News
Mar 05, 2013
Andrew Childs Wins Compass Award
CEE BS/MS student, Andrew Childs, will receive one of nine 2013 Compass Awards which is given to the NU seniors whom show the most leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.
Feb 19, 2013
Professor Matthias Ruth hosts symposium at AAAS
Professor Matthias Ruth, who holds appointments in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, hosted a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science focusing on how environmental changes will affect water.
Feb 07, 2013
A New Field of Materials Design is Born
Using the observations he made while studying spider silk, CEE Assistant Professor Steven Cranford has developed a new field of study, Materiomics, which considers all parts of a structure collectively.
Feb 01, 2013
Hajjar Selected as SEI Fellow
CIV Chair & Professor Jerome Hajjar has been selected to be a Fellow of SEI for his leadership and mentoring in the structural engineering profession.
Feb 01, 2013
Larese-Casanova Awarded CAREER Grant
CEE Assistant Professor Philip Larese-Casanova has been awarded a $404K NSF CAREER grant to explore the degradation of quantum dots that are released into waste streams and aquatic environments.
Jan 23, 2013
New Public Transit Strategies for Dense Cities
The research of Prof. Peter Furth and Ph.D. student Burak Cesme has helped fuel an editorial in the Boston Globe promoting solutions to help decrease the slow transit times of buses in cities.
Jan 14, 2013
Engineering solutions for developing nations
Using her experiences from co-op and as president of the student chapter of EWB, recent Civil graduate Ann Polaneczky has landed a job at Partners in Health building a hospital in Haiti.
Jan 10, 2013
Hazard Detecting Vehicles
The research developed by the VOTERS center (led by CEE Professor Ming Wang) for detecting road hazards was featured in Popular Science.