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student sitting with group in India

Apr 19, 2017

Engineering for Rural Development in India

Written by Tavish Fenbert, fourth year Mechanical Engineering student and Theater minor. About Me Tavish Fenbert, a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering student and Theatre minor from Seattle, Washington. He is currently on co-op at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay doing research in the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas. His co-op projects include designing a […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

female student posing with a smile with landscape in the background

Feb 27, 2017

Mentoring as a Common Thread

Mentoring as a Common Thread

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

student smiling with brick wall in background

Oct 06, 2016

Call Me Curious: Exploring Electrochemistry and Water Remediation

Written by David Berroa, fourth year Industrial Engineering student. About Me David Berroa is a fourth year, Industrial Engineering student. He is currently a Torch 8 scholar, ROUTES scholar, and a member of the Huntington 100 class of 2015. While at Northeastern, David has interned in various engineering fields, including, construction at Consigli, water remediation […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 22, 2015

Energy Systems Spotlight

Sejal Turakhia, DTZ-A UGL, MS Energy Systems, 2012—Sejal Turakhia has been working as an energy efficiency analyst at DTZ-A UGL, a global corporate real estate services & facilities management company, since her graduation from Northeastern in January 2012. Her work primarily focuses on a project at the Harvard Medical School, where her initiatives contribute to […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 22, 2015

Energy Systems Spotlight

Divyanshu Kamboj, Lumi-Solair, MSES 2013—In August of 2013, recent graduate Divyanshu Kamboj completed his co-op journey with Lumi•Solair LLC, a New York based company that manufactures off-grid renewable energy and lighting products. During his co-op experience, Kamboj was put in charge for the introduction of Lumi•Solair’s off-grid streetlight systems and initiated the introduction to Robert […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 22, 2015

Energy Systems Spotlight

After graduation, Kevin Johnson, MSES’12, was hired full-time as an energy efficiency analyst at EnerNOC’s corporate headquarters in Boston. Johnson is one of many Northeastern graduates who gained the necessary work experience and built the valuable network needed to land jobs post-graduation, often at the company in which they were employed while on co-op. While […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 22, 2015

Engineering Management Spotlight

Sountheriya Kalimuthu, MS Energy Systems 2012—Much has happened since Sountheriya Kalimuthu graduated with her MS in Engineering Management in December 2012. After a month-long vacation in California, Kalimuthu joined Nationwide Insurance as a process improvement specialist, a position she secured after completing an eight-month co-op there. Her responsibilities include business process analysis and design; recommendation […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 17, 2015

Studying Abroad at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia

Mechanical Engineering students Alex Jason, Leah Okrainsky, and Kelli Lynch at Uluru, also known as Ayer’s Rock, in central Australia, which is a sacred Aboriginal site. These students studied abroad during Fall 2014 at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.  They just returned from a 10 day trip to the Outback for their spring break. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering