News And Events Archive

Updated: 03.30.2008

  • NU ASCE Students Win NE Bridge Design Contest

    By Northeastern Voice | April 13, 2008

    Bridge It’s not just about neat blueprints. The annual Steel Bridge Competition, in fact, requires that students not only design a bridge to exacting specifications, but also raise money for materials, fabricate parts, deliver the pieces in a prescribed fashion, build a bridge under time pressure and on budget, and then pile weights on it to test its deflection.

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  • Students design plans for Boston bike trail

    By Noah Bierman, Boston Globe reporter | March 30, 2008

    The plan for Boston's long-awaited bicycle trail may be incubating right now in a Northeastern University engineering lab.A couple dozen students have been spending cold mornings counting cars at busy intersections, afternoons surveying underused parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and long evenings drawing bridges and pathways for cyclists and pedestrians in areas the students describe as traffic "death traps." Read more



  • Read Prof. Bernal's NU Alumni Magazine Fall 2007 Article on Detecting the weakness of structures that our eyes can not catch

  • Graduate Seminar Series

    The graduate seminar series continues in 2008. Check the schedule for both past and upcoming events.

  • Department faculty awarded prestigious NSF IGERT

    A research team led by Prof. Wadia-Fascetti and Prof. Bernal, as well as researchers from Gordon-CenSSIS and the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, has been awarded a 5-year, $3 million NSF Integrated Graduate and Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant titled "Intelligent Diagnostics for Aging Civil Infrastructure." This is a multinational, interdisciplinary program that will provide significant graduate student support and strengthen our areas of research involving infrastructure health monitoring. Prof. Alshawabkeh and Prof. Sasani were also part of the proposal team. A PDF summary of the project is available here.


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