BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center
Goal is personalized heart tissue for clinical use By Barbara Moran, BU Research Boston University has won a $20 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a multi-institution Engineering Research Center (ERC), with the goal of synthesizing personalized heart tissue for clinical use. The grant, which is renewable for a total of 10 years and […]
ECE PhD Student Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship
Nithin Sivadas Earns NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) In 2017, PhD Student Nithin Sivadas (ECE ‘19) was awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in recognition of contributions to the field of Heliophysics. Sivadas feels extremely humbled to have been awarded the fellowship, “this means that NASA’s Heliophysics […]
MechE Senior Capstone 2018
The department will be holding the Senior Capstone presentations at the Photonics Center on May 3rd & 4th. During the two event days, students will be formally presenting their final product in front of their clients, faculty, staff, and peers. This year 42 teams were formed to work on a research or design problem in […]
Upgrading the Immune System to Fight Cancer
There have been few cancer treatments with such a promising future as using the patient’s own immune system. Known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, this treatment uses re-engineered killer T-cells to attack cancer cells, but it also causes potentially deadly side effects. Now, research led by Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) is opening doors to making such therapy safer and more effective.
Where I’m Coming From: Tyrone Porter
Tyrone Porter grew up in Detroit. At the time, he says, the city was about 75 percent black. Now he’s a College of Engineering associate professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, where the demographics are very different.
ECE Student Recognized for Infrared Detector Array Research
PhD Student Wins II-VI Casselman-Spicer Award By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) The organizing committee of the U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials selects a student each year to receive the II-VI Casselman-Spicer Award. The award recognizes outstanding student paper presentations and the related research work. ECE PhD Student Taylor Hubbard (PhD […]
Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics
A new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data could solve a severe bottleneck in current devices to speed data transfer and reduce energy consumption by orders of magnitude.
ECE PhD Interns on FPGA and Machine Learning
An internship at ALCF provides real world experience for Yang and Sanaullah By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE PhD Students Chen Yang (ECE ’19) and Ahmed Sanaullah (ECE ’20) worked together while interning at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). A highly regarded organization that offers a selective internship program, the ALCF provides supercomputing capabilities […]
Photonic Communication Comes to Computer Chips
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds. By Rob Matheson – MIT News Office, originally published on MIT News. ECE Professor Milos Popovic moved to BU in mid-2016 from a previous position as Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder. While at CU Boulder, […]
Smaller, Faster, Cheaper
Boston University engineering professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, ME, MSE) understands just how powerful it is to have direct access to your medical information. She’s working to make that “little revolution” a lot bigger through simple, portable tests for conditions like HPV, malaria, and chlamydia that patients can use worldwide.