News

Jun 01, 2023
Lab Experiences Lead to Co-Op Work in Switzerland
Gwyneth McNamara, E’24, chemical engineering and biochemistry, has gained extensive laboratory experience working co-ops at two Cambridge, Massachusetts pharmaceutical companies. She is now applying that experience, along with her engineering skills, in a third co-op at a university lab in Winterthur, Switzerland.

May 24, 2023
A First Step to Designing Better Solid-State Batteries
ChE DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway was featured in the EurekAlert article “A first step to designing better solid-state batteries.”

May 08, 2023
Lustig Issued Seven Patents for New Kevlar® EXO™ Product by DuPont
Steve Lustig, associate professor of chemical engineering, was a major contributor to a new product by DuPont called Kevlar® EXO™, a novel, ultra-high-performance copolymer that offers added strength and resilience. Through this collaborative research, Lustig has been issued seven patents for his technology.
May 04, 2023
2023 Engineering Departmental Co-op Awardees
The 10th Annual Departmental Co-op Awards will be held on May 8, 2023, to celebrate the exemplary work of a select group of undergraduate and graduate students who have shown great promise and intellectual fortitude throughout their co-op experience. This year’s recipients were: Catherine Eng, Bioengineering, E’23 Co-op: Selux Diagnostics, Charlestown, MA Sage Product Development, […]

May 02, 2023
From Boston to San Francisco, student speaker for graduate commencement used ‘Northeastern experience’ to discover a new career
Chemical engineering alumnus Kristine Umeh, E’20, will be the student speaker at the 2023 graduate commencement ceremony.
Apr 27, 2023
2023 COE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
Awardees of the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award and the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Award were selected by faculty members of the students’ department based on the students’ exemplary record in the classroom or laboratory, the contributions made in mentoring peers, or significant accomplishments in furthering research and scholarship. Awardees of […]
Apr 27, 2023
Announcing Summer 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Summer 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards. They will be pursuing a diverse set of projects, including a study of a pathogen that haunts hospitals, an examination of segregationist rhetoric in Boston newspapers, and an analysis of creativity in music. Ascent Awardees Dawning […]
Apr 20, 2023
2023 Capstone Projects
Our engineering departments hosted a series of poster sessions and presentations featuring capstone projects completed by our engineering seniors. Bioengineering Capstone 1st Place – “Optimized Cooling Cap for Reducing Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia” Brendan L’Esperance, Victoria Izsa, Anna Pocquette, Julia Kautz, Evan Lens, and Nikola Kapor (not pictured) Chemical Engineering Capstone ChE Poster Session ChE Presentations […]