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Sep 05, 2013

Fast Track in Engineering

Fast-paced development Nick Brooks, ME’12 With plans for a new high-rise municipal building in a Boston neighborhood in flux, planning and design firm Sasaki Associates needed a point person to […]

Gordon Engineering Leadership Program

Sep 03, 2013

Onabajo Wins NSF Grant

ECE Assistant Professor Marvin Onabajo was awarded a $200K National Science Foundation EAGER grant to create a "Integrated Self-Calibrated Analog Front-End for Biopotential and Bioimpedance Measurements".  The National Science Foundation (NSF) […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 26, 2013

A wave for the future in faster computing

While most of us use our com­puters for tex­ting friends, watching videos, or reading the news, vir­tu­ally every­thing we do on our elec­tronic devices is actu­ally manip­u­lated by math­e­mat­ical oper­a­tions. […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 26, 2013

Mimicking Bone Structures

MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a $300K National Science Foundation grant to study the complexities of bone material to help synthesis future composite materials. The NSF funds research […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 22, 2013

Cultural immersion sparks innovation

As part of Northeastern’s inau­gural Dia­logue of Inno­va­tion and Civ­i­liza­tion pro­gram, more than a dozen stu­dents devel­oped sus­tain­able solu­tions to a range of eco­nomic and agri­cul­tural chal­lenges facing farmers in Cameroon. […]

Aug 22, 2013

Camps & Sznaier Win NSF Grant

Electrical & Computer Engineering Professors Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier were awarded a $455K National Science Foundation grant to study "Dynamic Invariants for Video Scenes Understanding."  Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 22, 2013

Lin Awarded $235K NSF Grant

MIE Associate Professor Yingzi Lin was awarded a $235K National Science Foundation grant to determine how to integrate human factors such as emotion, mental workload and attention into a Driver […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 22, 2013

The Future of Climate Changes: The current state of climate change science

Ear­lier this week, the public learned the details of the upcoming fifth assess­ment report (or, “AR5”) of the United Nations’ Inter­gov­ern­mental Panel on Cli­mate Change, an inter­na­tional body whose man­date […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering