Mechanical Engineering | College of Engineering

BU Named Among Top Robotics Universities

Soft, Spidery Robots that Go Inside Our Bodies

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

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...]
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...]
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...]