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Mar 19, 2018

IS Students Win 2nd Prize in MIT Blockchain Hackathon

MS Information Systems students Swathi Kommaghattachandr and Vivek Madhusudanbadrina won the second place prize at the MIT Blockchain Hackathon. The Hackathon had over 250 hackers organized into 30 teams participating […]

Information and Software Engineering

Mar 19, 2018

NUTRONS Team Wins 2018 Chairman's Award

Congratulations to the NUTRONS Robotics team for winning the 2018 FIRST Chairman’s Award from the North Shore District.

Mar 16, 2018

Examining the Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse

CEE Professor & Chair Jerome Hajjar answered questions relating to the safety codes and procedures of accelerated bridge construction after the recent pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami, FL.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 15, 2018

ECE PhD Student Wins 2017 Chinese Government Award

PhD Student Allan Ding was awarded a 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. This award is given to high-achieving, self-financed Chinese students studying internationally. It is granted […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 15, 2018

Pinto Receives NSF CAREER Award

CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto was awarded a $504K NSF CAREER award for “Developing a Spatial-Temporal Predictive Framework for the Drinking Water Microbiome”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mar 14, 2018

Felton & Vaziri's Research Featured on Back Cover of Advanced Materials Technologies

MIE Assistant Professor Samuel Felton and Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri's research on "Programmable Structures: Programmable Origami Strings" was featured on the back cover of Advanced Materials Technologies. Abstract Source: Wiley […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Mar 14, 2018

Northeastern to Host LSAMP’s Bridge to the Doctorate Program under $1M NSF Grant

Provost and MIE Professor James Bean (PI) and co-PI Professors Barbara Guthrie (Bouvé), Carla Mattos (COS), Hameed Metghalchi (MIE), and Benjamin Hescott (CCIS), along with collaborators Richard Harris, COE Assistant Dean and Director of the Northeastern University Program in Multicultural Engineering, and Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Vice Provost of the PhD Network and CEE Professor, were awarded a $1M NSF grant for the “Strategic Advancement of Rising Scholars (STARS) Nominated by the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NE-LSAMP).”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Mar 13, 2018

Ganguly & Colleagues Frame the Networked Digital Earth Concept Through the First International Conference on the Topic

The first International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth (ICNDE 2018), which was jointly organized by CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly & colleagues from Northeastern University and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, covered general principles and theory of the Networked Digital Earth concept, with a focus on network science, geospatial data sciences, machine learning and AI, while emphasizing the domains of water sustainability and climate change, urban science and engineering, public health and ecology, as well as cyber and physical security and the social media.

Civil & Environmental Engineering