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Engineering Your Career
When engineering students learn early how to design a solution—whether it’s a new medical device or a streamlined warehouse design—and take into account factors like sustainability and commercialization, solutions can become innovations. More
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. More
Honoring Professor Ted de Winter
The College of Engineering has created the Endowed Ted de Winter Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. The holder of this fellowship will be a faculty member at mid-career who has had an extraordinary impact on students through both teaching and mentoring. More
Karl and Barbone Elected as AIMBE Fellows
Professor Paul Barbone (ME, MSE) and Professor W. Clem Karl (ECE, SE) have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. More
Xin Zhang to Deliver DeLisi Lecture
To recognize their contributions to engineering and society, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) is the recipient of this year’s Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture, and Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) has received the Early Career Excellence Award. More
FALL 2018 New Course | ME500: Additive Engineering
This course will teach the fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing (AM) theory and how AM is being used in industry to accelerate product development and replace... More
Position Announcement: Full-time Research Technician
The Research Technician’s primary responsibility is to manage a core facility focused on micro-computed tomography (“microCT”) imaging. The MicroCT Imaging Core services multiple projects led... More
College Establishes New Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems
The College of Engineering has established a new, interdisciplinary Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems (CARS) that will build upon the expertise and experience of the current faculty and advanced facilities. More
Switching Gears: Jessica Gimbel (ENG’19)
Jessica Gimbel isn’t someone you can call unmotivated–a part-time nurse, LEAP student, and Zapotec intern, she’s just beginning her mechanical engineering journey. By Shruti Bhiwandiwala Nursing didn’t... More
When Slower Means Faster
As bacteria grow increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists are on the hunt for a fast way test how the bacteria infecting a patient will respond to a particular antibiotic. Professor Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE), Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and postdoctoral fellow Vural Kara, along with collaborators from the BU School of Medicine, have developed a new rapid antibiotic susceptibility test that works by measuring the movements of bacteria More