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ENG Faculty and Students Power BU to the Moon
At 2 am on a Sunday in March 2025, a dozen scientists were gathered in a College of Engineering lab at Boston University in a tense, nail-biting silence. Almost 240,000 miles away, a shiny, golden spacecraft was slowly dropping toward the moon’s surface after traveling through space for 40 days. Mounted on top was a specially designed telescope, built at BU and known as LEXI, sent to capture views of Earth’s protective magnetic field that have never been seen before. More

This Smarter Sound Shield Blocks More Noise—Without Blocking Air
The breakthrough was made possible through the use of phase-gradient metamaterials. More

Brown to Bring Expertise to AI Materials Institute
Brown is one of the pioneers in the movement toward targeted design of new materials. More

The Appeal of a Peel
McDaniel seeks to replicate the pomelo fruit’s energy absorption mechanisms, on a larger scale. More

Promotions for ENG Faculty
"They exemplify each day the depth and excellence of Boston University’s talented academic community.” More

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... More

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... More

Novel Solutions to Health Disparities
A skin tone colorimeter and a cornea transplant training tool took first prizes in the Design-A-Thon. More

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)... More

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... More