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Aug 12, 2013

Professor Matthew Eckelman wins 2013 Laudise Young Researcher Prize

Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman was selected to receive the 2013 Laudise Young Researcher Prize by the International Society for Industrial Ecology. This prestigious international award is given for outstanding achievements in industrial ecology by a young researcher. Prof. Eckelman is recognized for his significant research in the areas of life-cycle assessment of materials, […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 09, 2013

Laser of the Future

ECE & MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has created the world’s first plasmofluidic lens which can manipulate light at much smaller scales using a tiny laser beam just a few micrometers wide. Source: News @ Northeastern Hold a mag­ni­fying glass over the dri­veway on a sunny day and it will focus sun­light into a single […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 09, 2013

The new American hamburger…?

Twenty six bil­lion pounds. That’s roughly how much beef Amer­i­cans con­sume each year. We get it from some 33 mil­lion cows that are largely raised in cen­tral­ized, indus­trial feed oper­a­tions that col­lec­tively use more energy, water, and land per calorie pro­duced than any other food group out there. So when I heard the news of the lab-​​grown beef the other […]

Chemical Engineering

Aug 04, 2013

Don’t delay: Early engineering intro pays off

When Mohit Bhardwaj was a freshman in high school he trav­eled from his home in Lusaka, Zambia to Boston. with Lead America. For nine days, he and a group of 19 other stu­dents from around the globe studied lead­er­ship and engi­neering at Olin col­lege. They learned to work on teams building Lego robots, pop­sicle stick […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 01, 2013

New Faculty Spotlight: Mark R. Patterson

Mark R. Patterson joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a joint appointment in Marine and Environmental Sciences in the College of Science, during Fall 2013 as Professor. Dr. Patterson directs the Field Robotics Laboratory at the Marine Science Center in Nahant. He develops Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (free-swimming robots) and methods to use […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 01, 2013

New Faculty Spotlight: Loretta A. Fernandez

Loretta A. Fernandez joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Science in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences as an assistant professor in Fall 2013. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University before pursuing S.M. and Ph.D. degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her graduate […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 01, 2013

New Faculty Spotlight: David Fannon

David Fannon is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, joining the university in Fall 2013.. David is an architect and building scientist whose work integrates research, analysis, and design to develop new strategies for buildings and cities. His expertise includes design, […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 01, 2013

New Faculty Spotlight: Edward Beighley

Edward Beighley joins the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Fall 2013 semester as an Associate Professor. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland, where he focused on quantifying the hydrologic […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering