Gerry Fine to Retire
Professor of the Practice Gerald J. Fine (ME, MSE) has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Fine is the director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC) and the head of Innovate@BU, a cross-disciplinary incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. Read the full story at BU Today.
College Launches Machine Learning Concentration
By Patrick L. Kennedy Not long ago, speech processing software was pretty much limited to a phone robot asking a caller to speak the number “1,” says Professor and ECE Department Chair W. Clem Karl. “Now we routinely ask Alexa questions or tell Google Maps where we want to go just by speaking.” That’s the […]
“Global Threats Need You”
2021 Class of Societal Engineers Celebrated By Michael Seele and Patrick L. Kennedy With a call to continue their dedication to being Societal Engineers after earning their degrees, the College of Engineering’s Class of 2021 celebrated its graduation with virtual Commencement Exercises last weekend. Ceremonies for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral graduates were held on May […]
ENG Seniors Celebrate with Virtual Block Party
By Patrick L. Kennedy “You’re gonna make me emotional!” Four seniors in computer engineering are sitting around a table, looking back on their four years at Boston University and revealing what they’ll miss. Norman A. Toro Vega is mock-chastising Gabriel A. Ramos Rivera for dialing up the session’s sentimentality quotient, but then he echoes his […]
Beetle-Inspired “Bio-Tower” Takes First in Born Global Competition
By Patrick L. Kennedy Whether harvesting fog for potable water, modeling electrolysis after photosynthesis, or harnessing a river’s flow for electricity in a process called “flumenergy,” all three winning student teams in the second annual Born Global Competition for Innovation in Sustainability took inspiration from nature as they designed solutions to some of humanity’s most […]
Paschalidis Shares Health Data Findings in DeLisi Lecture
Professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE) discussed data-driven reasoning—which he calls “the backbone of engineering systems”—and predictive health analytics as he delivered the Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture May 6 to an online audience of about 100 members of the Boston University community. The DeLisi Award and Lecture honors a senior faculty member engaged in outstanding […]
ENG Student Garners Janetos Climate Action Prize
Boston University has named ME student Gayatri Sundar Rajan (’22) as one of two inaugural winners of the Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize for outstanding contributions to sustainability efforts at BU. Read the full announcement on the BU Urban Climate Initiative website.
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.