News
Aug 12, 2014
Battling Unemployment
MIE professor Abe Zeid, associate professor Sagar Kamarthi, & STEM Director of Programs & Partnerships Claire Duggan were awarded a $700K NSF grant to TRANSFORM liberal arts curriculum towards manufacturing.
Aug 08, 2014
Detecting Vulnerabilities
ECE & CCIS Associate Professor Engin Kirda & Assistant Professor Wil Robertson won a $500K NSF grant to build an analysis tool which automates, engineers, & summarizes closed source binary software
Aug 08, 2014
Modeling Nonlinear Data
ECE Professors Octavia Camps, Mario Sznaier, & CEE Associate Professor Ferdinand Hellweger were awarded a $380K NSF grant to use OUR Charles to generate models of high volume nonlinear data steams.
Aug 06, 2014
Learning While Teaching
By participating in NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, undergraduates are able to teach high school students to build robots while reinforcing their own engineering skills.
Aug 06, 2014
Early Pothole Detection
The research developed by the VOTERS center (led by CEE Professor Ming Wang) for detecting the formation of potholes was featured in Fast Company.
Aug 06, 2014
NECN Interviews Webster
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster was interviewed by NECN to discuss the possibilities of using nanomedicine to treat Ebola and other diseases. InSolution explains how he wants to use gold nanostars to attack virus or cancer cells.
Aug 06, 2014
Students build community through robotics engineering
Northeastern students in Nutrons 125, the university’s student-led robotics engineering team, may be the architects of the robots they build each year, but it’s not possible without collaborating with a score of tech savvy high school students. Founded in 1998, Nutrons is part of FIRST, a worldwide robot competition in which teams not only design, build, and […]
Aug 06, 2014
Journal Highlights 25 Years
Chemical Engineering Professor and Chair Thomas Webster is featured in a video clip highlighting his paper which is one of the most cited and downloaded papers in the journal Nanotechnology.