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Aug 04, 2022
Engineering Summer Bridge Program Goes University Wide
The Summer Bridge program started in the College of Engineering 20 years ago with just 11 students and has grown so much over the years that Northeastern welcomed its inaugural university-wide Summer Bridge program this year.
Aug 04, 2022
Developing High-Performance System to Harvest Solar and Thermal Energy
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng, in collaboration with Faraday Technology Inc., received a $150k research grant from the U.S. Air Force to create “Concentric Ultra-Dark Solar-Thermal Absorber and Metasurface Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Power Conversion.”
Aug 02, 2022
Wang’s Research Paper Receives Honorary Mention at ICLR 2022 Workshop
ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded an Honorary Mention for his paper “Coarsening the Granularity: Towards Structurally Sparse Lottery Tickets” at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022) Workshop on Hardware-Aware Efficient Training (HAET) held on July 23, 2022.
Jul 28, 2022
Revolutionizing the Tissue Repair Process
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, created the spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics to develop a new process to repair soft tissue.
Jul 25, 2022
Wang Organized the ROAD4NN Workshop at DAC 2022
Yanzhi Wang, associate professor at ECE, organized the ROAD4NN workshop: International Workshop on Research Open Automatic Design for Neural Networks held on July 10, 2022, at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022. Over 100 virtual attendees registered for the workshop. Wang also served in the Early Career Workshop at DAC 2022.
Jul 22, 2022
Record Temperatures Impacting Health and Infrastructure
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz have been predicting that climate change would lead to record-breaking temperatures that would affect people’s health and dangerous environmental conditions.
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 its signature innovation competition, The Eddies. The Eddies (formerly known as NE Innovation Awards) is the oldest and longest running innovation competition in New England. […]
Jul 21, 2022
Li Receives Grant to Protect Against Poultry Diseases
The laboratory of BioE Assistant Professor JIahe Li received an industry grant from Eco Animal Science in the United Kingdom, one of the largest global animal health companies, to develop genetically modified probiotics against enteric diseases in poultry.