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Welcome New BUMECHE Faculty (Fall 2018)
We are so happy to announce the recent addition of two very talented and passionate BUMECHE faculty. Please join us in welcoming them to our department!
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Austin Briggs: Overall Best Portfolio Winner, Undergraduate Design Portfolio Contest
"Austin Briggs, a rising sophomore pursuing Mechanical Engineering and Business, is the first freshman to ever win the annual Overall Best Portfolio award in the Undergraduate Design Portfolio Contest. The contest organised by the College of Engineering is open to all undergraduates in the school" [Read more...]
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The Woodworker, Justin Fiaschetti (Eng’21)
The 19-year-old sophomore, who is studying mechanical engineering, with a concentration in aerospace engineering, has built rocking chairs, bowls, vases, coffee tables, and baseball bats, and not one of them is simple. Far from it. His baseball bat, for example, was made out of 1,283 pieces of walnut, ash, and yellowheart wood. “I would say my style is more of a modern take on classical furniture,” he says. [Read more...]
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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...]
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US News Lists BU among Most Innovative Universities
BU was named one of the most innovative national universities for the first time in the 2019 US News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, out today. “I think there’s a general understanding that the world of higher education is changing rapidly,” says Gerald Fine (MSE, ME). “The leadership of the University has created an environment where experimentation in better ways to educate students is encouraged.”
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Duan Wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
Duan’s award will help fund his research into replicating cell-to-cell communication. He is one of the 35 YFA awardees this year and will receive close to $500,000 from DARPA over the next two years to pursue his project and he could receive an additional $500,000 based on the progress of the project.
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Shrinking Down Soft Robots
A novel four-step process has been developed by researchers including Assistant Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME) and Assistant Professor Sheila Russo (ME) to construct microfluidic origami for reconfigurable pneumatic/hydraulic (MORPH) systems. Their work, published in Advanced Materials, details the process and demonstrates its capabilities with the fabrication of a highly complex soft structure.
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Katherine Yanhang Zhang Named Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Only three percent of members become fellows and to be nominated and elected, a member must meet qualifications in at least one of nine categories; Zhang was chosen for her accomplishments in the research and education categories.
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