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Sep 11, 2018

Debra Auguste Elected to BMES Board of Directors

ChE Professor Debra Auguste was selected as a member of the Board of Directors for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the lead society and professional home for biomedical engineering and bioengineering.

Chemical Engineering

Sep 10, 2018

Improving Human-Robot Interactions with Dynamically Complex Objects

Professor Dagmar Sternad, Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, recently received a $700,000 National Science Foundation grant title, “Learning to Control Dynamically Complex Objects” to improve human-robot interaction by exploring […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sep 07, 2018

Biomaterial Could Keep Tooth Alive After Root Canal

ChE Professor and Chair Thomas Webster published two new books with Professor Bingyun Li of West Virginia University on Orthopedic Biomaterials.

Chemical Engineering

Sep 07, 2018

$1.2M NSF Grant to Develop Objective Pain Assessment Sensing System

Yingzi Lin, MIE associate professor and director of the Intelligent Human-Machine Systems Lab, to lead $1.2M NSF grant to develop a Continuous Objective Multimodal Pain Assessment Sensing System (COMPASS) that improves pain assessment and management, reduces opioid dependency and advances the field of pain management research and patient safety.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 06, 2018

Creating an Optimal Sharing Economy

Professors Ozlem Ergun (MIE), Haris Koutsopoulos (CEE), and Jennie Stephens (CSSH/Affiliated CEE) were awarded a $99K NSF grant for a “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sharing economy – Humans, Automation, Resilience and Engineering: SHARE”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 06, 2018

ChemE Research & Creative Endeavor Awardees

The Department of Chemical Engineering is proud to announce that eight of their students have received the Northeastern University Research and Creative Endeavor Awards from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Chemical Engineering

Sep 06, 2018

Imaging the Brain With Transparent Array of Microelectrodes

ECE Assistant Professor Hui Fang and a team of neuroscientists from Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a transparent array of microelectrodes on nano-mesh to monitor the impulses sent by the brain.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sep 05, 2018

Professor Camps Awarded Best Paper from 2018 ICDSC Conference

ECE Professor Octavia Camps and her collaborators were awarded the  Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The paper, titled “Correlating Belongings […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering