News
May 01, 2014
Full Tuition Scholarship
Congratulations to Joshua Bricknell of Stow, MA who was selected to receive the 2014 FIRST Robotics Scholarship to the College of Engineering at Northeastern. The full four-year tuition received by Bricknell is one of the three awarded by FIRST in 2014. Awards given by FIRST vary from a one time prize of $500 to full […]
Apr 30, 2014
Student group blasts off
The new American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) club won first place in the Target Altitude Event at their very first competition at "Battle of the Rockets" in Culpeper, VA.
Apr 30, 2014
Mission 31 to splash down on June 1
Nine miles off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., and 63 feet beneath the waves lies the world’s only underwater research lab: Aquarius. “There’s no place like it on earth,” said Mark Patterson, professor of marine and environmental science and civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, who has visited and lived within the “habitat” 10 times. In the years it […]
Apr 29, 2014
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards. Outstanding teachers of First Year Engineering students: Richard Whalen, Engineering; Robert Lupi, Mathematics; Enrique Moreno, Physics. Martin W. Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award: Daniel Dulaski, CEE Outstanding Cooperative Education Coordinator Award: Lorraine Mountain, MIE Outstanding Staff Award: Kristin Hicks, CenSSIS; Christina McNeil, Dean’s Office Going […]
Apr 29, 2014
3rd Young Investigator Award
ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu was awarded his 3rd Young Investigator Award this year by the Naval Research Office for “Intention Sensing through Video-based Imminent Activity Prediction”. Dr. Yu’s previous Young Investigator Awards were granted by the Army Research Laboratory and the International Neural Network Society.
Apr 29, 2014
A key to communication for locked-in syndrome patients
For the past seven years, one man receiving care from LifeStream, a Massachusetts-based human services organization, has only been able to communicate by blinking his eyes in response to yes-or-no questions. He has cognitive awareness but is paralyzed with respect to nearly all of his voluntary motor muscles due to severe injuries he suffered in […]
Apr 28, 2014
Freshman Patent Application
Freshman Computer Engineering student Leena Ahsan was awarded a patent application for creating a box that was collapsible as the contents are used. The invention boosts perforations, creases and the suggestion of a bendable material that facilitates folding.
Apr 24, 2014
SDM14 Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.