Mission

About The Leadership Program

The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at Northeastern University is an intensive, one-year graduate program directed at building a future corps of engineering leadership professionals. The program is housed within The Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (The Gordon Center) and falls under the umbrella of Northeastern University’s College of Engineering.

An immersive learning experience working with real world issues, the purpose of the program is to create Engineering Leaders - a group of people set apart by their innate abilities, outstanding character, self-esteem, ambition, technical education and acumen. The graduates of the program, “Gordon Fellows,” are trained to become an elite corps of engineers who can identify new engineering opportunities, build the team of people needed to take advantage of an opportunity and drive the opportunity to completion.

The Gordon Foundation Gift

The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program is funded by the Gordon Foundation, established by engineering innovator and philanthropist Bernard M. Gordon and his wife, Sophia.

In addition to establishing the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, the sustaining Gordon Foundation gift will enable the Gordon Center to continue its work after it “graduates” from the National Science Foundation – Engineering Research Center Program. This will allow the Gordon Center to evolve from an academic research center into a research and development center focused on converting research into new products for commercial and governmental markets.

About Bernard M. Gordon

A 1986 National Medal of Technology recipient, Bernard M. Gordon has led an extraordinarily accomplished technical career, culminating with his roles as founder and chairman of Analogic and cofounder and executive chairman of Neurologica.

He and his teams have been responsible for dozens of engineering milestones, with several hundred patents worldwide. He and his wife Sophia, through their establishment of the Gordon Foundation, have distributed more than $100 million since the early 1990s, much of it to train outstanding engineers and scientists and to support educational and medical initiatives.