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SCHOLARSHIP REPORT ENGINEERING and INDUSTRIAL MECHANICAL We Are a Leader in Experiential Education and Interdisciplinary Research, Focused on Engineering for Society SCHOLARSHIP REPORT MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL 2018 | 2019 ENGINEERING Chair’s Message | 1 Quick Facts | 2 Honors | 3 Our Faculty | 6 We are a leader in experiential education and interdisciplinary research, focused on Engineering for Society Dear Colleagues and Students, The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is the largest disciplinary department at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering, with a total student enrollment of nearly 3,000 in 2018. We offer 20 degree programs at the BS, MS, and PhD level in mechanical and industrial engineering as well as interdisciplinary and even multidisciplinary programs, including innovative degrees such as a BS in Mechanical Engineering/JD in Law 3+3 program, and BS in Mechanical Engineering and Physics, and MS degrees in Data Analytics Engineering, Energy Systems, Human Factors, Robotics, and Operations Research, to name a few. Our undergraduate mechanical and industrial engineering programs are ABET accredited, and the department offers flexible programs to enable students to personalize their pathways through combined majors, electives, minors, concentrations, accelerated master’s degrees, and graduate certificates. Our department has over 70 tenured/tenure-track and teaching faculty. Since 2011, we hired 32 tenured/tenure-track faculty, propelling multiple research clusters in the department toward excellence, while our increase in teaching faculty enable educational excellence to advance even further. Our faculty are accomplished in their field, such as University Distinguished Professor Ahmed Busnaina who was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors this past year, and Professor Hameed Metghalchi who was awarded the American Society of Mechanical Sincerely, Engineers George Westinghouse Medal. Collaboration with government, academia and industry is part of our focus. As such Emanuel Melachrinoudis we have established large-scale collaborations with major industrial companies Professor and Interim including General Electric, Raytheon, and Northrop. The industrial collaborations augment multiple governmental supports secured by our faculty, such as the $20M Department Chair contract order from the US Army Research Office and $125M contract order from Mechanical and the US Veterans Health Administration. Industrial Engineering According to the US News and World Report, our mechanical engineering graduate [email protected] program moved up 14 places to No. 43 in five years, while our industrial engineering graduate program has moved up three places to No. 33 during the same period. This momentum will continue through strategic growth. I invite alumni and other stakeholders to join us in propelling this department even further, and also invite all to consider this department for your education and for research and development projects. We thank you for your interest and if you have any further questions or information needs, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. 1 QUICK Mechanical and Industrial Engineering FACTS federally Graduate Students funded Enrolled research 2 centers $145M Contract Vehicle 1584 NSF/DHHS $125M: five years Healthcare Systems from the Veterans Engineering Institute Health Administration Professional NSF CENTER for Society Fellows High-rate $20M: three years from Nanomanufacturing Army Research Labs 28 National Academy Member Vinod Sahney, University Distinguished Professor RECENT HIRES Yaning Li PhD, University of Michigan Yi Zheng 56 Young Investigator PhD, Columbia University TENURED/ Awards, including TENURE-TRACK 15 National Science Faculty Foundation 20 CAREER Awards College of Engineering With 185 tenured/tenure- NSF CAREER Awards track faculty and 16 993 multidisciplinary research 48 Graduate Students centers and institutes with Placed on Co-op (2018-19) funding by eight federal Engineering Departments agencies, the College of STUDENTS ENROLLED Engineering is a leader in 5 experiential education and interdisciplinary research, YOUNG INVESTIGATOR with a focus on discovering Awards 8080 52% Graduate solutions to global challenges 90 1485 New MS (Fall 2018) to benefit society. 48% Undergraduate 675 New BS (Fall 2018) 2 FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS Hanumant Singh, and ECE to develop real-time predictive/ FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS Affiliated Faculty Chris Amato detection models of patient were awarded a $1.5M Air Force misdiagnoses. Benneyan also Research Laboratory (AFRL) received a $450K NIH/NIDA grant for “Robust Decentralized award for “Model-Informed Classification and Coordination Understanding and Mitigation Algorithms for Swarms of Small of the U.S. Opioid and Heroin Unmanned Aerial Systems.” Epidemic.” Professors Associate Yingzi Lin (PI) Professor and Sagar Yongmin Kamarthi, in Liu and William Lincoln Smith Chair and collaboration ECE/Khoury University Distinguished Professor with the College of Ahmed Busnaina has been University Computer selected as a Fellow of the of Texas at Sciences National Academy of Inventors Arlington and Associate for having demonstrated a highly Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Professor prolific spirit of innovation in were awarded a $1.2M National Yun “Raymond” Fu were awarded creating or facilitating outstanding Science Foundation grant for a $530K National Science inventions that have made a “Novel Computational Methods for Foundation grant for “Multi- tangible impact on the quality of Continuous Objective Multimodal Functional Optical Meta-Systems life, economic development, and Pain Assessment Sensing System Enabled by Deep-Learning-Aided welfare of society. (COMPASS).” Inverse Design.” Professor Assistant Hameed Professor Metghalchi Chun-An was awarded “Joe” Chou the American was awarded a Society of Collaborative Mechanical Research Engineers’ Travel Grant from Burroughs 2019 ASME Wellcome Fund for his research George Westinghouse Gold Medal Assistant Professor John project, “Data-Driven Method “for 40 years of scientific research “Peter” Whitney, and Affiliated for Learning and Recognizing and educational efforts in the Faculty member Robert Platt Dynamical Systems in field of power generation, which were awarded a $750K National Computational Neuroscience.” have contributed to improved Science Foundation grant for The grant program supports plant operation and efficiency, creating “A New Robotic Arm for academic scientists to begin and reduced pollutants; and Contact-Rich Manipulation.” The and continue a collaboration to for successfully promoting the research introduces a new way address biomedical questions. dissemination of research as to design robots that allows them editor of ASME’s Journal of Energy to easily feel when they are in Assistant Professors Xiaoning Resources Technology.” contact with people and objects. “Sarah” Jin and Hongli Zhu were awarded a $544K National Associate James Science Foundation grant for Professor Benneyan, “Manufacturing USA: Precision Jose professor and Alignment of Roll-to-Roll Printing of Martinez- director of the Flexible Paper Electronics Through Lorenzo (PI), Healthcare Modeling and Virtual Sensor- mechanical Systems based Control.” and industrial Engineering engineering Institute, (MIE) received, in and electrical and computer collaboration with Brigham and engineering (ECE), along with ECE Women’s Hospital (lead), a $1.8M Professor Tommaso Melodia, R18 award from the Agency for ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Healthcare Research and Quality Chowdhury, ECE/MIE Professor for a Patient Safety Learning Lab 3 STUDENT HONORS AND AWARDS For the second year in a row in 2018, Northeastern’s Assistant Professor Xiaoning “Sarah” student chapter of the Jin and Anqi He, PhD’21, received Institute for Operations the Best Paper Award at the ASME Research and the International Manufacturing Management Sciences Science and Engineering (INFORMS) was one of Conference 2019, which took place the schools awarded the in Erie, PA for their paper “Failure Detection and Remaining Life Student Chapter Cum Estimation for Ion Mill Etching Process Through Deep-Learning Based Laude Award Multimodal Data Fusion.” The Paradigm Hyperloop team, an international team of students from Northeastern University and Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador, placed eighth in the world, and third in North America at the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop competition in California. Two start-up companies, Boston Materials and Mobile Pixels, both founded by mechanical engineering students and alumni, each won the 2018 MassChallenge Boston, which is a global business accelerator program for companies in the early stages of development. Boston Materials, a Gold level winner, was co-founded by Michael Segal, E’16, and Anvesh Gurijala, E’16, along with Associate Professor Randall Erb. Mobile Pixels, which was co-founded by Stephen Ng, ME’19, along with MIT alumni, was selected as a Diamond level winner. 4 FACULTY BY RESEARCH AREAS Biomechanics Samuel Felton Yingzi Lin Sandra Shefelbine Andrew Gouldstone Carol Livermore Mohammad E. Taslim & Soft Matters Carlos Hidrovo Jose Martinez Lorenzo Kai-Tak Wan Safa Jamali Sinan Muftu John “Peter” Whitney – Solids and Fluids Yaning Li Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi Muhammad Noor E Alam Yiannis Levendis Mohammad E. Taslim Energy Ahmed Busnaina Yongmin Liu Wei Xie Yung Joon Jung Carol Livermore Yi Zheng Systems Gregory Kowalski Hameed Metghalchi Hongli “Julie” Zhu Muhammad Noor E Alam Babak Heydari Vinod Sahney Healthcare James Benneyan Sagar Kamarthi Rifat Sipahi Chun-An Chou Yingzi Lin Wei Xie Systems Jacqueline Griffin Kayse Lee Maass George
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