Xin Zhang, James Galagan Recognized for World-Changing Ideas
The engineering professors’ inventions made the 2025 Fast Company list.
Engineering for Impact: Mission to Bridge Global Gaps in Water, Energy, and Opportunity
Meet Gayatri Sundar Rajan, a MechE alumna and societal engineer working to close the gaps that keep underserved populations from accessing life-changing water and energy technologies. When she graduated from Boston University in 2022 she wanted to use engineering to address urgent global challenges. Today, she is a PhD researcher at the University of Oxford […]
A Glimpse at Tomorrow’s Energy Technologies
This year’s Catalyst Summit showcased groundbreaking research and fresh ideas in energy, AI, and sustainability technology.
Controlling for Uncertainty
With the support of a $380K grant from the NSF, Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese is working to design the novel optimization methods required for complex energy infrastructures under increasingly volatile user behavior.
NASA Satellite Launched With BU-Built Device On Board
Developed by Brian Walsh and students, COSSMo uses an array of photodetectors that measure the flow of photons from the sun.
BU Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women’s Health Research
The grant will also spur investment in early-career faculty.
Smart Management for AI Power Consumption
A pair of BU ECE faculty researchers are teaming up to work on a solution that will be environmentally sustainable … and help to sustain AI’s continued growth.
Finding Coherence
Professor Venkataraman has been awarded $3.2M to parse and predict post-stroke aphasia recovery.
Skyward Bound
The successful launch of Icarus, a liquid-fueled rocket designed and built by BU students.
BU Engineers Without Borders builds clean, accessible water source for Kenyan school
Imagine walking 40 laps around a track to fetch clean water.
During Kenya’s dry season, students at Ogiek Kwaanza Secondary School travel six to eight kilometers to do just that — a routine that disrupts class time. The school faces a high dropout rate due to the dangers students may face on these walks.
This past summer, four members of the Boston University chapter of Engineers Without Borders — Clara Armon, Chaney Finkeldei, Urvi Chakravarthy and Omar Elhussini — worked with the school, located in Tinet, Kenya, to help make clean water more accessible.