Woodard & Curran, the largest engineering firm headquartered in Maine, has established a strategic partnership with the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, a research, tech talent, and innovation hub in Portland, Maine.
The partnership aims to customize workforce development programs and research collaborations that spur innovation, build talent, and drive economic growth in the City of Portland, the state of Maine, and throughout the Northeast.
“While Woodard & Curran has grown to be a national company, a significant portion of our employee and client population are based in the Northeast,” said Woodard & Curran CEO Alyson Watson. “We look at this partnership with the Roux Institute as a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our investment in the region, while advancing our goals of enhancing capabilities in transformative technologies and data science as well as recruiting and retaining next-gen talent throughout the company.”
Through this strategic partnership, Woodard & Curran and the Roux Institute will work together to develop collaboration opportunities that will benefit local, state, and regional economic development goals, support Woodard & Curran’s strategic plan and workforce development goals, and provide Northeastern University students and researchers with unique opportunities to participate in innovative programming.
“As a firm that is focused on leaving the world a better place through the work that we do to improve water and the environment, there has never been a more critical time to innovate around things like artificial intelligence and machine learning, while ensuring that we help people grow meaningful careers in and industry that is facing unique workforce challenges,” Watson said.
“Our mission at the Roux Institute is to develop and scale talent, innovation and economic impact in Maine,” said Margaret Angell, Head of Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives at the Roux Institute. “We look forward to partnering with Woodard & Curran to design innovative research and learning opportunities based on real-world applications that will benefit our students and help grow Maine’s economy.”
Woodard & Curran is an integrated science, engineering, design-build, and operations company specializing in water and environmental projects. The firm has a simple vision: clean water, safe environment, healthy communities, happy people. With 1,200 employees across 27 offices and more than 50 operations sites, Woodard & Curran serves clients nationwide.
About the Roux Institute
The Roux Institute in Portland, Maine is designed as an engine of innovation, talent–building, and economic growth for Portland, Maine, and northern New England. Partnerships set the model of graduate education and research apart. With leading companies and nonprofit organizations at the table from day one, the Roux Institute creates programs that are preparing the workforce to stay agile and thrive in a competitive landscape powered by artificial intelligence. The Roux Institute, as an R1 global research university, is nurturing an environment for high-impact research and innovation in computer and data science, digital engineering, the advanced life sciences and medicine, and other tech fields. And the Roux helps entrepreneurs launch businesses focused on and powered by technology. Together, with our partners, we are creating an innovation corridor that will stretch from Boston to Portland and beyond.
For more information: www.roux.northeastern.edu
