Hariri Highlights: ECE Professor To Lead Computing Institute, and More
With such clear interests and goals in common, it’s no wonder that there is a strong relationship between BU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.
Six ENG Faculty Earn Ignition Awards
The BU Ignition Awards help fast-track the commercialization of promising new research, from a tiny ring that stops chronic pain to soft robotic grippers that can pick up delicate objects By David Levin Tiny rings that stop chronic pain. A molecule that targets deadly lung cancer. Robotic hands that can pluck even the most delicate […]
The Quest for a Heart Attack Cure
A BU-led team is engineering small patches of cardiac muscle that could repair the heart, treat heart disease, and speed drug development By David Levin for BU Brink Heart disease is one of the world’s most deadly and insidious killers. In the United States alone, it causes one in every four deaths nationwide—that’s a staggering […]
Stemming a Grade-School Brain Drain
With nonprofit and book, alumna seeks to hook girls on STEM fields By Patrick L. Kennedy The girls raised their hands to ask and answer questions when Sarah Foster (ENG’05) visited her sons’ second- and third-grade classrooms as a volunteer, running engineering activities. Evidently, both boys and girls were curious about science, technology, engineering and […]
Lift Off!
How a scrappy student club launched dozens of ENG alums into the aerospace industry By Patrick L. Kennedy If you erred as an undergrad and a half-ton, flammable-fuel-filled metal canister exploded as a result, requiring the services of the local fire department, you might want to leave that incident off your résumé. That is, unless […]
“Why Not You?”
2022 graduates urged to step up and tackle today’s challenges By Patrick L. Kennedy The latest cohort of Societal Engineers to stride forth from Boston University have the chance to build on the successes and redress the missteps of previous generations as they seek new solutions to the globe’s daunting problems, Vanessa Feliberti Bautista (’93) […]
Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations Debut in Capstone Course
By Patrick L. Kennedy A new slate of interdisciplinary endeavors joined the roster of ENG’s capstone Senior Design Projects this year, resulting in promising developments in technology for applications ranging from lobstering and carpentry to molecule imaging and kidney health. The Senior Design Project is a year-long, hands-on team effort that caps off the Boston […]
Hector Grande’s Immigrant Parents Helped Him Seize the Opportunity That Eluded Them
My first-generation story isn’t one of me struggling without support, but rather, it is about my parents doing all they could to make sure I was able to seize an opportunity they couldn’t.
Biotech Developing “Tissue Therapeutics” to Treat Diseased Organs Launches from BU and MIT Labs
Greater Boston has become the nation’s biotech hub—the Silicon Valley of life sciences, according to some—and Massachusetts is now reportedly home to more than 1,000 biotech companies, employing more than 80,000 people. One of the newest multimillion-dollar firms helping to drive the boom has its roots in a Boston University lab. Satellite Bio—fueled by technology codeveloped by BU biomedical engineer Christopher Chen—launched in April after announcing it had secured $110 million in venture funding.
Making Water Out of Thin Air?
By Joel Brown Some 300 million to 500 million people in the world have no access to safe water at all, and perhaps 2 billion have inadequate access, “so it’s a big deal internationally,” says Greg Blonder, a College of Engineering visiting researcher and an ENG professor of the practice of mechanical engineering from 2015 […]