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    Balanced between academics and experience, creativity and logic, individual expression and team process, the Creative Industries program prepares students to integrate creative content with technology in a wide variety of venues and projects. [Read more ...]

Upcoming Events

10th Philippine Youth Congress

Associate Professor Terrence Masson has been invited to
lecture at the 10th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4iT 2012) on September 10 to 15, 2012 at the
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

Recent News

Careers in Web Design and Interactive Media

Have a look at this Career Conversation recorded at Northeastern University on March 28, 2012.

Video games for interdisciplinary research

Our own Associate professor Magy Seif El-Nasr has an article in the April 12 news@Northeastern.

She lists some of her favorite games including Assassin’s Creed.

Read about it here.


Squid Wins Big

Creative Industries Capstone Project Squid won the RISE:2012 Entrepreneurial Award in award ceremonies chaired by Northeastern President Joseph Aoun on Thursday March 29.

RISE, the Research, Innovation & Scholarship Expo presented the award to the Squid team for entrepreneurial excellence.

Squid, an Exercise Effectiveness and Muscle Activation Tracking System consists of a sensitized,wearable compression shirt that integrates with a smart-phone and web database to monitor resistance weightlifting exercises.

Squid was created by an Northeastern University interdisciplinary team of enginee

ring, graphic design, and computer science students under the joint aegis of Creative Industries, and Northeastern’s Engineering Department.

Links:
Project Squid
RISE:2012
Research, Innovation & Scholarship Expo
Northeastern University news story on Squid

Team advisors and student members are:
Faculty Advisors
Constantinos Mavroidis, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Mark Sivak, Ph.D Candidate, Assistant Academic Specialist
Terrence Masson
Associate Professor
Brian Sullivan
Visiting Artist
Interactive Media
Alexandra Aas, Graphic Design
Alexandra Moran, Graphic Design
Amy Schaffer, Computer Science
Engineering
Trevor Lorden, Mechanical Engineering
Adam Morgan, Mechanical Engineering
Joseph Sheehan, Mechanical Engineering
Thomas Wilbur, Mechanical Engineering