| In late 2006, the NSF Engineering
Research Center at Northeastern University—the Bernard M. Gordon Center
for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (Gordon-CenSSIS)—received a
$20 million gift from the Gordon Foundation.
The 12-year endowment, the
largest single gift in University history, helped establish undergraduate-
and graduate-level engineering leadership initiatives, and the creation
of a new master’s degree program at Northeastern called the Gordon Engineering
Leadership Program. Launched in September 2007, this intensive one-year
course of study is designed to increase the pool of engineering leaders
capable of initiating and driving large-scale projects and managing multi-disciplinary
teams.
The money will maintain the
Center through the nucleation of multi-partner “glue” proposals and the
commercialization of Center-developed technologies. The gift will also
help sustain the Center’s research and education infrastructure when NSF
funding phases out.
Michael Silevitch, Center
Director, gave a plenary presentation on the new master’s program in the
context of “The Gathering Storm” at the ERC national meeting in November
2006. |
