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Mar 12, 2024
Designing Zero-Power Sensors for Crop Water Management
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Associate Research Professor Zhenyun Qian were awarded a patent for “Zero-power wireless system for crop water content monitoring.”
Mar 12, 2024
Ramezani Receives NSF CAREER Award to Design Robots to Navigate Tight and Complex Spaces
ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani was awarded a $681,000 NSF CAREER Award for “Dynamic Locomotion with Plasticity for Remote Sensing in Crawlspaces.” The research seeks to harness the exceptional agility, efficiency, and speed of legged and rotary-wing robots and adapt them specifically for use in crawlspaces, which can contain significant data for scientific and other discoveries.
Mar 11, 2024
Northeastern COE Students Win 2nd Prize in DASSH Challenge 2024
A COE student team placed second in the 2024 Designing Actionable Solutions for a Secure Homeland (DASSH), a student challenge focused on solving simulated homeland security problems created by Soft Target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat Reality (SENTRY) research center and Arizona State University’s Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency.
Mar 04, 2024
COE Research Expo Displays Promising Work of PhD Students
The College of Engineering held a research expo to highlight the work of PhD students. Participants presented their research to a panel of judges and gained critical presentation and communication skills. They also displayed their research during the poster showcase and students were recognized with awards.
Feb 28, 2024
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Caused by Flawed Cybersecurity Systems
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu explains how the poor design of Change Healthcare’s cybersecurity systems led to a nearly weeklong cyberattack.
Feb 28, 2024
Integrating Renewable Energy Sources into Power Grids
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a $350,000 NSF grant for “Robust Transient State Estimation for Three-Phase Power Systems.” The project aims to facilitate the efficient integration of inverter-based (IB) renewable energy sources into future generation of power systems.
Feb 26, 2024
Northeastern Among Top 100 Universities for Utility Patents
Northeastern University, recognized for its excellence in innovation and entrepreneurship, has once again been named one of the top 100 universities worldwide for securing utility patents by the National Academy of Inventors.
Feb 26, 2024
Northeastern Joins New Global AI Alliance as a Founding Member
Northeastern joined the AI-RAN Alliance and is the only U.S. university and research institute to serve as a founding member. The alliance will examine and study emerging technology and develop new AI-based mobile networking systems that could shorten development times, increase data speeds, and enable new mobile experiences for consumers.