An Art of Iteration
After a career designing mammogram machines and pacemakers, she is making experimental works of art meant to convey universal emotions.
ASM Materials Experience 2025 with BU MSE
Boston University hosted the 2024 ASM Materials Experience, a hands-on event introducing high school students to the exciting world of materials science and engineering.
MechE Students Work With Alum to Bring AI-Driven Product to Market
What does it take to design an aesthetically sleek AI-driven product with mass market appeal? Three MechE MS students, Ben Wheeler (ENG ’25), Nick Teguis (ENG ’25), and Tage Colberg (ENG ’25) got into the depths of this question over the Spring 2025 term. Working with Alumni Samuel (ShengEr) Zhou (CAS & QST’ 22) and […]
Developing a Life-Saving Option for a Rare Childhood Disorder
As a Hartwell Investigator, Samagya Banskota and her collaborators will leverage a cutting-edge genome editing technique.
Spotting Signs of Cancer When There’s Still Time
With a bold plan for a new imaging platform, Liangliang Hao has earned a 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Award.
MechE Entrepreneurs Spend Their Summer Working on Their Business
While many are enjoying their summer break or working at summer internships, two MechE students are paving their own way, working to realize their own business ventures with support from Innovate@BU’s Summer Accelerator. The Summer Accelerator is a 10-week intensive program offering mentorship and $10K in funding to student ventures across a broad variety of […]
Novel Solutions to Health Disparities
A skin tone colorimeter and a cornea transplant training tool took first prizes in the Design-A-Thon.
Chuanhua Duan Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Associate Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Duan directs the Nanoscale Energy-Fluids Transport (NEFT) Laboratory at Boston University. His group focuses on understanding nanoscale energy and fluids transport phenomena and leveraging that knowledge to develop novel devices and approaches for applications in life […]
Disentangling Behavior: Cognition and Movement
Are cognitive processes, such as planning an errand or trying to recall a name, separable from related muscle movements?
Lionel Wolfe Receives DoD SMART Scholarship
Lionel Wolfe (ENG ’27) receives the Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship. Wolfe is currently studying Mechanical Engineering, pursuing his interests in manufacturing and rapid prototyping in part by working as a lab assistant at EPIC. Supported by Lab Manager Tasker Smith and Lab Supervisors Ryan Bakinowski and Caroline […]