ENG Recognized as Leader in Diversity Action
The College of Engineering has been recognized by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as a leader in inclusive excellence as a part of ASEE’s Diversity Recognition Program.
Your Bluetooth Conversation May Not Be as Private as You Think
Professor David Starobinski (ECE, SE), along with his team, Ph.D. student Johannes Becker (ECE) and undergraduate student David Li (ECE) was recently featured in an article on The Register, an online IT newspaper. The Register highlighted the team’s discovery that Bluetooth LE’s previous claim to their products being resistant to tracking is inaccurate. The Bluetooth […]
Nature Features Luca Dal Negro’s New Class of Random Lasers
LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) just turned 60 but is not ready to retire yet. To the contrary, it has become ubiquitous in our daily lives. While a laser pointer is one obvious example, the fact that lasers are used to capture 3D information in time-of-flight sensors (think iPhone X and Kinect […]
Stepp Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Associate Professor Cara Stepp has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Bishop Lands Grant from Sony to Develop Novel Magnetometer
Professor David Bishop has been awarded a $100,000 research grant from Sony Electronics to further develop a novel, ultra-sensitive and contactless magnetometer to be used for anything from location sensing to heart monitoring.
Smart Vehicles
Advancing smart drones and cars.
BU’s Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers Thrives
Remi Shittu (ENG ’19) was recruited into the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at BU early in her freshman year. This past academic year and her senior year, she was president of the chapter. Her leadership pushed the group to create new programs and recruit many more members, resulting in the chapter winning more awards than any other in their region last year.
New Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology Announced
The College of Engineering has established a new Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology (CMTM) that will facilitate new research projects between faculty from ENG, the College of Arts and Sciences, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and BU Medical School.
BU Biomedical Engineer Ed Damiano Raises $126 Million for Bionic Pancreas
Investors bank on socially minded public benefit corporation and its medical device for people with type 1 diabetes Ed Damiano’s journey to help the millions of people who suffer from type 1 diabetes—which began nearly 20 years ago, when his infant son, David, was diagnosed with the disease—took a huge leap forward this week. The […]
Identifying How a Material Grows: Discoveries by BU, DOE and UVM
From tinted car windows to solar cells, the versatile function of thin films has been playing significant roles in our lives. An MSE professor and a student collaborated with researchers to understand the growth of thin films like never before.