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Aug 14, 2026
Sturdier Motion Sensors Built to Survive Shock and Vibration
Research conducted by ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella, Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and ECE/MIE Professor David Horsley titled “Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Aug 14, 2026
Alum Named to ASME’s 2026 Watch List for Robotics Work at Tesla
Tesla manufacturing engineer and Northeastern University alum Joshua Joseph, MS’23, mechanical engineering, has been named to ASME’s 2026 Watch List for his work pioneering autonomous mobile robot deployment and human-robot collaboration frameworks in factory settings.
Aug 13, 2026
MIE PhD Students Selected Among Top 3 Teams in MIT Incubator Program
Mechanical engineering PhD students Brett Emery and Jacob Miske finished among the Top 3 teams in the Spring 2026 cohort of Blueprint by The Engine, an eight-week Tough Tech program hosted by MIT’s nonprofit incubator where they showcased their venture, InLoop.
Aug 13, 2026
Celebrating Four Engineering Innovators Named in Women Who Empower Awards
Four Northeastern University College of Engineering alumnae and students were recognized in the 2026 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards, celebrating bold leadership, creative problem-solving, and entrepreneurial impact across medical technology, health, and wellness.
Aug 13, 2026
Exploring How K-12 Service-Learning Shapes First-Year Engineering Identity Formation
Kathryn Schulte Grahame, teaching professor and associate director of First Year Engineering, in collaboration with co-PIs Merredith Portsmore of Tufts University and David A. Delaine of Florida International University, was awarded a $200K NSF grant for “Engineering Identity Formation Through K-12 Service-Learning: Understanding How Recognition from Young Learners Supports First-Year Engineering Identity”.
Aug 11, 2026
Innovative Magnonic Resonator Design Advances Compact and Energy-Efficient Microwave Signal Platforms
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang’s research on “Generation of ultra-broadband frequency comb in strongly bistable nonlinear magnonic resonator” was published in Nature Communications.
Aug 11, 2026
Leveraging Operations Management to Address Healthcare Inequalities and Drug Development for Rare Diseases
MIE Associate Professor Tugce Martagan published her research on “Rare diseases are not rare: Challenges and opportunities for OM research” in Production and Operations Management.
Aug 11, 2026
Environmental Engineering Student Uses Global Co-Op to Protect Coastal Groundwater in Australia
During her co-op at the University of Western Australia, Emma Collins, E, environmental engineering, analyzed decades of environmental data to help protect coastal groundwater systems from climate change.