ECE Student Stories
Mar 28, 2014
COE Silicon Valley Spring Break
ECE Professor & Chair Sheila S. Hemami, Professor David Kaeli, and Coop Coordinators Brian Albrecht & George Kent arranged for ECE students to visit a range of Silicon Valley companies, meet with employees, and hear presentations on company benefits. In the past, students who have gone on the trip have enjoyed learning about big-name companies such […]
Feb 18, 2014
Congratulations PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan
ECE PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan has been selected as one of the five finalists for the Best Student Presentation Award of IEEE Magnetics Conference (Intermag) 2014 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations!
Oct 30, 2013
Congratulations PES Scholars
ECE students Alyssa Bezreh, Neel Shah, & Sahil Maripuri were selected as 2013/14 PES Scholarship Plus recipients which supports students interested in the power and energy industry. In 2013-14 academic year, a total of 228 undergraduate students have been selected as IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholars. In addition Sahil Maripuri was one of seven […]
Jul 26, 2013
Young scholars get a taste for science in the summer
Twenty-four high school students listened intently as civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Matthew Eckelman presented his research on modeling the energy inputs and outputs of commercial products and processes. At the end of the lecture, Eckelman revealed a surprising fact. “Seventeen years ago I was where you are now,” he told the students, who gathered in […]
Jul 11, 2013
ISACA Scholarship Winners
M.S. Information Sciences students Lujaen Basri and Nishant Gour won first and third place, respectively, at the 2013 H. Peet Raap Memorial Scholarship for their knowledge of the practice of Information Systems Auditing and the field of Governance, Risk and Compliance. ISACA engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. […]
Jun 12, 2013
Quadcopter to the Rescue
Under the direction of Bahram Shafai, a team of Electrical and Computer Engineering capstone students Cameron Olean, Ben Leathe, Tim Hickson, Chase Hathaway, Dan Petrillo, and Andrew Barada have developed TRAQ—an autonomous quadcopter that uses a unique four-element antenna array to locate and navigate to the source of a radio signal. View video here.
Jun 10, 2013
Students dial in on emergency communications
When the south tower of Manhattan’s World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, emergency responders outside the building ordered the firefighters within to evacuate. Many did not receive the message. As is often the case in emergency situations, the communication took place almost entirely over radio waves. According to the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, […]
Mar 28, 2013
Senior Receives High Honor
Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Fernando Quivira is a recipient of the Harold Hodgkinson Award in recognition of scholastic achievement, leadership, coop, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. This is one of the highest honors that a senior at Northeastern can receive. Fernando discovered his passion for research as a freshman volunteering in campus laboratories. […]