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Professional Master of Science Programs in Engineering – Virtual Information Sessions

May 23, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST) and June 20, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)
Join us for a virtual information session to learn more about the professional Master of Science programs - Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Sustainable Building Systems, Information Systems, Computer Systems Engineering and Telecommunication Systems Management. You will have the opportunity to learn about Northeastern University's College of Engineering, meet program directors, find out the available study formats and talk to an admissions representative. Discover the opportunities that will move your career to the next level.

GEB Board Weekly Coffee Breaks

The Graduate Engineering Bridges (GEB) student group hosts weekly coffee breaks and other special events.

Research Dialogues

Monthly meetings of COE Research Dialogues


News

Graduate Newsletters

Keep up-to-date with the current newsletter containing announcements, special opportunities, and upcoming deadlines. Also check out our INSIGHTS newsletters featuring Professional Masters programs.

Brassitos Wins NASA Fellowship

Mechanics MS student Elias Brassitos is the recipient of a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to contribute innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic future. April 24, 2013

New Advisor of the Year

CEE Assistant Academic Specialist Kathryn Schulte Grahame was awarded the New Advisor of the Year Award for her work with GWISE (Graduate Women in Science & Engineering) by the NU Campus Activities office. April 1, 2013

Looking at the Big Picture

Shuntaro Okuzawa, a senior BS/MS Industrial Engineering student, spent his coop at IBM in the Philippines helping to restructure the organization to make it more efficient. March 28, 2013

Grad Wins Peebles Award

Recent Mechanical Engineering PhD graduate Jiayi Shi is the recipient of the Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science. March 19, 2013

Senior Wins Compass Award

CEE BS/MS student, Andrew Childs, will receive one of nine 2013 Compass Awards which is given to the NU seniors whom show the most leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern. March 5, 2013

A Step Closer to Cloaking

ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei is developing a method to incorporate active electronic circuits into metamaterials to prevent frequency bandwidth problems. March 4, 2013

PhD candidate Brown wins NSBE recognition

ECE PhD student Sarah Brown was awarded the Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year award for her excellent scholastic performance and her dedicated service to NSBE. February 25, 2013

PhD candidate Hollman wins NSF East Asia Pacific fellowship

ECE PhD student Joseph Hollmann won an NSF East-Asia Pacific Summer Institute fellowship in which he will be working on computational modeling of light propagation in random media.

Congratulations Qi Wang

Qi Wang, a Bioengineering PhD student, won “Best Presentation” at the Annual AIChE meeting for his research in “The synthesis of selenium nanoparticles via a simple fast reaction and its antibacterial application”

Journey of Experience

ECE PhD student Sarah Brown was featured in Diversity/Careers for how her experiences at Northeastern from undergraduate to graduate shaped her career goals.

Highlights from the Robotics and Entrepreneurship Workshop

As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis hosted a workshop to feature new advances in robotics.

Congratulations Young Lae Kim

Electrical Engineering PhD student Young Lae Kim is a recipient of the Provost’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship. The award offers support to PhD candidates so they may spend their final semester writing.

NUChip to Detect Cancer

Through interdisciplinary research, a group of graduate students from ECE, MIE, and Pharmacy under the direction of Professor Ahmed Busnaina and Vladimer Touchlin have developed a chip that uses nanoparticles to detect colorectal cancer earlier.

Triangulating Landmines

Margery Hines, a PhD student in ECE, won a $2000 NSF Judges’ Choice Award for her walking robot based mine detection video presentation at the National NSF IGERT Online Video & Poster Competition in Washington, DC.

Congratulations Class of 2012 and 2012 Graduate Award Recipients!

On May 3, the Graduate School of Engineering celebrated the graduation of 201 MS and 19 PhD students at a reception held in the Curry Student Center - 4th Floor Suites. Graduating students, friends, family, staff and faculty were invited to join Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, in recognizing the achievements of the student award recipients and the class of 2012 during a semi-formal reception. The program included the College of Engineering award ceremony, the Ferretti and Yamamura awards, presented by Professor George Adams from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, and the recognition of three University-level award recipients. Pictures can be seen in the photo gallery.

ALERT Wins Grand Prize

A group of ECE graduates and professors from ALERT won the top prize of $10,000 for their entry of “Next Generation Millimeter-Wave Body Imaging for Concealed Threat Detection” in the 2012 National Security Innovation Competition.

Congratulations Bo Li!

MIE PhD candidate Bo Li is one of this year’s recipients of the Outstanding Graduate Research Awards which are presented to those students whom have contributed significant accomplishments in research.

Congratulations Lauren Brown

IE master’s candidate Lauren Brown is the recipient of this year’s Graduate Experiential Learning Award for her significant accomplishments in experiential learning.

Congratulations David Walsh

David Walsh, a PhD student in Bioengineering, has received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowships that recognizes and supports outstanding students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines.

Congratulations Jeffrey Breugelmans and Richard Ranky

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Research, Innovation & Scholarship Expo: Jeffrey Breugelmans (PhD IE) won a Research award for his work in "Providing Computer Accessibility for the Physically Disabled" and Richard Ranky (PhD ME) won the Graduate Engineering and Technology award for his work on "3D Printed Sensors in Wearable Medical Devices using C-SHIP".

DHS HS-STEM Career Development Program

ALERT is seeking applications from academically talented graduate engineering students who are interested in pursuing rewarding careers in Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) and related security threat detection fields upon graduation. Deadline extended to mid April!

Improving Tomorrow’s Leaders

The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program cohosted a conference with MIT to discover ways to improve engineering leadership education across several universities.

Congratulations Ye Zhao

ECE graduate student Ye Zhao won a "Best Student Presentation Award" at the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference for his paper "Fault Analysis in Solar PV Arrays under: Low Irradiance Conditions and Reverse Connections".