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May 20, 2014
Periodic Buckling Pattern
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty members’s Jim Papadopoulos, Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Ashkan Vaziri, and PhD students Babak Haghpanah & Davood Mousanezhad were featured on the cover of Proceedings of Royal Society A for “Buckling of regular, chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs under a general macroscopic stress state”. Proceedings A has published many influential articles on Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences […]
May 19, 2014
Capstone Group Wins 3rd
After winning “Most Impactful Project” in the Northeastern University capstone program, College of Engineering seniors Robert Eley, Margaret McGuire, and Paige Burke travelled to Philadelphia for the regional ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC). The group presented a poster on the project titled: Cancer Detection by Means of Mechanical Palpation. Their success continued as they were awarded third […]
May 19, 2014
A New Type of Magnet
Chemical Engineering Professor Laura Lewis’s research into creating new supermagnets to replace rare-earth magnets was featured by the Boston Globe. Lewis uses modern equipment to synthesise magnets that have the same properties as rare minerals, while China struggles to solve issues with control of mineral trade.
May 13, 2014
An eye toward better treatment
Every two months, Northeastern bioengineering graduate student David Walsh’s 91-year-old grandmother goes to the doctor to receive a drug injection into her eyes. She has wet age-related macular degeneration. There is no cure, only this invasive, recurring treatment. “She worries a lot because she goes in, they inject her, and she leaves, and since the effect of the drugs […]
May 09, 2014
DiMarzio Professor of the Year
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was selected Professor of the Year by Eta Kappa Nu for his outstanding contributions to the ECE department.
May 09, 2014
Student Wins GROW Grant
Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant to perform ocular diagnostic research at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The National Science Foundation partners up with countries all over the world to expand opportunities for professional development of those who are awarded the […]
May 09, 2014
Eminent Service to Education
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor John Cipolla was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Edwin F. Church Medal for eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness of mechanical engineering education. The $2500 award was established in 1973 by Edwin F. Church, Jr., who was a devoted member os ASME. Cipolla’s areas […]
May 08, 2014
Young humanitarians win national award
The Engineers Without Borders student group was named the National Premier Student Chapter for 2014 from a pool of over 200 student chapters from around the country.