US News Lists BU among Most Innovative Universities
BU was named one of the most innovative national universities for the first time in the 2019 US News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, out today. “I think there’s a general understanding that the world of higher education is changing rapidly,” says Gerald Fine (MSE, ME). “The leadership of the University has created an environment where experimentation in better ways to educate students is encouraged.”
U-Design Teaches Engineering to Middle-School Students
About 80 middle school students gained exposure to engineering concepts – many for the first time – through the hands-on U-Design program over the summer.
Researchers Win $900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning
By Maureen Stanton, CISE Researchers from the College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. “Our research vision is […]
Dean Lutchen: Seven Ways Your Company Can Partner With A Research University
“Big companies and major research universities have begun to work out new terms of engagement that could usher in the next era of path-breaking products. But the transformation has only just begun and success will depend largely on visionary CEOs who move beyond cherry-picking academic advances to establishing more flexible and enduring academic relationships.” View […]
Forum on Science for a Sustainable Planet Slated for Sept. 5
Ellis Rubenstein, president and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), will speak about the science and technology of sustainability at September 5 forum co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and the School of Public Health. Rubenstein’s will speak on “Science for a Sustainable Planet: The Critical Role of Science and […]
Senior Design Projects: Call for submissions
Seeking Projects and Customers for ECE Senior Design Capstone Course The department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is seeking engineering projects for seniors to complete during a 2-semester capstone course called EC463 Senior Capstone Design. Do you or a colleague have a project idea? The department would greatly appreciate your involvement. The upcoming senior class is […]
Rebecca Khurshid Joins Systems Engineering to Advance the Relationship Between Humans and Robots
Khurshid heads the BU CAIR Laboratory and opens doors to SE graduate students this fall. Systems engineers further CAIR productivity by offering a strong mathematical background to model the complexities of systems consisting of human beings and robots. These models can then be used to generate desired behaviors in a robotic partner.
Duan Wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
Duan’s award will help fund his research into replicating cell-to-cell communication. He is one of the 35 YFA awardees this year and will receive close to $500,000 from DARPA over the next two years to pursue his project and he could receive an additional $500,000 based on the progress of the project.
BU ECE Students receive Best Paper Award at the ASIA Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2018
Realizing that the correlation between malware and HPC traces does not establish causation, Boston University graduate students Boyou Zhou, Rasoul Jahanshahi and Anmol Gupta, under the supervision of Professors Manuel Egele and Ajay Joshi, evaluated works that propose this HPC-based methodology for malware detection.
Shrinking Down Soft Robots
A novel four-step process has been developed by researchers including Assistant Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME) and Assistant Professor Sheila Russo (ME) to construct microfluidic origami for reconfigurable pneumatic/hydraulic (MORPH) systems. Their work, published in Advanced Materials, details the process and demonstrates its capabilities with the fabrication of a highly complex soft structure.