College Announces New Masters Degree Specializations
Students Can Amplify Expertise in a High-Value Career Path By Janet A Smith Motivated by emerging economic sectors, the College of Engineering has created new Master’s degree specializations in the high-impact, interdisciplinary fields of Data Analytics, Cybersecurity and Robotics. The specializations are designed to meet the demand for highly skilled professionals in these rapidly expanding […]
Popular Science Recognizes ENG Professor for CleanTech Innovation
Power Grid Optimization Software Lowers Costs, Boosts Renewables By Mark Dwortzan In its June issue, Popular Science recognized Research Associate Professor Pablo Ruiz (ME) as one of 12 trailblazing energy technology innovators. Ruiz leads a team of researchers that has designed software that locates electric power grid congestion and reroutes power to less active transmission […]
CISE student receives the College of Engineering 2015 Societal Impact Dissertation Award
Wuyang Dai, PhD. a student of Yannis Paschalidis, received the College of Engineering 2015 Societal Impact Dissertation Award for his thesis “Detection and Prediction Problems with Applications in Personalized Health Care.” The thesis developed algorithmic methods to support personalized preventive medicine. One of the problems addressed is the prediction of hospitalizations due to heart disease based […]
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Fund Promising, Early-Stage Projects – Congratulations to J. Konrad
By Mark Dwortzan The College of Engineering has funded four new projects through the Dean’s Catalyst Award (DCA) grant program, each focused on technologies that promise to make a significant impact on society. ENG and collaborating faculty will receive $40,000 per project to develop novel techniques to advance these technologies. Early result of automatic detection […]
A Robotic Approach to Engineering Living Cells
$4.5M NSF CPS Frontier Award to Fund BU-Led Project By Mark Dwortzan Researchers have long sought to enable collections of living cells to perform desired tasks that range from decontaminating waterways to growing tissue in the lab, but their efforts have largely relied on trial and error. Now a team of scientists and engineers led […]
Computational Thinking Breaks a Logjam
Hariri Institute helps address Boston’s male-female pay gap By: Rich Barlow After confidentiality concerns stalled Boston’s gender pay initiative, computer scientist Azer Bestavros proposed an algorithm that solved the problem. Marty Walsh had a problem. Boston’s mayor wanted to address pay disparities between men and women, publicizing, as a first step, the average gap in […]
SE Students Win CISE Awards at the 2015 BU Graduate Research Symposium
Congratulations to the CISE Awards winners for their posters at the 2015 BU Graduate Research Symposium.
Dean Lutchen Joins 122 Engineering Deans Pledging to Educate Engineers for Grand Challenges
College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen is one of 122 deans presenting a letter of commitment to President Barack Obama this week to educate a new generation of engineers expressly equipped to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing society in the 21st century.
Big Data and Improving Health Care
Data scientist and physician team up to reduce preventable hospitalizations By Suzanne Jacobs, BU Research Big Data Meets Healthcare: Bill Adams, a physician and medical informatician, and Yannis Paschalidis, a data scientist and engineer, are working together to use data from electronic health records to reduce preventable hospitalizations and cut health care costs. Photo by […]
Christos Cassandras Quoted in U.S. News and World Report
U.S. News and World Report published an article presentingChristos Cassandras (SE, ECE) as a leader in academia, who is at the forefront of a trend in graduate programs to bring student innovations to the marketplace.