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Oct 27, 2014
CEE Chi Epsilon Students Participate in 19th Annual CANstruction Competition
Northeastern’s Chi Epsilon students participated in the annual CANstruction competition, a competition where students build large structures made entirely of canned goods.
Oct 15, 2014
Real-Time Urban Flood Forecasting
The Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India has funded a project entitled "Near-real-time flood forecasting system" which will develop new physically-based and data-driven models for coastal and urban flood forecasting and early warning, with a primary case study in the city of Mumbai, India.
Sep 22, 2014
PhD Student Wins Young Researchers Forum Award from IEEE Conference
Congratulations to Nimet Yildirim, a Ph.D. student in the bioengineering program and in the CEE department, advised by CEE Prof. April Gu and MIE Prof. Ahmed Busnaina, along with the coauthors Jin Young Lee, Han Chul Cho and Sivasubramanian Somu, for winning the Young Researchers Forum Award from the 2014 IEEE Biosensors & Bioelectronics conference.
Sep 22, 2014
President of ADMET Donates Machine for Students
Thanks to a generous donation from Mr. Rich Gedney, President of ADMET, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has recently received an ADMET eXpert 2613 50kN Dual Column Testing Machine equipped with MTEST Quattro.
Sep 17, 2014
See How The Jetsetting Jamaican Does Panama
Saludos todos! My name is Kathryna Clarke. I am senior civil engineering major at Northeastern that is currently doing an environmental evaluation co-op with the Panama Canal Authority.
Sep 16, 2014
Evolution of Microbes
CEE Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger, who was recently published in Science, has modeled how biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes are affected by climate change.
Sep 01, 2014
New Faculty Spotlight: Haris Koutsopoulos
Haris Koutsopoulos joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a Professor starting in Fall 2014. Prof. Koutsopoulos has held prior faculty appointments at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and most recently at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. His research focuses on urban transportation networks and informatics, including study of urban mobility and […]
Aug 08, 2014
Modeling Nonlinear Data
ECE Professors Octavia Camps, Mario Sznaier, & CEE Associate Professor Ferdinand Hellweger were awarded a $380K NSF grant to use OUR Charles to generate models of high volume nonlinear data steams.