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Aug 13, 2014

Thwarting Cyber-espionage

ECE & Khoury College Associate Professor Engin Kirda is developing advanced malware detection software to analyze and protect against the growing number of targeted cyberattacks. When it comes to Internet […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 12, 2014

Battling Unemployment

MIE professor Abe Zeid, associate professor Sagar Kamarthi, & STEM Director of Programs & Partnerships Claire Duggan were awarded a $700K NSF grant to TRANSFORM liberal arts curriculum towards manufacturing.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 08, 2014

Detecting Vulnerabilities

ECE & CCIS Associate Professor Engin Kirda & Assistant Professor Wil Robertson won a $500K NSF grant to build an analysis tool which automates, engineers, & summarizes closed source binary software

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 08, 2014

Modeling Nonlinear Data

ECE Professors Octavia Camps, Mario Sznaier, & CEE Associate Professor Ferdinand Hellweger were awarded a $380K NSF grant to use OUR Charles to generate models of high volume nonlinear data steams.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 07, 2014

Interning Inside NASA Langley Research Center

Craig Schmidt, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2017—Preparing a mil­i­tary heli­copter for a crash test is a strange expe­ri­ence. You spend three months designing equip­ment, fab­ri­cating parts and preparing instru­men­ta­tion, only to […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 06, 2014

Learning While Teaching

By participating in NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, undergraduates are able to teach high school students to build robots while reinforcing their own engineering skills.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 06, 2014

Early Pothole Detection

The research developed by the VOTERS center (led by CEE Professor Ming Wang) for detecting the formation of potholes was featured in Fast Company. 

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Aug 06, 2014

NECN Interviews Webster

ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster was interviewed by NECN to discuss the possibilities of using nanomedicine to treat Ebola and other diseases. InSolution explains how he wants to use gold nanostars to attack virus or cancer cells.

Chemical Engineering