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Jul 01, 2013

Creating Sustainable Cities

COE faculty Andrew Myers, Jerry Hajjar, Carey Rappaport, Michael Silevitch, Sara Wadia-Fascetti, and Matthias Ruth are working on improving the sustainability of the urban environment.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 26, 2013

Hands-on Skill Retention

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski & Assistant Academic Specialist Bridget Smyser received the DELOS Best Paper Award for “Examining skill retention from a redesigned laboratory course to […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 21, 2013

Body of work

Sandra Shefelbine has always been interested in the human body as a mechanical system: “The lungs are gas exchangers and the heart is a pump,” said the associate professor of […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 21, 2013

Smart devices need smart communication standards

Today you can hold a slew of com­puters in the palm of your hand. Smart­phones, said David Kaeli, a vir­tu­al­iza­tion tech­nology expert and pro­fessor of elec­trical and com­puter engi­neering at North­eastern, inte­grate […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 17, 2013

Better Security Parameters

Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yunsi Fei was awarded a $522K NSF Grant to create “A Unified Statistics-Based Framework for Side-Channel Attack Analysis and Security Evaluation of Cryptosystems”. Dr. […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 17, 2013

In Memoriam: Yaman Yener

Senior Associate Dean Yener passed away on Friday, June 14, 2013. See letter from Dean Aubry to the Northeastern University community.

Jun 14, 2013

Northeastern hosts meeting of healthcare fellows

“Health­care sys­tems in the U.S. are a mess in every dimen­sion,” said pro­fessor James Ben­neyan, founder and director of Northeastern’s Health­care Sys­tems Engi­neering Insti­tute. In opening remarks at the annual Health­care […]

Jun 13, 2013

The science of sculpture, nano-​​style

The next break­through in highly effi­cient bat­tery tech­nolo­gies and solar cells may very well be nanoscopic crys­tals of sil­icon assem­bled like sky­scrapers on wafer-​​scale sub­strates. An impor­tant route for growth […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering