First-Year Faculty
Eleven professors specialize in teaching first year engineering courses to help new students meet the challenges of the first year.
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r.whalen@northeastern.edu
Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Assessment, Thermo-fluids Engineering, Microscale Heat Transfer, Numerical Modeling of Laser Welding of Plastics, Thermal Effects in Nonlinear Optical Material
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k.schulte@northeastern.edu
Service-learning in engineering, first year engineering success, sustainable urban design; alternative energy sources; green roof technology; soil-liquid infiltration physics
![Nicole Batrouny](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_280,h_373/https://coe.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/batrouny-n.jpg)
Engineering education; decision making; engineering design process, especially novice engineers; social implications of and within engineering
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sfreeman@coe.northeastern.edu
![Andrew Gillen](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_280,h_373/https://coe.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/gillen-a.jpg)
![Joshua Hertz](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_280,h_373/https://coe.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/hertz-j.jpg)
j.hertz@northeastern.edu
![Angelina Jay](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_280,h_373/https://coe.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/jay-a.jpg)
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l.keyvani@northeastern.edu
Resilience Engineering, Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Progressive Collapse
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mahes@coe.northeastern.edu
Current Research: Experiential Engineering Education via Innovation and Invention. Focus on the Technical Design, Energy System, and Medical Engineering (MedEng) Design Innovations via Prototyping and Proof of Concept. Past Research: High-Temperature Superconductors, Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, and Engineering Physics Education.
![Adetoun Yeaman](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_253,h_380/https://coe.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/yeaman-a.jpg)
Empathy in engineering, design education, character education, community engagement and multimedia learning
![Matthew Burns](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_280,h_373/https://coe.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/burns-m.jpg)
m.burns@northeastern.edu