| Graduates of the Gordon
Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems (Gordon-CenSSIS), an
NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) based at Northeastern University,
are making significant achievements in industry.
For example, Matthew Dickman,
a graduate of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, an intensive,
one-year graduate program designed to train engineering leadership professionals
in real-world issues, joined the NeuroLogica corporation and immediately
became immersed in the company’s quest to refine its flagship product,
a portable CT scanner. Dickman was challenged to modify the skull
pins that stabilize a patient’s head and neck during neurosurgery so that
they would not interfere with the CT imaging. Dickman worked with
physicians in operating rooms and emergency departments, to develop a unique
skull pin with far less metal than previous devices. This product
was designed, developed, and tested for the purpose of formal submission
as a new Class II device with the US Food and Drug Administration (the
FDA application is pending), and will have a significant impact on the
quality of care provided to today’s neurosurgery patients. “The Gordon
Engineering Leadership Program helped put me in a position to tackle and
solve immediate needs within NeuroLogica,” said Dickman. |
