Transcript of COE Faculty’s Remarks
Daniel Dulaski: Hello College of Engineering Class of 2020! Congratulations on a job well done. Be well, and do great things!
Heather Carpenter-Oliveira: Stay in touch and good luck with everything! Congratulations!
Alison Nogueira: Hello class of 2020, I’m Alison Nogueira, Senior Director of Co-op and MIE Co-op Coordinator, I want to wish you all the very best as end your career at Northeastern you embark on your next journey. Wherever it leads, we know you’ll do amazing things. Please stay in touch. Congratulations class of 2020.
Jessica Ormsby: Hello 2020 graduates. As Nelson Mandela once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world.” I know that you are all prepared to make positive impacts and be the change agents our world needs. Congratulations and best of luck on your next journey.
Richard West: Congratulations to the class of 2020!
Lucas Landherr: Class of 2020, we are so incredibly proud of the people you have become, the people you will be, and the good you will do. Congratulations on all of your achievements, and all the ones that are yet to come. We’ll miss you a lot.
Courtney Pfluger: Congratulations class of 2020! As you embark on your new journey, remember to dream big, the world’s open wide for you to explore. As you learn the tools at Northeastern, use them to do great things. Good luck and congratulations.
Jennifer Love: Congratulations graduates! Class of 2020, my name is Jennifer Love. I’m a professor of engineering in the First Year Engineering Program. I’m congratulating you from Humarock, Massachusetts near my home in Marshfield Massachusetts. And I’d like to share the beauty of the beach and the vast opportunities awaiting you in your lives. Congratulations.
Ben Woolston: Hi, I’m Ben Woolston, assistant professor in chemical engineering. I just wanted to say a big congratulations to the class of 2020! We’re proud of all your accomplishments and can’t wait to see what you achieve after Northeastern. All the best and stay in touch.
Loretta Fernandez: Congratulations on making it to the end of this particular path. But I hope it won’t be the end of our time together at Northeastern. Please stay in touch and come back so we can celebrate your accomplishments together in the near future. We’re all so proud of you!
Iman Salama: To my Class of 2020 ECE students: It was a pleasure working with you all, you are all such talented and motivated young engineers. You have always inspired and motivated me. I hope you continue to inspire the world. I wish you the very best in all your future endeavors.
Stefano Basagni: Hello Northeastern students, and especially to all the new electrical and computer engineers, congratulations and go Huskies!
Kristina Kutsukos: Hi 2020 graduates! Congratulations on this amazing achievement, best of luck in your next endeavors, and we hope you stay in touch as you become part of the Northeastern Alumni Community. All the best.
Nathanial Ziegler: Congratulations seniors, earning your degree is such a huge accomplishment, and you all should be so proud of yourselves. This is going to open up so many doors for you and I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Hugh McManus: Hi this is Professor McManus and congratulations to all of our graduates, with a particular shout-out my excellent Lean Concepts and senior capstone students. We overcame some very interesting times to finish as strong as any cohort that I’ve had the pleasure of teaching, so you should be proud of that, congratulations to all of you. Good luck on your lean journeys, success in your hero’s quest and I hope you all have a great life.
Ram Hariharan: Hi! There’s a saying that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going, and you have shown how tough you are. I wanted to congratulate you on your fantastic performance and please remember this too shall pass and out of this darkness a much brighter day will emerge. Stay true to yourself and keep doing what you have been doing and good luck and bye bye.
Brian Albrecht: Hi this is Brian Albrecht. To all the 2020 electrical and computer engineering students, who I’ve had an opportunity to advise on co-op, or who have been in my classes over the years, I just wanted to say it has been a great pleasure to get to know you, and I wish you nothing but the best in your future careers post-graduation. Cheers.
Bahram Shafai: Hello, this is Professor Bahram Shafai and your capstone advisor, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of your for receiving your well-deserved degree from Northeastern University. You should be very proud of yourselves and I’m sure that your family members feel the same way. Sorry that we could not get together and celebrate your graduation in a social gathering. However, perhaps this video clip would be a good replacement to congratulate you and wish you the best of luck. Again, I hope that we can soon see each other in the near future and celebrate in another time. Good luck and best wishes with full of success, health, and happiness.
Lorraine Mountain: Hello class of 2020, seniors and graduate students, I’m Lorraine Mountain, Assistant Dean for Co-op in the College of Engineering. Every spring, our co-op community looks forward to celebrating the accomplishments of our students in co-op, academics, and as leaders. You have worked across in industries in companies ranging from multi-national corporations to small start-ups, both locally and across the globe. Our engineering students positively impact our world and we are so proud. As is our tradition, we also celebrate our most outstanding co-op students each year. This year, we recognize and honor 14 undergraduate students and 3 graduate students in departmental engineering for their excellence in experiential learning. Look for their names and profiles in the COE Gazette and on our website. We look forward to staying in touch with all of you as you embark on your career as Northeastern Alums and can’t wait to see where your experiences will take you. Congrats to all our 2020 graduates.
Steven Johnson: Hi everyone, congratulations on graduation. Hopefully you’re still able to enjoy this different format because you certainly deserve to enjoy your graduation. I’m sure you’ve worked hard to get here. Best wishes for a bright and happy future.
Mark Munson: Hi students, congratulations on finishing another semester. I’ll look forward to seeing you again, I hope you continue on with your studies, and you’re successful in your future endeavors. See you again soon.
Marilyn Minus: Hi everyone this is Professor Minus, Graduate Chair in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, and I just wanted to say congratulations to you all for all your graduate accomplishments. I know that your family and friends have also provided a lot of support from this journey so I also want to say congratulations to them. I really hope that wherever you are in the world right now we are very proud of you, we are very honored to be a part of your educational journey. And I wish you all the success as you go forward in building your career. I hope that while you were here, you were able to build a wonderful network of friends and support systems and also professional connections so that you can go on to do wonderful accomplishments. I also hope that while you were here you felt a sense of community in the mechanical and industrial engineering department and that you can take that with you going forward but also stay forever connected to this department. So whether your program was engineering management, energy systems, data analytics engineering, operations research, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering or robotics, we’re forever connected to you in the MIE department and we hope you feel connected to us, and we look forward to hearing all the wonderful things you’re going to do. So congratulations, I wish you the best, and hope you do very well.
Max Sederer: Northeastern BIOE and ChemE Class of 2020, what a wonderful accomplishment. No one could have predicted this could’ve been our reality. Luckily, as engineers, you a prepared to accept our new challenges and forge a path forward. May you overcome hurdles, build bridges, and solve the problems to make our tomorrow better than today. My best to you and yours. Congratulations.
Karen Kelley: I’d like to send you off with a quote from the Dalai Lama: “You have achieved your goal and now you’re ready to begin another chapter. Now you really start real life. Real life may be more complicated, it is bound to face some unhappy things, and hindrance and obstacles, complications. So it’s important to have determination and optimism and patience.” Today is a wonderful milestone for all of you. Keep learning, keep trying, keep accomplishing, and keep venturing on throughout your journey. Congratulations.
Stephanie Kirby: Congratulations graduating Class of 2020. You should be so proud of all you have accomplished so far. Wishing you every success as you move forward, we can’t wait to see what you do next. Congratulations!
Jacob Walker: To all of the bio and chemical engineers Class of 2020, congratulations on having reached your graduation day. This is truly a momentous occasion. Your hard work and incredible perseverance have paid off. You are all going to achieve incredible things, this I am confident of. I wish you all the best of luck, so remain positive, and I look forward to hearing about all of your successes. Congratulations.
Julie Nguyen: Congratulations to all of our graduating students. One quote I’d like to leave you with is this one from Maya Angelou that reads: “The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.” I wish the Class of 2020 all the best as you embark on your next adventure.
Yiannis A. Levendis: Dear 2020 graduates of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Congratulations for making it to the end of your studies, particularly given the latest adversity. Looking ahead, I wish you a stress-free future full of successes and distinguished accomplishments!
Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton: Congratulations!
Charles DiMarzio: Congratulations Engineering Class of 2020 from ECE prof. Chuck Dimarzio.
Annalisa Onnis-Hayden: COE 2020 Congrats!
Fabrizio Lombardi: Congratulations!
Luca Caracoglia: Congratulations and best wishes!
Rachel Walsh: Congrats Class of 2020!
Back to Congratulatory Event for the COE Class of 2020 Graduates
d.dulaski@northeastern.edu
Transportation safety; roadway geometry and roadside design; human factors in transportation.
he.carpenter@northeastern.edu
a.nogueira@northeastern.edu
j.ormsby@northeastern.edu
r.west@northeastern.edu
Development of detailed microkinetic models for complex reacting systems; automating the discovery and calculation of reaction pathways; heterogeneous catalysis
l.landherr@northeastern.edu
Development of comics, visualization, and modules for novel STEM teaching tools for all-ages education
c.pfluger@northeastern.edu
Engineering education with a focus on technology enhancing pedagogues; Globalization in the classroom and international educational experiences; Sustainable energy and clean water technologies.
j.love@northeastern.edu
broadening participation in engineering education, preK-12 engineering education, STEAM, makerspace, project-based learning, teacher professional development
b.woolston@northeastern.edu
Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health
l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments
i.salama@northeastern.edu
basagni@ece.northeastern.edu
Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing
h.mcmanus@northeastern.edu
shafai@ece.northeastern.edu
Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems
l.mountain@northeastern.edu
Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.
st.johnson@northeastern.edu
m.minus@northeastern.edu
Process-structure-properties relationships in polymer-based nano-composites fibers; polymer/nano-carbon interfacial interactions and interphase formations; lightweight composite materials; carbon-carbon composites
m.sederer@northeastern.edu
jw.walker@northeastern.edu
y.levendis@northeastern.edu
Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
bkjaeger@coe.northeastern.edu
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Motor Control, Healthcare Systems, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Operations Research, Business, Data Management and Statistics, Engineering Training and Education, Safety Management, Information Processing, Cognition/Cognitive Psychology, Human Performance Engineering, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Process Control
dimarzio@ece.northeastern.edu
Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography multi-model imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data
aonnis@coe.northeastern.edu
Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems
lombardi@ece.northeastern.edu
Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems
lucac@coe.northeastern.edu
Structural dynamics; wind engineering; wind energy; wind-induced vibration; fluid-structure interaction; linear and nonlinear cable dynamics; climate change
ra.walsh@northeastern.edu