A new system developed by a team with Professor Aravindan Vijayaraghavan successfully schedules observations on a major ...

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 ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Sidhanth Mohanty earned a Best Paper Award at the 66th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2025) last month in Sydney. Mohanty joined the McCormick ...

Determining protein structures requires crystals, but getting proteins to crystallize has long depended on a slow, unpredictable process of trial and error ...

The Northwestern facility will be the nation’s first open automated lab for designing, building, and testing proteins.

Lyle F. Mockros (’56, MS ’58), professor emeritus of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, passed away at the age of 92 on May 6, 2026. He was known for his contributions to the field of ...

Most robots rely on rigid, bulky parts that limit their adaptability, strength, and safety in real-world environments. Researchers developed soft, battery-powered artificial muscles inspired by human ...

Gail Berger, a former clinical associate professor in Northwestern Engineering’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program, ...

Parameter identifiability and estimation for rate-based models of synaptic plasticity (Advisor: James Fitzgerald). Developing experimental design methods to address identifiability issues in sparse ...

Algorithm design and analysis is fundamental to all areas of computer science and gives a rigorous framework for the study optimization. This course provides an introduction to algorithm design ...

Join one of the top-ranked biomedical engineering programs in the world and become one of the PhD students at the heart of our collaborative environment. Your research efforts here will help lay the ...