News
Aug 16, 2011
COE Alum appointed MassDOT Highway Administrator
Frank DePaola, a MS’84 graduate in civil engineering, has been appointed the highway administrator for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Jun 15, 2011
Inspiring Future Students Through Robotics
Northeastern students and alumni mentored high schoolers during the 7th annual FIRST Robotics Beantown Blitz competition — one of the largest off-season robotics events in the New England area.
Jun 15, 2011
COE Alum Takes Archery High-Tech
Robert Donahoe, EE‘85, combined his knowledge of engineering and intellectual property law to form Full Flight Technology, which improves an archers understanding of arrow speed, flight dynamics and bow performance.
Mar 01, 2011
COE Alum Modernizes GPS Technology
John Betz, a ME'79, PhD'84 graduate in Electrical Engineering, has contributed to modernizing the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs).
Nov 09, 2010
COE Alum appointed as Rutgers ECE Chair
Athina Petropulu, ME’89, PhD’91 has been appointed the new chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Rutgers University School of Engineering in New Jersey.
Oct 20, 2010
COE Alum wins Young Investigator Award
Tuba Okutucu, a PhD‘05 graduate in Mechanical Engineering, won the Young Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation for her research on MEMS Production of Microchannel Heat Sinks with Nanofluids as the Working Fluid and their Application in Microchip Cooling.
Sep 10, 2010
Breaking Ground for the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security
September 10, 2010 was the historic groundbreaking for the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security which will facilitate university researchers’ work in such fields as cryptography, data security, information assurance, robust infrastructure, and energy harvesting.
Sep 09, 2010
ChE Alum Donates $12M
Chemical Engineering Alumnus George J. Kostas has donated $12M to build a homeland security research facility on Northeastern's Burlington Campus. This is the largest donation for capital in the University's history.