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Northwestern Partners with Material Impact to Accelerate Tech Commercialization

The partnership will help move research from the lab to the market.
Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Improving the Occupational Health of Manufacturing Workers

Led by Professors Ping Guo and Qi Zhu, an interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable multimodal sensor system that leverages machine-learning to enable near-real-time fatigue prediction on the factory floor.
Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

EECS Alumnus Snow Tseng (Ph.D. 05') Elected Chair for 2022 Gordon Research Conferences: Lasers in Medicine & Biology

He will be the first Asian-based researcher voted into the Chair position for the world renowned the conference.
Oct 28, 2024

John A. “Mac” McQuown, Northwestern Alumni Medalist and Benefactor, Dies at 90

An entrepreneur, financial innovator, and philanthropist, McQuown made an impact on sustainability, environmentalism and engineering research.
Oct 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

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
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