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Apr 05, 2023
Alternative Spring Break Led Engineering Undergraduates Overseas
Innovators for Global Health (IGH), a student organization consisting of undergraduate engineering students, traveled to Ghana during spring break to help build relationships with local medical facilities to determine medical device needs.
Mar 31, 2023
Intro to Rocketry Program Lifts Off
The Intro to Rocketry – Airframe program successfully designed, built, tested, and launched five 6-8 foot L2 rockets in March, with some reaching heights as high as 3,600 feet. The launch was the culmination of two semesters of work by about 20 students plus five student mentors as part of Northeastern’s AerospaceNU club.
Feb 24, 2023
US Students’ ‘Big Idea’ Could Help NASA Explore the Moon
A Northeastern University student team, who won the 2022 NASA BIG IDEA Competition for their COBRA robot, was featured in the VOA News article “US Students’ ‘Big Idea’ Could Help […]
Feb 16, 2023
Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time To Send a Snakebot to Space
A Northeastern University student team, who won the 2022 NASA BIG IDEA Competition, was featured in the Wired article “Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time To Send a Snakebot to […]
Dec 20, 2022
Rover Team Prepares for Next Competition
After competing at the global Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge earlier this year, the Northeastern Mars Rover Team, advised by MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney, is gearing up for next year’s competition.
Dec 15, 2022
‘Snakes’ on the Moon? These Helpers Could Soon Join Our Lunar Mission.
The engineering students that created the snake-like robot, Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator (COBRA), were featured in the National Geographic article “‘Snakes’ on the Moon? These Helpers Could Soon Join […]
Dec 13, 2022
WIoT Team Wins First Prize at IEEE Advanced Air Mobility – Concepts Innovation Challenge
A team of researchers with the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) consisting of computer engineering students Matteo Bordin, PhD’26, and Pietro Brach Del Prever, PhD’27, and led by ECE Research Assistant Professor Salvatore D’Oro, won first prize at the IEEE Advanced Air Mobility – Concepts Innovation Challenge.
Dec 12, 2022
SC22 Demo Shows Record Performance for NDN-based Data Delivery Platform
The NSF-supported multi-university N-DISE (NDN for Data-Intensive Science Experiments) project, led by ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, finished a highly successful demo at SC22 in Dallas.