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Jun 05, 2017
Professors Leeser and Kokar to Work on DARPA Project with BAE Systems
ECE Professors Mitch Kokar and Miriam Leeser will work with BAE Systems on DARPA’s CONverged Collaborative Elements for RF Task Operations (CONCERTO) program. According to BAE Systems, CONCERTO focuses on supporting communications, radar, and electronic warfare systems with a flexible RF architecture that uses shared common hardware, enabling multifunction systems that meet the low-SWaP requirements […]
May 31, 2017
2017 Undergraduate Award Winners
The ECE Department is happy to congratulate the winners of the 2017 undergraduate awards. Silevitch Award – Given to assist students majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering who have demonstrated exemplary leadership either while on co-op or in other venues that required engineering accomplishment and leadership above and beyond the norm.Madeline Leger (CE) Cipher Tech Award […]
May 24, 2017
ECE PhD students Matt Higger & Fernando Quivira win 1st place in the 2017 RESNA Student Research & Design Competition
ECE Associate Professor Deniz Erdogmus and PhD students Matt Higger & Fernando Quivira won 1st place at the 2017 RESNA Student Research & Design Competition for their project called Shuffle Speller: User-Adaptive Spelling. The Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Student Design Competition (SDC) is an annual competition that showcases creative […]
May 24, 2017
ECE PhD Student Selected as Finalist in EMBC Student Paper Competition
ECE PhD student Yeganeh Marghi's paper "EEG-guided Robotic Mirror Therapy System for Lower Limb Rehabilitation" has been selected as a finalist for this year's EMBC student paper competition.
May 24, 2017
The 'Vexing Problem' of Securing Large Public Spaces
ECE Professor and ALERT Deputy Director Carey Rappaport discusses the problems with securing large venues in the wake of the recent explosion at the Ariana Grande concert.
May 17, 2017
Yeh to Lead Northeastern in $10M Multi-university, Industry Collaborative DARPA Award
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh to lead Northeastern in $10M multi-university, industry collaborative DARPA award to advance wireless communication technology.
May 09, 2017
Professor Liu Published in Advanced Materials Journal
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was recently published in Advanced Materials. The title of his paper is “Origami-Based Reconfigurable Metamaterials for Tunable Chirality.” Professor Liu’s research interests include nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics. Abstract: Origami is the art of folding two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as a flat sheet […]
May 05, 2017
ECE PhD Students Win RESNA Student R&D Competition
ECE PhD students Matt Higger and Fernando Quivira have won first place in the RESNA Student R&D Competition with their project, Shuffle Speller: User-Adaptive Spelling. This system was primarily developed as part of Higger's PhD dissertation, in collaboration with assistive technology expert clinicians at OHSU in Portland, Ore. Part of the prize money will be […]