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Emerging
Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series
From
Hollywood to Homes: Robots for Today
March
31, 2006
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center, 9th Floor
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston, MA 02215
The Boston University
Department of Manufacturing Engineering invites you
to attend our spring Emerging Technologies
and
Best Industry Practices Seminar that will
take place on March 31, 2006, "From
Hollywood to Homes: Robotics for Today". This
workshop will bring together academic, government,
and industry leaders in the robotics
community to share their views on how
robots are transforming everyday lives and
to discuss the trends and market opportunities
in robotics.
Register
Now!
ONLINE
REGISTRATION
For more information visit: http://www.bu.edu/mfg/programs/outreach/etseminars/
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Site
miners will match medicine and engineering
New
program spots potential for life-saving collaborations
By
Chris Berdik
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| Mark Grinstaff, left,
and George O'Conner. Photo by Vernon Doucette
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George
O’Connor, a School of Medicine professor
and asthma researcher at the Pulmonary Center,
appreciates the value of serendipity. It was,
after all, a fortuitous dinner with his Boston
University colleague Bela Suki during a National
Institutes of Health symposium in Washington,
D.C., last year that led to an ongoing collaboration
on a mechanical ventilation system that could
one day help save the lives of patients with
respiratory failure.
Now,
O'Connor is trying to identify the potential
for similarly valuable collaborations, whose
genesis need not be dependent on chance. He
is one of two newly appointed University “site
miners,” faculty members who will devote 20
percent of their professional time to identifying
and cultivating research partnerships between
engineers and clinicians that are intended to
help translate promising technologies into better
patient care. Mark
Grinstaff , an ENG associate biomedical
engineering professor and College of Arts and
Sciences associate chemistry professor, is the
other new site miner.
Read
entire article here.
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| The
Boat
That
Floats Itself
With
the help Michael Ruane, professor of electrical
and computer engineering at the College
of Engineering, Team 20 Nautilus students,
from left, Nicole Durante (ENG 06),
Nick Cipollo (ENG 06) and John Noonan
(ENG 06) are developing software to allow
this boat to be controlled autonomously.
The
boat was donated by the Naval Undersea
Warfare Center in Newport, R.I.
The project is sponsored by the National
Science Foundation's Center for Subsurface
Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
. Earlier teams have used smaller
boats designed in Mechanical Engineering
senior design teams.
Photo
by Kalman Zabarsky
Orginal
article is available at BU Today.
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Biosafety
Lab Gets Go-ahead
National
Institutes of Health approves funding
of research center at BUMC
By
Chris Berdik
The federal government
yesterday granted final approval for the
Boston University Medical Center to build
a National Emerging Infectious Diseases
Laboratories (NEIDL) in Boston’s
South End. The project had already received
both local and state approval, and the
Record of Decision issued yesterday by
the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
opens the door for construction on the
Albany Street site to begin shortly.
The purpose of the lab will be to research
diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments
of for dangerous infectious diseases,
whether they occur naturally or are introduced
through bioterrorism.
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Shedding
light on cancer detection
Fiberoptics
could make diagnosis more accurate, less invasive
By
Chris Berdik
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| Professor
Irving Bigio. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. |
This
story was first published on BU Today November
4, 2005.
Imagine
that years of acid reflux disease has altered
the lining of your esophagus, putting you at
a high risk for esophageal cancer. To check
for malignancy, a doctor would most likely use
tiny forceps fed through an endoscope to snip
random biopsy samples from your esophagus. Then
you'd wait anxiously while the samples were
sent to a lab and examined by a pathologist.
Irving
Bigio, a College of Engineering professor of
biomedical engineering and electrical and computer
engineering, is researching an alternative.
It's
called optical biopsy,
where a doctor shines light on the target tissue
with a fiberoptic probe. Because cancer changes
the structure of cells, light scattered by healthy
tissue emits a different spectrum than light
scattered by malignant tissue, and this “spectral
signature” can be read by a small spectrometer
at the other end of the probe.
Read
the entire article here.
Bigio
speaks to New York alumni
On
February 9, 2006 Professor Irving Bigio shared
his knowledge and research about non-invasive
cancer detection with NYC alumni.
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| Left to Right: ENG
Director of Development Rich Lally, Avram
Weiss ENG '85, '91, ENG Dean ad interim
Sol Eisenberg, Jonah Berman, Joan Levin
CAS '72 |
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 Career
Development Office
BU
College of Engineering
Career Development Office
44 Cummington Street, Room 112
Boston, MA 02215
careers@bu.edu
The
College of Engineering Career Development Office
isn't just for students!
All
resume review, job search, and consultation
services are available to you as an alumnus/a
of the College - in fact, there are job listings
specifically for alumni only! If you are
looking for a job, or simply some advice about
making a change, this is the place for you!
For
more information about how the Career Development
Office can assist you in reaching your goals,
contact them the number listed above!
Look
Here for links of interest!
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| Spring 2006 Career Fair. |
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Winterfest
2006!
Alumni
and their family and friends gathered on the
Charles River Campus at the new FitRec center
on January 20th and 21st. Whether attending
an alumni college presentation, participating
in the ice sculpting contest, or enjoying a
taste of Boston cuisine, there was something
for everyone.
ENG
Professor Tom Bifano did a fantastic job with
his presentation on Building Micromachines.
Thank you to him for his participation and to
all of you who made this weekend such a success.
We hope to see you again next year!
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Ice
sculptures from, left to right,
SMG, STH and ENG |
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| ENG ice sculpting team
(L to R): Alumni Officer Davi Axinn, David
Lancia ('02, '04), JayHancock ('99), Viktor
Vajda ('02, '04), and Sirarpi Heghinian-Walzer
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| Professor Tom Bifano. |
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Backpack
to Briefcase Alumni Panel
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On
Thursday, February 23, 2006 ENG alumni
and David Hotchkiss ('04), Julie Perreault
('96, '99, '04), Sean Hardeo ('00), and
Songeeta Palchaudhuri ('03) met with students
to discuss their transitions from undergraduate
education to advanced degree programs
and industry. Alumni Panels like
this one, and the Career Development Office's
Table Talk series help answer student's
questions for students and prepare them
for their future endeavors.
If
you would like to volunteer your time
for a panel, please contact Davi Axinn,
Alumni Officer, at daxinn@bu.edu
or 617-358-0500.
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BOSTON
AREA ALUMNI EVENTS
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Star
Wars at MoS
Sunday
April 23, 2006
12:00-5:00
Adults:
$28
Children
12 & Under: $18
(Event
fee includes parking at the museum, a boxed
lunch at 12:30, admission to the Star Wars exhibit
and admission to the general exhibit halls for
the duration of the event.)
PLEASE
NOTE:
ENG
ALUMS and guests ONLY!
A
registration site for this event will be available
beginning March 14th at www.bu.edu/alumni/eng
If
you would like to register before this date,
please contact our Staff Coordinator, Jennifer
Berger, at 617-358-2806.
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Red
Sox
v.
Devil Rays
May
27, 2006
Donor
Only Event
Be
on the lookout for an email with registration
information
COMING
SOON!
This
event will be for ENG alumni and their guests
ONLY.
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5th
Annual Excellence in Engineering Golf Classic
September
25, 2006
Details
Coming Soon!
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Nationwide
Alumni Events
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Alumni
Club of Washington DC Happy Hour
March
15, 2006
The Front Page
1333 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington, DC
6:00 PM
Join
fellow alumni at The
Front Page , one of DC's most popular happy
hour spots.
Free
appetizers while supplies last. Live music comes
on at 9pm.
The
Front Page is conveniently located just steps
from the Dupont Circle metro's south entrance.
For
further information contact Mary Aquino at mary.aquino@gmail.com
Click
HERE
for more alumni events happening nationwide!
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On
January 20th, Dean ad interim Sol Eisenberg
and the Office of Development & Alumni Relations
re3cogmized members of the College of Engineering
Annual Fund Leadership Giving Society (AFLGS)
at the Ingalls Resource Center for their generous
support of the college at a leaderhsip level.
[Above from Left: Mr. and Mrs. James Bopp, Gerry
Muccini, Al Muccini (ENG '62), and ENG Alumni
Officer Davi Axinn]
