How to Produce the Tech Workforce We Need
In Harvard Business Review, Ken Lutchen shares the BU ENG recipe for a successful industry-academia partnership.
Endowment Funds Student Design Projects
Covers costs of supplies in maker spaces.
Pros Who Know Bolster EPIC Lessons
It’s one thing to design a pump that works. It’s quite another to choose the right materials, components, and manufacturing processes to ensure that thousands of identical pumps can be made efficiently, cost-effectively, and safely.
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow
When it comes to finding a job after graduation, knowledge gained in the classroom and lab is, of course, critical. But, today’s employers in the rapidly advancing engineering field want more. They want the kind of hands-on skills with the latest technologies that enables new hires to hit the ground running.
Where You Bring Ideas Into Reality
New EPIC Director Anna Thornton sees the cutting-edge facility as a place where faculty, students and industry work together to solve engineering challenges With a broad vision for the high-tech manufacturing and design space at the heart of Boston University’s campus, Professor of the Practice Anna Thornton (ME) has taken the reins as the new […]
Gerry Fine to Retire
Professor of the Practice Gerald J. Fine (ME, MSE) has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Fine is the director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC) and the head of Innovate@BU, a cross-disciplinary incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. Read the full story at BU Today.
Launching a Product? She Wrote the Book On It
At last, after all the long, painful hours of toil and trial—the ideation, the research, the design, the assembly, the testing—you have in your hands a prototype of your product. And it works! Now it’s a simple matter of finding a factory to replicate this gizmo, and then tallying the sales.
Strength in Numbers: Robots Learn to Work Together
Agriculture. Automotive. Medicine. Biotechnology. Name an industry, and Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE) can tell you how the field of robotics will impact it—if it hasn’t already.
New MS in Product Design & Manufacture Addresses 21st Century Needs
by Emily Wade Advanced interdisciplinary training in modern processes The College of Engineering announces a new MS degree that will prepare students broadly for a career in product design and production. The primary goal is to create a cadre of engineers who have the talent and training needed to generate compelling new ideas—as well as […]