Worth More: BU Engineering Ranked #8 in Mid-Career Salary
by Emily Wade Engineering has a reputation for being a lucrative major, but Boston University College of Engineering graduates experience an even greater return on their investment, according to a new report. PayScale, the world’s largest database of individual salary profiles, has ranked the Boston University College of Engineering #8 in its annual list of […]
BU Grads Among World’s Most Employable
By: Amy Laskowski, originally published in Bostonia International survey puts University in top 10 U.S. schools, 17th worldwide The power of a BU diploma was recognized in October when the employability of University graduates was ranked 17th in the world and 7th among U.S. schools in a survey published in the New York Times and the International Herald […]
BME Professor Muhammad Zaman profiled in Wall Street Journal
“As a scientist, he says, “I felt a sense of responsibility. Not all problems can be solved by economics and politics. With the tools I had, I have an equal responsibility.” BME Professor Muhammad Zaman was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal. In the article, he talks about the device he has developed to […]
Ruofan Wang
While at BU, Ruofan Wang earned a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering. Year of Graduation: 2017 Current title: Postdoctoral Fellow Company: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. My research at Berkeley Lab focuses on developing metal-supported solid oxide fuel/electrolyzer cells, which can […]
Study Supports Final Pivotal Trial of Bionic Pancreas
Damiano Nets $12M in Supplemental NIH Funding to Move Forward with Trial By Sara Cody On the heels of winning $12 million in supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct a major, multi-center, national clinical trial of his iLetTM bionic pancreas, Professor Edward Damiano (BME) has co-authored a study in The […]
Professor Xin Zhang’s Lab Research Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering
Congratulations to Professor Xin Zhang (MSE, ME) and her research group on the recent publication of their article entitled “Towards uniformly oriented diatom frustule monolayers: Experimental and theoretical analyses” (Authors: Aobo Li, Wenqiang Zhang, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Xiaoning Wang, Stephan W. Anderson & Xin Zhang) in Microsystems & Nanoengineering. Microstructures: Scalable production of uniform diatom monolayers […]
Tweet Your Reaction
Social media is often associated with trivial pursuits, but recent research at the Boston University College of Engineering has harnessed Twitter’s massive reach to improve a critical aspect of healthcare: how doctors and patients report adverse side effects of prescription drugs, vaccines and medical devices to regulators.
New Models for Optimizing Mission Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
While unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) require no onboard pilots to accomplish their missions, controlling them from the ground is highly labor intensive. Though automated to follow a trajectory and stabilize when subject to wind gusts, UAVs cannot perform more sophisticated maneuvers, such as adjusting a flight plan based on unforeseen events and variable weather conditions, […]