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Jun 10, 2013
Dy to Represent Northeastern
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy was one of only 100 young engineers in the country to be invited to attend the 2013 National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. The 2013 US Frontiers of Engineering was hosted by DuPont on September 19-21, at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware. About 100 outstanding engineers under […]
Jun 10, 2013
Students dial in on emergency communications
When the south tower of Manhattan’s World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, emergency responders outside the building ordered the firefighters within to evacuate. Many did not receive the message. As is often the case in emergency situations, the communication took place almost entirely over radio waves. According to the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, […]
May 28, 2013
2nd Patent for DiMarzio
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his method of “Acoustic Assisted Phase Conjugate Optical Tomography”. This is DiMarzio’s second patent this year. The patent he received earlier this year in April was for “Phase subtraction cell counting method”. Dr. DiMarzio the author of Optics for Engineers and currently leads OSL, the Optical Science Laboratory, […]
May 20, 2013
Stopping Cyber Criminals
To stop cybercrime, you need to think like a criminal. That's what Northeastern is teaching information assurance students to do. – See more at: http://www.northeastern.edu/magazine/know-thine-enemy/#sthash.KID73xMR.dpuf
May 15, 2013
Ali Abur creates a more efficient grid
Ali Abur, professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering In the next decade, power generation from renewable energy is expected to grow significantly in the U.S. But those resources—solar and wind—are concentrated in the Southwest and the Great Plains, while most of the country’s electricity is consumed across time zones on the coasts. Matching […]
May 06, 2013
Great Honors for Prof Kaeli
ECE Professor David Kaeli is being named a Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Distinguished Professor and his NUCAR lab has been designated a HSA Academic Center of Excellence. This is attributed to recent work with AMD, Samsung and Qualcomm in the area of heterogeneous and GPU computing. "The HSA Foundation is an open foundation with broad industry […]
May 01, 2013
Manipulating Virtual World
Using concepts from Iron Man, a team of ECE capstone students have developed a Gesture Operated Computer Aided Design tool (goCAD) to move computer objects with hand movements. Source: News @ Northeastern “If Tony Stark can do it in a cave with scraps,” said Kyle Dumont, then, well, he and the other members of his […]
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. […]