Program Team
GEL combines the expertise of College of Engineering faculty and Professors of Practice who have decades of experience leading engineering teams.
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“The correct combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes in a leader can transform the output of an engineering team by an order of magnitude. It elevates their capability in delivering performance quality, cost and timing to a level they would not think achievable.”
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“Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”
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“Scientific fundamentals are the solid foundation of engineering intuition. They are a reliable guide to new and unfamiliar problems.”
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“Team-building exercises outside the classroom embody Northeastern’s commitment to experiential learning and help students get to know each other better, learn from each other and build camaraderie.”
“Leading multi-discipline teams dealing with multiple technologies to deliver product programs on time and on cost with the highest possible quality requires engineers to develop their leadership skill set.”
Executives in Residence and Guest Lecturers
- Al Kammerer
President, Fallbrook Technologies, Inc. - Steve Ruggieri
President, Dynasil Corporation of America - Admiral James Hogg
Director of the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group - Timothy Davis
Henry Ford Technical Fellow for Quality Engineering at Ford Motor Company - James Noga
Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare - Bill Vick
Global Operations Development Manager at ABB PPMV - Rosemarie Dimarco
Senior Cooperative Education Coordinator - Art Rousmaniere
Engineering Manager, Farm Design, Inc. - Michael Bunis
Partner, Chaote Hall & Stewart, LLP
“US healthcare is ~18% of GDP, growing 15% yearly, causing 62% of bankruptcies. Harnessing NEU engineering and scientific creativity to reinvent it is viable. GEL has already focused 11 emerging leaders on problems from cervical and breast cancer through imaging with ER-mobile CT, to artificial eyeball-implanted video connected to the optic nerve. Leveraging US leadership to deploy an engineered healthcare system is the way out.”
Mentors
- Michael Silevitch
Director, Gordon-CenSSIS - Carey Rappaport
Associate Director, Gordon-CenSSIS - Joanne Mistler
Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin - Rick Moore
Medical Program Director, Gordon-CenSSIS - Jennifer Love
Associate Academic Specialist, College of Engineering - Ralf Birken
Research Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering - John Beaty
Director of Technology Programs, Gordon-CenSSIS - Simon Pitts
Director - Steve McGonagle
Professor, Engineering Leadership - Steven Klosterman
Professor, Engineering Leadership
“For leaders in influence roles -- those without direct reports -- it is especially important to learn how to effect change within your organization and to build and maintain one's personal integrity and technical credibility. ”
Speakers
- Bernard M. Gordon
Chairman of NeuroLogica Corporation - Mark Russell
VP of Engineering, Raytheon - Joanne Mistler
Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin - Dr. Eric M. Bailey
President/CEO/Founder of NeuroLogica Corporation - John Harker
President, Matrix Inc. - Dr. David Weinberger
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University - Josh Simons
HPC Architect, VMware - Bryan Moser
President and CEO, Global Product Design - Daniel Kopans
Professor, Harvard Medical School and Sr. Radiologist, Breast Imaging, MGH - David Douglas
Co-author of Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering - Scott Stropkay
Founder, Essential Design - Nancy Riley
Director of Product Management, EnerNOC - Judith Nitsch, PE, LEED AP
Founding Principal and Chairman, Nitsch Engineering, Inc. - Edward Mack II
President, Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing Co.
Staff
- Amy Manley
Program Outreach Specialist - Marlys Vaughan
Administrative Officer - Kristin Hicks
Partnership & Education Services Coordinator - Deanna Beirne
Director of Computer Services