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May 08, 2014

Young humanitarians win national award

The Engineers Without Borders student group was named the National Premier Student Chapter for 2014 from a pool of over 200 student chapters from around the country.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 07, 2014

John Kennedy (BSCE, 1972) Elected International Vice President of ITE

Congratulations to John Kennedy, Northeastern Alumnus and Senior Principal and co-founder of VHB, who was recently elected as the 2014 International Vice President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

May 07, 2014

Sampling Frozen Specimens

MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a patent for developing “Systems, methods, and devices for frozen sample distribution”. Much of Dr. Ruberti's research is based on biomechanics. His patent […]

Bioengineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 07, 2014

VMM Intrusion Detection

ECE Professor David Kaeli and Associate Professor Jennifer Dy were awarded a patent for creating a Virtual Machine Monitor Based Intrusion Detection System. Dr. Kaeli leads the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 07, 2014

Dirt & Crystalline Interfaces

Advised by MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu, PhD student Changjian Wang published an article in the EPL (Europhysics Letters) journal entitled “Shear Accommodation in Dirty Grain Boundaries”. The paper is based on […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 07, 2014

Outstanding Thermodynamics

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Hameed Metghalchi was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Edward F. Obert award for outstanding paper on thermodynamics. Professor Metghalchi’s research interests […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 07, 2014

National Scholarship

Congratulations to IE junior Ashley Tokarz who was awarded the Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The $3K scholarship is granted to outstanding undergraduate students who are pursuing […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 06, 2014

From climate change comes opportunity to innovate

A cur­sory look at the Third National Cli­mate Assess­ment released Tuesday by the National Cli­mate Assess­ment and Devel­op­ment Advi­sory Com­mittee yields a grim out­look. The authors state that cli­mate change is already […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering