News
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Kathryn Schulte Grahame
Kathryn Schulte Grahame joined the department in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Academic Specialist. As part of her Gateway Faculty appointment she will teach freshman engineering courses as well as undergraduate civil engineering courses. Dr. Schulte Grahame received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Columbia University in 2008. She is also a Northeastern University alumna, […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Daniel P. Saulnier
Daniel P. Saulnier joined the Department in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Cooperative Education Coordinator. In addition to bringing first-hand experience in cooperative education, he also has expertise in sustainable engineering for the developing world and water and wastewater infrastructure systems. Saulnier earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering at Northeastern University in 1998 and an […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Annalisa Onnis-Hayden
Annalisa Onnis-Hayden was appointed Assistant Academic Specialist in the Fall 2011 semester after working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor April Gu within the department for the last several years. Dr. Onnis-Hayden's research focuses on biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; and microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems. In addition […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Andrew T. Myers
Andrew T. Myers joined the department in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Myers' research interests are centered on a combination of multi-scale experimental testing, computational simulation, and probabilistic modeling of physical systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and Geomechanics in 2009 at Stanford University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering at […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Auroop R. Ganguly
Auroop R. Ganguly joined the Department as an Associate Professor after seven years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, most recently as a Senior R&D Staff in their Computational Sciences and Engineering division, as well as a joint faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He was previously employed […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Ralf Birken
Ralf Birken was appointed Research Assistant Professor after serving as a Senior Research Scientist and collaborating with Profs. Ming Wang and Sara Wadia-Fascetti on the VOTERS Center. Dr. Birken has over thirteen years of research and engineering experience in near-surface geophysical mapping focusing on the development of efficient non-invasive electromagnetic (GPR and EMI) subsurface imaging […]
Jul 25, 2011
Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger was awarded a $61K NSF grant to determine what environmental impacts affect the life cycle of phytoplankton.
Jul 25, 2011
Sipahi Awarded DARPA Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi received a $300K DARPA grant for his research “Model-Free Algorithms to Assist and Control Human-Task Missions against Dynamic Environments.”