Category: Experiential Learning
From the service to startups: Jameson Albers’ career transition with Align
When Jameson Albers completed his US Army service in 2020, he knew he wanted to try working in tech. He liked solving complex problems under...
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Students bring AI and robotics together at Northeastern Vancouver
Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, science fiction authors dreamed about a robot that could understand and execute complex instructions spoken in plain,...
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Co-op Chronicles: Students Share Their Journeys in Industry
Some lessons can only be learned by doing. Through co-op, Northeastern University Vancouver students have the opportunity to move beyond assignments and simulations to work on projects...
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Embedded partners: Industry-driven experiential learning directly on campus
Since its founding, Northeastern University has fostered student-industry collaboration through co-op and experiential learning programs as a central tenet of its approach to education. The...
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Meet the Vancouver alum working on games like Call of Duty
Before joining game studio and Activision-Blizzard subsidiary Demonware as a software engineer, Northeastern Vancouver MS in Computer Science graduate Ria Agarwal had never played their...
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Mentorship plays key role in Vancouver grad’s success
Artificial intelligence has many life-changing applications, including helping people with speech differences communicate more effectively. For Northeastern Vancouver grad Ian Yip (MSCS ’22), getting to...
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Accelerated co-ops power industry-ready solutions for employers
The eye-opening moment for computer science graduate student Sarah Liu was when she heard that the Chrome extension project she had worked on was going...
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Yuma Takechi’s Career Remix: Unlocking New Paths with Co-op
Yuma Takechi has tried her hand at a number of different things over the years, from the music industry to education to tech. While what...
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Students at Northeastern University’s Vancouver Campus Step Into Health Tech
Stepping into a hyperbaric chamber, inspecting surgical robots up close, and walking hospital hallways in scrubs are typically reserved for healthcare professionals and patients. But...
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From Marketing to Machine Learning: Claire Liu’s Journey into Tech
Panxin (Claire) Liu didn’t always want to be a computer scientist. Her bachelor’s degree is in media and advertising, and she was working in marketing...
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