Nethra Iyer

Chemical Engineering // Class of 2024

A turbulent flight to success: A tale of Northeastern’s very own aerospace club

It began with two members and one big dream: create a club that allows students to apply their engineering knowledge from class by building drones, planes, and rockets from scratch. Meet Northeastern’s Aerospace Club, or AeroNU. With 200 members nearly a decade later, the Redshift team at AeroNU is quite literally reaching for the sky

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To fear or not to fear: Robots — Technology vs. nature

In 2018, Quantic Dream and Sony Interactive Entertainment developed a game with over 100 pages of script and months of filming: “Detroit: Become Human.” The year is 2038, and androids are being used by humans all throughout the United States. However, following the lives and growth of three androids, players start to realize that these

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A method to madness: The mathematical basis for the butterfly effect

In the blockbuster hit “Jurassic Park,” fan-favorite Jeff Goldblum stars as the eccentric Ian Malcolm. As a critic of the magnificent park, Malcolm often claims that nature is best in its most primal form, untouched, as even small artificial changes can have dire consequences. This notion is known as the butterfly effect, a small piece

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