Katherine Zhang Elected AIMBE Fellow
Professor Katherine Zhang (ME, BME, MSE) was elected to the 2021 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. Zhang was selected for outstanding contributions to the understanding of how multiscale extracellular matrix (ECM) mechanics and mechanobiology drive vascular physiology and pathophysiology. The ECM is the network of composite material in the space […]
4th Year MechE PhD, Taylor Lawson receives prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NIH
Grinstaff lab is excited to announce that Mr. Taylor Lawson, a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering PhD student has received a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The focus of the training grant will be Taylor’s current research project entitled “GAG Mimetic Interpenetrating Network for the Repair […]
Katherine Zhang Promoted to Full Professor
Welcome New BUMECHE Faculty (Fall 2018)
We are so happy to announce the recent addition of two very talented and passionate BUMECHE faculty. William (Will) Boley is a new BUMECHE Assistant Professor. His research focuses on multi-functional additive manufacturing for electronics, optics, sensors, and shape-shifting structures. Prior to joining the department, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the John A. Paulson School of […]
Austin Briggs: Overall Best Portfolio Winner, Undergraduate Design Portfolio Contest
Austin Briggs, a rising sophomore pursuing Mechanical Engineering and Business, is the first freshman to ever win the annual Overall Best Portfolio award in the Undergraduate Design Portfolio Contest. The contest organized by the College of Engineering is open to all undergraduates in the school and aims to encourage students to create a design portfolio […]
Professor James “Jacy” Bird Named Early Risers (PRISM Summer 2018 issue)
We are very proud to announce that BUMechE and Materials Professor James “Jacy” Bird was named in PRISM Magazine’s Summer 2018 issue among Early Risers: 20 High-Achieving Researchers and Educators Under 40. Read feature below, Piercing the Mystery of Bubbles. Please join us in congratulating him on this wonderful achievement!
Student Experience: Hannah Levin ME ’18
Hannah Levin always knew she wanted to study engineering. In fact, when she first was looking at colleges as a high school junior, she fell in love with BU because of all the opportunities it presented in the engineering department. “I remember touring the rocket team lab and seeing a bunch of the stuff that […]
Reflecting on Graduation 2018
The College of Engineering at Boston University officially awarded degrees to the graduate and doctoral students graduating in 2018 at a regal graduate convocation and hooding ceremony held at the Case Center Gym on Thursday, May 17. The ceremony was opened by Kenneth R. Lutchen, the Dean of the College of Engineering who set the […]
BU’s ANDESITE Team Earns Second Place, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Student Paper Competition
Submitted by: Hannah Levin ME ’18 A few weeks ago, three representatives from Boston University’s ANDESITE small satellite team earned second place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Region I Student Paper Competition. ANDESITE is a project overseen by Professor Brian Walsh (ME) as part of his Space Technologies Lab. The project is […]
MechE Senior Capstone 2018
The department will be holding the Senior Capstone presentations at the Photonics Center on May 3rd & 4th. During the two event days, students will be formally presenting their final product in front of their clients, faculty, staff, and peers. This year 42 teams were formed to work on a research or design problem in […]