Industry Partnerships

Partnership with Northeastern’s College of Engineering can occur in a variety of ways—most commonly, companies look for workforce development initiatives, student hiring in industry, and targeted research. Industry partners also sponsor student capstone and student club projects, entrepreneurship ventures, and more. The first step is a conversation to understand your real-world business needs.

View our College of Engineering talent portal, highlighting PhD candidates and postdocs seeking career opportunities in industry and academia.

PhD Candidate and Postdoc Talent Portal

In addition to traditional research-oriented graduate degrees, specialized Master of Science degrees and Graduate Certificates aligned with industry needs are offered. The Graduate School of Engineering is top ranked and offers flexible program structures, including full-time and part-time programs as well as courses offered online.

Academic Programs

Our signature cooperative education program (co-op) is both good business and good for business. With talented young workers on staff on whom you can depend, your experienced employees can turn their attention to developing new strategic initiatives. By nurturing young talent, your company is laying the foundation for those who will guide the work in years to come. Co-op employers gain cost-effectiveness, support, a pipeline for future full-time talent, and the opportunity to engage with budding talents in the field.

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Industry and government partner with Northeastern for basic and applied research. The reason is simple: they know that at Northeastern, our two guiding principles are interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement with the real world. These principles are reflected in our research programs, which are driven by critical issues in materials, processes, systems and infrastructure. Our research collaborations are a win-win-win: our partners receive knowledge and products tailored to their needs, our researchers validate and extend their work, and our students receive training and experience to become the next generation of effective technologists.

Engineering Research       Center for Research Innovation

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Our faculty are at the forefront of pioneering discoveries, inventing solutions to better the world. View patents awarded by year to faculty in the College of Engineering from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Each of our academic departments has an Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) to help faculty develop programs mapping to emerging and current industry needs. View current IAB members by department:

Contacts


Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Senior Associate Dean for Global Engineering Campus,  Office of the Dean
George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor,  Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director,  PROTECT Superfund Research Center

Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration


Kaushik Chowdhury
Associate Dean for Research,  Office of the Dean
Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dynamic spectrum access; energy harvesting sensor networks; 5G technology; intra-body communication; protocol design for wireless; internet; wireless


Patrick Devanney
Director of Industry Partnerships,  Office of the Dean


Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,  Cooperative Education

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.


Marybeth Savicki
Marybeth Savicki
Senior Director of Corporate Relations,  Corporations and Foundations

Industry News

Ganguly Team Awarded Funds to Develop Urban Visualization and Data Analysis Toolkit

Industry partner Kitware, a software development company who is collaborating with CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and his research team, was awarded $1.6 million in DOE Phase II SBIR funds for the development of an Urban Visualization and Data Analysis Toolkit to address urban climate change threats. The Northeastern team will develop translational quantitative methods for the analysis of interconnected infrastructure systems.

Developing AI-Powered Testing for Next-Gen Cellular Networks

ECE Assistant Research Professor Michele Polese is leading a $2 million project awarded by the Wireless Innovation Fund for “AutoRAN: Automated End-to-End Continuous Testing for Open and Disaggregated Cellular Systems.”