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Apr 29, 2013

Lehman Awarded NSF Grant

Electronic and Computer Engineering Professor Brad Lehman was awarded an $150K NSF grant to develop smart power detection devices for photovoltaic installations. Dr. Lehman is presently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University and previously was a Hearin Hess Distinguished Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. In 1994, Dr. […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 23, 2013

Increasing IVF Success

Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his “Phase subtraction cell counting method” to accurately count the cells in an embryo to increase the probability of a healthy transfer during fertility treatments. Dr. DiMarzio the author of Optics for Engineers and currently leads OSL, the Optical Science Laboratory, which is affiliated […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 16, 2013

Student engineers tackle real-​​world technical challenges

The most chal­lenging tech­nical prob­lems facing engi­neers and sci­en­tists today don’t have an easy answer. But proposing an approach is a crit­ical first step to moving toward research and devel­op­ment, according to North­eastern grad­uate stu­dent Sarah Brown. Brown is the spe­cial projects coor­di­nator in the National Pro­grams Com­mittee of the National Society of Black Engi­neers. She is also a member of Northeastern’s chapter […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 04, 2013

FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients

22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.

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

Mar 28, 2013

Senior Receives High Honor

Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Fernando Quivira is a recipient of the Harold Hodgkinson Award in recognition of scholastic achievement, leadership, coop, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. This is one of the highest honors that a senior at Northeastern can receive.  Fernando discovered his passion for research as a freshman volunteering in campus laboratories. […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 26, 2013

Outstanding Student Researchers

Congratulations to the team of computer engineering BS students who won the Excellence in Innovation award at RISE 2013 for their FilterLight project: a low-cost, human-powered UV water filtration system. View video here.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 14, 2013

3Qs: The 3-​​D printing of tomorrow

Ahmed Bus­naina, the William Lin­coln Smith Pro­fessor and director of the NSF Nanoscale Sci­ence and Engi­neering Center for High-​​rate Nanoman­u­fac­turing at North­eastern, has devel­oped a method called directed assembly that he calls the 3-​​D printing of tomorrow. It is faster, cheaper, and more ver­sa­tile than tra­di­tional 3-​​D printing, and he said it could enable a […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 12, 2013

Inventing a Better Antenna

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors Carmine Vittoria & Vincent Harris were awarded a patent for creating an “Antenna Module having Reduced Size, High Gain, and Increased Power Efficiency”.  Carmine Vittoria received his PH.D. in applied quantum physics from Yale University in 1970. He was employed at the Naval Research Laboratory as a physicist. Topics of research […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering