Spotlight Stories

Oct 16, 2019
Supersonic Air Travel is on the Verge of a Comeback, and He’s in the Middle of It
Industrial engineering student Alex Bender, E’20, wanted to pursue the idea of high-speed travel, so he reached out to a company and convinced them to hire him as a co-op.

May 23, 2019
From Paraguay to Northeastern University
When Ricardo Careaga, MS Energy Systems and Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, 2019, was a child growing up in Asuncion, Paraguay, he would frequently go to buy goods at a corner […]

May 02, 2019
One to Watch
Carlos Fuentes, BS Mechanical Engineering and Physics 2018, balances a job at Amazon with a startup born of his passion for vintage timepieces For his sixteenth birthday, Carlos Fuentes, E’18, […]

Jan 09, 2019
A Super Great Experience
“I think that at the beginning it is kind of hard for everyone if you have never been to the United States. Once you get an understanding of how things […]

Nov 09, 2018
A Powerful Combination
Ankita Pradeep, MS Data Analytics Engineering 2019, got her undergraduate industrial engineering degree in India. Back at home, she worked in the logistics industry for two years. There, she gained […]

Nov 05, 2018
INFORMS Receives 2018 Student Chapter Award
For the second year in a row, and the third since the club’s formation, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at Northeastern was one of the […]

Nov 02, 2018
A Fork in the Road
Zhuohan Yu, MS, Data Analytics Engineering 2021—It’s a lot easier to pick a career path when you first enter school and follow it. It’s harder to find out along the […]

Oct 30, 2018
Ready for the High Demand Field of Data Analytics
After he did his first master’s in bioengineering, Zhenyuan Lu, MS Data Analytics Engineering 2019, realized that data analytics was something he was also very interested in. He chose Northeastern’s […]