ECE Student Stories
Dec 12, 2014
A Passion for Acoustics
Victoria Suha, EE’17, combined her love of sound and science to found the NU chapter of the Acoustical Society of America.
Nov 14, 2014
Poster Winners from ACSC Conference
ECE undergraduate students Neel Shah, Tushar Swamy, and Harrison Dimmig, under the supervision of David Kaeli & Yunsi Fei, won Best Cyber Security Solution for 2014 at the ACSC Annual Conference.
Aug 06, 2014
Learning While Teaching
By participating in NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, undergraduates are able to teach high school students to build robots while reinforcing their own engineering skills.
Jul 17, 2014
Early Disease Detection
EE Alum Asanterabi Malima, PhD’13, was presented with an Entrepreneurial Award by Gov. Deval Patrick for founding Biolom and developing a device that enables early, low-cost disease detection.
Jun 09, 2014
Overcoming the Odds
Computer Engineering PhD student William Tomlinson was featured in ASEE Prism for the struggles he encountered in his educational career.
Jun 03, 2014
Engineering ideas to help people in need
The newly formed student group Enabling Engineering uses engineering principles to design and build projects to help individuals with disabilities.
May 30, 2014
Student project targets memory impairment
People with memory-impairing diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, are not only losing their memories—they’re also losing their independence. And as memory loss worsens, they rely may more on others to help them with daily tasks. For a senior capstone project, a team of Northeastern University engineering students sought a way to help, knowing that more than 15 million Americans […]
Apr 29, 2014
A key to communication for locked-in syndrome patients
For the past seven years, one man receiving care from LifeStream, a Massachusetts-based human services organization, has only been able to communicate by blinking his eyes in response to yes-or-no questions. He has cognitive awareness but is paralyzed with respect to nearly all of his voluntary motor muscles due to severe injuries he suffered in […]