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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.

 

Welcome to the ECE Department


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.

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.
 

News and Events

5/14 - PhD Dissertation Prospectus Defense of Bharat Sukhwani
11:00am, 8 St. Mary's Street, Room 339

Colloquiums and Seminars

5/19 - Juan Hernández-Cordero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
ECE Seminar: Highly Nonlinear Fibers In All-Optical Modulators
4:00PM, 8 Saint Mary's Street, room 339
5/16: John Day, ECE Adjunct Professor
Department Spotlight Seminar: What Went Wrong?: How the Internet Stagnated
12:30PM, 8 Saint Mary's Street, room 339
4/25: Andreas F. Molisch, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and Lund University, Sweden
ECE Colloquium: Cross‐Layer Optimization of Wireless Collaborative Ad‐hoc Networks
3:00PM, 8 Saint Mary's Street, room 339
4/23: Karl Ni, University of California at San Diego
ECE Seminar: Statistical Learning Methods for Image Processing
4:00PM, 8 Saint Mary's Street, room 339
4/14: Eugene N. Parker, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute
ECE Seminar: Hydrodynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Astrophysical Plasmas & Fields
4:00PM, 8 Saint Mary's Street, room 206

New Research Funding

Department of Energy, Collaborative Research: National Computation Infrastructure for Lattice Gague Theory, $189,000.00, Mar 2008 to Mar 2009.
 
investigators, from left to right: Richard Brower, Claudio Rebbi
Department of Defense/Army, Biodegradable Communications System (Subcontract via Tufts University), $136,625.00, Jan 2008 to Sep 2008.
 
investigator, Luca Dal Negro
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.
 
investigator, Min-Chang Lee
OFS Laboratories, LLC, Doped Silica Preforms and Tubes: OVS Process, $60,000.00, Mar 2007 to May 2008.
 
investigator, Theodore Morse
National Science Foundation, Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (CenSSIS Supplement)(Northeastern University), $35,000.00, Feb 2003 to Aug 2008.
 
investigators, from left to right: Bahaa Saleh, Malvin Teich

 

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ECE Day 2008

ECE Day 2008 was held in the Photonics Building on Friday, May 2. Click here for more information.

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