Stuart Jacobson
Professor of the Practice,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- s.jacobson@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
About
Stu Jacobson is a mechanical engineer with a range of academic and industrial experiences leading multidisciplinary teams. Prior to Northeastern, he worked at DEKA Research, leading the development of a life support system for human kidneys destined for transplant. At DEKA, he also led several projects developing automation and scale-up systems for fabricating tissue-engineered constructs. Prior to DEKA, Stu was the Senior Director of Engineering at Joule Unlimited, a biotech startup utilizing photosynthetic bacteria to convert waste carbon dioxide into liquid fuels at scale. Earlier in his career, Stu was a Principal Research Engineer in the MIT Aero/Astro Department, developing high power density MEMS devices. He served as the Deputy Director of the MIT Microengine Project, helping lead a team developing shirt-button-sized gas turbine engines for portable power applications. Stu received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, developing actuators and systems for boundary layer control.
Education
PostDoc, Aero/Astro (Gas Turbine Lab), MIT
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
BSE, Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University