News And Events Archive
Updated: 02.18.2008Graduate Seminar Series
The graduate seminar series continues in 2008. Check the schedule for both past and upcoming events.A Bilateral US-Taiwan Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan on April 15-17th, 2009
This workshop on BIO-INSPIRED Sensing and Actuation Technologies for Civil and Mechanical Systems is a joint effort to capitalize on the momentum generated by NSF FY09 EFRI initiative and strong interest expressed by both sides to revitalize NSF-NSC research collaboration through mapping of new directions and charting of new frontiers. Read More...
The Fifth International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, July 29-31st, 2009
The Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) will hold its 5th Annual Workshop in Boston, MA, USA on July 29-31, 2009. This consortium was established in 2002 and currently consists of 20 research institutions. Read More...
Civil Faculty Win $9 Million NIST Grant to Study Infrastructure Conditions
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies that would enable timely and detailed monitoring and inspection of the structural health of bridges, roadways and water systems that comprise a significant component of the nation’s public infrastructure. The awards are the first to be made under NIST’s new Technology Innovation Program (TIP), which was created to support innovative, high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need where the government has a clear interest because of the magnitude of the problems and their importance to society. Read More...
3rd Urban Sustainability Environmental Workshop, Dec. 4, 2008
This one-day workshop will be held by the Northeastern University Hydrologic Engineering Class at Snell Library, Room 90 on December 4th, 2008 from 9:00AM to 1:30PM. See the Flyer
Civil Professor Protects Artwork
Northeastern University in collaboration with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has conducted a research on evaluation of a mechanical isolator to protect four MFA sculptures against earthquakes in Nagoya Japan, where they will be displayed for four years. Models of artifacts were made and tested on the shaking table by simulating museum floor response motions of Kobe and Taft earthquakes. The efficiency of a mechanical isolator for protecting the artifacts was evaluated and tested. The project results present the response of the artifacts with and without the mechanical isolator. Results...
Northeastern Class Attends WEFTEC in Chicago
From October 19 – 21, Northeastern’s Hydrologic Engineering class, including 28 students, two professors and three teaching assistants traveled to Chicago to attend WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference. There they joined over 20,000 water quality professionals from around the world in attending technical sessions, the exhibition, and mentoring and networking events. They also met with engineers from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and the City of Chicago to learn about their activities. Of course, the reputation of Chicago’s deep-dish pizza was also verified while on site… This trip was part of a project comparing the environmental sustainability of the cities of Chicago and Boston. It is part of the Enviropolis urban environmental education program sponsored by the Henry David Thoreau Foundation. For more information about the program please contact Prof. Ferdi Hellweger at ferdi@coe.neu.edu or (617) 373-3992.
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. Summary of Project & Read More...NU ASCE Students Win NE Bridge Design Contest
By Northeastern Voice | April 13, 2008
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...
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