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Aug 22, 2013

Lin Awarded $235K NSF Grant

MIE Associate Professor Yingzi Lin was awarded a $235K National Science Foundation grant to determine how to integrate human factors such as emotion, mental workload and attention into a Driver Assistance System. Dr. Lin's research interests include human-machine interactions, human friendly mechatronics and human factors in transportation and healthcare. She is also the director of […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 22, 2013

The Future of Climate Changes: The current state of climate change science

Ear­lier this week, the public learned the details of the upcoming fifth assess­ment report (or, “AR5”) of the United Nations’ Inter­gov­ern­mental Panel on Cli­mate Change, an inter­na­tional body whose man­date is not to do new sci­ence, but to assess the state of the existing sci­ence. IPCC assess­ments cover a lot of ground, from the basics […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 20, 2013

21st Century Drinking Water

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering associate professor Kai-tak Wan, professor Sinan Muftu, & Civil and Environmental Engineering assistant professor April Gu were awarded a $400K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to find a biomechanical model for predicting and improving water filtration and bioremediation. All three Professors are directors of successful labs at Northeastern University; Dr. Wan runs the Micro/Nano Biomechanical […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 19, 2013

Proven systems engineering methods can cure complex healthcare challenges

Pro­fessor James Ben­neyan remarked he some­times feels like the Maytag repairman, standing by with tools that can help fix healthcare’s prob­lems. The dif­fer­ences between Ben­neyan and “Ol’ Lonely” are that the machine he’s working on is actu­ally broken and while he’s actively helping numerous orga­ni­za­tions, he wishes the phone would ring more. As founding director of Northeastern’s Health­care Sys­tems […]

Aug 19, 2013

ALERT renewed as homeland security Center of Excellence

The Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity Sci­ence and Tech­nology Direc­torate has announced the renewal of Northeastern’s Aware­ness and Local­iza­tion of Explo­sives Related Threats Center as a DHS Center of Excel­lence. This dis­tinc­tion, given to just 12 research cen­ters in the nation, is accom­pa­nied by a five-​​year funding com­mit­ment, including $2.5 mil­lion in the first year. Head­quar­tered at North­eastern, ALERT is a major con­sor­tium […]

Aug 16, 2013

Living out Childhood Dream

Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering student Craig Schmidt, Jr. who was one of 20 students across the country to win a 2013-15 NASA Aeronautics and Space Program Scholarship and Internship. NASA Internships are educational hands-on traineeships that provide unique NASA-related research and operational experiences for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students as well as educators. These […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 13, 2013

Students explore Brazil’s renewable energy sector

Gen­er­ating renew­able energy from nat­ural resources such as wind, sun­light, and geot­hermal heat could save us from an impending energy crisis, according to Arturo Avila, a second-​​year stu­dent studying civil and envi­ron­mental engi­neering. “The smartest thing to do is to start thinking about alter­na­tives to fossil fuels so we can have other options to power the […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 12, 2013

Mars Rover, One Year Later

Megan Richardson, a Mechanical Engineering student (class of 2010),  connected with the NASA JPL at a SWE National conference, obtained a co-op, and joined them after graduation to work on the Mars Rover project. Liz Duffy, Mechanical Engineering’11, followed and now Rachael Tompa (class of 2014)  is the current co-op there.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering