Alumni News
Jul 29, 2014
Co-op Leads to NASA Dream
Written by Liz Duffy, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Class of 2011. “I chose Northeastern for the co-op program,” recalls Duffy. “I saw it as a way to get to […]
Jul 16, 2014
Alum earns entrepreneurship award for startup
When Asanterabi Malima was 15, his father suffered a fatal heart attack at 57. He had been an accomplished scholar and minister in the Tanzanian government. “Everyone in my family […]
Aug 12, 2013
Mars Rover, One Year Later
Megan Richardson, a Mechanical Engineering student (class of 2010), connected with the NASA JPL at a SWE National conference, obtained a co-op, and joined them after graduation to work on the […]
May 28, 2013
Students Awarded Patent for Capstone Project
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduates Michael Witonis, Jay Seiter, Morgan Misek, Joshua Filgate, and Jesse Kuhn have been awarded a patent for their 2007 capstone project entitled "Internal Gearbox for Downhill […]
Feb 02, 2012
Vaziri Awarded NSF CAREER Award
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri has been awarded a $400K NSF CAREER grant to study “Functional Biomimetric Materials with Extreme Topology”.
Dec 20, 2011
Alumni Used Coop to Obtain Dream Job
Maureen Dutton, E'91, was able to use her coop experiences she obtained at Northeastern to achieve her childhood dream of working at NASA.
Jun 15, 2011
Inspiring Future Students Through Robotics
Northeastern students and alumni mentored high schoolers during the 7th annual FIRST Robotics Beantown Blitz competition — one of the largest off-season robotics events in the New England area.
Oct 20, 2010
COE Alum wins Young Investigator Award
Tuba Okutucu, a PhD‘05 graduate in Mechanical Engineering, won the Young Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation for her research on MEMS Production of Microchannel Heat Sinks with Nanofluids as the Working Fluid and their Application in Microchip Cooling.