To The Moon, to Learn About Disruption from the Sun
By Patrick L. Kennedy In 2024, a device developed at ENG will ride a rocket into space and land on the moon, where it will snap the first-ever X-ray images of solar wind slamming into the Earth’s magnetosphere. The experiment just might help prevent a civilization-crippling communications blackout someday. The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager […]
How to Create Safe, Energy-Efficient Buildings in a Post-Covid World
BU Innovators Address New Requirements of Commercial Real Estate by Maya Bhat & Maureen Stanton, CISE Staff Smart building technology has been a growing trend in the commercial real estate sector to help building owners and other stakeholders automate processes, reduce costs, boost energy efficiency, and improve the comfort of tenants. In a post-covid world, […]
Launching a Product? She Wrote the Book On It
At last, after all the long, painful hours of toil and trial—the ideation, the research, the design, the assembly, the testing—you have in your hands a prototype of your product. And it works! Now it’s a simple matter of finding a factory to replicate this gizmo, and then tallying the sales.
Congratulations to the CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners
The Center for Information of Systems and Engineering is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. The CISE Best Student Paper Award Competition is an annual event established to promote student research and to recognize the scientific quality and scope of research being conducted by CISE students. This year’s event […]
Joyce Wong Named President-Elect of AIMBE
Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE), has been named president-elect of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), one of the foremost biomedical engineering societies in the country. Her term as president will begin in 2022. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., and numbering 50,000 members, including the nation’s most accomplished biomedical engineers, AIMBE boasts a […]
BME’s Joyce Wong Elected President of AIMBE
Professor Joyce Wong was named the president-elect of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, one of the highest honors in the fields of medical and biological engineering.
One Small Step For A Mouse: Using Information Science to Understand the Brain
How does learning a new skill or process change the physical structure of the brain? Using techniques from data science and high-dimensional statistics, Professors Bobak Nazer (ECE), Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE), and Xue Han (BME), aim to find out. Their project, titled “Discovering Changes in Networks: Fundamental Limits, Efficient Algorithms, and Large-Scale Neuroscience,” has won the support of a $1.2M National Science Foundation (NSF) Award.
Spotting Osteoarthritis When It Starts
Albro and team develop Raman spectroscope to diagnose the degenerative disease By Patrick L. Kennedy With a potentially game-changing application of laser technology to a disease that affects more than 30 million Americans, Michael Albro (ME, MSE, BME) and colleagues have garnered a research grant from the Arthritis Foundation. The team’s new kind of Raman […]
Sharon donates thousands of masks made at ENG
When last spring sprung a sudden need for face masks worldwide, suppliers were caught flat-footed. Professor Andre Sharon (MSE, ME) asked himself, “Who’s in the best position to solve this shortage? Engineers!” Director of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Engineering, Sharon got to work building a machine that could produce 2,000 masks an […]
Clearly Seeing a Green Future
Helping buildings reach net zero, a high-tech smart windows company led by Rao Mulpuri (’92, ’96) just went public By Patrick L. Kennedy We couldn’t live without the sun, but we don’t like it shining directly into our eyes. That’s why the Venetians invented blinds, and for centuries that had to be good enough. But […]