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Aug 28, 2024
Finding Unexpected Ordnances on the Seafloor With Passive Samplers
CEE Associate Professor Loretta Fernandez is working to develop passive samplers to locate munitions dumped into oceans decades ago during World Wars I and II, while also studying the potential toxicities of these weapons as they have degraded over time.
Aug 20, 2024
New Model for Wind Turbine Blade Design
CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was awarded a $704,942 NSF grant for “Modeling the Influence of Turbulence on Flow-Induced Instabilities of Large Flexible Structures With Innovative Applications in Wind Turbine Blades.”
Aug 16, 2024
Optimizing Urban Train Maintenance
CEE Professor Haris Koutsopoulos and PhD student John Moody, civil and environmental engineering, published a paper, “Strategies To Optimize the Deployment of Roadway Maintenance Machines for Overnight Maintenance in Urban Rail Systems,” in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. The researchers developed multiple models to optimize the maintenance window of urban transit systems without disrupting passenger service.
Aug 15, 2024
Chemicals in Personal Care Products Can Cause Health Problems
Bouve/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research from a study she led in Puerto Rico in affiliation with the PROTECT Center was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It shows chemicals like phenols and parabens in products such as sunscreen and makeup can result in long-term health problems for both the woman and fetus.
Aug 14, 2024
New Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Nichols
Tiffany Nichols joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2024 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in History.
Aug 12, 2024
Northeastern University and SEI Host ‘Towards Zero Carbon’ Workshop
Northeastern and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) hosted a conference focused on decarbonization and new design objectives for the structural engineering industry. University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and CEE Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, who is also SEI president, led the conference and emphasized concepts of sustainability, equity, and resilience.
Aug 01, 2024
$1.6M NSF Award for Creating Inclusive Cities Through Technology
CEE Associate Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang and ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang, in collaboration with the University of Florida and the University of Virginia, received a $1.6 million NSF grant for “Strengthening Elderly Mobility in Urban Landscapes: Towards Age-Inclusive and Equitable Communities.”
Jul 29, 2024
Highlighting the Unusual Activity of Coralliths
MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson published a paper in Bulletin of Marine Science that reveals activity of corallith, an unusual free-living coral found of the Florida coast that thrives from the energy of storms.