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Formula E racing inspires this Northeastern engineer

The evolution of electric cars drives the imagination of Omkar Ligade, a Northeastern graduate student in mechanical engineering who volunteered at a grand prix last month in New York. He came away with a rather large souvenir.

• by Ian Thomsen   August 10, 2022

Twin engineers from Northeastern land jobs at Elon Musk companies

Jared Covell is working with Tesla and his identical twin, Jake, soon will be with SpaceX. Both graduated last month from a dual bachelor’s and master’s program in mechanical engineering—and did so with 4.0 grade point averages, which they attribute to the healthy competition that exists between them.

• by Ian Thomsen   June 13, 2022

A bottle of spring water inspired this Fulbright scholar to study advanced farming in Iceland

En route to Reykjavik eight years ago, Tyler Gogal, a mechanical engineering student, received a bottle of pure Icelandic spring water. He still has that bottle today—a symbol of his future academic career in water resource engineering at the University of Iceland thanks to the Fulbright Open Study/Research Award.

• by Emily Arntsen - contributor and   April 14, 2021