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Feb 25, 2015
Peace Corps Volunteer Usman Mohammed Speaks to COE Enabling Engineering Group
Northeastern alum Usman Mohammed spoke to the Enabling Engineering group about his experiences using information technology during his Peace Corps service in Ethiopia.
Feb 24, 2015
Using Drones for Business
ECE & ChE Professor Vincent Harris interviewed by American Express OPEN Forum on the use of Drones for Business.
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Feb 24, 2015
Resilient & Sustainable Buildings
CIV Mehrdad Sasani, David Fannon, Matthias Ruth, & Matthew Eckelman were awarded a $1.1M NSF grant for “A Decision and Design Framework for Multi-Hazard Resilient and Sustainable Buildings”
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Feb 24, 2015
Energy from any Direction
MIE Professor Emeritus Alexander Gorlov was awarded a patent for a “Universal Spherical Turbine with Skewed Axis of Rotation” to convert fluid flow from any direction into energy.
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Feb 23, 2015
The Edible Bridge Challenge
Professor Variawa's GE1110 course got creative as they tested out their engineering skills by building bridges — out of food!
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Feb 19, 2015
Fabricating Nanochannels
MIE Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s article on "Tunable Nanochannels Fabricated by Mechanical Wrinkling/Folding of a Stiff Skin on a Soft Polymer" is featured on the back cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces.
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Feb 19, 2015
Climate Effect on Coast
CIV Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Tarik Gouhier’s article in Nature shows that climate change will result in major changes in coastal marine ecosystems.
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Feb 05, 2015
Mosallaei's Research Featured on Cover of Nanotechnology
A paper authored by Northeastern ECE PhD graduate Dr. Mohsen Farmahini-Farahani and Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei about "Functional-Graded Index Metasurfaces for Infrared Radiation and Guiding" was featured on the cover of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.