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VLSI Lab Wins ISLPED Design Contest Award
Professor Jie Gu and members of his Very Large-Scale Integration Lab team won the Design Contest Award at the premier ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design.Oct 21, 2024
Fall Tech Career Fair Welcomes More than 40 Companies
More than one thousand undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, data science, machine learning, and related disciplines met with recruiters from more than 40 companies at the 2024 Fall Tech Career Fair.Oct 11, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Lessons from the PhD Journey of Professor Nivedita Arora
Professor Nivedita Arora shared lessons learned from her six-year journey earning a PhD in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Sep 24, 2024|from ACM-W Connections Newsletter
Mahdi Hosseini Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Hosseini’s Quantum Atom Optics research group aims to pioneer a fundamentally new technique in controlling and reading information from sensors.Sep 20, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern to Lead $20 Million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
With Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos as co-principal investigator, the SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.Sep 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
hls4ml Summer School Offers Students Training in Edge-AI Hardware Accelerators
Professor Seda Ogrenci organized a hands-on summer school for students to explore her team’s open-source tool for designing machine learning inference in hardware using high level synthesis language.Sep 5, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Team with Pedram Khalili Launches New Center with $14.4M DOE Grant
Khalili and a multidisciplinary team aim to improve energy efficiency in microelectronics via magnonics.Sep 5, 2024
Emerging Technologies through Engineering the Sub-Atomic Quantum World
The IQ-PARC Quantum Summer School event introduced STEM students to fundamental quantum concepts, quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities.Aug 26, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
New Chemical Method Stabilizes Tin-containing Perovskites
By adding diamine, researchers achieved a better surficial tin-lead balance and stable barrier layers, which could help solar cells work better and last longer.Aug 15, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
How We Could Warm Mars
Researchers conceived a new idea to make the surface of the cold planet habitable.Aug 12, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Scientists Propose Warming up Mars by Using Heat-Trapping ‘Glitter'
The idea from a team including graduate student Samaneh Ansari and Professor Hooman Mohseni that involves augmenting the natural greenhouse effect on Mars to raise its surface temperature by roughly 50 degrees Fahrenheit was profiled by NBC News.Aug 9, 2024|from NBC News
International Collaboration
Climate scientists at Northwestern University and the University of Hamburg look to drive student research and propel efforts to combat climate change.Aug 8, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Nivedita Arora Featured in 'People of ACM' Series
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "People of ACM" series highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members at the forefront of advancing computing as a science and a profession.Aug 6, 2024|from Association for Computing Machinery
Northwestern Team Earns Honorable Mentions in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards
A Northwestern University-led team of researchers earned honorable mentions in Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards sustainability and student categories for Terracell, a soil-powered fuel cell.Jul 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
A New Way to Stabilize Perovskite Solar Cells
Northwestern Engineering researchers used stable materials to alleviate the issue of cations moving within a material in devices that convert light into electrical energy.Jul 17, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News