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Joint Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science MS Program

Joint Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science MS Program

The new master’s program will offer a curriculum that combines the strengths of the two departments, enhancing graduates’ career opportunities in industry and research.Read more

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Sun’s Magnetic Field Originates Close to Surface

An international team of researchers including Northwestern Engineering’s Daniel Lecoanet is getting closer to solving a 400-year-old solar mystery that stumped even famed astronomer Galileo Galilei.Read more

Carbon capture

Northwestern to Lead Midwestern Carbon-Capture Hub

With Professor Jennifer Dunn as the principal investigator and Professor Ted Sargent as a co-PI, the project has received nearly $4 million to test the feasibility of direct air capture technologies.Read more

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Why People are a Key to a Transport Conglomerate

J.B. Hunt president and incoming CEO Shelley Simpson spoke at the Northwestern University Transportation Center’s Patterson Lecture, stressing how the company has grown thanks to trusting its employees to innovate.

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