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Jun 06, 2012
Taking flight, then taking it apart
The Oktokopter — a remote-controlled, eight-bladed helicopter that can hover in one place or travel great distances — can be used for a range of tasks, from taking photos to […]

May 18, 2012
Yeh Receives Fellowship
ECE Associate Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship to develop improved internet and wireless technologies. Source: News @ Northeastern For Edmund Yeh, what started a decade […]
May 17, 2012
Mapping Protein Shape Shifting
ECE Professors Lee Makowski, Dana Brooks, and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus have been awarded a $657K NSF grant to determine the "Precise Characterization of Conformational Ensembles". NSF is the only […]

May 15, 2012
Fighting Cyber Threats
ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was selected as the inaugural Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor for Information Assurance for his work in cybersecurity. Source: News @ […]

May 08, 2012
Rinaldi Receives DARPA Award
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi is the recipient of a $300K DARPA Young Faculty Award which supports the next generation of engineers who will work on DoD and national security issues.
May 08, 2012
Selected As Editor-in-Chief
ECE Professor Brad Lehman will be appointed Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal starting in 2013.
May 08, 2012
Congratulations Khabat Ebnabbasi
ECE PhD student Khabat Ebnabbasi was selected for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship award. Only six such fellowships are awarded worldwide.

May 04, 2012
ALERT Wins Grand Prize
A group of ECE graduates and professors from ALERT won the top prize of $10,000 for their entry of “Next Generation Millimeter-Wave Body Imaging for Concealed Threat Detection” in the 2012 National Security Innovation Competition.