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Apr 24, 2024
Zheng Selected as 2024 NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected as a NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow. He will collaborate on a NASA project about the highly efficient Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS) during the summer of 2024.
Apr 22, 2024
Enabling Engineering Students Design Inexpensive Wheelchair Sensor System
Students in Northeastern’s Enabling Engineering class designed a wheelchair rear-sensor system for a resident at The Boston Home, a care center for individuals with progressive neurological conditions. The system met the resident’s needs at a fraction of the cost of a typical wheelchair sensor system.
Apr 19, 2024
Patented Molecule That Eliminates Cancer Cells Commercialized
A patented anticancer molecule, invented by Ning Wang, BioE professor and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology, and three collaborators, is being replicated and commercialized as a research product by several companies, marking a significant advancement that validates the invention.
Apr 18, 2024
How Spotify Can Maximize Server Bandwidth for the Release of Taylor Swift’s New Album
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh explains how Spotify can prepare itself for the anticipated extremely high traffic on Friday when Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets’ Department,” releases.
Apr 12, 2024
Daramola Selected as Fellow for Scialog’s Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials Initiative
ChE/COS Assistant Professor Damilola Daramola has been named a Fellow for the three-year Scialog initiative on Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials, which is designed to spark advances in the mining, design, manufacture, and disposal of materials needed to achieve a more sustainable and low-carbon energy system.
Mar 21, 2024
Field Experts Discuss the Monitoring of Microplastics in the Massachusetts Bay
At a full-day workshop, CEE/MES Associate Professor Loretta Fernandez, and members of research organizations, academia, and industry discussed microplastics in local water systems and proposed solutions to prevent potential health impacts as the plastics degrade.
Mar 11, 2024
Developing Urban Visualization and Data Analysis Toolkit
Industry partner Kitware, a software development company who is collaborating with CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and his research team, was awarded $1.6 million in DOE Phase II SBIR funds for the development of an Urban Visualization and Data Analysis Toolkit to address urban climate change threats. The Northeastern team will develop translational quantitative methods for the analysis of interconnected infrastructure systems.
Jan 23, 2024
$2M Award for AI-Powered Testing for Next-Gen Cellular Networks
ECE Assistant Research Professor Michele Polese is leading a $2 million project awarded by the Wireless Innovation Fund for “AutoRAN: Automated End-to-End Continuous Testing for Open and Disaggregated Cellular Systems.”