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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, […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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 […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Electrical & Computer Engineering