Spring 2021 CISE-ENG Seed Awards Winners
By Margo Stanton Four Spring 2021 Seed Grants were awarded by the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the College of Engineering’s (ENG) Dean’s Catalyst Award program. This joint seed-funding program is aimed at enabling CISE affiliates and ENG faculty the opportunity to kickstart innovative interdisciplinary research projects, broaden significant research areas, […]
$3 Million for Transformational Energy Technology
“NewRAMP will develop innovative approaches that quantify the risk of individual Electric-Power-Grid-interconnected assets based on their performance and ability to deliver market cleared capacity and energy,” explains Prof. Caramanis. “By synthesizing ideas and theories from finance and insurance, operations research, power system engineering and electricity market design, NewRAMP will offer ground-breaking methodologies constituting a risk-driven paradigm to achieve higher adoption of stochastic resources and a more efficient and reliable system operation. As such, it will contribute to reducing imported energy, reducing energy-related emissions, and improving energy efficiency.”
A Gold Standard Gets a Modern Makeover
Measuring antibiotic resistance in hours
Assistive Technologies
Teaching robots to cook.
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies
Professor Keith Brown was featured in an article published by Science on 12/11/19. The following was sourced from Science and written by Robert F. Service. In July 2018, Curtis Berlinguette, a materials scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, realized he was wasting his graduate student’s time and talent. He had asked her to refine […]
Robot Reinforcement
A team of researchers led by Professor Calin Belta has developed a new machine-learning framework to teaching a robot, or a team of robots, a high-risk, complex task—a framework that could be applied to a host of tasks.
Speeding Up MRI Scans to Save Lives
BU researchers design an “intelligent” magnetic metamaterial that could make MRI more affordable and accessible By Art Jahnke | Via The Brink Boston University researchers have developed a new, “intelligent” metamaterial—which costs less than 10 bucks to build—that could revolutionize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), making the entire MRI process faster, safer, and more accessible to […]
Magnetic Metamaterial Can “Turn Up the Volume” of MRI
BU researchers have developed a new metamaterial that can improve MRI quality and cut scan time in half.
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 […]
Making the World a Lot Quieter
What sounds would you mute if you could? A pair of Boston University mechanical engineers are asking that question, with the ever-increasing din of drone propellers, airplane turbines, MRI machines, and urban noise pollution blaring in the mind’s ear.