Engineering @ Northeastern Spring 2021

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photo by Matthew Modoono

Fostering Innovation through Collaboration Located at the Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, Northeastern’s George G. Kostas Research Institute, commonly known as KRI, brings together university-wide faculty and students, with industry and government to help solve important security, intelligence, and resilience challenges. KRI is home to several of Northeastern’s engineering research centers and labs, including the Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing; Colosseum, the world’s largest wireless testbed built by DARPA; the Awareness and Localization of Explosives Related Threats (ALERT) research center lab; and the Laboratory for Structural Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Systems—the largest of its kind east of the National Earthquake Center. KRI’s approach to partnership is highlighted in the variety of partners who are an integrated component of the collaborative ecosystem. Along with several onsite government labs—such as the Army Research Lab Northeast and Air Force Counter Small-UAS and Air Force Systems Integration Lab—KRI has 22 industry partners across its campus, among them Raytheon Technologies, Rogers Corporation, VRC Metal Systems, and AeroVironment. These partnerships are critical to “accelerating academic discoveries into practical use,” says KRI CEO Peter Boynton. In recent years, the Innovation Campus added an Expeditionary Cyber & Unmanned Aircraft Systems Lab—the first of its kind in the United States. Ongoing renovations also added 30,000 square feet of entrepreneurial space—the Venture Creation Center, furthering innovation opportunities for engineering faculty, students, and alumni. 38 Engineering @ Northeastern | SPRING 2021


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