News
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.
May 07, 2014
John Kennedy (BSCE, 1972) Elected International Vice President of ITE
Congratulations to John Kennedy, Northeastern Alumnus and Senior Principal and co-founder of VHB, who was recently elected as the 2014 International Vice President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Mr. Kennedy has over 40 years of active professional experience as a traffic engineer, 38 years of active membership in ITE, including elected leadership positions […]
May 07, 2014
Sampling Frozen Specimens
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a patent for developing “Systems, methods, and devices for frozen sample distribution”. Much of Dr. Ruberti's research is based on biomechanics. His patent allows for the removing of a frozen sample from a frozen specimen without the specimen having to be thawed.
May 07, 2014
VMM Intrusion Detection
ECE Professor David Kaeli and Associate Professor Jennifer Dy were awarded a patent for creating a Virtual Machine Monitor Based Intrusion Detection System. Dr. Kaeli leads the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory and his research is based on high-performance systems and software, while Dr. Dy has focused on developing algorithms for clustering data and improving support vector machines.
May 07, 2014
Dirt & Crystalline Interfaces
Advised by MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu, PhD student Changjian Wang published an article in the EPL (Europhysics Letters) journal entitled “Shear Accommodation in Dirty Grain Boundaries”. The paper is based on simulations to study the effects of dirt on crystalline interfaces. Wang is part of Moneesh's Group for Simulation and Theory of Atomic-Scale Material Phenomena (stAMP), which […]
May 07, 2014
Outstanding Thermodynamics
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Hameed Metghalchi was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Edward F. Obert award for outstanding paper on thermodynamics. Professor Metghalchi’s research interests include fundamentals of combustion and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. At Northeastern, he currently leads two courses, Thermodynamics and General Thermodynamics. Professor Metghalchi is also affiliated with the […]
May 07, 2014
National Scholarship
Congratulations to IE junior Ashley Tokarz who was awarded the Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The $3K scholarship is granted to outstanding undergraduate students who are pursuing a degree in Industrial Engineering. Students cannot directly apply for IIE scholarships, instead they must be nominated by department heads or faculty members.
May 06, 2014
From climate change comes opportunity to innovate
A cursory look at the Third National Climate Assessment released Tuesday by the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee yields a grim outlook. The authors state that climate change is already beginning to impact nearly every sector of the economy—and that’s not all: It’s already threatening human health and well being and adversely affecting our infrastructures, […]