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Apr 21, 2021

Combining Energy and Leadership Programs to Make an Impact

AbdurRehman Rashid, MS’20, energy systems, and certificate in engineering leadership, knew early on that he wanted to make the world a better place through engineering. Growing up in Pakistan, at […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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Apr 12, 2021

Working Toward a World with Clean Energy

After completing his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the University of Iowa, Pengyang Xiang, who is an MS in Energy Systems student graduating in 2021, felt limited by the […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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Mar 22, 2021

PlusOne to Help Give Back through the Lens of Science and Healthcare

For Michael Parrish, pursuing a degree beyond the undergraduate level was always in the cards. “I declared bioengineering from day one at Northeastern University,” Parrish admits. “But I initially was […]

Bioengineering

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Mar 22, 2021

Onto NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

“Interdisciplinarity.” That’s what drew PhD candidate Venkata Shashank Konduri to Northeastern. Konduri is pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering, meaning he is taking coursework from different disciplines and performing valuable […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

student with Great Wall of China in background

Mar 22, 2021

Featured Galante Fellow: Noah Switek

Get Involved and Takeoff! Noah Switek is currently a 5th-year student at Northeastern. This May, he will graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Master’s degree in Engineering […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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Mar 22, 2021

Featured Galante Fellow: David Soolkin

David Soolkin has been a member of the Galante program since 2020. This May, he will graduate from Northeastern with his Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and Master’s in Engineering Management. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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Mar 16, 2021

Front-End Developer to Full Stack Engineer

Jayashree Patel, MS‘21, information systems, has always been enchanted by computer science and used to wonder how a few lines of code could lead to the development of software that […]

Software Engineering and Information Systems

Jayshil Jain

Mar 16, 2021

MS in Information Systems Co-op as Business Intelligence Engineer at Dell Technologies

The MS in information systems program at Northeastern University always stood out to Jayshil Jain, MS’21, information systems, as being at the forefront of their domain by blending industry relevant […]

Software Engineering and Information Systems