News

Mar 30, 2009
Students Design Plans for Boston Bike Trail
The plan for Boston's long-awaited bicycle trail may be incubating right now in a Northeastern University engineering lab.
Mar 30, 2009
AIChE Group Tests Their Knowledge
The AIChE student group created their own version of the TV series "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" but they were testing themselves against freshman engineering knowledge.
Mar 30, 2009
Congratulations to Mathew Gabak
Mathew Gabak, ME'09, has won the Inspiring Social Justice Poster Contest sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity and UNITE (Unifying Northeastern Identitites Through Education)
Mar 27, 2009
Critical Population Density Brings Order to Chaos
Purnima Ratilal, assistant professor of ECE, has been published in the latest issue of Science for her research on imaging fish shoals that verifies general theories about the behavior patterns of large groups of animals

Mar 23, 2009
Making the World a Little Greener
Matilda Urie, a senior mechanical engineering student, was been hired by a Scotland firm to "help develop clean, energy-producing turbines—it’s the right thing to do to preserve our planet."
Mar 20, 2009
MCAA wins 1st place in national competition
Congratulations to the Mechanical Contractor Association of America's student group for winning 1st place in the national MCAA's 2008-2009 student chapter competition.
Mar 17, 2009
Nutrons Mentor Local High School Students for FIRST Robotics Competition
The NUTRON'S "Ask an Engineer" program assists teams with engineering questions. Volunteers in the program include: Kyle Henry: Senior, Josh Miranda: Grad Student, Neil Cameron: Middler, Steve Guerrera: Alum, Zach Shapiro: Alum, Amy Sauger: Sophomore, Andrew Bates: Freshman, Kim Masi: Sophomore, Corey Balint: Sophomore, Eric Williams: Sophomore, Tom Bottiglieri: Middler, Antonio Rufo: Catholic Memorial Senior, Matt Skillin: Wentworth (former Boston Latin student), Don Goldthwaite: Advisor
Mar 17, 2009
COE Alum named CEO of Vertis Communications
Quincy L. Allen, a '82 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and longtime executive of Xerox Corporation, has been appointed chief executive officer of Vertis Communications.