Metamaterials: Tuning into Long-Wavelength Light
MSE/ME Professor Xin Zhang’s Lab Research Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering-Nature: Researchers in the United States have created an artificial material with optical properties that can be changed using an electrical voltage. Metamaterials consist of repeating arrays of subwavelength elements that are designed to interact with light in ways that go beyond the abilities of […]
Khalil Receives Presidential Early Career Award
By Sara Cody Assistant Professor Ahmad Khalil (BME) is among 102 scientists and researchers honored as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. […]
Toshi Nishimura Wins the James B. Macelwane Medal
Nishimura Joins ECE with Research Momentum By Amy Pollard (GRS, ’19) Toshi Nishimura joins ECE and the Center for Space Physics as Research Associate Professor and brings unique expertise and insight to the Department. Dr. Nishimura received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December for his research on […]
Tackling the Wage Gap with Code – Hariri software team aids Boston Women’s Workforce Council
By Joel Brown. This story originally appeared in BU Today. Payroll data for 112,600 area employees reveals that women working in greater Boston make just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to a new report from the Boston Women’s Workforce Council. That calculation was made possible by researchers at BU’s Rafik B. Hariri […]
ENG Key Partner in Newly Announced $80 Million Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing USA Institute
The College of Engineering has been selected as a key partner in a major, federally supported initiative aimed at creating a new industry that may one day manufacture living tissue and organs at scale for rapid delivery to patients. The US Department of Defense has funded a nation-wide consortium of government, academia and industry, known […]
New MS in ECE to train new generation of agile, adaptable engineers
by Emily Wade The digital revolution has shifted and blurred the once-rigid boundaries between electrical engineering (EE) and computer engineering (CE). As cities and environments become smarter, virtual reality becomes part of daily life, devices become more connected, and cybersecurity vaults to the forefront of global awareness, engineers need skills from both EE and CE […]
BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership
Five-Year Research Arrangement Promises Mutual Benefits By Art Jahnke. This story originally appeared in BU Today. Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, is joining in a five-year-long partnership with Boston University, an arrangement aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. The collaboration, celebrated […]
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW) 4.0!
Best Presenter: Rebecca Swaszek: “Bike Sharing System Inventory Management: Receding Horizon Control Routing and Incentives” (Advisor: Professor Christos Cassandras) Presentation Honorable Mentions: Bee Vang: “Geometric Control of Quadrotors and Contraction Analysis” (Advisor: Roberto Tron) Nan Zhou: ”Optimal Event-Driven Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring of a Finite Set of Targets“ (Advisor: Professor Christos Cassandras) MACS (Most Attentive CISE […]
Three Members of ENG Faculty Named IEEE Fellows
Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE), Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE) and Professor Stan Sclaroff (CS, ECE), have been named fellows with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Zhang was nominated for her “contributions to microelectromechanical systems.” Zhang has applied MEMS techniques to develop metamaterials, arrays of engineered structures that act like artificial […]
Yang Yu is Honored With MSE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Yang Yu, recipient of the 2016 MSE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for his dissertation: Surface Segregation in Strontium Doped Lanthanum Cobalt Ferrite: Effect of Composition, Strain and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Advisor: Soumendra Basu Yang Yu’s research involves the study and understanding of the surface stability of complex oxides used as cathode materials for […]