News
Sep 13, 2013
Mavroidis Wins 3 Grants
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Constantinos Mavroidis was awarded two NSF grants and one NASA grant totaling $750K to study Gear Bearing Drives for robotic joints and MRI Guided Magnetic NanoParticles. 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 […]
Sep 13, 2013
Optimized Computing Space
Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Gunar Schirner and Professor David Kaeli were awarded a $450K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop "Power Efficient Emerging Heterogeneous Platforms." 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 […]
Sep 12, 2013
Student Wins Travel Grant
Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a prestigious travel grant to attend the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting to present his work on designing microfluidic systems to diagnose disease of the eye. The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is the professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering.Founded in early 1968, the Society now boasts nearly 6,500 […]
Sep 06, 2013
Monitoring at the Next Level
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo received a $225K subcontract from MIT-Lincoln Laboratory for a NOAA grant to create "Advanced Mechanical-Electromagnetic Applications for next Generation Environmental Monitoring." Dr. Martinez-Lorenzo's research interests include compressive sensing and modeling using mechanical and electromagnetic waves, computational methods for differential and integral equations and Physics-based signal processing. […]
Sep 05, 2013
Awarded for Contributions
Senior Academic Specialist Bala Maheswaran received the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) "Distinguished Educator and Service Award" in the Physics and Engineering Physics Division. Founded in 1893, the American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. In pursuit of academic […]
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 […]