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Her co-op work went to space. 🚀 Northeastern student Rhea Dharia spent her co-op at Besxar Space Industries helping prepare equipment for semiconductor manufacturing in space. Her work launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on July 5 and survived reentry. The project is exploring how space-based manufacturing could help make microchips better and more affordable, while Rhea’s experience helped build her confidence and confirmed her interest in aerospace. Read the full story at @northeasternglobalnews #Northeastern #NUCOE#Coop #SpaceIndustry #AerospaceEngineering #Semiconductors @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

A new international research opportunity for MIE’s Yi Zheng. 🏆 Associate Professor Yi Zheng has received a 2026 Humboldt Research Fellowship to study sustainable materials for micro/nanoscale energy transport at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. His six-month research fellowship begins in May 2027. 👏 Congratulations, Professor Zheng! #Northeastern #NUCOE#HumboldtFellowship #Research #Engineering #EnergyResearch #STEM @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

Seven plants. One dashboard. One global view. 🌎📊 Krithik Reddy, MS, Engineering Management, spent seven months at Vaxxinova International BV turning messy production data from plants around the world into actionable insights. Using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, he built a dashboard that was presented to managing directors across four countries. He worked directly with COO Oscar Repping, with academic guidance from Professor Tugce Martagan. #Northeastern #NUCOE#Coop #DataAnalytics #Manufacturing #EngineeringManagement #IndustrialEngineering

Meet Dr. Xiu Liu, MIE’s newest Assistant Professor on the Oakland campus! 🎓 Dr. Liu joined Northeastern in September 2026 after earning his BS from Shandong University, his MS from Durham University, and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where he won the 2025 Best PhD Dissertation Award in Mechanical Engineering. 🏆 His research looks at how heat travels as infrared light at the nanoscale, and how engineered nanostructures can control it. During his PhD, he developed devices that switch thermal emission pixel by pixel, basically a display for heat, with uses in infrared imaging, sensing, and energy. 🔥 His work has appeared in Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nano Letters, and Applied Physics Letters. 📚 Now he’s setting up a new mid-infrared microspectroscopy lab in Oakland and recruiting up to two fully funded PhD students to start in Fall 2027. If you’re into thermal radiation, infrared photonics, or nanofabrication, email him at [email protected]. 📩 Welcome to MIE, Dr. Liu! 👏 #MIE #NUCOE #Nanophotonics #ThermalRadiation #EngineeringTok @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

New patent, new possibilities for 3D radar imaging. 📡 MIE/ECE Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo has been awarded a patent for millimeter-wave MIMO radar technology designed to enhance 3D imaging and signal clarity. 👏 Congratulations, Professor Martinez Lorenzo! #Northeastern #NUCOE #Patent #RadarTechnology #Engineering #Research #STEM @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

🔬 Meet Professor Karthikeyan Baskaran, our newest Assistant Teaching Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern Oakland! 🎉 He joined us this fall from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he managed an electron microscopy lab and won an Exceptional Teaching Faculty award, one of only two given per college 🏆 His research? Designing materials that capture radioactive iodine from nuclear waste ☢️♻️ His latest paper, published just last month, shows how these materials can be cleaned and reused again and again. This semester he’s teaching Cornerstone of Engineering to first-year students, and he’ll soon teach semiconductor engineering courses on the Oakland campus too 💡 His best advice for every student: “Don’t just accept an answer because your professor gives it to you. Look for flaws and ask more questions.” 💭 Welcome to MIE, Professor Baskaran! 👏 #NortheasternOakland #NUCOE #FacultySpotlight #MaterialsScience #EngineeringTok @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🏆 Big honor for MIE! Associate Professor Hongli (Julie) Zhu has been named the 2027 recipient of the American Chemical Society Energy and Fuels Division's Research Excellence Award in Electrochemical Energy Storage! 🔋 Her research is shaping the future of batteries, from all-solid-state and flow batteries to fast-charging systems and sustainable, biomass-derived materials. ⚡🌱 Congratulations, Professor Zhu! 👏 #WomenInStem #NUCOE #EnergyStorage #Batteries #ACS @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

AI is already changing the classroom 🤖📚 Northeastern faculty are helping local high school STEM teachers figure out how to use it as a learning tool, not a shortcut. Professor Ibrahim (Abe) Zeid is part of an NSF-funded project working with 30 teachers to explore what that can look like in practice. #Northeastern #AIinEducation #STEM #Education #ArtificialIntelligence #Research @northeasternu @northeasterncoe @northeasternglobalnews

$1.06M to tackle wildfire risk. 🔥🏠 Northeastern researchers are teaming up across engineering and architecture to investigate how structural design can help make buildings more resilient in wildfire-prone areas. Led by MIE’s Yiannis Levendis, the three-year NSF-funded FIRE-WUI project brings together researchers from MIE, civil and environmental engineering, and architecture. #Northeastern #NUCOE #NSF #Engineering #WildfireResearch #Research #STEM

The machine shop edit no one asked for... but we're glad we made. ⚙️🎬 #Northeastern #MIE #EngineeringTok #STEM #CampusLife #fyp #edit #NUCOE @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

Seven mechanical engineering students. Seven research projects. 🏔️🔬 Meet Northeastern’s Fall 2026 PEAK Experiences awardees, working across robotics, materials, physics, engineering, and more. Congrats to all seven! 🎉 #Northeastern #NUCOE#MechanicalEngineering #UndergraduateResearch #Engineering #STEM #PEAKExperiences @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

From Northeastern co-op to building robots at Tesla. 🤖⚙️ MIE alumnus Joshua Joseph, MS’23, now develops autonomous mobile robots at Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas. He’s also giving back to Northeastern by mentoring engineering students and serving on the MIE Industrial Advisory Board. #Northeastern #NUCOE#MIEAlumni #Robotics #engineering#Tesla #STEM

What started as a first-year engineering project is now a patent-pending startup. 🚀 Northeastern mechanical engineering students Nicolas Bejar ’28 and Mason Kim ’28 created NextTile, magnetic building tiles with circuitry and LED lights that make learning about electricity hands-on. 🔋💡 The team is now working toward bringing NextTile to the consumer market. #Northeastern #NUCOE #StudentStartup #Engineering #STEM #Innovation #Entrepreneurship @northeasternu @northeasterncoe @northeasternglobalnews

Research that made its way from the lab to a startup. 🔬➡️🚀 MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s passive radiative cooling research was recently featured by MassCEC and MassVentures for the impact of its Catalyst Grant. The technology later became the foundation of Planck Energies. #Northeastern #Research #Innovation #engineering #CleanEnergy #NUCOE @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

A summer in Seattle 🤖🌲 9 Northeastern students spent 7 weeks exploring robotics through hands-on projects, industry visits and experiences across the city. From 3D printing to robot simulation, they got to see what a future in robotics can look like beyond the classroom. #Northeastern #Robotics #Seattle #STEM #Engineering #CollegeStudents @northeasternglobalnews @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

It really is OUR dream. 👏 The new MIE Machine Shop opened following its ribbon-cutting ceremony. Here's a first look at the space where innovation comes to life. ⚙️✨ #Northeastern #MIE #EngineeringTok #STEM #CampusLife #nucoe #fyp @northeasternu @northeasterncoe

🚀 What does a Northeastern engineering professor do at NASA? MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng has spent six summers at NASA Glenn Research Center, working on some seriously 🔥 engineering challenges—including materials for turbine blades exposed to temperatures near 2,000°F. His research also explores ways to manage heat in spacecraft and batteries, including technology that can turn wasted heat into electricity. And the coolest part? He brings that experience straight back to his students at Northeastern. 🐾🛰️ #NUCOE #NASA #EngineeringTok #FacultyExcellence #AerospaceEngineering @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🔧 From Capstone project to real startup 👀👀 Jaison Patel & Josh Baum (Northeastern MIE, '23) built Tubender—a portable CNC machine that bends electrical conduit ON-SITE. Manual bending = slow + wastes up to 25% of material. Tubender Mark 1 = up to 16x faster, precision down to fractions of an inch. ⚡ They tested it this summer with Maine's biggest electrical contractor... on conduit that's now part of Northeastern's own Roux Institute campus. Full circle moment ❤️ From a class project to a funded startup—this is what Husky engineers do 🔥🗣️💯 #Tubender #NortheasternAlumni #StartupTok #Engineering #Innovation @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

Professor Juner Zhu's research group just made the cover of Experimental Mechanics! 🔋🎉 Their paper, "Core Collapse Instability of Spirally Wound Jelly-Roll Lithium-Ion Batteries," looks at how these battery cells behave under mechanical stress—important work for making lithium-ion batteries safer as they show up in more of the tech we use every day. The research was led by PhD student Xinran Shi, in collaboration with Glimpse Engineering. Huge congrats to the whole team on this awesome recognition! 👏 #Aura #fyp #MIE #NUCOE #BatteryResearch @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

Nine months to build a race car from scratch—literally from thin air, dreams, and willpower. 🏎️⚡ Meet 25A, Northeastern Electric Racing's 2026 competition vehicle! Every year, this student team designs, builds, and tests a formula-style EV from the ground up, then competes against college teams from across the region and the nation—with Tesla and Rivian engineers volunteering to judge their work. Testing day is where it all comes together: driver experience, data, and lessons that go straight into the next build. After a tough recent competition, the team's doubling down on consistency and reliability, with weekly meetings and design reviews keeping everyone accountable. New car, new season, same mindset: they're not the underdogs anymore. They're here to compete. 🔧 #NUCOE #ElectricRacing #FormulaSAE #CollegeEngineering #EVBuild @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🎉🥳 Big congrats to Teaching Professor Mohammad Dehghani on his newly awarded patent! His invention uses machine learning to build a "digital twin"—a virtual model of a factory production process —then runs simulations with different settings to find the most efficient way to operate. Once the Al learns the best combination, it can actually program the real process to run that way. 🤖 Huge step forward for smarter, more efficient manufacturing—join us in celebrating Professor Dehghani! 🗣️🔥💯 #AI #Manufacturing #NUCOE #MIE #FacultyExcellence @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

Meet Sai 👋 an MIE data analytics engineering grad student whose Northeastern story started with a bang! He and teammate Vivek Dhir took first place in a 2024 Boston-campus hackathon, building a computer vision tool that tracks bird flight paths in real time to help prevent aircraft strikes, all in just 4 hours 🐦✈️ That win caught the eye of a Northeastern professor and landed him a spot in her research lab. From there, he moved into a co-op as an AI Engineer Intern at Penguin AI, an agentic AI platform helping hospitals cut down on labor-intensive admin work 🏥 Sai built an AI agent that screens patient data for HIPAA compliance before securely routing it to care teams, freeing up doctors and nurses to spend more time with patients instead of paperwork 🤖 Along the way, he found himself bridging engineering, AI, and medical teams to solve real problems together—and says it's shaped the direction he wants his career to go. #NortheasternMIE #AI #HealthcareAI #CoOp #StudentSpotlight @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🎉 Congrats to Assistant Teaching Professor Chinthaka Dinesh on his new role as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)! This appointment recognizes his research contributions and ongoing service to the signal processing and AI communities — a well-earned honor for a leading voice in video and image processing. 👏 #IEEE #FacultyExcellence #MIE #NUCOE #Research @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

Two MIE alumnae just got recognized in the 2026 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards! 🏆 Katie Karmelek built Chamfr, a MedTech marketplace for medical device development, and Nicole Khoury created Journée, a functional beverage for energy and focus. So proud of these Huskies! #WomenInEngineering #MIE #NUCOE #WomenWhoEmpower #AlumniExcellence @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🤖 Meet Sierre Ternoey-an industrial engineering student who just built an Al tool to help fix broken chemical plant blueprints, all while on a research stint in Aachen, Germany! Sierre had never taken a single chemical engineering course. But when her supervisor handed her an open-ended "wildcard" problem, she dove in anyway-and built an Al agent that reads dense error reports, figures out what broke, and fixes it. In its best run, it nailed 26 out of 30 test cases! Sierre says it all traces back to Northeastern's Cornerstone of Engineering course, where she learned to tackle problems before she even had the tools to solve them. Join us in celebrating Sierre! #AI #Germany #StudyAbroad #NUCOE #IndustrialEngineering @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

Alumni Spotlight: Meet Sharvari Deshpande, a July 2025 graduate of Northeastern's Master of Science in Data Analytics Engineering program 🎓 Before Northeastern, she spent two years as a Data Engineer at Accenture, working on data pipelines and enterprise systems. That experience led her to ask a deeper question: once the data is engineered, how do you know what actually matters? That curiosity shaped her graduate journey and her coursework in data warehousing, generative AI, and data storytelling. Today, Sharvari is an Engineering Analyst at Google, where she still returns to the same core questions: What problem are we solving? What is the data telling us? What context might be missing? Her advice to students: build your path around curiosity, not just the "right" courses or job titles 💡 #MIE #NUCOE #DataAnalyticsEngineering #AlumniSpotlight #Google @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

Shalini Agrawal's co-op: building the eyes for a robot that dives 4 miles underwater 🌊🤖 As a second-year robotics graduate student, she spent months in the lab improving the camera systems and navigation software for an autonomous underwater vehicle at Orpheus Ocean, a maritime robotics startup spun out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Then came the real test: a week of field work off Cape Cod, where she reverse-engineered the camera system to work with the robot's autonomy software—and troubleshooting a buffering issue on the spot before a mission off the coast of Hawaii. Her manager said it best: everyone on the team loved working with her. Now, Shalini knows exactly where she wants her career to go. "Underwater robotics has taken over my mind," she says. "I want to see what's down there." #NortheasternUniversity #MIE #NUCOE #Robotics #CoOp @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🎓 Meet Tianyu Yang, a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering whose research focuses on causal inference, machine learning, and optimization for decision-making using real-world data 📊 Through Northeastern's LEADERs program, Tianyu completed an industry fellowship at AmeriLife, where he learned that producing a technically sound analysis isn't enough—it also has to be clear and actionable for the people making the decisions 💡 His advice for future LEADERs students: step outside the traditional researcher mindset, and you'll gain a clearer understanding of both your research and yourself ✨ #NUCOE #IndustrialEngineering #LEADERs #MachineLearning #MIE @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🥳 Congratulations for Professor Yongmin Liu! 🥳 Professor Liu, who holds a joint appointment in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. The journal publishes leading experimental and theoretical research across the science and technology of quantum electronics, covering devices, subsystems, and full systems. As an Associate Editor, Professor Liu will play a key role in overseeing manuscript submissions and shaping the direction of the field. Please join us in celebrating this outstanding achievement! 👏 #Iusedtoprayfortimeslikethis #STEM #FacultySpotlight #QuantumElectronics #NUCOE @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE

🧠‼️ Big day for Chiari research! The CNRL hosted its 2026 Open House at ISEC, bringing researchers, clinicians, patients, and students together for talks, posters, and live demos—plus a Patient Experience session connecting research to real patient stories. MIE Professor Francis Loth talked biomechanical imaging at Northeastern. Professor Babak Heydari broke down risk perception from pandemics to the OR. And MIE Chair Professor Yingzi Lin showcased her work on objective pain assessment tools 📊 Science meeting real impact! #NortheasternUniversity #MIE #NUCOE #ChiariMalformation #Neurobiomechanics @Northeastern @NortheasternCOE