Buildings shape daily life. They influence the air people breathe, the energy we use, and the comfort of the spaces where we live and work. As environmental conditions shift, engineers and designers ...

Payal Mohapatra (PhD ’26) and Stefany Cruz (PhD ’25) were among 39 outstanding early-career researchers from 26 institutions ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Michael Rubenstein has been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Chief of Naval Research (CNR) Fellows program. Launched this year, the ...

Researchers have lacked a reliable way to determine the complex atomic structures of material interfaces that affect how materials perform, degrade, and fail. Researchers developed an AI-powered ...

Long frustrated with siloed, disconnected, and inefficient academic research workflows, Northwestern Engineering’s Adrienne Kline developed CiteGeist, a cloud-based, AI-powered research management ...

Mechanical engineers are problem-solvers who design and develop products, processes, and systems that impact a wide range of areas, including infrastructure, healthcare, security, manufacturing, and ...

The Biomaterials Group aims to develop self-assembled, bio-integrated electronic, synthetic, and nanoscale materials for biomedical applications. Research and teaching areas include self-assembled ...

More than 25 years after Northwestern Engineering researchers advanced the concept of collaborative robotics, or “cobots,” researchers in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems have designed ...

Perovskite solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional silicon solar panels but have poor durability. Professor Ted Sargent, Research associate professor Bin Chen, Postdoctoral fellows ...

Starting this fall, undergraduate students at Northwestern University will have the option to major in AI, thanks to a new academic offering announced today. The major, administered by Northwestern ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key driver of geopolitical power imbalances, fueling the competition for technological supremacy and economic dominance and intensifying global ...

A bone regeneration device using bioactive materials pioneered by Querrey Simpson Institute for Regenerative Engineering at Northwestern University (QSI RENU) director Guillermo Ameer was recently ...