Multidisciplinary Masters Co-op Stories
Feb 03, 2023
Northeastern Gave Me the Courage I Needed to Succeed on Co-op
While studying at Northeastern, Karan R. Agrawal, MS’23, information systems, worked at Vantage Risk on a co-op as a data engineer starting. He believes his first-year courses equipped him for data engineering.
Nov 28, 2022
A Confidence Boost to Succeed in the Telecommunications Industry
Varun Sachdev, MS’09, chose Northeastern to pursue a master’s in telecommunication networks because of its focus on industry experiences to complement the academic program. He focused on areas including 4G LTE, multimedia, and advanced networking, and well as management. He did a co-op at Qualcomm in San Diego.
Oct 26, 2022
Securing Mobile Networks 4G to 5G and Beyond
Apoorva Jain, an alumnus of the MS in Telecommunication Networks program, gained valuable experience on an eight-month co-op at telecommunications company Ericsson, working on the systems integration team. Upon graduation he received a full time position at Ericsson in product development and validation. Now Jain is a senior product manager in cloud and network security at Palo Alto Networks.
Oct 13, 2022
An Industry-Facing Master’s Program Leads to Career at Amazon Web Services
During her master’s program in information systems, Sonia Mahankali dove into a powerful co-op job at cybersecurity firm Appgate as a sales engineer. The experience she gained there set her up for her next career move to Amazon Web Services as a technical account manager.
Oct 04, 2022
What and Why, Not Just How: Journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager
Main photo: Shruti Kotian, MS’19, information systems, onsite on co-op at Copart where the company stores salvaged cars and trucks for online auction. She learned about the whole process of how salvaged cars are brought into the site and how the app she worked on is used to categorize and auction the inventory. Shruti Kotian […]
Aug 11, 2022
Bringing Blockchain Technologies to the Financial World
Parth Gargava joined Northeastern University in the Fall of 2016 as a MS in Information Systems student. Throughout his studies, Gargava focused on advanced data science, application development, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; but it was his passion for blockchain and cryptocurrency that ignited his career.
Oct 20, 2021
MS in Cyber Physical Systems Student Gets Job Offers at Both Amazon and Nokia
Nitin Sunda, ME’21, cyber physical systems with the internet of things concentration, credits the skills that he learned in class with him landing a co-op at tech company Nokia. His program is at Northeastern’s Silicon Valley campus. Now he has full time job offers from Nokia and Amazon.
Sep 23, 2021
Telecommunication Networks Co-op at Nokia Provides Real-World Experience
Aman Kushwaha, ME’22, telecommunication networks, completed a co-op at Nokia as an Infrastructure and DevOps Intern setting up automation tools for data centers and optimizing pre-existing architecture to equip them with upcoming technologies. The MS in Telecommunication networks covering computer systems networking and telecommunications is an area as Kushwaha says that “every conglomerate, every infrastructure, every organization stands tall with the help of communications and inter-networking (internet).”