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Aug 08, 2014

Modeling Nonlinear Data

ECE Professors Octavia Camps, Mario Sznaier, & CEE Associate Professor Ferdinand Hellweger were awarded a $380K NSF grant to use OUR Charles to generate models of high volume nonlinear data steams.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 06, 2014

Learning While Teaching

By participating in NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, undergraduates are able to teach high school students to build robots while reinforcing their own engineering skills.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 31, 2014

Northeastern Engineering announces 8 Young Investigator Awards in 2013-2014

These faculty recognitions bring the total young investigator awards in the college to 39, including 25 NSF CAREER and 10 DOD Young Investigator awards.

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 28, 2014

Tracking Sperm Whales

ECE associate professor Purnima Ratilal is using underwater acoustic methods to get the first high-resolution data localizing sperm whales in continental shelf waters off the coast of New England.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 22, 2014

Interdisciplinary NSF Grant

Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Affiliated Assistant Professor Tarik Gouhier were awarded an $1.2M NSF Cyber SEES grant to study changes in marine organisms based on ocean temperature. The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 17, 2014

Early Disease Detection

EE Alum Asan­terabi Malima, PhD’13, was pre­sented with an Entre­pre­neurial Award by Gov. Deval Patrick for founding Biolom and developing a device that enables early, low-cost disease detection.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 15, 2014

Prof. Ningfang Mi on Predicting the Unpredictable

There’s an almost mythical quality to Professor Ningfang Mi’s work in computing resource management and capacity planning.  Her research aims to revolutionize the behind-the-scenes operations of the Internet and cloud computing to increase quality, improve efficiency, and decrease costs. But in a world with billions of web pages and billions of Internet users, this is […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 19, 2014

Nature’s nanoantenna

In the majority of his research, North­eastern asso­ciate pro­fessor of elec­trical and com­puter engi­neering Hos­sein Mos­al­laei tries to develop new mate­rials that aren’t avail­able in nature. But in some recent work with col­leagues at Har­vard University’s Depart­ment of Chem­istry and Chem­ical Biology, Mos­al­laei is looking to nature her­self for the inspiration. The mate­rials Mos­al­laei typ­i­cally works with are […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering