News
Mar 10, 2011
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards.
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).
Feb 28, 2011
Turning the Theoretical into Reality
Under the direction of Beverly Jaeger, a group of freshman engineering students are working to improve the gear used by service dogs to help the disabled.
Feb 22, 2011
Measuring Interatomic Distances
ECE Professor Lee Makowski has received a $280K NIH grant to develop MADMAX, a Multi-wavelength Anomalous Diffraction using Medium Angle X-ray solution scattering, for the precise measurement of conformational changes in proteins.
Feb 22, 2011
Receiving the Highest Honor
MIE Professor James Benneyan has been awarded the Smalley President’s Award, the highest honor from the Society for Health Systems for his lifelong service to the healthcare IE profession.
Feb 17, 2011
Teaching Students Through Video Games
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has developed Geckoman!, an online video game, that teaches middle-school students about nanoscience.
Feb 16, 2011
Chory Chosen as a Pioneering Leader
Emma Chory, ChE’12, has been selected as a Steamboat Scholar. The summer program provides talented undergrads prestigious internships with Grant Partners to cultivate their leadership skills.
Feb 15, 2011
Passing Knowledge On
STEM Associate Professor Christos Zahopoulos has received the IEEE-USA Professional Achievement for Individuals Award for “sparking precollegiate interest in technology and engineering careers” through NU’s RE-SEED program.