Co-op News
May 05, 2015
2015 Outstanding Co-op Education Award recipients
Congratulations to MIE students Julia Moulton and Joshua Merritt for winning the university's Outstanding Co-op Awards.
Oct 15, 2014
Visit Led to Coop & Job
After participating in the COE Silicon Valley Spring Break program, Marta Skomin, EE’14, got her first coop job at MoSys which ended up turning into a full-time job opportunity.
Sep 17, 2014
See How The Jetsetting Jamaican Does Panama
Saludos todos! My name is Kathryna Clarke. I am senior civil engineering major at Northeastern that is currently doing an environmental evaluation co-op with the Panama Canal Authority.
Aug 07, 2014
Interning Inside NASA Langley Research Center
Craig Schmidt, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2017—Preparing a military helicopter for a crash test is a strange experience. You spend three months designing equipment, fabricating parts and preparing instrumentation, only to crash it all into the ground at 40 miles per hour. The physical products of the effort are a set of high speed videos, crash […]
Jul 31, 2014
Family Health Scare Leads to Healthcare Systems Engineering
Kendall Sanderson, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2013—To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve is the efficient routing of delivery trucks around the country. When Sanderson learned he could apply this skill to the healthcare industry to prevent mistakes like those made with his mother, he knew he’d found […]
Jul 31, 2014
Industrial Engineering Co-op Follows IBM to Philippines
Shuntaro Okuzawa, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2013—“I was looking at everything from individual processes to entire departments from a bird’s eye view,” said Okuzawa. “My work is all about looking at the bigger picture, what individual tasks fit into a day-to-day operation,” Okuzawa said. “You start with a lot of outdated documents and, through […]
Jul 29, 2014
Humanitarian Projects in Civil Engineering
Ann Polaneczky, BS, Civil Engineering, 2011—“When you’re working in a developing country, you have to approach things completely differently,” said 2011 civil engineering graduate Ann Polaneczky, a project engineer for Partners in Health, a non profit inter na tional health and social jus tice organization. “Your approach has to address anthropological and cultural concerns because […]
Jul 29, 2014
Co-op Leads to NASA Dream
Written by Liz Duffy, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Class of 2011. “I chose Northeastern for the co-op program,” recalls Duffy. “I saw it as a way to get to NASA.” She was right. Duffy started out her career with the government agency as a co-op student in the Planetary Sampling Acquisition and Handling group, which develops and […]