News & EventsDepartment News
EventsNews & Events
Sanjay Sood Shares Leadership Lessons and Life Insights with Graduates
Sood spoke at the December 14 PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, recalling the lessons he’s learned during his career.Dec 16, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Espinosa, Sargent Named to National Academy of Inventors
Professors Horacio Espinosa and Ted Sargent are among 170 new fellows in the 2024 class who attained the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.Dec 10, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Engineering Students Named to Chicago Inno ‘Under 25’ List
The annual list naming mechanical engineering students Trevor Abbott and Victoria Israel recognizes young innovators who are ready to make their mark in Chicago.Dec 6, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Funding Could Make Whole-Eye Transplants a Reality
The vision-restoring project including Professors Hao Zhang and Cheng Sun received up to $56 million to fast-track development of a new generation of visible-light optical coherence tomography.Dec 2, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Sanjay Sood to Speak at PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Sood, senior vice president and chief technology officer at CDW, will speak to graduates and their families during a ceremony on December 14 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.Nov 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
McCormick Faculty Named Among Global ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ for 2024
The list from analytics company Clarivate identifies researchers who showed significant influence by publishing highly cited papers.Nov 20, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Student Team Wins Highest Honor at NASA BIG Idea Challenge
The student group’s expandable technology was recognized as having the best potential to contribute to NASA’s future Artemis moon missions.Nov 19, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
New Haptic Patch Transmits Complexity of Touch to the Skin
The device developed by Professors John Rogers and Yonggang Huang delivers various sensations, including vibrations, pressure, and twisting.Nov 6, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Engineers Develop Method of Preventing Frost Formation
The Engineer highlighted the recent work by Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park, which showed frost formation can be prevented by altering the texture of a surface and applying of graphene oxide.Oct 31, 2024|from The Engineer
Farewell Frost!
A new surface developed by Professor Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park prevents 100 percent of frost formation on flat areas for a week.Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Improving the Occupational Health of Manufacturing Workers
Led by Professors Ping Guo and Qi Zhu, an interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable multimodal sensor system that leverages machine-learning to enable near-real-time fatigue prediction on the factory floor.Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
John A. “Mac” McQuown, Northwestern Alumni Medalist and Benefactor, Dies at 90
An entrepreneur, financial innovator, and philanthropist, McQuown made an impact on sustainability, environmentalism and engineering research.Oct 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Engineering Names Winners of 2024 Cole-Higgins Awards
Greg Holderfield, Yonggang Huang, David O’Neill, Michael Saubert, and Jennifer Cole received the school’s annual awards for outstanding teaching and advising.Sep 24, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
New Center to Improve Robot Dexterity Selected to Receive up to $52 Million
Called Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity, the new center will develop dexterous robot hands with the ability to assist humans with manufacturing, caregiving, handling precious or dangerous materials, and more.Aug 21, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Faculty Awarded $20 Million Grant from National Science Foundation
The Kellogg-McCormick research program will work on measuring, understanding, predicting, and accelerating technology innovations.Aug 1, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News