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Jan 31, 2025
Inaugural College of Engineering Young Alumni Impact Award Recipients
The College of Engineering announces its inaugural Young Alumni Impact Award recipients. These six leaders in their fields were carefully selected from a pool of faculty nominations. With only one awardee for each engineering discipline, this is an elite achievement. The awards ceremony and “Career Paths to Impact” fireside chat hosted by Dean Gregory Abowd is Feb. 18, 2025 in Boston and virtual.
Jan 10, 2025
Furth Wins Transportation Research Board Exceptional Paper Award
CEE Professor Peter Furth and his former student Milad Tahmasebi, PhD’24, civil engineering, won the Exceptional Paper Award at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting for “Reducing Speeding by Removing Speeding Opportunities: Field Test of Safe Waves Traffic Signal Timing.”
Jan 07, 2025
Northeastern and Co-op Help Alumnus Find a Healthy Balance
Joe Davis, E’65, chemical engineering, built an impressive and varied career at Gillette that spanned 31 years. His Northeastern experiences, including two formative co-ops, taught him to balance his responsibilities at a young age and guided him to his ideal career.
Jan 06, 2025
Relive the 115 Years of Co-op Celebration
The year 2024 marked 115 years of cooperative education at Northeastern University, which began in the College of Engineering! To celebrate a series of events for alumni, employers, students, faculty, staff, and families took place across the global university network, culminating in Boston during Homecoming Weekend in November.
Jan 06, 2025
Alumna Develops Award-Winning E-Commerce Platform and Lands Job at Google
Fatema Janahi, E’22, computer engineering, MS’22, engineering management and Galante engineering business certificate, developed Palm, a fashion e-commerce platform in the Middle East and North Africa, received a 2024 Women Who Empower Innovator Award from Northeastern, and is working as a technical program manager at Google.
Dec 11, 2024
‘Careers Beyond Co-op’ Event Brings Together Employers With Alums and Students
The College of Engineering co-op team hosted the 2024 Careers Beyond Co-op event during the 115 years of co-op celebration, which took place during Homecoming Weekend. The interactive event united alums and current students with co-op employer partners for a day of sharing career journeys and co-op’s impact.
Dec 05, 2024
Co-ops Lay Foundation for Accomplished Raytheon Career
Co-op enabled James Sweeney, E’66, electrical engineering, to earn as he pursued a degree with work relevant to his chosen field and taught him important people skills that helped him navigate professional relationships during his over 40-year career at Raytheon.
Dec 02, 2024
Alumnus-Founded NapSpin Aims To Reshape Restaurant Work
Mike Foley, E’17, mechanical engineering, developed and launched the startup NapSpin, which produces machines that automate rolling silverware into napkins. Now with support from Northeastern’s GAP fund, Foley hopes to expand beyond the restaurant market to hospitals, hotels, and cruise ships.