Taking the Hard Road: ENG Community Celebrates Program’s Rigor and Rewards at 59th Commencement
Reflections on years of hard work, aspirations to better the world, and a vibrant community spirit predominated at the College of Engineering’s 59th annual Commencement. Held on May 20 at the Track & Tennis Center, the event celebrated the accomplishments of 39 master of engineering, 177 master of science and... More
ME Student Captures Science & Engineering Symposium’s Top Honor
Mechanical Engineering Department would like to congratulate graduate student Else Frohlich for winning the President’s Award, the top prize at Boston University’s annual Science and Engineering Research Symposium: President’s Award Student: Else Frohlich Advisors: Joseph Charest (Draper Laboratory) and Xin Zhang (Boston University) Title: The Use of Controlled Surface Topography and Flow-induced Shear Stress... More
ME Junior Austin Brashears Remembered
Austin Brashears (ME’13) was among three BU students whose lives were cut short on May 13 when a van they were traveling in overturned on its way to a popular New Zealand tourist destination. Roch Jauberty (CAS’14) and Daniela Lekhno (SMG’13) also died in the accident. Brashears, according to the New Zealand Herald,celebrated... More
Congratulations Prof Farny and Prof Wang
Department of Mechanical Engineering proudly congratulates Professor Caleb Farny and Professor Hua Wang. The seniors in the department selected Professor Farny as the 2012 Professor of the Year. This is only his second year with the department. Professor Wang was named the recipient of the 2012 College of Engineering Faculty... More
Biological Telephone: Research Yields New Insight on How Cells and Proteins Communicate
Assistant Professor Matthias Schneider (ME) has found evidence of a highly efficient means of communication between cells and proteins: they “talk” to each other. In other words, acoustic signals propagate from one cell or protein to another, thereby signaling their neighbors to take a specified action. Schneider, two of his graduate students—Josef... More
Spacefaring ME Freshman Wins College’s First Imagineering Competition
Since its opening last October, the Singh Imagineering Lab has lived up to Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen’s vision of the facility as a place where College of Engineering students could cultivate their entrepreneurial spirit and develop as Societal Engineers who apply their expertise to advance our quality of life. On April 24... More
Prof. Barba Named CUDA Fellow
Prof. Barba is among four new CUDA Fellows named by NVIDIA Corporation in advance of this year’s GPU Technology Conference. She joins an elite group of leaders in GPU computing. “Each of these individuals has demonstrated a passion and commitment to using CUDA and the power of GPU computing to help solve some of... More
“Flipped Classroom” Energizes Computational Fluid Dynamics Course
“Two . . . one . . . zero. Change!” Clutching an iPhone, Assistant Professor Lorena Barba (ME) works a brightly lit computer lab at the Photonics Center like a Hollywood movie director, cueing her ENG ME 702 – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) students to take their places on the set of... More
Professor Lorena A. Barba Wins NSF CAREER Award
Professor Lorena Barba has been awarded the prestigious CAREER award of the National Science Foundation for her research and educational endeavors in scientific computing and applications in fluid mechanics and computational biology. The award will fund Prof. Barba’s research in scalable algorithms for extreme computing on heterogeneous systems. Recent trends in... More
Egg Drop Contest Kicked Off E-Week 2012
A Cheerios box. A Swiss Miss canister with balls of newspaper inside. A soda bottle stuffed with packing peanuts. These were among the entries for this year’s Egg Drop Contest, the first of 19 events celebrating National Engineers Week on campus this year. The Egg Drop drew more than a dozen... More