Spotlight Stories

Sep 03, 2021
Undergraduate Student’s Research Focuses on Developing Software for Drones to Enforce COVID Guidelines
UPLIFT Scholar Zachary Walker-Liang, E’25, computer engineering and computer science, conducted research as a first-year student to enable a drone to survey an area and see if people are following social distancing guidelines and wearing a mask or not and report the data. After developing the software he implemented it onto the drone.

Jun 16, 2021
Semester in San Francisco led Gabrielle Whittle to an Innovator Award
Recent mechanical engineering alum Gabrielle Whittle, E’21, received a Women Who Empower Innovator Award for her design of a transformable high-heel shoe that can be worn as a flat or a high heel.

Jun 09, 2021
Alumni Spotlight: Christine Keville, Civil Engineering
Christine Keville is the founder of Keville Enterprises, Inc. and a graduate of Northeastern University. She graduated with a master’s in civil engineering, and since then has embarked on a […]

Jun 03, 2021
Co-op Leads to Two Publications, Three Patents
Caitlynn Tov, E’21, bioengineering, conducted research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on the TEAL Bio face mask while on co-op, leading to her authoring/contributing to two papers and three patents.

May 27, 2021
Resilience Leads to Co-op at Tesla
When the co-op of Jared Covell, E’22, mechanical engineering, was canceled by the pandemic, he ended up working as a design engineer at a dream company for mechanical engineering, Tesla, with the support, mentoring and network of connections of his co-op coordinator. As a project lead on Tesla’s Drive Systems Structures team, Covell modeled components for a dynamometer assembly used to test a new electric motor. He led design reviews among the company’s structures, lubrication, and motor teams — then applied their feedback to optimize his models in the next iteration.

May 17, 2021
Cyber-Physical Systems Experience for the Connected World
Aurobindo Samantaray, MS’21, cyber-physical systems, joined the Northeastern community in January 2020. He came to Northeastern for its co-op program, bringing with him professional experience in embedded systems by working […]

May 17, 2021
The Total MSIS Package: Courses, Mentoring, Co-op
Sai Kale joined the MS in information systems (MSIS) program in Spring 2020, immediately jumping into topics such as application engineering, web development, and user experience engineering. When asked why […]

May 17, 2021
Featured Galante Fellow: Elise O’Reilly
Elise O’Reilly is a fifth-year student at Northeastern and will graduate this May with a bachelor’s in industrial engineering and master’s in engineering management. When O’Reilly first started at Northeastern, she was a civil engineering major. She switched to industrial engineering after looking into the Galante Engineering Business Program and the classes available.