Northeastern University College of Engineering

Meet Your Graduate Student Ambassadors!
2020-10-15 - 2020-12-30 | MA
Meet your Student Ambassadors! Prospective and Admitted Graduate Students are invited to meet their Student Ambassador via Unibuddy.

Transforming an Engineering Idea into a Business: Idea, Learn, Execute, Risk, Persist
2020-10-29 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join the Galante Program and MassChallenge Winners, Reza Amin and Leila Daneshmandi, on October 29th from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM to learn about their entrepreneurial journey starting with an idea that then transformed into startups.
Reza Amin is the CEO and founder at Bastion and co-founder at Encapsulate. Since 2013 he was working on the design and development of Lab-on-a-chip platforms for medical diagnostics. During his entrepreneurial journey, he has won several competitions and fellowships.
Leila Daneshmandi is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut and the co-founder and COO of Encapsulate. She is currently a General Electric Fellow for Innovation at UConn’s School of Engineering and was recently selected as a 2020 Women of Innovation Finalist by the Connecticut Technology Council and Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology. More recently and under her leadership, Encapsulate was awarded the prestigious “Technology in Space Prize,” valued at $653k, from The International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory in partnership with Boeing. Through this award, Encapsulate will have the opportunity to deploy their technology onto the International Space Station.
Attend this virtual event to learn more about their inspiring story! Please RSVP.

Pumpkins with Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWiSE)
2020-10-29 18:00 - 20:00
Keep calm, carve a pumpkin, carry on!
Thursday 10/29 at 6:00 PM on MS Teams, join the GWiSE community on Teams for some virtual fall festivities! Costumes and custom backgrounds encouraged!
We will be carving, painting, and/or coloring pumpkins! Everything is BYO! If you want to color a pumpkin we will have pdfs that you can print or color in MS paint.
If you’d like to paint a pumpkin, be sure to have the following items prepared for painting: A small hard pumpkin that fits in your hand, some newspaper, Marker, Paint, brushes, paper towels, and a cup of water.
If you’d like to carve a pumpkin, be sure to have the following items prepared: A towel, marker, spoon, sharp knives (1 short, 1 long), a bowl big enough to fit pumpkin in, and a Pumpkin! It should be 7+ lbs. Your hands should not be able to wrap around more than ½ of the pumpkin.
The picture below is the MINIMUM size.

Halloween Themed Presentations with CEE GSC
2020-10-29 20:00 - 22:00
You’re invited to the Civil and Environmental Department Graduate Student Halloween Social
Thursday 10/29 @ 8 PM on Zoom
Costumes and custom zoom backgrounds are encouraged!! To accommodate for the virtual environment, we are going to do Presentation Karaoke with a winner’s prize.
Presentation Karaoke is where volunteers improvise some funny stories over a presentation as if they’d designed it. The theme for Presentation Karaoke will be ‘Halloween.’
Feel free to simply attend and listen to the fun presentations and stories if you don’t want to actively participate.
