ECE Student Stories
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 […]
Apr 28, 2014
Freshman Patent Application
Freshman Computer Engineering student Leena Ahsan was awarded a patent application for creating a box that was collapsible as the contents are used. The invention boosts perforations, creases and the suggestion of a bendable material that facilitates folding.
Apr 24, 2014
SDM Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.