44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215
617-353-2800
Administration
Kenneth R. Lutchen, BS, MS, PhD
Dean; Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Solomon R. Eisenberg, SB, SM, ScD
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs; Professor of Biomedical Engineering
M. Selim Ünlü, BS, MS, PhD
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering
A Message from the Dean
There has never been a better time to be a graduate student at the Boston University College of Engineering. Our energetic and accomplished faculty are conducting important, advanced research in modern laboratories. The faculty’s efforts are supported by high levels of external funding, much of it from the nation’s preeminent scientific research agencies. There is a palpable energy about the place that is drawing bright and ambitious graduate students to be part of engineering’s future at Boston University.
The BU College of Engineering offers doctoral degrees in mechanical, electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering, as well as interdisciplinary PhD programs in systems engineering and materials science and engineering. Master’s degrees are offered in all of these areas, as well as in photonics and manufacturing engineering. An interdisciplinary degree program in bioinformatics is also available. Additionally, we offer a joint MS/MBA in conjunction with the Boston University School of Management, and a joint MD/PhD with the BU School of Medicine. Our Late Entry Accelerated Program (LEAP) master’s degree is for students with non-engineering bachelor’s degrees. All of our graduate programs aim to produce engineers who will be leaders in industry, academia, and government.
Graduate students are expanding the boundaries of human knowledge through research in each of our laboratories. As members of one of the nation’s largest universities, BU graduate students can take advantage of myriad interdisciplinary research opportunities across the campus. Biomedical engineers, for instance, are collaborating with clinical researchers at the BU School of Medicine on a number of projects aimed at making new engineering technologies available directly to doctors and patients. In addition, our students share the benefits of 14 interdisciplinary research centers that cover the full range of engineering disciplines at the College, including nanotechnology, photonics, biomedical engineering, manufacturing, space physics, information and systems engineering, and computational science.
The College’s growing stature is attracting talented faculty to lead ambitious research programs. In recent years, we have hired numerous professors who have achieved national prominence in their fields, and many of our senior faculty members are established authorities in their disciplines. They provide mentorship and guidance to the graduate students working in their labs, and have been highly successful at winning the research grants that keep these students engaged at the cutting edge of engineering technology.
Our recently established divisions of Systems Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering bring together faculty and students from all departments and encourage the kind of intellectual exchange that may produce the engineering breakthroughs of tomorrow. Likewise, our Life Science & Engineering Building is one of few in the country built to encourage collaboration among biologists, biomedical engineers and bioinformatics researchers.
Graduate engineering students at Boston University also share the benefits of one of the world’s great locations for engineering research and industry. The Greater Boston area is well known as a thriving research and development center, and BU students have access to many opportunities not available to students in other parts of the country. Boston University prides itself on being an incubator for ideas and technologies later developed by industry, and many of our alumni have gone on to work in these companies.
The faculty and I are very excited about where the Boston University College of Engineering is and where it is going. The strength of our faculty, students, and research is growing all the time, and we are eager to welcome accomplished and dedicated graduate students into our community of engineers.
If you fit that profile and want to make an impact on the world, I hope that you will apply for admission to the Boston University College of Engineering.
