News
Jul 08, 2022
Northeastern Co-Ops Win Scholarships from Employer DN Tanks
DN Tanks, a company specializing in engineering concrete tanks for a wide variety of water, wastewater, fuel, and other infrastructure and industrial purposes, recently awarded scholarships for their semi-yearly awards program. The scholarships highlight co-ops or interns “who make unique contributions and exhibit DN Tanks’ Core Values.” This year, two Northeastern Department of Civil and […]
Jul 07, 2022
Using Spark Fund Award for Sustainable Biofuel Production
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston is using the Spark Funds he received earlier this year to make sustainable biofuel production available to be commercialized.
Jul 07, 2022
Rethinking Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Optimization for the Internet of Things
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo were awarded a $600K NSF grant for “Self-Adaptive Interference-Avoiding Wireless Receiver Hardware through Real-Time Learning-Based Automatic Optimization of Power-Efficient Integrated Circuits.”
Jul 07, 2022
ECE PhD Students Win PETRA Best Student Paper Award
ECE PhD student Kyle Lockwood and coauthors received the best student paper award at PETRA 2022 (Corfu, Greece), with their paper titled “Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover”.
Jul 07, 2022
Tiwari Receives PC Chair Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari served as the Program Chair of the 31st ACM HPDC’23 conference, which is one of the top-tier, highly-selective HPC conferences. The HPDC Steering Committee recognized Tiwari with the “PC Chair Award” for building this year’s strong & innovative program and inducted him to the HPDC steering committee.
Jul 07, 2022
Wang Publishes 2nd Edition of Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures
CEE Professor Ming Wang is the editor of the 2nd edition of “Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures” – Volumes 1 and 2.
Jul 07, 2022
Sontag Receives MURI Grant for Synthetic Biology
Distinguished University Professor Eduardo Sontag (ECE, BIOE; affiliate in Mathematics and ChE) and collaborators received a $7.5M award ($1.25M to Northeastern University) entitled “Rules of composition in synthetic biology across scales of complexity: theory and tools.”
Jul 06, 2022
Students Published and Presented at the 2022 ASEE National Conference
Under the supervision of Professor Bala Maheswaran, engineering students published and presented seven papers (involving thirty-nine students) at the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference on June 26-29, 2022, in Minneapolis, MN. In addition, Professor Maheswaran co-presented a workshop on “Projects-Based Arduino/Raspberry Pi Activities,” a panel discussion on “Energy and Environmental Education in a Diverse and […]