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Jun 13, 2012

Student takes home judges’ choice award in National NSF IGERT Online Video & Poster Competition

Margery Hines, a graduate student conducting research with the Northeastern University Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship for Intelligent Diagnostics (IGERT-ID) has been awarded judges’ choice in the 2012 National NSF IGERT […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 12, 2012

Beating cancer, one nanoparticle at a time

Small wonder that Sean Burns, E’13, spends 10 hours a day in a med­ical oncology lab­o­ra­tory at the Dana-​​Farber Cancer Insti­tute, devel­oping and improving nanopar­ticle screening methods for testing the […]

Chemical Engineering

Jun 11, 2012

'Bringing water to your doorstep'

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity student-​​researchers have designed a shovel-​​ready drinking water system that has the poten­tial to pro­duce 100,000 liters of potable water per day for more than 1,100 vil­lagers in Bbanda, Uganda. […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 06, 2012

Modular Flight Camera

Under the direction of ECE Professor Bahram Shafai, a group of capstone students have created an easy to assemble and transport remote-controlled surveillance helicopter. Source: News @ Northeastern

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 06, 2012

Taking flight, then taking it apart

The Oktokopter — a remote-​​controlled, eight-​​bladed heli­copter that can hover in one place or travel great dis­tances — can be used for a range of tasks, from taking photos to […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 01, 2012

Ergun Added to INFORMS Board of Directors

MIE Associate Professor Ozlem Ergun was selected as Vice President of Membership and Professional Recognition for the INFORMS Board of Directors for 2012 – 2015.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 24, 2012

Benneyan Becomes IIE Fellow

MIE Professor James Benneyan was selected to become a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for his significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial engineering. Systems world view. Productivity. Efficiency. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 24, 2012

Creating Sustainable Buildings

CEE Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, has received a $250K NSF grant to develop a "Design for Deconstruction" method for building construction by creating sustainable steel structures.

Civil & Environmental Engineering