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Dec 02, 2013

Congratulations Radhika Barua

Radhika Barua, a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. candidate has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2013-2014 GMAG (Topical Group on Magnetism) PhD Dissertation Research Award for outstanding dissertation research […]

Chemical Engineering

Dec 02, 2013

Researchers ready for historic aquatic ‘Mission’

“Only when he can range wider, stay longer, go deeper, can man learn to uti­lize the incred­ible wealth of the sea.” In 1973, those words wel­comed viewers into the unprece­dented on-​​screen […]

Dec 02, 2013

Gupta: Book of the Month

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Surendra Gupta’s book “Reverse Supply Chains: Issues and Analysis” was selected as Book of the Month by Industrial Engineer Magazine. The magazine serves the diverse audience of […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 27, 2013

ECE Superstars win at supercomputers

When pro­fessor Dave Kaeli approached them about entering a super­com­puter com­pe­ti­tion, elec­trical and com­puter engi­neering stu­dents Neel Shah and Tushar Swamy had zero expe­ri­ence in the task at hand. “I […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nov 25, 2013

Nickerson Awarded Scholarship

Matthew Nickerson, a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering BS/MS student, is the recipient of a $5000 James D. Arangio Scholarship. The family of James D. Arangio ’62 has established a scholarship fund […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 25, 2013

Sharrows on Steroids

Boston installs "sharrows on steroids," a new way of marking lanes shared by bikes and cars, invented by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Peter Furth. Dr. Furth received a Ph.D. degree in […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 21, 2013

Robotic inspectors on disaster duty

In March 2011, the Tohoku earth­quake in Japan ini­ti­ated a tsunami that wreaked havoc across the coast of the island nation. The most infa­mous damage occurred when the Fukushima Daichii […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 21, 2013

To treat cancer, is the force strong with nanorobots?

Every day, more than 20,000 people around the world suc­cumb to cancer, according to sta­tis­tics com­piled by the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion. Thou­sands more con­tinue to suffer through treat­ment and its […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering