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Sep 27, 2022
Solar Decathlon Team Looks To Design Net-Zero Housing Properties
The Northeastern Solar Decathlon team was a winner of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge, a distinction that came with $50,000 in funding. They are working to become the first collegiate Solar Decathlon Build Challenge team to build a multiunit, energy-efficient structure in an urban environment.
Aug 29, 2022
Xie Awarded $2 Million NIIMBL Stem Cell Research Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Wei Xie received a $2M award from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, for the project “Advanced Bioprocessing Sensor and Analytical Technologies for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture Online Monitoring and Automation.”
Aug 16, 2022
Spearheading the Resurgence of Semiconductor Manufacturing Domestically
University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina, mechanical and industrial engineering, is part of the Massachusetts Semiconductor Coalition which has been working to grow the semiconductor sector in the state.
Jul 22, 2022
Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists
Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts […]
Jan 24, 2022
risQ Acquired by Intercontinental Exchange
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly’s spinout company risQ, a climate modeling and analytics company founded by him and his former PhD students, was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange last month.
Aug 11, 2021
Northeastern Wins $10 Million NSF Grant to Boost People of Color and Women in Engineering Nationally
Northeastern’s College of Engineering won a prestigious NSF $10 million five-year grant, Engineering PLUS (Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students) Alliance, to build a system and a network to increase engineering degrees among women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color) nationally. Karl Reid, Northeastern University’s Chief Diversity Office, is PI, and Michael Silevitch, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, ECE, Claire Duggan, director of STEM programs and operations, COE, and Richard Harris, assistant dean for Academic Scholarship, Mentoring, and Outreach and director of NU Program in Multicultural Engineering, COE, are co-PIs, as well as Karen Horting of the Society of Women Engineers.
May 12, 2021
Fostering Innovation through Collaboration
In recent years, the Kostas Research Institute located at the Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, added an Expeditionary Cyber & Unmanned Aircraft Systems Lab—the first of its kind in the United States. Ongoing renovations also added 30,000 square feet of entrepreneurial space—the Venture Creation Center, furthering innovation opportunities for engineering faculty, students, and alumni.
Apr 16, 2021
Silevitch to Direct New AI Jumpstart Program
ECE Professor Michael Silevitch will lead a new Massachusetts program, AI Jumpstart, to connect small business owners in the state with academic faculty experts to learn how machine learning can grow their companies. Northeastern received a $2.2 million state grant that will be used primarily for high-speed computer equipment and also to provide for faculty consultants, both of which will be available to selected companies to get the pilot effort up and running. Northeastern kicked in an additional $2 million, raising the program’s total value to more than $4 million.