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Jun 26, 2020
A Planned Gift: It’s Just Good Chemistry
Jeffrey Kontoff, E’74, MS’76, knew that landing a full-time job during the deep recession of the mid-1970s would be challenging. As a chemical engineering major at Northeastern, he had held […]
Jun 26, 2020
Living the American Dream
Growing up in rural New Zealand, David Salmon, MS’65, electrical engineering, seized every technical opportunity, building radios, electric motors, and model planes from scratch. His school-vacation jobs included laboring on wharfs, houses, and barns. He scraped sludge from the feeder of a fertilizer factory and the tanks of a paper mill. He surveyed land for a new road and measured the strength of concrete samples. “I realized I would not be satisfied with any of those jobs as a career,” Salmon says. “I was motivated to continue studying.”
Jun 26, 2020
Giving Back and Forward
When it comes to supporting his alma mater, Bob Maddock, E’72, is proud to follow the example set by his father Tom, a 1942 Northeastern graduate who, like his son, earned a chemical engineering degree, achieved professional success, and went on to give back to the university through generous financial support.
Jun 26, 2020
Hard Work Pays Off
No one knows the value of hard work more than David House, MS’69, electrical engineering. Growing up in Muskegon, Michigan, where nearly everyone worked in a factory, House had an […]
Jun 25, 2020
Bioengineers Develop Innovative Respiratory-Assist Device as Alternative to Ventilator
BioE alumnus Craig Smallwood, PhD’18, invented a respiratory-assist device as an alternative to a ventilator for low-resource environments. BioE Professor and Chair Lee Makowski, in collaboration with physicians at Korle Bu Hospital in Ghana, has made the first few of these devices available for use on patients suffering from respiratory distress.
Jun 11, 2020
Her Engineering Degree Was the Launchpad for a Wide-Ranging Career
Michele Lezama, E’88, arrived at Northeastern on a scholarship for Black engineering students and now is President and CEO of the organization that made her education possible.
May 28, 2020
Students & Alumni Help Create Masks for Front Line Workers
Mechanical engineering student Max Seidel, E’24, and alum Amine El Aymani, E’16, MS’19, have risen to the occasion during the COVID-19 crisis to help create masks for frontline workers.
May 14, 2020
Geoscientists Help Map the Pandemic
Interdisciplinary PhD alum Babak Fard, PhD’18 used his work with Auroop Ganguly as a starting point for risk modeling and adapt it to COVID-19 risk mapping and modeling, as described in […]