News
May 18, 2012
Yeh Receives Fellowship
ECE Associate Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship to develop improved internet and wireless technologies. Source: News @ Northeastern For Edmund Yeh, what started a decade ago as an academic exercise to bridge the disciplines of information theory and networking has become part of the framework for modern wireless communications. Now, […]
May 17, 2012
Mapping Protein Shape Shifting
ECE Professors Lee Makowski, Dana Brooks, and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus have been awarded a $657K NSF grant to determine the "Precise Characterization of Conformational Ensembles". NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. They are tasked with keeping the United States […]
May 15, 2012
Jaeger Wins 2 ASEE Awards
MIE Senior Academic Specialist Beverly Jaeger has won BOTH of ASEE’s Spread the Word & Campus Representative awards for recruiting the most new Professional members & maintaining the highest % of faculty membership. Campus Representatives play a crucial role in recruiting new ASEE members and in keeping current and potential members informed of ASEE activities. […]
May 15, 2012
Fighting Cyber Threats
ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was selected as the inaugural Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor for Information Assurance for his work in cybersecurity. Source: News @ Northeastern Our rising dependence on networked systems makes it increasingly beneficial for hackers to exploit it, Engin Kirda said on Monday afternoon in a lecture entitled “Taming […]
May 15, 2012
Northeastern’s David Luzzi awarded prestigious Ellis Island medal
David Luzzi’s maternal grandfather emigrated with his widowed mother and five younger sisters from Ireland to New York in 1914, and at age 14 he worked long days. He attended high school and college classes in the evening. Eventually, he became the treasurer of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. Luzzi’s paternal grandfather, the son of Italian […]
May 11, 2012
Making Clean Water For All
Under the supervision of professor Mohammad Taslim, a team of MIE capstone students have developed a solar- powered desalination system to help the world’s water crisis.
May 10, 2012
Jung Awarded $309K NSF Grant
MIE Associate Professor Yung Joon Jung has been awarded a 309K NSF grant to create optoelectronic devices made from carbon nanotubes and silicon.
May 08, 2012
Rinaldi Receives DARPA Award
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi is the recipient of a $300K DARPA Young Faculty Award which supports the next generation of engineers who will work on DoD and national security issues.