Marguerite Matherne
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- m.matherne@northeastern.edu
- 334 SN
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 337 HO
- 617.373.4668
About
Marguerite Matherne attended Georgia Tech where she studied Mechanical Engineering, earning her BS in 2016 and her PhD in 2021. Her PhD thesis was titled “Particle manipulation in nature: from honey bees to mammal tails.” Her research has been featured in the New York Times, Business Insider, Science, and Discovery Channel Canada. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship. During graduate school, she obtained the Tech to Teaching Certificate and uses teaching methods such as active learning, universal design in learning, and other evidence-based teaching practices in her classes.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021
Selected Publications
- Matherne, M.E., Cockerill, K., Zhou, Y., Bellamkonda, M., & Hu, D.L. (2018) Mammals repel mosquitoes with their tails. Journal of Experimental Biology 221(20), jeb178905.
- Amador, G. J., Matherne, M., Waller, D., Mathews, M., Gorb, S. N., & Hu, D. L. (2017). Honey bee hairs and pollenkitt are essential for pollen capture and removal. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 12(2), 026015
Aug 27, 2025
Award-Winning Paper Shows How to Help Students Achieve Learning Goals
MIE Associate Teaching Professor Marguerite Matherne received the Best Presentation Award for her paper “Effectiveness of Just-In-Time Teaching on Helping Students Achieve Lower Order Learning Goals in a Mechanics of Materials Class,” which was presented at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference.
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Feb 07, 2025
Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Aug 27, 2021
Using Honey Bee Techniques to Manipulate Soft Materials
Recently hired MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Marguerite Matherne is studying how honey bees remove pollen pellets from their bodies to better manufacture and manipulate soft materials.