News
May 07, 2013
Breaking Healthcare Barriers
Working with Indiana University, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ayten Turkcan Upasani was awarded $159K by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop an efficient system to make sure underinsured people get the healthcare they need. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is authorized by Congress to fund and disseminate research that will provide information […]
May 07, 2013
What’s in your water?
For a scholar whose research focuses on aquatic environmental chemistry, Philip Larese-Casanova spends little time doing research in the environment. “I don’t take water samples and I don’t go to drinking water plants or wastewater treatment plants,” said the assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. That’s because most of the pollutants Larese-Casanova is interested in haven’t been […]
May 06, 2013
Andrew Myers wins CEE Excellence in Teaching Award
The CEE Department is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Andrew Myers was selected to receive the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award.
May 06, 2013
Congratulations to 2013 CEE Scholarship/Award Winners!
Congratulations to the 2013 Civil and Environmental Engineering students who were provided over $66,000 in scholarships and awards.
May 06, 2013
Great Honors for Prof Kaeli
ECE Professor David Kaeli is being named a Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Distinguished Professor and his NUCAR lab has been designated a HSA Academic Center of Excellence. This is attributed to recent work with AMD, Samsung and Qualcomm in the area of heterogeneous and GPU computing. "The HSA Foundation is an open foundation with broad industry […]
May 02, 2013
CEE Students Compete in ASCE New England Regional Concrete Canoe Competition
CEE Students competed at the ASCE sponsored New England Regional Concrete Canoe Competition, which was recently held at UMass Dartmouth.
May 02, 2013
Family’s health scare helps student find calling
When he was just 7 years old, graduating senior Kendall Sanderson’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The tumor needed to be removed with emergency surgery, according to her son, but complications in the hospital’s scheduling protocol forced a three-week delay in the procedure. To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve […]
May 01, 2013
Manipulating Virtual World
Using concepts from Iron Man, a team of ECE capstone students have developed a Gesture Operated Computer Aided Design tool (goCAD) to move computer objects with hand movements. Source: News @ Northeastern “If Tony Stark can do it in a cave with scraps,” said Kyle Dumont, then, well, he and the other members of his […]