Panel Discussion and Symposium Celebrate 20 years of PhD Programs in the College of Engineering
By Michael G Seele The College of Engineering marked the first 20 years of its doctoral programs with a panel discussion and symposium on Saturday, May 19, shortly before this year’s PhD Hooding Ceremony. “Today, we celebrate making it to 20 years,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen, “But we did far more than just make it. Twenty years ago, we were not rank-able by US News & World Report in graduate programs because we had no PhD programs. Five years ago, we were ranked in the 50s. Today, we are at number 38, ahead of schools ... More
Tenure Awarded to Sean Andersson
Congratulations to Prof. Sean Andersson (ME/SE) for being awarded tenure! Read the full story, Tenure Awarded to 24 Professors “A proud moment for the BU community” at BU Today.
Collins Nets Gates Foundation Grant for Cholera Prevention Research
By Mark Dwortzan The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) a Grand Challenges Explorations grant to encourage his lab’s pursuit of a novel approach to cholera prevention. In their proposed project, Collins and two postdoctoral fellows in his lab, Ewen Cameron and Peter Belenky, seek to use synthetic biology techniques to engineer a probiotic yogurt bacterium, Lactobacillus gasseri, to detect and kill the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, in the human intestine. The probiotic could be supplied as an inexpensive, freeze-dried powder to endemic populations to prevent cholera, an... More
Prof. Hua Wang Receives 2012 College of Engineering Faculty Service Award
Professor Hua Wang (ME/SE) was named the recipient of the 2012 College of Engineering Faculty Service Award. Each year, the College of Engineering Executive Committee chooses a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to the College through their involvement in programs, committees, and organizations within the College and University. The formal award presentation will be made at the College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony this Sunday, May 20th at 4:30 pm at the Track and Tennis Center. Congratulations to Professor Wang!
Ali Kebarighotbi Receives 2012 SE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Professor Hua Wang, Associate Division Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2012 SE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award: Perturbation Analysis in Fluid Scheduling and Optimization of Stochastic Hybrid Systems Ali Kebarighotbi Advisor: Christos G. Cassandras Ali will be presented with a certificate and a $500 gift card. Congratulations to Ali and Professor Cassandras. Congratulations also go to the following 2012 SE PhD graduates: Justin Foster (Advisor: Professor Michael Caramanis) Taylor Locke (Advisor: Professor Yannis Paschalidis) Yiduo Zhou (Advisor: Professor James Perkins) Thanks to members of the SE Graduate Committee for their time and effort in evaluating the nominations.
Collins Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By Mark Dwortzan Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor that places him among the world’s most accomplished leaders in academia, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts. Collins was recognized for his contributions to engineering sciences and technologies, and has been invited to attend an induction ceremony on October 6 at the Academy’s Cambridge headquarters. One of the nation’s most prestigious honor societies, the Academy has elected leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation since its founding in 1780, More
2012 BU Science Day Award Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the CISE awards for 2012 BU Science and Engineering Day: Congratulations on 1st Prize CISE Award to Yushan Chen for her poster “LTL Robot Motion Control based on Automata Learning of Environmental Dynamics” $500 to Yushan and $500 to her advisor, Professor Calin Belta. Yushan and Calin will also be invited to a luncheon with the Provost and the other BU Science Day award winners. Additional congratulations to the following students receiving CISE Honorable Mentions ($100): Alphan Ulusoy: Optimality and Robustness in Multi-Robot Path Planning with Temporal Logic... More
Master of Engineering Open House Information Session
Did you miss the Master of Engineering Open House held on Monday, April 2nd? You can view a video recording of the event, including the power point presentation. Please contact Kirstie Miller with any questions about the program.
Matta, Peköz, Starobinski promoted to Full Professorships
Ibrahim Matta (CS/SE), Erol Peköz, (SMG/SE) and David Starobinski (ECE/SE) (left to right) are among twelve faculty promoted to full professorships. Congratulations to all of you! For the full story, go to BU Today.
Christos Cassandras Receives OTD Ignition Award for Smart Parking
The Office of Technology Development’s Ignition Award is designed to help new technologies bridge the (funding?) gap between discovery-oriented research and subsequent development. By providing funding that helps these fledgling technologies reach specific goals or milestones (to show proof of applicability), the Ignition Award helps further them on the path toward commercialization. Each year, applicants submit proposals which are selected based on the quality of the research, the market size and commercialization potential of the proposed product, and the ability of the Ignition Award capital to advance the research. The proposals... More
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