Spotlight Stories
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.
Oct 18, 2017
Easy ‘Friending’ Startup
Jay Shome and Andrew Smith, BS, Computer Engineering, 2018—“Friending made easy.” That’s the motto of FriendsUp, a new app enabling users to share contact information and connect via Snapchat, Facebook, […]
Oct 18, 2017
Reengineering Scholarship Opportunities
ME alum Joseph Alim and student Tuan Ho have created the startup ScholarJet which enables high school students to participate in company-sponsored challenges such as creating 3-D models, running marathons, or developing apps to finance their college education.
Sep 08, 2017
Dialogue of Civilizations to Chile
Written by Carl Verch who is a 4th year student studying Bioengineering. This past summer, Carl had the incredible opportunity to take part in a Dialogue of Civilizations program to […]
Sep 05, 2017
Success without Boundaries
Written by Sharabh Kochar, an Engineering Management graduate. About Me Sharabh Kochar is a recent graduate from the engineering management program. He completed an international co-op at Schlumberger del Ecuador […]
Aug 28, 2017
Research in Extreme Conditions
Alek Razdan, PhD, Computer Engineering, 2021—This is the Antarctic Ocean in winter. It’s the last place anyone would want to be—unless you’re trying to solve a climate change mystery. An […]
Aug 25, 2017
Engineering for People
Kritika Singh, BS, Bioengineering, 2020—As a high school sophomore in Alexandria, Virginia, Kritika Singh, E’20, bioengineering, had an experience that changed the course of her life. A student at the […]
Aug 24, 2017
Cancer Does Not Discriminate
Mubashar Rehman, Chemical Engineering Visiting Scholar—As he was growing up in Pakistan, Visiting Ph.D. Scholar Mubashar Rehman was inspired by the important contributions his father made to agricultural science. “I […]