News
Apr 20, 2021
FY22 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 17 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY22 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects.
Apr 05, 2021
CEE PhD Student Ben Eck Awarded NSF GRFP
Ben Eck, a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded a 2021 National Science Foundation Research Fellowship award (NSF GRFP). The award is prestigious and highly selective, and recognizes outstanding graduate students who are pursuing a full-time research-based master’s or doctoral degree in STEM. Mr. Eck is a advised by […]
Apr 05, 2021
Wise Receives 2021 Compass Award
Environmental engineering student Louiza Wise, E’21, won a 2021 Compass Award which recognizes exemplary students from the senior class who, during their time on campus, have demonstrated a true dedication to a core set of values: leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.
Mar 29, 2021
Congratulations NSF GRFP Recipients
Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The GRFP provides three years […]
Mar 22, 2021
Onto NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
“Interdisciplinarity.” That’s what drew PhD candidate Venkata Shashank Konduri to Northeastern. Konduri is pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering, meaning he is taking coursework from different disciplines and performing valuable research on complicated, multi-subject problems. “During the course of my PhD, I took classes from various departments like civil engineering, marine science, policy, and electrical […]
Mar 18, 2021
Northeastern Team Named Finalists of DOE Solar Decathlon Competition
A team of Northeastern University students was named Finalists in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2021 Design Challenge. The students, guided by faculty advisor Associate Professor David Fannon of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Architecture, will compete virtually before industry-recognized judges at the Solar Decathlon Competition event in […]
Mar 15, 2021
Exploring Human Thermal Comfort Vs. Smart Thermostats
CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane was awarded a $763K NSF CAREER Award for “Human-Centric Automation in the Built Environment.” The project will enable the design of automation in the built environment that models human physiological and behavioral responses to changing environmental temperature conditions to satisfy competing objectives of energy management and occupant comfort. Kane joined […]
Mar 09, 2021
Broad Experience Made the Difference
Aravind Uthaman, ME’19, civil engineering, was crawling on his hands and knees for more than 300 feet into a water conduit tunnel. It was certainly not a position he expected to be in when graduated in 2019 with a master’s degree in structural engineering. But then again, Northeastern students pride themselves on being able to […]