Stories in Space
By Shruti Bhiwandiwala 2018 has already been a big year for Prof. Brian Walsh. Following a successful collaboration with the University of Miami on a launch at Poker Flat, Alaska, he’s now preparing for the ANDESITE launch, scheduled to happen in the near future. The journey behind the University of Miami launch goes back […]
Insights into Instabilities
In two recent papers published in Physical Review Letters, Associate Professor Douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) outlines two different concepts that push forward our understanding of how soft matter behaves under instable conditions like growth.
Behind BU Bold: MechE’s Role in the Climate Action Plan
For BUMechE professor Michael Gevelber, the Climate Action Plan has been a project 10 years in the making. By Shruti Bhiwandiwala Prof. Gevelber (ME, MSE, SE) who offered energy audit courses for five years starting in 2008, worked with a team of students in Spring 2017 to formulate the research that would help build Boston […]
Bending Is Beautiful: ENG’s Doug Holmes studies thin, unstable structures
Douglas Holmes remembers when he fell in love with bendy things. He was a graduate student in physics, and he wanted to understand why a sheet of paper curves into a loop when you push the ends together.
MechE Asst. Prof. Emily Ryan Receives 2017 Scialog Fellowship
In November, Assistant Professor Emily Ryan (ME, MSE) was awarded the 2017 Scialog Fellowship for Advanced Energy Storage, along with some of the nation’s finest researchers in the field. With the Scialog initiative, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) – which awards these fellowships – aims to encourage collaborations between theorists and experimentalists. At […]
New understanding of graphene nanochannels could revolutionize energy-efficient technologies
In a recent paper in Nature Nanotechnology, Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and his team have quantified water slippages in single graphene nanochannels for the first time and detailed why those data are inconsistent.
Zhang wins $1.7M grant to study diabetic arteries
By Liz Sheeley Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the U.S. and diabetics are two to four times more likely to have heart disease or a stroke than non-diabetics. For the past seven years, Associate Professor Katherine Yanhang Zhang (ME, BME, MSE) has been working under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]
Prof. Douglas Holmes works on “slender structures”
What can engineers learn from observing the physics of a slinky? The popular toy is just one example of an object that inspired BU professor Douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) to find ways to harness instability for advanced functions. According to Prof. Holmes, these “slender structures”- next generation materials that bend or warp – will involve […]
IEEE People in Control- Calin A. Belta Profile
Published in: IEEE Control Systems ( Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Aug. 2017 ) Date of Publication: 17 July 2017 Q. What led to your interest in the control field? Calin: It started with my passion for mathematics. I grew up in communist Romania. The country was more or less closed to the outside world at […]
Nanoscale 3D Printing Enables Bioelectronic Medicine Research
When Professor Alice White (ME, MSE, Physics, BME) came to BU in 2013 as chair of Mechanical Engineering, she was keen to encourage the sort of cross-disciplinary research she had experienced as chief scientist at the storied Bell Labs. For her own research, she set up a powerful 3D-printing tool with nanoscale resolution—at the time, […]