Professor Andrew Gouldstone received both his degrees (B.S. Materials Science 1996, Ph.D. Metallurgy 2001) from MIT. From his advisor, Dr. Subra Suresh, he learned of the importance of developing and expanding one's own expertise, but also the value of helping others strengthen theirs, no matter the situation. The subject of his dissertation was incipient plasticity under nanoscale contact, where he showed that decades-old modeling techniques could be used to interpret emerging experiments at the atomic scale.

From here he went to work at a hospital.

At Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center and Harvard School of Public Health, he worked as a postdoc with Dr. Stephen H. Loring, Dr. Richard E. Brown and Dr. James P. Butler to understand how the lung slides against the chest wall. With these scholars, Dr. Gouldstone learned to question everything and became acutely aware that medical doctors know a lot more engineering than many people assume. He also learned that any experiment is significantly more valuable if one has a plan for the results at its conclusion. Or, put more succinctly by Dr. Butler, ``Ok, you do your experiment. I give you every number you ever wanted. Now what?`` There's a lesson there, for any of us.

After this, Dr. Gouldstone worked at Stony Brook University, at the Center for Thermal Spray Research, as an Assistant Professor. Here he was mentored by Professor Sanjay Sampath, where he learned that with a combination of respect, intelligence and indomitable spirit - it was possible to create an entirely new scientific field around a century-old coating technology.

Dr. Gouldstone's research expertise lies at the intersection of mechanics of materials and... anything else. He has published papers involving thin films, thick films, bubbles, lungs, soap, volcanoes, strain gages, optical coherence tomography and Parkinson's Disease. At Northeastern he has found nothing less than beautiful collaboration with mentors and colleagues in MIE and COE, and spends most of his time and effort trying to keep up with our students.

He currently co-coordinates Mechanical Engineering Capstone with Professor Bridget Smyser, advises several clubs in COE, and serves as Director of the Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education. His current mission is to question the terms of ``entrepreneurship`` and ``innovation`` as well as many other words used in this exciting field, and to build opportunities for startup ventures at different levels of technological readiness level.

As far as learning is concerned, Dr. Gouldstone is passionate that education be equitable, and that we all should ask ourselves the very difficult questions as to what that means, and bravely face the sometimes uncomfortable answers we discover about ourselves and our society. That's the only way we can move forward.

For over ten years, Ted J. Johnson has worked in multiple industries in order to perfect his business, leadership and relationship-building skills. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Hospitality Management from UMass-Amherst, and a Master’s of Education from Northeastern University. As the Associate Director of the Michael J. and Ann Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education, Ted utilizes his high energy and commitment to building student opportunities to bring new possibilities to the college’s entrepreneurial repertoire.

Noah Joseph has an Sc.B. In Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and enjoys the hands-on aspect of bringing ideas to realization. He has three years of experience teaching ideation and prototyping techniques to engineering students looking to become better makers as part of the Brown Design Workshop Mentoring program. He also has undergraduate teaching experience in Robotics for both high school and undergraduate engineering courses. His proudest achievement to date is his Computer Aided Design and manufacturing contribution to the EQUiSat CubeSat, Brown's first nanosatillite launched into low Earth orbit in late Spring 2018.

Mark Sivak has a PhD from Northeastern University in Interdisciplinary Engineering and serves on the faculty as a joint hire between the College of Engineering and the College of Arts, Media and Design. His research is in the areas of games for impact, rehabilitation robotics, consumer device design, additive manufacturing and experience design. He has written several book chapters on game design for the Well Played series of books as well as numerous journal and conference papers in his areas of research and has several patents in the area of health devices.