News

920 Items found

Aug 03, 2016

COE to Represent NU at NAE

Sagar Kamarthi (MIE) has been selected as a panel speaker and Andrew Myers (CEE), Yunsi Fei (ECE), & Edgar Goluch (ChE) have been invited to participate at the National Academy of Engineering's eighth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 28, 2016

$2.5M NSF grant for Critical Infrastructure Resilience

ECE professors Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, Ali Abur, & Edmund Yeh, MIE assistant professor Jacqueline Griffin, CEE professor Jerome Hajjar, COS professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, CCIS professor Stacy Marsella, and […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 20, 2016

Monitoring the Health of Structural Systems from the Geometry of Sensor Traces

CEE Professor Dionisio Bernal received a $194K NSF grant for “Monitoring the Health of Structural Systems from the Geometry of Sensor Traces“. Deterioration from the passage of time and from […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 19, 2016

Working with the Community to Determine Environmental Health

NIEHS director Linda Birnbaum spoke at the Alumni Center on the importance of PROTECT's first multi-country study Zika in Infants and Pregnancy (ZIP). Source: News @ Northeastern “You can’t change […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 14, 2016

VOTERS Awarded Patent

VOTERS professors Ming Wang (CEE), Sara Wadia-Fascetti (CEE), & Carey Rappaport (ECE) were awarded a patent for “Roaming mobile sensor platform for collecting geo-referenced data and creating thematic maps”. Abstract […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 07, 2016

Field Application of IPS for Liquefaction Mitigation

CEE Professors Mishac Yegian and Akram Alshawabkeh were awarded a $342K NSF grant for "Field Application of Induced Partial Saturation (IPS) for Liquefaction Mitigation".

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 06, 2016

Flying Robots Inspect Infrastructure Damage

CEE Professor & Chair Jerome Hajjar and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University are working to create autonomous flying robots that will be able to inspect, analyze, and assess any damages to bridges and buildings.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 27, 2016

Environmental Impacts of the Health Care System

CEE Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman's recent article in PLOS ONE studies the "Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health".

Civil & Environmental Engineering