Spotlight Stories
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 […]
Dec 16, 2014
Liyuan Liang: Alum named AAAS Fellow
Liyuan Liang, who received her BS in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University in 1982, was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was […]
Dec 08, 2014
Alumnus Inducted as Chairman of the National Board of Directors
Congratulations to civil engineering alumnus Sam Sleiman E’83, ME’85, who was inducted as Chairman of the National Board of Directors for the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA). Mr. Sleiman, […]
Aug 20, 2014
Ideas to Lead By
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, MS, Industrial Engineering, 1977—Learn more about him in a story published in Winter 2011/2012 issue of Northeastern Magazine. Career Success: Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, a minister and trusted senior advisor […]
Aug 15, 2014
SQUID Shirt
Squid is a sensitized, wearable compression shirt that integrates with a smart-phone and web database to monitor resistance exercises (e.g. weightlifting). Created by an Northeastern University interdisciplinary team of mechanical […]
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 […]
Aug 04, 2014
Winner of Young Investigator Award
Tuba Okutuca, PhD, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2005—alumna recently won the Young Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation. Her research studies support the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) production of micro-channel […]
Aug 01, 2014
Bioengineering a Better Treatment
David Walsh, PhD, Bioengineering, 2016—Every two months, Northeastern bioengineering graduate student David Walsh’s 91-year-old grandmother goes to the doctor to receive a drug injection into her eyes. She has wet […]