More Student Co-op Experiences

Oct 07, 2020
Using Robots for Testing Medical Protective Equipment
During the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic, ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir and his research team, including electrical engineering co-op students, created a method to use robotic technology to assist manufacturers in the testing of surgical masks and gowns, which otherwise would have been shipped to testing facilities that could take months for results.
Apr 29, 2020
2020 COE Co-op Awardees
The COE Co-op Team is proud to announce the 2020 Co-op Award winners.

Feb 26, 2020
Defining Experiences on Co-op at Philips
Picture caption: Left to right: Jie Dai, MS’19, electrical and computer engineering, and Wangbo Jia, MS’19, electrical and computer engineering. Co-op can be a defining experience for students, and for […]

Nov 20, 2019
Thinking Out of the Box at Toyota Research Institute
When Amanda Zhu graduated from Northeastern University in May of 2018 with a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, she only had to wait a month before she started […]

Nov 15, 2019
Out of My Comfort Zone in Tanzania
Jacob Kaplan is a fourth-year computer engineering/computer science major on co-op at Sikubora in Arusha, Tanzania. He is originally from Amherst in western Massachusetts. He is interested in sustainable energy […]

May 13, 2019
2019 COE Co-op Awardees
Congratulations to this year’s COE Co-op Award recipients who were recognized for their professional development and achievements resulting from their co-op experiences.

May 02, 2019
A Pioneering Invention on Co-op
During her first co-op at Bose Corp., Grace Carroll, E’20, electrical and computer engineering, presented to the research and development team. This led to her writing an invention disclosure for the prototype, working with Bose’s general counsel team, and then filing for a U.S. patent.

Nov 01, 2018
Dell EMC Co-op Leads to Patent
PhD Computer Engineering student Yifan Sun has been awarded a US patent while completing his co-op at EMC. This patent is 1 of 5 patent applications that have been submitted […]