ECE Student Stories
Dec 05, 2017
ECE Student Receives Schwarzman Scholarship
ECE student Brett Daley, E’18, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of only 142 out of 4,000 applicants, and enabling him to enroll in a yearlong, fully funded master’s program at Schwarzman College on the Tsinghua University campus in Beijing.
Dec 05, 2017
COE Team Selected as 2018 NASA RASC-AL Mars Ice Challenge Finalists
A team of undergraduate engineering students have been selected as finalists for the 2018 NASA RASC-AL Mars Ice Challenge for their project on “Northeastern University Planetary Articulating Water Extraction System (NU PAWES)”.
Dec 04, 2017
Perspective on Undergraduate Research from One Who Knows
Written by Emma Kaeli, chemical engineering undergraduate student. Chemical Engineering undergraduate student Emma Kaeli shares her research experiences: In my first year here at Northeastern, I made one of the best decisions I have made yet—getting involved with academic research.After trying out bioengineering and even electrical engineering projects, I found myself volunteering in Dr. Katherine […]
Nov 27, 2017
Northeastern Team is a Finalist at the IAEA Robotics Challenge
A Northeastern University team was selected as one of ten finalists in the International Atomic Energy Agency Robotics Challenge for their entry “Small-UGV for Conducting In-Field Inspections (SCIFI) in Nuclear Environments.”
Nov 20, 2017
Ian McDonald awarded Judge’s Choice in "Magnetism as Art" Showcase
Interdisciplinary PhD student Ian J McDonald of the Nanomagnetism Group, led by ChE/MIE Professor Laura H. Lewis, won the Judge’s Choice in the “Magnetism as Art” Showcase at the Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
Nov 14, 2017
Northeastern Team Competes at 2017 Supercomputing Conference
A team made of six Northeastern ECE/CS students competed at the international Student Cluster Competition held during the 2017 Supercomputing conference in Denver, Colorado. According to event organizers, “The competition is a microcosm of a modern HPC (high performance computuing) center that teaches and inspires students to pursue careers in the field. It demonstrates the […]
Oct 26, 2017
Women Forward in Technology Scholarships
Carolina Binns, BS’21 Comp Eng and Sara Symonds, BS’19 Comp Eng/Comp Science—Two students from Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) — Carolina Binns and Sara Symonds — have been announced as recipients of the 2017 Women Forward in Technology Scholarship. This unique scholarship program was founded by Distil Networks, Foundry Group, Techstars, Cooley, Yesware, Help Scout, […]
Oct 20, 2017
Human-Robot Friendship
Murphy Wonsick, PhD’20—Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction of Taskin Padir, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern.