Mechanical Engineering | College of Engineering

15% Rank in top 15% of ME departments nationwide

4 Faculty BU Teaching Award winners

70% increase in Master's enrollments in the past 4 years

BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center

Boston University has won a $20 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a multi-institution Engineering Research Center (ERC), with the goal of synthesizing personalized heart tissue for clinical use.
New Kilachand Center Links Key Research Disciplines

The nine-story, 170,000-square-foot building at 610 Commonwealth Avenue represents an investment of a quarter of a billion dollars—a $135 million construction commitment from BU and a $115 million gift from Rajen Kilachand (Questrom’74, Hon.’14).
Nanoscale 3D Printing Enables Bioelectronic Medicine Research

When Professor Alice White (ME, MSE, Physics, BME) came to BU in 2013 as chair of Mechanical Engineering, she set up a powerful 3D-printing tool with nanoscale resolution—at the time, one of only three labs in the country with this tool.