News
Apr 10, 2014
Abur Receives PES Award
ECE professor Ali Abur is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award. Dr. Abur has been a part of the Northeastern community since 2005 as a professor. Since then, his research in the area of power systems has been widely published. He is also a Fellow of […]
Apr 07, 2014
Computing’s invisible challenge
To us, it may not seem like a big deal: CNN’s website is taking too long to load. The day’s most popular YouTube video won’t stop buffering. “Twitter is over capacity.” While these little hiccups in usability may frustrate end users, they merely scratch the surface of the enormous technical challenge that’s confronting the backend. Northeastern University […]
Mar 28, 2014
COE Silicon Valley Spring Break
ECE Professor & Chair Sheila S. Hemami, Professor David Kaeli, and Coop Coordinators Brian Albrecht & George Kent arranged for ECE students to visit a range of Silicon Valley companies, meet with employees, and hear presentations on company benefits. In the past, students who have gone on the trip have enjoyed learning about big-name companies such […]
Mar 27, 2014
ECE Distinguished Speaker Albert P. Pisano: How Engineering is a Force for the Public Good
On March 27, Professor Albert P. Pisano, Dean of the Jacbos School of Engineering at UCSD, delivered an ECE Distinguished Speaker Seminar entitled “Engineering as a Force for the Public Good.” Prof. Pisano described a vision in which advances in engineering yield a variety of world abundances—from fresh water and food to energy and manufacturing. […]
Mar 25, 2014
Sternad Selected Klein Lecturer
ECE & COS Professor Dagmar Sternad has been selected as this year’s Robert D. Klein University Lecturer. This award honors faculty members who have contributed to their field of study and share that scholarship with the University and the general public. Dagmar Sternad is an internationally known authority in the field of experimental and computational […]
Mar 20, 2014
Congratulations to recipients of the FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants
19 COE faculty were recipients of FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $500K dollars of investment in research.
Mar 14, 2014
Northeastern ECE Professor and Chair Sheila S. Hemami presents Professor José Moura with the Distinguished Speaker Seminar plaque
Professor José M. F. Moura delivered the latest ECE Distinguished Speaker Series seminar on March 14 at Northeastern. The lecture, "The Data Deluge – the End of Theory?” drew examples from social media to discuss Big Data and whether this new influx of information has the power to render theories obsolete. Prof. Moura—who specializes in […]
Mar 03, 2014
Face value
Facebook is home to nearly 3 billion photos. Every minute, YouTube grows by another 100 hours of video. And, according to IHS Research, some 30 million surveillance cameras pepper our public spaces, collecting nearly 4 billion hours of footage each week. Needless to say, there’s a lot of image data that’s ripe for the picking. Content like this […]