News
Sep 23, 2009
Civil Faculty Win $9 Million NIST Grant to Study Infrastructure Conditions
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies that would enable timely and detailed monitoring and inspection of the structural health of bridges, roadways and water systems that comprise a significant component of the nation's public infrastructure.
Sep 23, 2009
Trying to Keep the World Structurally Sound
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Ming Wang has received funding from NSF, FHWA, and NIST to develop sensors for bridges and roadways to keep them safe. Wang is internationally recognized as in expert in monitoring the structural health of bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure.
Sep 21, 2009
Congratulations to Joan Dela Cruz
Congratulations Joan Dela Cruz, BSME'13, who has won the Igor Sikorsky Scholarship which covers 50% of tuition for the first year. Recipients also participate in internships at Sikorsky Aircraft. Dela Cruz is only the second COE NUPRIME student to win this award.
Sep 18, 2009
Sipahi Awarded $200K NSF Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi has been awarded a $200K NSF grant to reveal the complex interplay between the topology, time delays, and the stability of dynamical systems that couple across networks. The project will have impacts in the fields of networked control systems, human-in-the-loop dynamics and epidemiology.
Sep 16, 2009
Congratulations to Dana Peck
Dana Peck, CIV'11, is the recipient of a $1500 SWE National – Jill S. Tietjen Scholarship. She is currently on coop in Perth, Australia doing research for Professor Tom Sheahan's NSF project on offshore geohazards.
Sep 15, 2009
Congratulations to Megan Richardson
Megan Richardson, ME'10, is the recipient of a $5000 SWE National – General Electric Women's Network scholarship. She is currently on coop at California's NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Sep 14, 2009
Dialogue of Civilizations Project might lead to Bicycle Lane
After 6 students attended a month-long engineering class in the Netherlands on sustainable transportation, they have designed a method to add a bicycle promenade to the carriage path on Commonwealth Avenue. They gave a presentation to Newton residents during a recent City Hall meeting explaining their proposal.
Sep 09, 2009
Sznaier and Camps Win NSF Award
ECE Professors Mario Sznaier and Octavia Camps have won a $415K NSF grant to develop new methods to extract information very sparsely encoded in extremely high dimensional data streams, with applications to aware environments, autonomous vehicles and systems biology.