Spotlight Stories
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 “You start with a lot of outdated documents and, through […]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 29, 2014
Co-op Leads to NASA Dream
Written by Liz Duffy, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Class of 2011. “I chose Northeastern for the co-op program,” recalls Duffy. “I saw it as a way to get to NASA.” She was right. Duffy started out her career with the government agency as a co-op student in the Planetary Sampling Acquisition and Handling group, which develops and […]
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 24, 2014
Cutting Edge of Technology
Chemical Engineering students get hands on experience at Procter and Gamble.
Jul 24, 2014
Real World Applications
Peter Ries, BS, Chemical Engineering, 2012—As a young chemical engineering student Peter Ries chose to use his co-op’s working at Boston based Procter and Gamble. A total of 18 months of experience at the large corporation landed him a permanent career as a research and development engineer upon his graduation in 2012. Ries was not […]
Jul 24, 2014
The Chemical Engineering Experience
Jason Crater, BS, Chemical Engineering 2010—When I decided to study chemical engineering at Northeastern University, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting myself into. At first I was slightly apprehensive, considering all the troubling remarks I heard regarding the difficulty of the curriculum and the amount of work involved with studying chemical engineering. My […]
Jul 24, 2014
Long Days in Oncology Lab
Emma Chory, BS, Chemical Engineering, 2012—When rising freshman ask me to define chemical engineering, I often find it hard to give an explicit answer because chemical engineering is such a diverse and rapidly expanding field. Externally, I think chemical engineering is the broadest of all the sciences. Whether a student is interested in working with […]