousel) robot to extract, melt, and purify water buried on the Mars surface. The team placed 2nd in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts–Academic Linkages (RASC-AL) competition in the fall and recently won an Innovation award at this year’s RISE expo.
Mar 14, 2022
SEDS Student Group Finalist in NASA BIG Idea Challenge for Innovative Robot Snake Design
A Northeastern University student team, advised by Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, electrical and computer engineering, was one of seven university teams selected as finalists in the 2022 NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge. The team’s project, titled “COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator,” received $174K in funds to further develop and test the technologies over the next 10 months. COBRA is a snake-like design for their robot which will allow it to traverse the extreme terrains on the moon’s surface.
Nov 08, 2021
AIChE Wins Multiple Awards at Student Conference
The AIChE student group had an exciting weekend at the 2021 AIChE Annual Student Conference placing third in the Chem-E-Car poster competition, winning “most innovative car design” at the 2021 Annual Student Conference Chem-E-Car Competition Finals, and winning the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for their exceptional level of participation, enthusiasm, program quality, professionalism, and involvement […]
Nov 02, 2021
Northeastern University Team Places Second in International Wastewater Design Competition
A team of civil and environmental engineering seniors placed second in the Wastewater Category of the 2021 WEFTEC Connect Student Design Competition, which saw the participation of 23 schools and four countries.
Oct 22, 2021
Northeastern Team Advances to Finals of ANA Avatar XPRIZE
Team Northeastern is one of 15 teams selected as finalists in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE. Finalist teams will equally share a milestone prize purse of $2M and move on to Finals Testing in Fall 2022 for their chance to win part of the $8M Finals prize purse.