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Oct 24, 2016
ECE Team Wins First Place at ACM Multimedia International Conference
A Northeastern team was awarded first place at the 2016 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference MSR Image Recognition Grand Challenge. Along with a certificate and trophy, the award […]
Oct 14, 2016
Five PES Scholarship Winners Put Northeastern in Top Ten
The ECE Department is happy to announce five of our students have won a 2016/17 Power and Energy Society (PES) Scholarship. Congratulations to: Jessica Bardio, Northeastern University, 2020 Drew HasBrouck, Northeastern University, […]

Oct 14, 2016
S-POWER Program to Increase STEM and Energy fields
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman, MIE Associate Professor Marilyn Minus, Assistant Dean Richard Harris, and STEM Director Claire Duggan were awarded a 5-year $5M NSF grant to develop a "Student Pathways Opening World Energy Resources (S-POWER)" program.

Sep 29, 2016
Sternad Awarded Grant to Create Robots with Better Human Dexterity
COS/ECE Professor Dagmar Sternad was awarded a $500K collaborative NSF grant to research "Towards Robots with Human Dexterity".

Sep 27, 2016
ECE PhD Student Nominated for Best Paper
PhD Student Yifan Sun has been nominated for a Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization in Providence, R.I. Sun's paper is titled: "Hetero-Mark, A Benchmark Suite […]

Sep 23, 2016
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi Receives the Best Paper Award
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi, received the Best Paper Award at the 8th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE 2016). Her paper was entitled "Cuk-Based Universal Converters in […]

Sep 22, 2016
Chowdhury has one of the Top 25 most Downloaded Sensors Paper
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury's paper on "Low-Cost Wake-Up Receiver for RF Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks" was one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers for June 2016. […]

Sep 19, 2016
COE Lab Fair Opens Up New Opportunities
When ECE student Andrew Tu met Associate Professor Stefano Basagni at last year's COE Undergraduate Lab Fair last year, it opened his eyes to all the research opportunities available at […]