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Sep 28, 2018

DARPA Funding Announced for Professor Kaeli

COE Distinguished Professor David Kaeli has received a 3-year $753K DARPA Software-Defined Hardware TA-2 grant titled “Mitchell,” as part of a 3-partner team that includes Systems Technology Research and Purdue University.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini

Sep 27, 2018

Oakes & Bellini Awarded $1.5M FEMA Grant to Study Health Effects of Wildland Fire Smoke to Firefighters

BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini were awarded a $1.5M award from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG), administered through The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate, for examining the “Health Consequences Following Acute and Chronic Firefighter Exposure to Wildland Fire Smoke.”

Bioengineering

Sep 26, 2018

Co-ops Lead to Start Ups

Alisa Jin, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, helped to build a drone that flies like a kite. Alex Dye, BS Mechanical Engineering 2020, helped to design the prototype of a […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sep 26, 2018

Studying the Long-Term Health Hazards of E-Cigarettes

BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini are studying the health effects of vaping versus traditional combustible cigarettes.

Bioengineering

Sep 26, 2018

MIE/ECE Faculty Awarded $1.5M AFRL Grant

MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CCIS/ECE Affiliated Faculty Chris Amato were awarded a $1.5M Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) grant for “Robust Decentralized Classification and Coordination Algorithms for Swarms of SUAS.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 26, 2018

SDS Lab PhD students Kate Duffy and Udit Bhatia excel at NASA and in Big Data

Sustainability & Data Sciences Lab (SDS) PhD students Kate Duffy and Udit Bhatia spent the summer working at a NASA Ames internship on atmospheric correction of images and working on Big Data research, respectively.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Sep 25, 2018

Creating Robots for Safer Human Interactions

MIE Assistant Professor John Whitney and Khoury/MIE Affiliated Faculty Robert Platt were awarded $750K NSF grant for creating “A New Robotic Arm for Contact-Rich Manipulation”. Abstract Source: NSF People with […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 25, 2018

Exploring New Technologies & Challenges in the Renewable Energy Industry

Shubham Nainwal, an Energy Systems MS student and president of the Northeastern University Energy Systems Society, organized the 4th Annual Energy Conference happening on September 28 to showcase the current […]