Mechanical Engineering | College of Engineering

Reflections on Graduation 2018

Student Experience: Hannah Levin ME '18

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

MechE Senior Capstone 2018

The department will be holding the Senior Capstone presentations at the Photonics Center on May 3rd & 4th. During the two event days, students will be formally presenting their final product in front of their clients, faculty, staff, and peers.
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BU's ANDESITE Team Earns Second Place

A few weeks ago, three representatives from Boston University's ANDESITE small satellite team earned second place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Region I Student Paper Competition. ANDESITE is a project overseen by Professor Brian Walsh (ME) as part of his Space Technologies Lab. The project is a small satellite - a shoebox-sized device meant to have the capabilities of a larger satellites while being cheaper and faster to produce [Read more...]
WHERE I'M COMING FROM

Underrepresented voices in science offer unique perspectives | Science, which is supposed to investigate the entirety of the physical and natural world, is missing something. So is engineering. According to a report issued last year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented both as recipients of degrees in science and engineering and in the science and engineering workforce. [Read more...]
Honoring Professor Ted de Winter

The College of Engineering invites you to help us to honor one of its most iconic and historic members of its faculty, Ted de Winter. Due to health issues, Professor de Winter recently stepped aside from life-long love of teaching, concluding a career as the longest-serving faculty member in the College’s history. Generations of students have passed through his classroom over the past five-plus decades. [Read more...]