• Fundamentals of Explosive Short Course at ALERT

    To learn more about Short Courses: http://www.northeastern.edu/alert/education/workshops_first/

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    Carey Rappaport, Associate Director of the ALERT Center is interviewed in news@Northeastern's 3Q.

     

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  • LEARN MORE ABOUT ALERT'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

    Highlights of ALERT's latest work available, including MM-wave radar system for standoff detection of suicide bombers and breakthroughs in terahertz sensors.

     

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CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Center of Excellence for Awareness & Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT)

Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA  02115
Email:  alert-info@ece.neu.edu
http://www.northeastern.edu/alert/

 

University of Rhode Island
Energetics Materials Research Lab
Pastore Chemical Lab
51 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Email:  joxley@chm.uri.edu
http://energetics.chm.uri.edu/

 
The Center of Excellence for Awareness & Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) seeks to conduct transformational research, technology, and educational development to characterize, detect, mitigate, and respond to explosives-related threats facing the country and the world.  ALERT’s researchers bring strengths in designing advanced sensors; detecting weakly defined targets from a standoff distance; signal processing and sensor integration; characterizing explosives; understanding improvised explosive device (IED) detonator signatures; shock physics; and material science.

 

ALERT’s research areas:

 

  • Explosives Characterization
  • Explosives Detection Sensors
  • Explosives Detection Sensor Systems
  • Blast Mitigation