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Feb 02, 2023

2023 Acorn Innovation Awards

ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng received MassVentures Acorn Innovation Awards to assist them in testing the viability of their technologies and potentially bringing their research to market.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 04, 2023

Northeastern Hosts Offshore Wind Tech Week

CEE department hosted the first Offshore Wind Technical Week, which brought together members of the scientific community, researchers, academia and the offshore wind engineering industry from around the world.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 22, 2022

Matching Healthcare Workers With Open Positions

During the pandemic, MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun and her students created a centralized process to match healthcare workers with open positions at long-term health facilities.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 07, 2022

CEE Hosts Offshore Wind Symposium

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Symposium 2022, featuring keynote speaker former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Nov 17, 2022

Successful Workshop on Battery Sustainability

MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and his team organized the first Battery Sustainability Workshop on the Boston campus of Northeastern. It was a two-day event, jointly hosted by two MIT chemical engineering professors, and triggered wide interest in EV, battery, renewable energy, consumer electronics, and materials companies.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 08, 2022

Northeastern Robotics Team Wins $1M for Third-place Finish in Global Competition

Team Northeastern won $1 million in third place among 17 finalists from around the globe in the ANA Avatar XPrize robotics competition.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Wei Xie

Aug 29, 2022

Xie Awarded $2 Million NIIMBL Stem Cell Research Grant

MIE Assistant Professor Wei Xie received a $2M award from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, for the project “Advanced Bioprocessing Sensor and Analytical Technologies for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture Online Monitoring and Automation.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering