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Jul 05, 2017
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava Awarded Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded a patent for “Methods and apparatus for a single inductor multiple output (SIMO) DC-DC converter circuit.” Abstract Source: USPTO In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit, with the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit having a set of output nodes. The […]
Jun 28, 2017
Protecting Privacy for Wireless Medical Devices
Affiliated CCIS Professor Guevara Noubir and ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a $300K NSF grant for "Assessing and Protecting Privacy in Wireless Wearable Sensor-Generated Medical Data".
Jun 28, 2017
Young Scholar Program Provides Experience-Based Learning for Future Scientists and Engineers
The Center for STEM Education kicked off its 2017 Young Scholars Program on June 26, 2017, with 26 budding scientists and engineers from high schools at a variety of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
Jun 28, 2017
Why are Robots called ‘Robots’?
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir explains the origins of the word "robot" in this week's version of Why is That?
Jun 22, 2017
Northeastern ECE Students Compete at International Conference
Three ECE undergraduate students competed in the 2017 Student Cluster Competition at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The students, teaming with three students from Purdue University, came in second place in the Linpack challenge, setting a new American record. Northeastern’s Spencer Hance, Zack Marcus and Carter McCardwell make up half of the NP-Complete […]
Jun 14, 2017
Geolocation LocATER System for First Responders
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was awarded a $200K NSF grant to design "LocATER: Localization and Accountability Technology for Emergency Responders".
Jun 13, 2017
Biometric Boarding Pass
Associate Professors Andrews Gouldstone (MIE) and Yunsi Fei (ECE) weigh in on using biometrics such as facial recognition and fingerprint scans at airports.
Jun 05, 2017
Annual Graduate Student Award Ceremony Awardees
On May 3rd, the Graduate School of Engineering hosted the annual Graduate Student Award Ceremony to honor the 2017 recipients of the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Award, and the College of Engineering Leadership Award for MS students. Click through photos or see full photo gallery. […]