News
Jun 01, 2016
Influencing Students for Several Decades
Professors Michael Silevitch (ECE) and John Cipolla (MIE) have worked at Northeastern University training thousands of students for over four decades and have setup funds to push these students to reach their highest potentials. Source: Northeastern Magazine These senior engineering professors became friends and research collaborators soon after joining the faculty in 1971. Celebrating careers […]
May 27, 2016
NVIDIA GPU Education Center Status Renewed
The ECE Department is happy to announce our status as a NVIDIA GPU Education Center has been renewed under the direction of Professor Miriam Leeser. According to NVIDIA, the GPU Education Center Program recognizes and supports academic institutions with a track record teaching GPU Computing at both the undergrad and graduate level.
May 26, 2016
Sarada Symonds Wins SWE National Scholarship
Sarada Symonds, who is currently pursing a BS in Computer Engineering & Computer Science, was awarded the very competitive "2016 GE Women's Network scholarship" by the Society of Women Engineers.
May 19, 2016
Inventing Marine Robots
Professors Hanumant Singh (ECE), Mark Patterson (CEE & MES), and Joseph Ayers (MES) are inventing new and improved robots to explore parts of the ocean that humans cannot.
May 19, 2016
Swarming Red Crabs in Hannibal Bank Seamount
ECE Professor Hanumant Singh's article on "A crab swarm at an ecological hotspot: patchiness and population density from AUV observations at a coastal, tropical seamount" published in PeerJ was picked up by several media outlets including: CNBC, Discovery, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, New York Times, Smithsonian.com, The Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal.
May 19, 2016
Improving Valkyrie’s Mobility
The Associated Press featured ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir and his team as they work to improve Valkyrie's movements which will help the robot use tools, climb ladders, and perform high-level tasks once it is shipped to Mars.
May 18, 2016
Two ECE PhD Students Win Best Poster Award at 2016 High Performance Computing Day
Phd Students Fanny Nina-Paravecino and Leiming Yu received a best poster award at the 2016 High Performance Computing Day held at UMASS Dartmouth. Both Fanny Nina-Paravecino and Leiming Yu are PhD students in the Northeastern University Research Group (NUCAR) under Professor Dave Kaeli. Their NIH-funded research is led by PI Professor Qianqian Fang from the Department of Bioengineering. The ECE […]