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May 21, 2014

Can current stimulate smarts?

“I’m not yet con­vinced it’s going to work,” Misha Pavel, an expert in neural engi­neering and a
professor of prac­tice at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity, said of the pos­si­bility of applying low-​​level
 cur­rent to […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 20, 2014

Periodic Buckling Pattern

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty members’s Jim Papadopoulos, Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Ashkan Vaziri, and PhD students Babak Haghpanah & Davood Mousanezhad were featured on the cover of  Proceedings of Royal Society A for “Buckling […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 19, 2014

Capstone Group Wins 3rd

After winning “Most Impactful Project” in the Northeastern University capstone program, College of Engineering seniors Robert Eley, Margaret McGuire, and Paige Burke travelled to Philadelphia for the regional ASME Student Professional […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 19, 2014

A New Type of Magnet

Chemical Engineering Professor Laura Lewis’s research into creating new supermagnets to replace rare-earth magnets was featured by the Boston Globe.  Lewis uses modern equipment to synthesise magnets that have the same […]

Chemical Engineering

May 13, 2014

An eye toward better treatment

Every two months, North­eastern bio­engi­neering grad­uate stu­dent David Walsh’s 91-​​year-​​old grand­mother goes to the doctor to receive a drug injec­tion into her eyes. She has wet age-​​related mac­ular degen­er­a­tion. There is no cure, only […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering

May 09, 2014

DiMarzio Professor of the Year

ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was selected Professor of the Year by Eta Kappa Nu for his outstanding contributions to the ECE department.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 09, 2014

Student Wins GROW Grant

Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant to perform ocular diagnostic research at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, […]

Bioengineering

May 09, 2014

Eminent Service to Education

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor John Cipolla was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Edwin F. Church Medal for eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering