News
Nov 20, 2024
2023-2024 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award
Dominic Pizzarella, E’24, chemical engineering, won the prestigious AIChE Othmer Scholarship for outstanding academics and chapter work.
Nov 20, 2024
AIChE Outstanding Student Chapter Award
The Northeastern University student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) was selected as an Outstanding Student Chapter for the 2023 – 2024 school year.
Nov 20, 2024
ECE PhD Student Wins Multiple AVS Awards
Bin Luo, PhD’26, electrical engineering, who works in ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun’s lab, won the 2024 American Vacuum Society (AVS) National Graduate Research Award, the AVS MEMS/NEMS Group Best Research Work Award, and was a finalist for the Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures (MIND) Division Leo Falicov Student Award for Best Presentation of Graduate Research at the AVS 70th Symposium.
Nov 20, 2024
Zheng Receives ASME Rising Star Award
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng received an ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering Award in recognition of his NSF CAREER award in “Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer for Enhanced Thermal Infrared Energy Conversion and Cooling.”
Nov 19, 2024
ECE Student Nominated for Churchill Scholarship
Maya De Los Santos, E’25, electrical and computer engineering, was nominated for the Churchill Scholarship, which provides funding to American students for a year of master’s study at Churchill College, which is part of the University of Cambridge.
Nov 18, 2024
Northeastern Team Awarded the Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge Student Innovation Prize
A team of Northeastern graduate students and alumni, led by Harry Akligoh, PhD ’28, bioengineering, participated in the 2024 Vivli Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveillance Data Challenge and were awarded the Student Innovation Prize for their Microbiological Information Management System (microBIS) project.
Nov 18, 2024
MIE Alum Receives Distinguished Civilian Award
Mechanical engineering graduate Donald Hoffer was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Award, given annually to a civilian who made significant contributions to the work of the U.S. Submarine Force. In his 37-year career with the Department of the Navy, Hoffer worked on several significant projects, including the restoration of the submersible Alvin.
Nov 18, 2024
Theme Park Engineering Club Creates Opportunities for Revolutionary Thinking
For the past two years, members of Northeastern’s Theme Park Engineering Club have developed innovative projects emphasizing thematic immersion that could reshape theme park engineering.