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College of Engineering seniors Sarah Brown and Dana Peck have been awarded NSF Fellowships More...


Professor Ratilal's paper is selected as the Spotlight Paper for the June 2011 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. More...


Professor Purnima Ratilal wins a multi-institutional award on Marine mammal detection and monitoring More...


Professor Vince Harris was selected as the 2011 Klein Lecturer More...


Professor Chuck DiMarzio receives College of Engineering Martin Essigman Outstanding Teaching Award ! More...


The College of Engineering had a particularly outstanding presence at Photonics West this year. Photonics West hosts the largest biomedical optics conference in the world, along with conferences on MEMS and lasers. More...


Undergraduate student Emily Wiecek discovered a world of possibilities in Professor Sternad's lab. More...


Prof. Ningfang Mi has received the IBM Faculty Award More...


Prof. Leeser has been awarded a $50K grant from Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) as a subcontract from Mercury Federal Systems. More...


Prof. Leeser will be an invited speaker at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) January 10 -14, 2011. More...


Professor Makowski's work is featured in Nature's News and Views, December 2010 issue. Please click here for more details.


Graduate student Shujun Li, Prof. Kokar, & Prof. Brady win the best paper award at the Wireless Innovation Technical Conference. More...


ECE Alumnus is appointed as the department chair at Rutgers. More...


Professors Nian Sun, Vince Harris and their collaborators’ paper is selected as the 10 most outstanding full papers in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials More...


Prof. Deniz Erdogmus has received a collaborative NSF research grant More...


Prof. Ratilal and her colleagues meet with Sen. Kerry and State officials More...


Professors Vittoria and Harris receive two NSF grants: More...


Congratulations to Professor Hossein Mosallaei whos on a team that got the MURI award on Tunable Optical Metamaterials More...


Professor Carmine Vittoria was recognized for his "Seminal contributions to the field of microwave materials and commitment to excellence in Education"More...


A team of four undergraduate students won the first place in this year's ECE Capstone Project Competition More...


The National Science Foundation awarded a grant of $248,400 to Northeastern University for support of the project entitled "REU Site: BIOSENSE - Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems for the Development of Biomedical Applications and Devices at Northeastern University,". More...


American Institute of Physics showcased an award winning poster of Prof. Tadmor and his colleagues. The poster was featured in National Geographic Daily. More...


Stefano Basagni receives MRI grant with Prof. G. Noubir, P. Desnoyers and M. Vona. More...


 Professor Mark Niedre receives R21 NIH Grant  More...


Professor Dave Kaeli and Professor Milica Stojanovic are elevated to IEEE Fellow! More...


Congratulations to Professor Purnima Ratilal and graduate student Duong Tran who won a Best Student Paper in Acoustical Oceanography at the Spring 2009 Conference of Acoustical Society of America More...


New COE/ECE grant: RSVP iconCHAT - A Brain Computer Interface for Icon-based Communication More...


Professor Mehmet Dokmeci's work is featured on the cover of the recent issue of Nanotechnology. More...


Professor Mark Niedre receives research award from the board of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, More...

Dr. Erdogmus will collaborate with researchers at OHSU (Portland, OR) to design a noninvasive brain computer interface using electroencephalography (EEG) More...

Prof. David Kaeli, along with Professors Purcella and Agnes from CCIS receive a 4 year NSF Scholarship for Service Award to prepare students in Information Assurance technologies. More ...
Sean Mayo used his electronics know-how to secure a co-op job for Apple’s iPod / iPhone technology team. Road to the big Apple

Purnima Ratilal and her co-workers' work on new imaging technology is featured in Science magazine. More...


Prof. Edwin Marengo was named the 2008 most distinguished alumnus of the Technological University of Panama in the category of research, innovation, and technological development. More...


Professor Purnima Ratilal received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, The Nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers.

Please see the following link for details about the White House press release. More...


Professor Fabrizio Lombardi is elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to: “testing and fault tolerance of digital systems”. More...


Message from the Chair

Being one of the leading departments of Northeastern University, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department is known for its student-centered and practice-oriented programs ...More
Ali Abur
ECE Department Chair



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