Spotlight Stories
May 08, 2017
Reflecting Back
Recent ECE Alum Liane Wong, E’17, reflects on her experiences while at Northeastern. Liane Wong, BS, Electrical Engineering, 2017, is a well rounded student. She completed three co-ops in the engineering industry, participated in a service-learning program to Belize, where she worked to empower local farmers, and served as co-chair of the Asian American Center’s […]
Apr 19, 2017
Engineering for Rural Development in India
Written by Tavish Fenbert, fourth year Mechanical Engineering student and Theater minor. About Me Tavish Fenbert, a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering student and Theatre minor from Seattle, Washington. He is currently on co-op at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay doing research in the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas. His co-op projects include designing a […]
May 11, 2016
Co-op in Cagliari
Co-written by James Kilgannon and David Measley, both third year Chemical Engineering students. About Me (James Kilgannon) James Kilgannon is a third year student at Northeastern University pursuing a degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship. He is an active member of the Chem-E-Car club that works on building a car power by […]
Apr 01, 2016
Finding my Dream Job
Kelly O’Connell, BS, Civil Engineering, 2016—received national recognition when she was selected by the American Society of Engineering Educators as the Co-op Student of the Year for 2016. Her co-op career has been varied, including work as a general contractor, a water resources consultant, and an energy sustainability professional. Kelly forged an interdisciplinary engineering path […]
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 […]
Aug 07, 2014
Interning Inside NASA Langley Research Center
Craig Schmidt, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2017—Preparing a military helicopter for a crash test is a strange experience. You spend three months designing equipment, fabricating parts and preparing instrumentation, only to crash it all into the ground at 40 miles per hour. The physical products of the effort are a set of high speed videos, crash […]
Jul 31, 2014
Family Health Scare Leads to Healthcare Systems Engineering
Kendall Sanderson, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2013—To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve is the efficient routing of delivery trucks around the country. When Sanderson learned he could apply this skill to the healthcare industry to prevent mistakes like those made with his mother, he knew he’d found […]