Angelina Jay
Associate Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact
- a.jay@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 368F SN
About
Angelina joins Northeastern’s First Year Engineering faculty after nearly three years as a Technical Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Northeastern in 2017 and worked as a consultant in New York City upon its completion. While prioritizing teaching, her current research focuses on student well-being and engagement.
Education
- PhD, Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, 2017
Honors & Awards
- 2023 Outstanding Teachers of First Year Engineering
- 2022 Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Engineering Students
Selected Publications
- Jay, A. and Zhou, B. (2025). “User Identity Cards to Facilitate Human-Centered Des ign Activities. GIFTS Paper. ASEE Annual Conference. Montreal, Quebec. https://nemo.asee.org/public/conferences/365/papers/47178/download (also available https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/4692)
- Jay, A. (2023). “A Fantastically Creative AutoCAD Assessment.” GIFTs Paper. FYEE Annual Conference. Knoxville, TN. https://peer.asee.org/44834
- Award: Best GIFTs Paper 2023
- Schulte-Grahame, K. Jay, A., Gillen, A., Freeman, S. (2023). “Meaningful Moments: First-year Student Perceptions of Mindfulness and Meditation in the Classroom.” ASEE Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD. https://strategy.asee.org/43561
- Jay, A., Myers, A.T., Torabian, S., Mahmoud, A., Smith, E., Agbayani, N., Schafer, B.W. (2016) “Spirally welded steel wind towers: Buckling experiments, analyses, and research needs.” J Constructional Steel Research. 125, 218-226.
- Jay, A., Myers, A.T., Mirzaie, F., Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Smith, E., Schafer, B.W. (2016) “Large-scale bending tests of slender tapered spirally welded steel tubes.” J Struct. Eng. 04016136.
- Mirzaie, F., Myers, A.T., Jay, A., Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Smith, E., Schafer, B.W. (2018) “Imperfection Measurements to Predict Buckling Behavior of Slender Steel Tubes.” Thin Walled Struct. 123, 270-281.
- Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Jay, A., Mirzaie, F., Myers, A.T., Smith, E., Schafer, B.W. (2018) “Modelling the Flexural Collapse of Thin-walled Spirally Welded Tapered Tubes.” J. Struct. Eng. 04017201.
Nov 18, 2025
From Young Scholars Program to Full-Time Student
While in high school, Dmitra Mukasa, E’28, bioengineering, participated in the Young scholars’ program offered by Northeastern. There, she learned about Northeastern’s impactful research and vast array of career opportunities available to its students, sparking her interest in attending the school. Now, in her second year of undergraduate studies, Mukasa has found a degree path that encapsulates all her interests and aspirations, making her excited to continue the journey.
Jan 17, 2024
First-Year Engineering Faculty Receive Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program Award
FYE Assistant Teaching Professors Angelina Jay, Andrew Gillen, Nicole Batrouny, and Adetoun Yeaman received a Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (M2AP) Award for 2024-2025 from Northeastern’s Advance Office of Faculty Development.
Jan 24, 2023
Faculty and Staff Awards 2023
Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering were recognized at the annual awards event in a variety of categories for their contributions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Dec 02, 2022
First-Year Engineering Expo – Fall 2022
The First-Year Engineering program’s mission is to inspire and motivate students to pursue an engineering education by providing them with a diverse and inclusive learning community centered around the First-Year Engineering Learning and Innovation Center and the Cornerstone of Engineering 1- and 2-course sequence.
Apr 15, 2022
Faculty and Staff Awards 2022
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2021-2022 academic school year.