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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 […]
Jun 12, 2013
Quadcopter to the Rescue
Under the direction of Bahram Shafai, a team of Electrical and Computer Engineering capstone students Cameron Olean, Ben Leathe, Tim Hickson, Chase Hathaway, Dan Petrillo, and Andrew Barada have developed TRAQ—an autonomous quadcopter […]
Jun 11, 2013
A New Way to Communicate
Under the direction of Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor Waleed Meleis, a team of ECE capstone students have developed a Interoperable Communication Device (ICD) that allows 2-way radio […]
Jun 11, 2013
Rizvi Wins Intel Scholarship
Congratulations to Noreen Rizvi, a Chemical Engineering PhD student who won a 2013 Intel Corporation scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers, for her outstanding academic achievement as well as strong engineering […]
Jun 10, 2013
3Qs: A 3-D printout for your health
The field of 3-D printing technology is revolutionizing industries across the spectrum, from the arts to electronics. We asked Constantinos Mavroidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, to explain how the approach, […]
Jun 10, 2013
vi-RABT Project Wins Again
Congratulations to the team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering students who won First Place at the 2013 Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day Poster Competition for their "vi-RABT: Virtually- Interfaced Robotic Ankle […]
Jun 10, 2013
Dy to Represent Northeastern
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy was one of only 100 young engineers in the country to be invited to attend the 2013 National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of […]