When he invented the phone in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell,
who from 1874 to 1879 was a professor at Boston University, originally
intended to transmit multiple telegraph messages over a single wire at
one time
using different tones. This multiplexing principle underlies the amazing
revolution in telecommunication and networking, disciplines that are being advanced
today in the ECE Department at BU.
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Welcome
to the ECE Department
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Boston University's Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department is where students and faculty work together
on electronic and photonic devices, information systems and sciences, and
computer
systems engineering. We combine these hardware and software
disciplines to create tomorrow's technologies.
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Postdoctoral researcher Roman Shubochkin, graduate student Bob Chivas, and ECE
Professor Ted Morse observe the lathing process in Prof. Morse's Laboratory
for Lightwave Technology. The lathe heats glass tubes to 2,000 degrees Celsius
until they collapse to form rods. A single rod can produce hundreds of kilometers
of optical fiber.
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News and Events
New Research Funding
Department of Energy, Collaborative Research: National Computation Infrastructure for Lattice Gague Theory,
$189,000.00, Mar 2008 to
Mar 2009.
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investigators, from left to right: Richard Brower, Claudio Rebbi
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Department of Defense/Army, Biodegradable Communications System (Subcontract via Tufts University),
$136,625.00, Jan 2008 to
Sep 2008.
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investigator, Luca Dal Negro
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Department of Defense/Air Force, Controlled Studies of Whistler Wave Interactions and Energetic Particles in Radiation Belts,
$100,000.00, Dec 2007 to
Apr 2008.
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investigator, Min-Chang Lee
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OFS Laboratories, LLC, Doped Silica Preforms and Tubes: OVS Process,
$60,000.00, Mar 2007 to
May 2008.
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investigator, Theodore Morse
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National Science Foundation, Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (CenSSIS Supplement)(Northeastern University),
$35,000.00, Feb 2003 to
Aug 2008.
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investigators, from left to right: Bahaa Saleh, Malvin Teich
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Boston
University Main Site
BU
College of Engineering
Other BU Engineering Departments:
Aerospace
and Mechanical
Biomedical
Manufacturing
ECE Day 2008 was held in the Photonics Building on Friday, May 2. Click here for more information.
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