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MEM Student Advisory Board Hosts Monthly Networking Events
Our SAB kicked off this year's Second Fridays at Dave and Buster's
The MEM Student Advisory Board (SAB) continues to organize social, educational, and/or networking events every second Friday of the month to engage both current students and alumni.
On October 8th, students gathered at Dave and Buster's in the Gold Coast for SAB's latest Second Friday's. The event was from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and included food, drinks, games and more!
The next Second Friday's will be sponsored by the
Master of Engineering Management Program Alumni Council (MEMPAC) Chicago Chapter. The event will be a Whirlyball night out on Friday, November 20, 2015 from 6 - 9 PM at WhirlyBall Chicago. Chicago alumni from schools such as Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Stanford and USC are invited to attend. If you plan to join the fun please RSVP to Andrew Nachenberg at
[email protected].
Lastly, the Student Advisory Board has a new web page featuring a profile for each board member. Take a look at their new page
here. Also visit the SAB events calendar on the MEM
website or the
SAB Facebook page for details on other upcoming events.
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MEM Represented at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The event was held October 14 thru October 16 in Houston, Texas
On October 14-16th Adjunct Faculty Peggy Matson (right in the picture above) represented MEM at the Grace Hopper Conference - the world's largest technical conference for women in computing with around 12,000 attendees from over 60 countries. Northwestern collaborated with other members of the MEMPC to sponsor the event and try to increase awareness of the MEM degree. This is one of the first events that the MEMPC has participated to promote the degree to a national audience.
The conference brought together the community of women technologists, increased exposure for the contributions of women to computing, and was co-presented by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
Guest speakers came from Carnegie Mellon University, Forbes, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more.
The conference results in collaborative proposals, networking and mentoring for the attendees. Conference presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industry, academia and government. The conference also offers professional development through a variety of activities.
Click
here to learn more about the conference.
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Northwestern Named Sixth Most Innovative University in the World
Reuters ranked the top 100 universities in the world
Reuters News recently wanted to discover the answer to what it means to be innovative. With such a tricky question, Reuters used a data-based methodology that employed 10 different metrics in order to find the answer. They looked at
academic papers which, indicate basic research performed at a university, and patent filings, which point to an institution's interest in protecting and commercializing its discoveries.
Helping boost Northwestern to the top of the list was the over
$600 million received annually in research funding. Also, the success of Northwestern based start-ups Naurex, which was recently sold to pharmaceutical company Allergan for $560 million and MAKO Surgical, which was purchased by Stryker Corp in 2013 for more than $1.6 billion.
For the full article, click here.
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Resume Book Released
The 2015-2016 MEM Student Resume Book has been published. If you or anyone you know is looking to hire MEM students as interns or full-time, please email
Stephen Tilley.
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"Refer a friend to MEM" to learn more about our MEM Program and one of the following information sessions:
- On-Campus Information Session on November 2nd
- Online Information Session on December 9th
During these sessions, there will be an opportunity to hear about our exciting curriculum and distinctive features as well as a Q&A session.
Click here for more information on times/location.
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MEM Student Spotlight
Abhi Chitlange
Abhi is a 25-year-old current student from Pune, India. He attended the University of Pune, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to attending our MEM program, he was a product development engineer in the passenger cars chassis division at ZF India Pvt. Ltd. Abhi enjoys cooking and he loves Indian, Mexican and Italian foods. His favorite technology company is Google.
Abhi chose our
MEM program because the degree provides the right mix of engineering and technology. He feels t
he program augments the technological problem-solving ability of engineers. He stated, "This MEM program is set apart from others because of the renowned and experienced faculty and peers who enhance your learning and network."
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