News
Jul 01, 2013
Creating Sustainable Cities
COE faculty Andrew Myers, Jerry Hajjar, Carey Rappaport, Michael Silevitch, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, and Matthias Ruth are working on improving the sustainability of the urban environment.
Jun 26, 2013
Hands-on Skill Retention
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski & Assistant Academic Specialist Bridget Smyser received the DELOS Best Paper Award for “Examining skill retention from a redesigned laboratory course to capstone design sequence”. The Division of Experimental and Laboratory-Oriented Studies is concerned with the laboratory component of engineering curricula. Thus, it consists of people who […]
Jun 21, 2013
Body of work
Sandra Shefelbine has always been interested in the human body as a mechanical system: “The lungs are gas exchangers and the heart is a pump,” said the associate professor of engineering. As an undergraduate simultaneously studying heat transfer and evolutionary biology, she realized that the system of parallel arteries and veins in arctic birds’ legs, […]
Jun 21, 2013
Smart devices need smart communication standards
Today you can hold a slew of computers in the palm of your hand. Smartphones, said David Kaeli, a virtualization technology expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, integrate programs such as browsers, applications, graphics, and cellular communication, each of which may require a different hardware device to power it efficiently. But handheld devices […]
Jun 17, 2013
Better Security Parameters
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yunsi Fei was awarded a $522K NSF Grant to create “A Unified Statistics-Based Framework for Side-Channel Attack Analysis and Security Evaluation of Cryptosystems”. Dr. Fei received her BS and MS in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in China, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harvard. She is […]
Jun 17, 2013
In Memoriam: Yaman Yener
Senior Associate Dean Yener passed away on Friday, June 14, 2013. See letter from Dean Aubry to the Northeastern University community.
Jun 14, 2013
Northeastern hosts meeting of healthcare fellows
“Healthcare systems in the U.S. are a mess in every dimension,” said professor James Benneyan, founder and director of Northeastern’s Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute. In opening remarks at the annual Healthcare Improvement Scholars Meeting on Tuesday at Northeastern, Benneyan noted that part of the solution to fixing the floundering healthcare system lies in the collaboration of […]
Jun 13, 2013
The science of sculpture, nano-style
The next breakthrough in highly efficient battery technologies and solar cells may very well be nanoscopic crystals of silicon assembled like skyscrapers on wafer-scale substrates. An important route for growth of these nanoscale “whiskers”—or nanowires—involves alloyed metal droplets. Moneesh Upmanyu, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has been using computational tools […]