Spotlight Stories
Feb 24, 2016
Co-op in Indonesia
Written by Maria George, a fifth year senior majoring in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental Science. About Me Maria George is a fifth year senior majoring in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental Science. She’s spent her undergrad exploring opportunities in Environmental Engineering through co-op and seizing every opportunity she can to apply […]
Jan 02, 2016
Co-op in Beijing
Written by Neil Suttora, a junior in Electrical and Computer Engineering. About Me Neil Suttora is a Junior at NEU in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He decided to go to China for his 2nd co-op because he loves the language and culture. If you don’t know him by my name you probably have seen Neil unicycling around campus […]
Feb 17, 2015
Studying Abroad at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia
Mechanical Engineering students Alex Jason, Leah Okrainsky, and Kelli Lynch at Uluru, also known as Ayer’s Rock, in central Australia, which is a sacred Aboriginal site. These students studied abroad during Fall 2014 at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. They just returned from a 10 day trip to the Outback for their spring break. […]
Jul 31, 2014
Industrial Engineering Co-op Follows IBM to Philippines
Shuntaro Okuzawa, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2013—“I was looking at everything from individual processes to entire departments from a bird’s eye view,” said Okuzawa. “My work is all about looking at the bigger picture, what individual tasks fit into a day-to-day operation,” Okuzawa said. “You start with a lot of outdated documents and, through […]
Jul 29, 2014
Humanitarian Projects in Civil Engineering
Ann Polaneczky, BS, Civil Engineering, 2011—“When you’re working in a developing country, you have to approach things completely differently,” said 2011 civil engineering graduate Ann Polaneczky, a project engineer for Partners in Health, a non profit inter na tional health and social jus tice organization. “Your approach has to address anthropological and cultural concerns because […]
Jul 25, 2014
Discovering the Creative Side of Engineering
Chris Nasif, BS, Civil Engineering, 2012—On co-op with an engineering firm in Paris, Northeastern University student Chris Nasif was asked by his manager to write a 10,000-word dissertation on designing earthquake-resistant buildings, a topic with which he was unfamiliar. After shaking off the daunting scope of his assignment, the senior civil and environmental engineering major got to work. […]
Jul 22, 2014
Crossing Borders
Gina Palino, BS, Civil Engineering 2013, whose peers laud her for her intense motivation to help less fortunate people around the world, served as Uganda program director of Northeastern’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders. EWB-NEU, one of five student chapters in Greater Boston, built wells to provide fresh drinking water to Bbanda, Uganda, in 2010 […]