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Oct 07, 2022
Accelerating the Production of Tetratenite as Alternative to Rare-Earth Magnets
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, has developed a method to create tetratenite as an alternative to rare-earth magnets, which she was recently awarded a patent for.
Oct 07, 2022
Announcing Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards. This extraordinary group of students is taking on a range of exciting projects, from exploring axolotl limb regeneration to building a snake-inspired robot to understanding accessibility on Broadway. ASCENT AWARDS Justin Almendral COE’24, “Wearable Art” Mentor: […]
Oct 06, 2022
COE Hosts Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents Meeting
President Joseph E. Aoun and Dean Gregory D. Abowd hosted a meeting of the Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents on September 30, 2022. President Aoun discusses the future of higher ed with Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents Group of Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents members pose with Joseph E. […]
Sep 29, 2022
New Open6G DOD Research Center to Jumpstart Beyond 5G Systems Research
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things led by ECE faculty announces Open6G, a DOD-supported industry-university cooperative research center focused on future open, programmable, and disaggregated 6G systems. The technical effort will be housed at the Innovation Campus in Burlington, and its goal is to create a federal-industry-university cooperative research, development, testing, and commercialization hub to jumpstart beyond-5G systems research.
Sep 29, 2022
Yong Receives ONR YIP Award to Help Create Autonomous Navy Ships
MIE Associate Professor Sze Zheng Yong was awarded a $750K Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms with Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data.” Yong is one of only twenty-five to share nearly $17.5 million in funding to conduct innovative scientific research that will benefit science and technology for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Sep 28, 2022
Zhang Receives ONR YIP Award to Develop THz System-on-a-Chip
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Cryogenically Enabled Ultrabroadband THz System-on-a-Chip.” With its comprehensive on-chip signal processing capabilities including THz generation, routing, manipulation, and detection, novel THz SOCs will be suitable for a broad range of applications such as THz wireless communication and sensing without any off-chip components.
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 multi-unit, energy-efficient structure in an urban environment. The team is led by students Aasav Harania, MS in Energy Systems, and Ted Walinskas, BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Engineering and Public Policy, and is advised by CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane.
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation to Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.