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Jul 01, 2021
Leeser Research Receives Best Paper Award at the HEART 2021
ECE alum Jieming Xu, PhD’20, and Professor Miriam Leeser received the best paper award at the International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART 2021) for their paper Accelerating Matrix Processing for MIMO Systems.
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Jun 24, 2021
Josep Jornet Awarded Best Paper at the IEEE WoWMoM 6G Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN) Workshop
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE WoWMoM 6G Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN) Workshop, for the work titled “Performance Analysis of a Dual Terahertz/Ka Band Communication System for Satellite Mega-Constellations”, led by his students Ali Al Qaraghuli, PhD’24, and Hussam Abdellatif, PhD’24.
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Jun 23, 2021
Northeastern Electric Racing (NER) Wins First Place in the Formula Hybrid+Electric Competition
Northeastern Electric Racing (NER) student organization won first place in the Formula Hybrid+Electric competition all-electric vehicle class.
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Jun 11, 2021
Northeastern Team Selected as a Finalist in the 2021 RASC-AL Competition
The Northeastern University team has been selected as a finalist in NASA’s 2021 RASC-AL Competition, which stands for Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage. They will showcase their aerospace concepts via a virtual platform during the 2021 RASC-AL Forum, scheduled June 15 – 17, 2021. Specifically, the Northeastern team will present to NASA and aerospace industry […]
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Jun 10, 2021
Using FPGAs for New and Efficient Computation
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser, in collaboration with Michael Zink from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was awarded a $300K collaborative EAGER NSF grant for “CNS: PRATE: P4 Research enabled by Accelerators in national TestbEds”.
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Jun 09, 2021
Getting a Rover Ready to Compete
Engineering students on the NURover team designed a new rover to compete in The Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge. Thirteen teams from five countries competed June 3-6, 2021. View video archives of the livestreamed virtual event at: http://urc.marssociety.org/home/urc-news Students have developed a rover to explore Mars. But first, it has to roam on campus. Main […]
Jun 07, 2021
Summer 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Summer 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in undergraduate research and creative endeavor throughout their Northeastern journeys. BASE CAMP AWARDS Ana Salichs, E’22, “Colorimetric Assays […]
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Jun 03, 2021
Creating an Ultrasonic Network for Wearable Devices
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for designing an “Ultrasonic network for wearable devices”.