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Oct 25, 2022
Using Natural Barriers To Help Prevent Flooding
For those areas devastated by Hurricane Ian, Northeastern experts encourage residents to build in natural buffers to protect against flooding when rebuilding.
Oct 25, 2022
Preparing Your Home for Winter
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and ChE Affiliated Faculty Eugene Smotkin explain the need to prepare your home for increasing fluctuations in temperatures in the winter and summer.
Oct 25, 2022
Ganguly Will Serve as Co-Director of Global Resilience Institute
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and CSSH Professor Daniel Aldrich will serve as co-directors of the newly structured Global Resilience Institute (GRI), which is committed to developing and deploying practical and innovative tools, applications, and skills that strengthen the resilience of individuals, communities, infrastructure, systems, networks, and societies.
Oct 07, 2022
Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Sep 27, 2022
Solar Decathlon Team Looks To Design Net-Zero Housing Properties
The Northeastern Solar Decathlon team was a winner of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge, a distinction that came with $50,000 in funding. They are working to become the first collegiate Solar Decathlon Build Challenge team to build a multiunit, energy-efficient structure in an urban environment.
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation To Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.
Sep 15, 2022
Sheahan Publishes 3rd Ed. of An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
Executive Vice Provost and CEE Professor Thomas Sheahan published the 3rd edition of “An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering.” The book, also featured in the ASCE Geostrata magazine, focuses on both the fundamental and applied, covering the engineering classification, behavior, and properties of soils necessary for the design and construction of foundations and earth structures.
Sep 09, 2022
Improving Infrastructure to Minimize Climate Damage
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly stresses the need to design and build a more resilient infrastructure to reduce exposure to devastating climate events like floods.