News
Jan 29, 2013
Busnaina Awarded Patent
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded a patent for designing a “3D Nanoscale Circuit Interconnect & Method of Assembly by Dielectrophoresis”. Professor Busnaina has obtained numerous awards and honors in his time in the industry, as well as being a widely published author. He also occupies a position of leadership at the […]
Jan 28, 2013
Stronger than Kevlar, light as a tee-shirt, and cheap all over
Forty years ago, Dupont Company revolutionized protective gear when they introduced Kevlar, a fiber made of super-strong, rigid polymer molecules belonging to a small class called aramids. Since then, improvements to strong textile fibers have been incremental. That’s because most flexible polymers are inherently flimsy. When you look at their micro-structures it’s easy to see […]
Jan 25, 2013
Awarded for Health & Safety
Chemical Engineering Professor Ron Willey is the recipient of the Norton H. Walton/ Russell L. Miller Award in Safety/Loss Prevention which is the highest honor from the Safety and Health Division of AIChE. AIChE is the world's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with over 45,000 members from over 100 countries. AIChE has the breadth […]
Jan 23, 2013
New Public Transit Strategies for Dense Cities
The research of Prof. Peter Furth and Ph.D. student Burak Cesme has helped fuel an editorial in the Boston Globe promoting solutions to help decrease the slow transit times of buses in cities.
Jan 17, 2013
Leader in Sustainability
For the third year in a row, NU is one of the top 4 “greenest”campuses in the world according to Greenmetric World University Ranking and it has received the highest score on the Princeton Review’s “Green College Honor Roll”. View full press release here. The Princeton Review's Guide to 332 Green Colleges profiles 330 institutions of higher […]
Jan 15, 2013
Journey of Experience
ECE PhD student Sarah Brown was featured in Diversity/Careers for how her experiences at Northeastern from undergraduate to graduate shaped her career goals. Diversity/Careers publishes six bi-monthly professional issues and two semi-annual minority college issues a year. Subscriptions, electronic or hard-copy, are free to qualified engineers, information technology professionals and small business owners. Additional copies are distributed at diversity-focused […]
Jan 15, 2013
Congratulations Qi Wang
Qi Wang, a Bioengineering PhD student, won “Best Presentation” at the Annual AIChE meeting for his research in “The synthesis of selenium nanoparticles via a simple fast reaction and its antibacterial application”. AIChE is the world's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with over 45,000 members from over 100 countries. AIChE has the breadth of […]
Jan 14, 2013
Engineering solutions for developing nations
Using her experiences from co-op and as president of the student chapter of EWB, recent Civil graduate Ann Polaneczky has landed a job at Partners in Health building a hospital in Haiti.