News
Jun 01, 2023
Lab Experiences Lead to Co-op Work in Switzerland
Gwyneth McNamara, E’24, chemical engineering and biochemistry, has gained extensive laboratory experience working co-ops at two Cambridge, Massachusetts pharmaceutical companies. She is now applying that experience, along with her engineering skills, in a third co-op at a university lab in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Apr 10, 2023
Sustainability Trips to Brazil Earn Professor Northeastern’s First Global Educator Award
ChE Associate Teaching Professor Courtney Pfluger received Northeastern University’s inaugural 2023 Global Educator Award. Pfluger’s work on developing meaningful cooperative partner projects, including nine Dialogue of Civilizations visits to Brazil since 2013, made her nomination stand out.
Apr 06, 2023
How Do You Start a Robotics Club From Scratch? Northeastern London Students Found the Winning Formula
As a current first-year engineering student at Northeastern’s London campus, Aidan Carrier helped to create a new robotics club that has already developed a talented robot that won the Unibots UK robotics competition.
Apr 05, 2023
Alternative Spring Break Led Engineering Undergraduates Overseas
Innovators for Global Health (IGH), a student organization consisting of undergraduate engineering students, traveled to Ghana during spring break to help build relationships with local medical facilities to determine medical device needs.
Mar 28, 2023
Fostering Co-op Opportunities in Singapore
Kristina Kutsukos, assistant co-op coordinator in Northeastern University’s College of Engineering, traveled to Singapore to target new areas of industry and research for Northeastern co-op students, visit our current cooperative education partners, and meet with our Northeastern alumni in the region.
Feb 07, 2023
Schwarzman Scholarship and Named one of BostInno’s 25 Under 25.
Alex Marley, E’22, electrical engineering, was awarded the highly selective Schwarzman Scholarship and named one of BostInno’s 25 Under 25. Schwarzman Scholars supports up to 200 Scholars annually from the U.S., China, and around the world for a one-year master’s in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
Nov 04, 2022
Featured Galante Fellow: Beatriz Feijóo Gómez
Beatriz Feijóo Gómez is a sixth-year student at Northeastern University, graduating December 2022 with an MS in engineering management and having previously received her BS in civil engineering in May […]
Oct 26, 2022
Seeing Code in Real Life: A Co-op Journey Into Robotics
Joseph Berman, E’24, computer engineering, has taken advantage of Northeastern’s experiential learning opportunities. After completing a co-op at Amazon Robotics, he worked in the robotics lab of Associate Professor Taskin Padir, who is also director of the Institute of Experiential Robotics. He is now on co-op in Japan working at Mujin, a startup based in Tokyo with additional branches in Georgia and China.