Northeastern University College of Engineering

Carl Ell, a future president of Northeastern, joined the engineering faculty after graduate work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1910.

[5] Ell was credited with transforming Northeastern's campus and making its cooperative education, or co-op, program, originally an option within the engineering school, an integral part of the university-wide curriculum.

[5] In 1936, however, the school failed to receive accreditation largely due to cramped classrooms and inadequate laboratory facilities at the Huntington Avenue YMCA building, but also because its four-year curriculum that included the co-op experience was deemed too short.

The Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC) includes wet and dry laboratory facilities, classroom and office space, a 280-seat auditorium and a large atrium with a spiral staircase totaling 234,000 square feet (21,700 m2) of space to accommodate approximately 700 faculty and graduate students.

The co-op program gives undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work within their profession for four, six, or eight-month periods as part of their educational experience.

[15] In 2015, Business Insider ranked the college #29 on its list of the 50 best computer science and engineering schools in America.

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