News
Mar 01, 2023
Celebrating National Engineers Week 2023
The College of Engineering celebrated National Engineers Week with events including a ‘Break the Mold’ Fireside Chat with award-winning engineer and commentator Dr. Shini Somara and Dean Gregory Abowd; Cookies with the Dean event, which included snacks, photo and video booths, COE swag and a lot of COE pride; Breakout sessions with Shini Somara with select students and faculty showing our progressive engineering program, research, and community; and an Engineering for Everyone Expo hosted by the Center for STEM Education.
Feb 09, 2023
Riley Receives Black Heritage Award
CEE Operations Manager Rozanna Riley was selected to receive the Black Heritage Award, which is given to those Northeastern staff and administrators in recognition of their dedicated service to Northeastern, to the students, and/or to the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute.
Feb 08, 2023
$3.1M ARPA-E Award for Building a Carbon Negative Future With Steel and Cross Laminated Timber
CEE CDM Smith Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar is leading a $3.1 million award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The multi-institutional team of researchers will develop a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.
Feb 08, 2023
Devastating Earthquakes Demonstrate the Need for Old Infrastructure Retrofits
CEE Professors Jerome Hajjar, Mehrdad Sasani, and Mishac Yegian, who are experts in the field of earthquake engineering, advise that older structures should be retrofitted with modern standards to help prevent the devastating collapses that happened during the recent earthquakes in Turkey.
Jan 25, 2023
Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Spring 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Jan 25, 2023
The Dependencies Between El Niño and River Flow
Research conducted by ECE Professor Jennifer Dy and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly on “Explainable Deep Learning for Insights in El Niño and River Flows” was published in Nature.
Jan 24, 2023
Faculty and Staff Awards 2023
Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering were recognized at the annual awards event in a variety of categories for their contributions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Jan 18, 2023
Atmospheric Rivers Can Lead to Massive Flooding and Deaths
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly explain how atmospheric rivers can lead to devastating floods.