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Jan 31, 2017

ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster Receives ICACC17 Plenary Award

ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster received a Plenary Award at the 41st International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites for his talk on “Fifteen years of commercializing ceramic medical devices using nanotechnology”.

Chemical Engineering

Jan 30, 2017

Planners Using Level of Traffic Stress To Make Biking Easier

CEE Professor Peter Furth featured in The Washington Post article “Is biking stressing you out? Here’s how planners are trying to make things better” regarding the use of satellite maps and street-level data for road widths, speed limits and parking patterns to gauge the “level of traffic stress” (LTS) along local roads.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 30, 2017

Will ‘Cutting-Edge Traffic-Light Technology’ Help Boston Streets?

CEE Professor Peter Furth guest speaker on WBUR Radio discussing ‘cutting-edge traffic-light technology’ and how real-time traffic systems will help both drivers and pedestrians in the city of Boston.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 30, 2017

ECE Faculty Meet With Student Advisory Board

ECE Interim Chair Miriam Leeser, Associate Chair Waleed Meleis, and Associate Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris met with undergraduate students in the ECE Student Advisory Board to discuss their experiences in the […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 27, 2017

National Engineers Week at Northeastern

Join the College of Engineering in celebrating National Engineers Week February 18-24.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 26, 2017

Establishing a New Institute to Advance Robotics in Manufacturing

ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir has been tapped to help develop a new robotics institute for the Department of Defense. Professor Padir’s research interests include modeling and control of robot systems, human-in-the-loop robot control, and realization of medical cyber-physical systems.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 26, 2017

Paper By ECE Associate Professor Mosallaei Selected For Journal of Optics' "Highlights of 2016"

A paper by ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei has been selected by the editors of the Journal of Optics to be included in the "Highlights of 2016" collection. The paper […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 24, 2017

Amirabadi Receives ONR Grant

ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi was awarded a $274K grant from ONR to develop "A New Class of Modular Power Converters for Next-Generation Shipboard Power Systems." This project seeks innovative solutions for concurrent […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering