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May 15, 2018

Determining Effect of Climate on Mississippi River Flooding

MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz will be leading a $595K NSF grant for “Extreme floods on the lower Mississippi River in the context of late Holocene climatic variability” in collaboration with Liviu Giosan and Jeffrey Donnelly from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Zhixiong Shen from Coastal Carolina University.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 15, 2018

Improving Emergency Response Wayfinding

CEE Assistant Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang (PI) and MIE Associate Professor Yingzi Lin (co-PI) were awarded a $200K NSF grant for “Personalized Systems for Wayfinding for First Responders”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 15, 2018

ECE Post-doc Wins 2017 Chinese Government Award

Dr. Zhenyun Qian from Professor Matteo Rinaldi’s group received the 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. This award was established by China Scholarship Council in 2003. No […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 15, 2018

Assistant Professor Shrivastava Awarded Patent

ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low input voltage boost converter with peak inductor current control and offset compensated zero detection.” Abstract Source: USPTO The low […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 14, 2018

Mahdiar Sadeghi: Student Paper Finalist in IEEE Antennas & Propagation Symposium

Mahdiar Sadeghi, who recently completed a Master’s degree in ECE under the supervision of Prof. Carey Rappaport, is one of a dozen finalists in the 2018 IEEE Antennas & Propagation Symposium student Paper Competition.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 10, 2018

Mosallaei's Article Top 25 Most Accessed in Advanced Optical Matter

ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei's article on "All-Dielectric C-Shaped Nanoantennas for Light Manipulation: Tailoring Both Magnetic and Electric Resonances to the Desire" is one of the top most accessed in the […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 10, 2018

Aduralere Selected as Leader of Tomorrow

Mechanical Engineering Masters student Timothy Aduralere, MS’18, won the 48th St. Gallen Symposium essay competition for his submission “Reinventing for the Unknown: A Pivotal Approach to Maximize the Constantly Evolving […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 10, 2018

Northeastern Debuts New Drone Testing Facility

A drone cage was built at the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security which will allow faculty like CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar and ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir to develop drones to evaluate damage to structures after disasters.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering