First-Year Faculty
Thirteen professors specialize in teaching first-year engineering courses to help new students meet the challenges of the first year.
Boston
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
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
Engineering education; decision making; engineering design process, especially novice engineers; social implications of and within engineering
s.freeman@northeastern.edu
j.hertz@northeastern.edu
l.keyvani@northeastern.edu
Resilience Engineering, Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Progressive Collapse
b.maheswaran@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.
m.burns@northeastern.edu
London
turbulent fluid flows, numerical simulation of turbulent flows, machine learning in fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, river flows
engineering education, women in engineering, education policy and curriculum design
New York City
Oakland
development and characterization of high-surface-area materials for gas capture and waste management
Multidisciplinary research experience in condensed matter physics, biology, and microbiology. Expert on nanomaterials simulations and proficient in machine learning and deep learning techniques.