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Sep 05, 2013
Fast Track in Engineering
Fast-paced development Nick Brooks, ME’12 With plans for a new high-rise municipal building in a Boston neighborhood in flux, planning and design firm Sasaki Associates needed a point person to keep the project on track. Nick Brooks, who earned his master’s degree in energy systems just down the street from the project at Northeastern, was […]
Sep 03, 2013
Onabajo Wins NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Marvin Onabajo was awarded a $200K National Science Foundation EAGER grant to create a "Integrated Self-Calibrated Analog Front-End for Biopotential and Bioimpedance Measurements". The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to […]
Aug 26, 2013
A wave for the future in faster computing
While most of us use our computers for texting friends, watching videos, or reading the news, virtually everything we do on our electronic devices is actually manipulated by mathematical operations. Information, explained electrical and computer engineering professor Hossein Mosallaei, is carried and processed through devices called logic gates. For instance, a text message sent from one person […]
Aug 26, 2013
Mimicking Bone Structures
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a $300K National Science Foundation grant to study the complexities of bone material to help synthesis future composite materials. The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions […]
Aug 22, 2013
Cultural immersion sparks innovation
As part of Northeastern’s inaugural Dialogue of Innovation and Civilization program, more than a dozen students developed sustainable solutions to a range of economic and agricultural challenges facing farmers in Cameroon. The program, set in the town of Bali, was established and launched by the College of Engineering this summer. Over a six-week period, students worked with more […]
Aug 22, 2013
Camps & Sznaier Win NSF Grant
Electrical & Computer Engineering Professors Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier were awarded a $455K National Science Foundation grant to study "Dynamic Invariants for Video Scenes Understanding." Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier obtained their B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay, and their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the […]
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 […]
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 […]