Spotlight Stories
Nov 24, 2017
MS in Computer Systems Engineering Student Perspective
Harshal Neelkamal, an MS in computer systems engineering student at Northeastern, shares his journey to and in the program. View the video story to learn about his experience.
Nov 22, 2017
Chemical Engineering Dialogue of Civilizations to Spain
Written by Sofia Catalina, BS Chemical Engineering student. This past summer I traveled to Tarragona, Spain, with Prof. Ronald Willey and 22 other students on a Chemical Engineering dialogue to study […]
Nov 13, 2017
Global Experience Creates International Tournament
Ask Darryl Robinson, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2020, why lacrosse is his favorite sport, and he’ll cite its unique blend of physicality and finesse, its reliance on teamwork over individual ability. […]
Nov 02, 2017
Scholarship Supports Global Co-op Opportunities
Taylor Wilde, BS Chemical Engineering 2019, was the recipient of a Fung Scholarship, which allowed him to work on co-op at a research lab at École Normale Supérieure, a university […]
Oct 27, 2017
A New Way to Fight ‘Superbugs’
Ben Geilich, PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2016, is using nanoparticles to improve an antibiotics ability to treat infections. Northeastern doctoral graduate Ben Geilich cheerfully admits that he loves studying bacteria—tiny, resourceful […]
Oct 27, 2017
A Startup That’s Making Waves
Mechanical engineering alumnus Ben Kneppers, E’07 (middle) and his friends developed the company Bureo to recycle old fishing nets into products like skateboards and sunglasses to help prevent ocean pollution. […]
Oct 26, 2017
Women Forward in Technology Scholarships
Carolina Binns, BS’21 Comp Eng and Sara Symonds, BS’19 Comp Eng/Comp Science—Two students from Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) — Carolina Binns and Sara Symonds — have been announced as […]
Oct 20, 2017
Human-Robot Friendship
Murphy Wonsick, PhD’20—Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction of Taskin Padir, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern.