New Robotics & Autonomous Systems Master’s Draws Strong Interest
Students, companies eager to participate By Michael Seele Start a new master’s degree program, put together a curriculum, and recruit students less than a year before classes begin. Then add in a global pandemic that sends most students away from campus and forces faculty to re-conceptualize how they deliver instruction. Despite these challenges, the master’s […]
Advancing Corporate-Academic Partnerships
The College of Engineering recognizes it has entered an era motivating, more than ever before, mutually beneficial partnerships between biomedical industry and academia. Ideally, companies can align with academic partners along three key axes: technology translation; corporate-university research; and ensuring a maximally valued future workforce, one prepared for the most recent emerging techniques.
Can the Science of Safe Cooking Solve Our Looming PPE Shortage?
ENG prof Greg Blonder’s decontamination method spins off his interest in grilling By Rich Barlow What does barbecue have to do with the looming shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) as COVID-19 spikes again? Quite possibly, the science of safe grilling could make safe cleaning and reuse of PPE the key to arresting dwindling supplies. […]
Joyce Wong Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Whether innovating COVID-19 negative pressure isolation tents for hospitals, devising a way to image and treat abdominal surgical adhesions, or creating a method to enhance tissue engineering, Wong has adopted a mindset of innovation.
Converging to Meet Today’s Challenges
The College of Engineering embarks on a bold new strategy to solve some of society’s pressing problems, at a time when meeting those challenges means bringing expertise from many fields together.
Arrow Electronics Joins EPIC Advisory Board
Arrow Electronics has joined the Engineering Product Innovation Center’s (EPIC) Corporate Advisory Board, providing EPIC with generous financial support, donations of materials and services, and an advisory program for students and the members of the BU community engaged in innovation. The partnership will give EPIC’s students, faculty, and staff increased access to important Arrow parts […]
Morgan Named First Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design & Innovation
ENG alumnus Malek Sukkar (MFG ’92) has established the College’s first endowed professorship.
Three Reasons Why COVID-19 Can Cause Silent Hypoxia
BU biomedical engineers used computer modeling to investigate why blood oxygen drops so low in many COVID-19 patients.
Challenges Accepted
Undergraduates Can Address Grand Challenges for Engineering Boston University has been creating Societal Engineers – those who use the unique skill sets of the engineer to improve society – for more than a decade now, and the concept has resonated with students and alumni. Also about a decade ago, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) […]
Researchers Win $900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning
By Maureen Stanton, CISE Researchers from the College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. “Our research vision is […]