News
Sep 09, 2011
Prof. Michael Silevitch Discusses Homeland Security After 9/11
Professor Michael Silevitch, co-director of the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives Related Threats (ALERT), talks about homeland security ten years after 9/11. Topics Professor Silevitch discusses include how 9/11 changed the perception of homeland security in the U.S., how far we have come as a nation with regards to national security, and what challenges remain.
Sep 06, 2011
Detecting Mines Using GPR
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport was awarded a $200K NSF grant to incorporate a high resolution ground penetrating radar system into a walking robot to locate land mines and other IEDs.
Aug 29, 2011
Building a Better Tomorrow
ECE professors Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and former COE professor Alex Stankovic secured a $2.3M grant from the NSF and the Dept. of Energy to help develop the nation’s next generation of electric power transmission grids. Source: News @ Northeastern
Aug 29, 2011
Building a Better Tomorrow
ECE professors Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and former COE professor Alex Stankovic secured a $2.3M grant from the NSF and the Dept. of Energy to help develop the nation's next generation of electric power transmission grids.
Aug 22, 2011
Monitoring Air Quality
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor Stefano Basagni were awarded an $170K NSF Grant to develop a series of networks to monitor air pollution.
Aug 15, 2011
One of the Top Articles
ECE Associate Professor, Hossein Mosallaei’s paper “Array of Planar Plasmonic Scatteres Functioning as Light Concentrator” is one of the top downloaded articles in July 2011 from the journal Optic Letters.
Jul 20, 2011
Kirda Receives NSF Grant
ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was awarded a $486K NSF grant to develop tools to automatically detect when a malicious bot is trying to connect to a computer host.
Jul 12, 2011
Sun Receives $450K Grant
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun has been awarded a $450K grant from Semiconductor Research Corporation for his work in Tunable Inductors & Transformers for Filters, LNAs, and PAs.