Electrical and computer engineering students developed new software for a remote-controlled helicopter and then modified it to make the hovering device easy to transport.
The first-place winners in this spring’s electrical and computer engineering capstone competition designed an eye-controlled robotic arm allowing paraplegic patients to feed themselves.
Edmund Yeh, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern whose work aims to improve mobile and Internet communication, is working in Munich this summer through his Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Electrical and computer engineering researchers will develop a real-time monitoring application for smart-grid system that uses renewable energy sources, such as wind and sunlight.
Student-researchers have created a roving robot named WiLU that may be able to locate and rescue victims of natural disasters.
Engineering undergraduates construct a microscope that can simplify and speed up the diagnosis of skin cancer
In senior capstone project, engineering students apply eye-tracking technology to design a robot that can help the disabled with household tasks
Engineering students develop a brainwave-control system for piloting a simulated airplane — and corporate and government researchers are interested
For engineering capstone project, Northeastern seniors develop an energy-control device that can automatically cut off power to low-priority appliances, and possibly help utilities avert blackouts
Engineering students win capstone design competition with voice-operated wheelchair that can avoid potential danger, even when the operator doesn’t detect it
Internet attacks offer intriguing research challenges for new professor, who will look at the user’s role in creating vulnerabilities