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Once Again, Student Team Selected for NASA BIG Idea Challenge

The Northwestern proposal to explore expandable technology for lunar structures received $146,420.85 in funding.
Mar 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Shape-Shifting Ultrasound Stickers Detect Post-surgical Complications

Developed by Professor John Rogers, the first-of-its-kind device ‘tags’ an organ to monitor abnormal, life-threatening fluid leaks.
Mar 7, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Society of Women Engineers Hosts 2024 Career Day for Girls

Around 180 Chicago-area middle school and high school students signed up to visit campus as part of the February 24 event.
Feb 27, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Polymer Electronics Feel Strain and Evolve during Operation

Research by a team with Professor Jonathan Rivnay measures how polymers deform and evolve in response to voltage in water, impacting device longevity and responsiveness.
Feb 26, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

New AI Circuitry That Mimics Human Brains Makes Models Smarter

Scientific American wrote about a new kind of transistor developed by Professor Mark Hersam that allows AI hardware to remember and process information more like the human brain does.
Feb 8, 2024|from Scientific American

Mark Hersam Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Hersam, a leader in nanomaterials, along with alumni Carolyn Duran and Patricia L. Mokhtarian, is among 114 new NAE members.
Feb 6, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

G. Jeffrey Snyder Earns Two Awards for Thermoelectrics Research

Snyder was selected to receive a Humboldt Research Award and the Outstanding Achievement in Thermoelectrics Award.
Feb 6, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Innovative Membrane Platform Enables Analysis ‘Down to a Handful of Gas Atoms’

Professor Vinayak Dravid and research associate professor Xiaobing Hu developed a novel method to host gas molecules as they are being analyzed in real time, using honeycomb structures found in nature as inspiration for an ultra-thin ceramic membrane they incorporated to encase the sample.
Jan 19, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Finnigan, Ankeny Named to MS Leadership Positions

Shelley Finnigan will serve as associate dean for master’s and professional education, while Casey Ankeny has been appointed assistant dean for TGS master’s programs.
Jan 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Accelerating the Use of Commercial Electronics Designed from Halides

Working with researchers from Kyoto University in Japan, Northwestern Engineering’s James Rondinelli discovered the first all-inorganic halide perovskite multiferroic material, exhibiting a unique form of ferroelectricity called hybrid improper ferroelectricity.
Jan 5, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Yip-Wah Chung to Receive Bunshah Award

The award recognizes outstanding research or technological innovation in surface engineering, thin films, and related topics.
Jan 5, 2024

New Brain-like Transistor Mimics Human Intelligence

A transistor developed by Professor Mark Hersam performs energy-efficient associative learning at room temperature.
Dec 20, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News

6 Med Tech Innovations from 2023 That Could Improve Our Lives

Two breakthroughs by Professor John Rogers were noted on Mashable’s year-end list.
Dec 13, 2023|from Mashable

Megan Greenfield Urges Graduates to Keep Growing, Give Back, and Aim High

Greenfield spoke at the December 9 PhD Hooding and Master’s Recognition Ceremony, reciting how three principles have guided her career.
Dec 11, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News

High-Tech Methods Unlock the Perplexing Structural Features of a Mineral

In a collaboration with researchers from China, NUANCE scientists discovered the mysterious polytypic features within the metastable vaterite CaCO3, potentially leading to more widespread use of this unique form of calcium carbonate.
Dec 4, 2023|from Northwestern Engineering News
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