John Baillieul Awarded IEEE Controls System Society’s Bode Prize
By Mark Dwortzan Professor John Baillieul (ME/SE/CISE) has been selected for the IEEE Control Systems Society’s 2011 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, which recognizes distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering. As part of the honor, Baillieul has been invited to deliver a plenary lecture evaluating a significant contribution to control systems science or […]
Detecting Explosives: ENG group’s quest to improve airport screening systems
By Mark Dwortzan Airport luggage inspection machines scan one bag every six seconds, but the conventional medical imaging technology they use can easily overlook potential threats. In the vitally important quest to make airline travel safer since 9/11, David Castañón is working to equip these machines with a wider range of sensors and pattern recognition […]
Smart Neighborhood project video
The Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative (CEESI) has created a short informative video about the Smart Neighborhood project. The video is a call to action for our communities by BU faculty. Please watch and learn about this academic/industry partnership in Boston’s Back Bay: www.bu.edu/energy.
NSF Grant Funds ECE Effort to Boost Wireless Telecom Efficiency
By Rachel Harrington As wireless telecommunication companies look to improve their efficiency, two ECE professors will be behind the scenes, conducting research that could potentially impact both the legal and economic policies of the wireless industry. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $714,501 to ECE Associate Professors Murat Alanyali and David Starobinski to support […]
Flight Lessons from Bats, Birds and Insects
ENG Faculty, Alum Partner in $7.5M Grant to Develop Bio-Inspired Aerial Vehicles By Mark Dwortzan Can studying the flight dynamics of bats, birds and insects lead to a new generation of unmanned aerial vehicles that can navigate more effectively in cluttered environments? To maneuver as well as winged animals in tight places such as forests […]
BU Team to Advance Surveillance Capabilities in Autonomous Vehicles
By Mark Dwortzan A fleet of six unmanned Navy boats patrols a stretch of Boston Harbor for suspicious individuals, vehicles entering restricted areas and incoming liquid natural gas containers. Rigged with video cameras, laser range finders, navigation and control sensors, and on-board computers — and linked together in a network — the six vessels update […]
CISE Faculty and Student Teams Win Entreprenuer Design Contest
Congratulations to CISE Faculty and Student Team winners in the 2008-2009 BU College of Engineering Entrepreneur Design Contest. First prize went to Ajay Bangla, Stephen Chao, Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad for their project titled “VCon Technologies” that focuses on closing the “Security Gap” between information gathered and analyzed. Ashish Agarwal, Matt Wool, Lonn Drucker, Thomas Little and Iain Cockburn won the […]
Industry Drawn to ENG's Clean Energy Research
More than 100 visitors from industry, venture capital, law and academia– twice the expected turnout — came to campus on March 19 to learn about recent advances in clean energy technologies in College of Engineering labs. College of Engineering faculty presented their work on fuel cell technologies, solid state lighting and the need for smart […]
Baillieul to Deliver College's First Distinguished Lecture
“Control engineering pervades all of modern technology – from aircraft flight control systems, to electronic stability programs in automobiles, to the control of particle beams traveling at the speed of light in the $4.5 billion large hadron collider, to a great many more applications,” says Professor John Baillieul (AME). He will delve into a discussion […]
Sensor Network Consortium to Bring Top Academic and Industry Players Together Nov. 18th
The event’s host, the SNC, is a partnership of start-up technology innovators, corporate giants, and researchers doing leading-edge work in sensor networking. As the only consortium of its kind in Boston— a global hub of emerging technology ¾the SNC brings together these diverse constituents.