Co-op Student Experiences
Jun 01, 2023
Lab Experiences Lead to Co-op Work in Switzerland
Gwyneth McNamara, E’24, chemical engineering and biochemistry, has gained extensive laboratory experience working co-ops at two Cambridge, Massachusetts pharmaceutical companies. She is now applying that experience, along with her engineering skills, in a third co-op at a university lab in Winterthur, Switzerland.
May 24, 2023
Mastering Full Stack Development
Jinal Mamaniya is a full stack developer with seven+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, implementing, and testing applications and solutions using a variety of front-end and back-end technologies. Her previous experiences and interest in the information systems field led her to Northeastern.
May 10, 2023
Inside this Northeastern Student’s Co-op with NASA
Electrical engineering student Jonah Saunders, E’24, completed a co-op at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, gaining valuable experience and contributing to their ongoing projects in space exploration.
May 08, 2023
Community of Support in the MSIS-Bridge Program
Prior to enrolling in the MS in Information Systems-Bridge (MSIS-Bridge) program, Bhavin Bhatia was working in India as an HR administrator in corporate functions. He always wanted to pursue his master’s degree and the field of computer science. He is now on co-op at Siemen’s working in software testing.
May 04, 2023
2023 Engineering Departmental Co-op Awardees
The 10th Annual Departmental Co-op Awards were held on May 8, 2023, to celebrate the exemplary work of a select group of undergraduate and graduate students who have shown great promise and intellectual fortitude throughout their co-op experience.
Apr 24, 2023
Finding a Community of Peers with MSIS-Bridge in Silicon Valley
With a bachelor’s degree in linguistics, Yang Jiang joined the MSIS-Bridge program in Silicon Valley after working in Japan as a technology consultant and program manager at Accenture. She wanted to change her career to a software engineer to understand how the software is developed rather only implement the technology solutions.
Apr 24, 2023
Career Change from Paralegal to Data Analyst with MSIS-Bridge
Kaleigh Sieczkowski, a student of the MS in Information Systems-Bridge (MSIS-Bridge) program, made a career pivot when she realized her passion for solving problems using technology. She studied international relations at Michigan State University, subsequently working as a paralegal. She plans to become a business intelligence analyst after graduating.
Apr 18, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Alex Silverman, MS’21
Like many, Alexandra Silverman was first introduced to science in middle school in the form of a frog dissection. However, instead of the impending nausea many experience at the sight of internal organs, Silverman became enraptured by the beauty and intricacy of science.