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Jan 24, 2012

Tracking MassDOT Performance

CIV Professor Ali Touran has teamed up with Pioneer Institute to create a Massachusetts Transportation Dashboard to monitor how MassDOT is using tax dollars to reduce traffic congestion and increase throughput & safety.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 23, 2012

Erdogmus Awarded $95K NSF Grant

ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus is working with OHSU to apply statistical machine learning technology to minimize any errors that occur during clinical laboratory tests.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 19, 2012

Erdogmus Awarded CAREER Grant

ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus has been awarded an $505K NSF CAREER grant for “Signal Models, Channel Capacity, and Information Rate for Noninvasive Brain Interfaces”.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 12, 2012

Failure by Design

CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, has designed a system that would allow replaceable steel fuses to absorb the forces of an earthquake and save the building from damage.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jan 05, 2012

Getting More Out of Exercise

A group of capstone students, under the direction of MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis, created the Android app SQUID that monitors exercise routines via a sensor-equipped shirt.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 01, 2012

New Faculty Spotlight: Matthew J. Eckelman

Matthew J. Eckelman joined the Department in January 2012 as an Assistant Professor. An environmental engineer with cross-disciplinary training in the area of sustainable resource engineering and the urban environment, […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 20, 2011

Alumni Used Coop to Obtain Dream Job

Maureen Dutton, E'91, was able to use her coop experiences she obtained at Northeastern to achieve her childhood dream of working at NASA.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 19, 2011

Metghalchi Takes the Lead

MIE Professor & Chair Hameed Metghalchi will become the Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology on January 1, 2012.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering