News
Apr 01, 2013
New Advisor of the Year
CEE Assistant Academic Specialist Kathryn Schulte Grahame has been selected to receive the Northeastern University New Advisor of the Year Award for her work with Graduate Women in Science & Engineering (GWISE).
Mar 29, 2013
Students found biomedical engineering group
Early in her academic career as a mechanical engineering student, Sienna Magee was sitting around a campfire talking with another member of the Outing Club about her interest in biomedical engineering. “I came to Northeastern in spite of the fact that there’s no major,” she said. This conversation sparked a cascade of connections that ultimately led Magee to several students across colleges who shared her interest. […]
Mar 28, 2013
Senior Receives High Honor
Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Fernando Quivira is a recipient of the Harold Hodgkinson Award in recognition of scholastic achievement, leadership, coop, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. This is one of the highest honors that a senior at Northeastern can receive. Fernando discovered his passion for research as a freshman volunteering in campus laboratories. […]
Mar 26, 2013
Outstanding Student Researchers
Congratulations to the team of computer engineering BS students who won the Excellence in Innovation award at RISE 2013 for their FilterLight project: a low-cost, human-powered UV water filtration system. View video here.
Mar 26, 2013
Co-op student charts new course at computer giant
As computing giant IBM has grown, it has expanded dramatically in places around the globe. But in countries like the Philippines, the company grew so quickly that some of its key corporate documents, like charts that track the structure and responsibilities of each of its employees, were never updated to match the new normal. But last year that […]
Mar 19, 2013
Grad Wins Peebles Award
Jiayi Shi, a MIE PhD graduate student, won the Peebles Student Award runner-up at the Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Daytona Beach held on March 3-6, 2013. Her oral presentation of her paper entitled “Adhesion-Detachment Mechanics of Thin Shells” was awarded the prestigious award with partial travel support and a check of US$500. She has been working under the supervision of Associate Professor […]
Mar 14, 2013
3Qs: The 3-D printing of tomorrow
Ahmed Busnaina, the William Lincoln Smith Professor and director of the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern, has developed a method called directed assembly that he calls the 3-D printing of tomorrow. It is faster, cheaper, and more versatile than traditional 3-D printing, and he said it could enable a […]
Mar 12, 2013
CEE Prof. Matthias Ruth Rethinks and Rebuilds
Prof. Matthias Ruth, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has co-authored a study on the aftermath of the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, an earthquake that destroyed much of the city.