The Problem with Cooking with (Fracked) Gas
Phillips (affiliated SE professor) and a team of researchers from several universities and nonprofits are finding out, and they are concerned. Of the 108 volatile organic compounds, or substances that easily become vapors or gases, found in gas from four Massachusetts municipalities tested, 27 are chemicals that are considered hazardous by federal Clean Air Act standards, and 12 are suspected carcinogens.
Luca Dal Negro Promoted to Rank of Full Professor
The Provost office has announced the promotion of Luca Dal Negro to the rank of full professor at Boston University. Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE), specializes in optics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and the development of optical materials that advance on-chip optical sensing, light emission, energy conversion, and thin-film solar cell technology. A past NSF CAREER Award […]
ENG Prof Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors: David Bishop a prolific real-world innovator
New Study Offers Hope for Urban Commuters: A new paper by faculty and student researchers from BU College of Engineering could dramatically ease commuter frustration.
By Maureen Stanton Frustration. Rage. Anxiety. These are just some of the adjectives people use to describe their emotional state when driving the streets of Boston, the sixth-most-gridlock-plagued urban area in the country, according to a WBUR survey. Boston is not alone in dealing with ever-growing commuter frustration, cost, and environmental strain associated with traffic congestion. The average […]
CISE Seed Awards for Innovative New Collaborations
The Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) is soliciting research proposals for funding graduate student research aimed at enabling new innovative collaborations involving CISE faculty. The goal of this CISE seed award program is to help broaden the research of CISE faculty and support the development of new research directions that become mature enough […]
Smart Cities May Be the Death of Privacy As We Know It
Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) was interviewed and quoted in an article by Claudia Gieb on futurism.com. Read the full story: Smart Cities May Be the Death of Privacy As We Know It
Armed With $12 Million, Researchers Aim for Early Detection of Lung Cancer: Avrum Spira Leads Stand Up to Cancer Dream Team
MED’s Avrum Spira, a pulmonary physician scientist who has devoted his career to research on early detection of lung cancer, leads a Stand Up to Cancer lung cancer interception dream team. Photo by Cydney Scott By Sara Rimer Can lung cancer, rarely diagnosed until it’s in an advanced and deadly stage, be nipped in the […]
Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES)
The Symposium on the Control of Network Systems (SCONES) took place on October 16 & 17, 2017 on the campus of Boston University, in Boston, MA. This event highlighted the increasing role of networks to a plethora of diverse areas, including game theory and distributed optimization, power, multi-agent and robotic, biological, and social networks & […]
BU Materials Day 2017
On September 29, 2017, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE) hosted BU Materials Day 2017 in PHO 906. The workshop featured speakers from all over the country and was attended by over 150 people from BU and local colleges and businesses. Integrating Metamaterials with Quantum Materials: A Design Paradigm for 21st Century Science & Technology The […]
Schlumberger Annual Materials Science Lecture
On September 22, 2017, the Division of Materials Science & Engineering hosted the first Schlumberger Annual Materials Science Lecture. The featured speaker, Dr. Hongjie Dai, Stanford University, presented a lecture on Carbon Based Nanosciences. Dr. Hongjie Dai has made fundamental contributions to nanosciences especially to novel carbon-based nanomaterials. Dr. Dai developed widely adopted chemical vapor […]