ECE Student Stories
Feb 02, 2017
Using Ham Radios to Increase Public Safety
ECE senior Jeremy Breef-Pilz's love of ham radios led to his interest in engineering and allows him to talk to people around the world. Source: News @ Northeastern Jeremy Breef-Pilz might be better known to some as KB1REQ. That’s because the fifth-year electrical and computer engineering major is an experienced ham radio operator, having received […]
Feb 01, 2017
Student Advice Session
Members of the ECE community gathered for the Student Advice Session. A panel of upperclass students spoke about their electrical and computer engineering experiences, answered questions, and gave advice to underclassmen. This event was sponsored by IEEE, EKN, the NU Wireless Club, and Enabling Engineering.
Jan 30, 2017
ECE Faculty Meet With Student Advisory Board
ECE Interim Chair Miriam Leeser, Associate Chair Waleed Meleis, and Associate Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris met with undergraduate students in the ECE Student Advisory Board to discuss their experiences in the department. The Student Advisory Board is planning on meeting with the department regularly throughout the year. We look forward to continuing the conversation.
Jan 27, 2017
National Engineers Week at Northeastern
Join the College of Engineering in celebrating National Engineers Week February 18-24.
Jan 05, 2017
ECE PhD Student Awarded Baidu Scholarship
PhD Student Sheng Li has been named one of ten awardees of The Baidu Scholarship. Baidu, a Chinese search engine company, selects PhD students for this scholarship based on research accomplishment and academic record for candidates doing exceptional work in computer science and related disciplines. This scholarship provides financial support of roughly $28,000 for two […]
Jan 04, 2017
ECE PhD Student Receives Dissertation Award
ECE PhD Student Benjamin Drozdenko named a Spring 2017 Dissertation Completion Awardee from Northeastern University’s Provost Office. Drozdenko is co-advised by Professor Miriam Leeser and Professor Kaushik Chowdhury. Drozdenko's dissertation is entitled “Enabling Protocol Coexistence: Hardware-Software Codesign of Wireless Transceivers on Heterogeneous Computing Architectures.” For a full list of awardees, please visit Dissertation Completion Award.
Dec 14, 2016
Spinostim Places Second in the Biannual ECE Senior Capstone Design Competition
Written by Liane Wong, a fifth year Electrical and Computer Engineering student.
Dec 13, 2016
Teaching Robotics to the Next Generation
Christopher Scianna, ECE'19, shared his experiences of helping sixth graders build "sumo robots" at the Fall 2016 Service-Learning Expo.