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Sep 20, 2013
Ohio TSA Honors ALERT
Michael Young, Federal Security Director of the Ohio Transportation Security Administration, presented ALERT with an award for their Video Analytic Surveillance Transition project. ALERT seeks to conduct transformational research, develop […]
Sep 19, 2013
Deep water data
Urban coastal sustainability becomes an ever more pressing concern as more than half of the world’s population flocks to its shores—the places where cities thrive. But coastal cities don’t just […]
Sep 18, 2013
Carrier to Represent NU
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier is one of only 73 young engineers in the country to be invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education […]
Sep 17, 2013
A storm in our veins
Suppose you’re hiking through the forest on a sunny afternoon as a light breeze passes through the trees, gently grazing your skin. Suddenly the sky opens up and a rainstorm […]
Sep 16, 2013
Ethics and Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Jackie Isaacs were awarded a $248K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to incorporate ethics education into life cycle design, engineering, […]
Sep 16, 2013
‘All models are wrong, some are useful’
There are good models and there are bad models. For example, how many times have you purchased what amounted to be a garbage sack because it looked so much like a […]
Sep 13, 2013
Mavroidis Wins 3 Grants
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Constantinos Mavroidis was awarded two NSF grants and one NASA grant totaling $750K to study Gear Bearing Drives for robotic joints and MRI Guided Magnetic NanoParticles. The National Science […]
Sep 13, 2013
Optimized Computing Space
Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Gunar Schirner and Professor David Kaeli were awarded a $450K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop "Power Efficient Emerging Heterogeneous Platforms." The National Science […]