Cassandras Delivers Distinguished Scholar Lecture-Watch on YouTube
“Complexity Made Simple (at a Small Price)” Recognizing senior and junior faculty for major contributions to their fields and to society at large, the College of Engineering has bestowed its annual Distinguished Scholar Award on Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE).
College Expands Master’s Options
The College of Engineering is expanding its suite of master’s degree programs to give students more flexibility in choosing a program best suited to their career aspirations. Anticipated to be fully in place for the fall 2014 semester, these programs emphasize advanced technical coursework and include an individual or team-based practicum design project. Students will […]
Lucy Hutyra and Robert Kennedy selected to serve on Science Steering Group of the North American Carbon Program
Department of Earth & Environment Assistant Professor Lucy Hutyra and Assistant Professor Robert Kennedy have been selected to serve on the Science Steering Group of the North American Carbon Program (NACP). As part of their service, Hutyra and Kennedy will be in Washington DC today and tomorrow, February 18th and 19th, to meet meet with fellow members of the Science Steering Group […]
Cassandras, Han Win Faculty Awards
By Mark Dwortzan Recognizing senior and junior faculty for major contributions to their fields and to society at large, the College of Engineering has bestowed its annual Distinguished Scholar Award on Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE), and its annual Early Career Excellence Award on Assistant Professor Xue Han (BME). The Distinguished Scholar Award honors senior faculty members who have […]
Sharing Innovative Research, Succinctly
Boston University students have big ideas – whether they’re aiming to prevent cyber attacks or using GPS data to improve cattle herding. As good as their work is though, they don’t always know the best way to present their research. Enter the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW), designed to give Ph.D. […]
BU Profs Take Energy Conservation from Lecture Hall to Real Life
Assessing, revamping energy use at Roxbury’s Madison Park Village By Leslie Friday The next time you walk into an office lobby that’s freezing on an August afternoon or an apartment that’s sweltering on a January morning, consider this: buildings are energy hogs, responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the energy consumed and […]
If Boston Were Smart
By Leslie Friday Imagining intelligent traffic lights, parking spaces, buildings, and appliances Watch the video about Smart Parking. Last year, the Daily Beast named Boston the country’s smartest metropolitan area. The website was referring to the people of Boston, of course, not the city itself. But what if the city itself were smart? What if […]
SE Division Faculty Featured in Bostonia: If Boston Were Smart by Leslie Friday
Several SE Division faculty, including Professors Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE), Michael Gevelber (ME, SE, MSE), Michael Caramanis (ME, SE), Thomas Little (ECE, SE), and Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE), are featured in the Fall 2013 Bostonia article If Boston Were Smart by Leslie Friday. Christos Cassandras, College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering and […]
Imagining Intelligent Traffic Lights, Parking spaces, Buildings, and Appliances
Bostonia showcases Smarter Cities. By Leslie Friday Follow this link for an overview of Smarter Cities research at Boston University.
Upgrading the Grid
New Algorithms Could Cut Costs, Add Renewables By Mark Dwortzan When power transmission lines reach their capacity in a particular region during high demand periods, controllers have little choice but to tap local power plants to keep the electricity flowing and prevent blackouts. This practice, which favors expensive, local generation sources such as coal and […]