A team including 25 Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge forum. On November 12 in Las Vegas, ...

The artificial intelligence developed by Professor Sam Kriegman is the first AI capable of intelligently designing new robots that work in the real world.

Professors Julius Lucks and James Rondinelli are part of a Fellows class that includes 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines.

In a major clinical study, the tool developed by Professor Mozziyar Etemadi boosted productivity by up to 40 percent without compromising accuracy.

A multi-institutional team of researchers, including two Northwestern University engineers, has received up to $34 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fast-track ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering share a strong history of interconnected research activities, established research centers, and ...

Northwestern University is hosting the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference from June 30-July 2 in Evanston. This event, “Spreading in Nature, Technology, and Society” will bring together a highly ...

According to a 2018 National Safety Council report, 63 percent of manufacturing workers report feeling tired at work, increasing the risk of accidents and injuries while decreasing overall performance ...

Understanding how dislocations (line defects in the crystal structure) occur when 3D-printing metals has been unclear to materials scientists. Understanding when and how dislocations form in ...

Professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz and postdoctoral researcher Ahis Shrestha discovered a new ion-driven flow mechanism in simple channels that could improve energy efficiency and memory in future ...

Professor Nathan Gianneschi will receive the $10,000 Kabiller Young Investigator’s Award in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine for recent groundbreaking discoveries that have potential to make a lasting ...

An initiative spearheaded by Northwestern’s McCormick Global Initiatives is forging new international research collaborations while prototyping new data science tools for scientific team-building.