News
May 28, 2013
Students Awarded Patent for Capstone Project
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduates Michael Witonis, Jay Seiter, Morgan Misek, Joshua Filgate, and Jesse Kuhn have been awarded a patent for their 2007 capstone project entitled "Internal Gearbox for Downhill Mountain Bikes" under the direction of Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski. The gearbox created in the project is meant to replace the current drive train of […]
May 28, 2013
Artery Imaging Patent
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Research Engineer Ahmet Coskun was awarded a patent for his “Artery Imaging System” technique, which provides an image of the luminal boundary of the coronary artery. Ahmet Coskun's research interests include biomechanics and energy.
May 28, 2013
2nd Patent for DiMarzio
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his method of “Acoustic Assisted Phase Conjugate Optical Tomography”. This is DiMarzio’s second patent this year. The patent he received earlier this year in April was for “Phase subtraction cell counting method”. Dr. DiMarzio the author of Optics for Engineers and currently leads OSL, the Optical Science Laboratory, […]
May 28, 2013
Preserving Frozen Specimen
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a patent for his method of extracting samples from frozen specimens without having to thaw the entire specimen. Dr. Ruberti received both his BS and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1986 and 1998, respectively. He is also the director of EMERL, the Extracellular Matrix Engineering […]
May 23, 2013
NUASCE Student Chapter Receives Letter of Honorable Mention
The Northeastern University ASCE Student Chapter was selected to receive a Letter of Honorable Mention for its exceptional undertakings reported in the 2012 annual report.
May 22, 2013
Drive it to break it
Recent mechanical engineering graduate Andy Benn isn’t used to having time on his hands. Spending an afternoon playing tennis and eating lobster rolls, is well, unprecedented for the former Baja team captain who said he was clocking 80 to 100 hours a week in the auto shop in the basement of Richards Hall before graduating earlier this month. In case […]
May 20, 2013
Stopping Cyber Criminals
To stop cybercrime, you need to think like a criminal. That's what Northeastern is teaching information assurance students to do. – See more at: http://www.northeastern.edu/magazine/know-thine-enemy/#sthash.KID73xMR.dpuf
May 16, 2013
How nanotechnology could keep your heart healthy
Since the heart is such a delicate and critical organ, clinicians usually opt not to intervene with the dead cells that remain after a heart attack or cardiac disease. “But we think that all heart attacks deserve some kind of treatment because it puts so much stress on the rest of the heart,” said Thomas Webster, […]