News
Mar 02, 2018
Research Using Drone Finds Super Colony of Penguins
Using an autonomous aerial drone system developed by ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have discovered a colony of more than 1,500,000 Adélie Penguins on the Danger Islands—more than the rest of the entire Antarctic Peninsula region combined.
Mar 01, 2018
Robotics Showcase
A variety of robots, such as a prosthetic hand, drones, mobile robots, and an autonomous car and kayak from ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir’s RIVeR Lab and ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh’s robotics research center were on display at the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex as part of National Engineers Week.
Feb 10, 2018
Rappaport gives Distinguished Lecture at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport gave an invited talk in Princeton, NJ at the Dept. of Energy Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; "Advanced Millimeter-Wave Radar Concealed Threat Person Scanning System – or, How to Design an Airport Scanner that is so Accurate that We Won’t Need Humans to Look at Images."
Feb 06, 2018
Detecting Hardware Sabotage
ECE Assistant Professor Marvin Onabajo is using his Army Research Office Young Investigator award to detect if electronic chips have been embedded with malicious Trojans.
Feb 01, 2018
2018 Spring ECE Meet Your Professors Social
Students and faculty enjoyed the spring 2018 ECE Meet Your Professors Social. Every year the department holds this event as an opportunity for students and professors to get to know each other and interact outside of the classroom. Thanks to everyone who attended.
Jan 15, 2018
Mathworks TA office hours for Spring 2018
Happy New Year and welcome to the Spring 2018 semester! My name is Mohammadreza Alimadadi and I will continue working as the MathWorks Teaching Assistant during Spring 2018 semester. As before, I try to provide on-campus help and mentoring concerning MathWorks products. I’d like to thank all the people who stopped by my office hours […]
Jan 12, 2018
Join Enabling Engineering!
Would you like to use your engineering skills to make a difference in a disabled person’s life? Would you like to get technical design experience while connecting with students and faculty? If so, please consider joining the Enabling Engineering Student Group. Enabling Engineering is a student group that designs and builds low-cost devices to improve […]
Jan 10, 2018
Amirabadi and Lehman Awarded $660K from ARPA-E and MassCEC for Transformational Energy Technology
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi and ECE Professor Brad Lehman were awarded $628K in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and $33K from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC).