Bending Is Beautiful: ENG’s Doug Holmes studies thin, unstable structures
Douglas Holmes remembers when he fell in love with bendy things. He was a graduate student in physics, and he wanted to understand why a sheet of paper curves into a loop when you push the ends together.
Long-time BME Faculty Member Herbert Voigt Mourned
Professor Herbert F. Voigt, a long-time Biomedical Engineering faculty member who helped set the department on a course that would lead it to elite national stature, died suddenly on Jan. 25. He was 65.
Three ENG Professors Elected OSA Fellows
Professor David Boas (BME, ECE), Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE), and Associate Professor Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE, Physics) have been elected as Fellows of The Optical Society (OSA).
Alan Pacheco Wins HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
Alan Pacheco (ENG’15,’22), a PhD candidate in the Boston University Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, is the first BU graduate to receive a prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study.
Dean Lutchen: Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations (via Harvard Business Review)
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the number of research deals between companies and universities. Companies, which have been reducing their spending on early stage research for three decades, have been increasingly turning to universities to perform that role, seeking access to the best scientific and engineering minds in specific domains.
Bridge Builders
There can be a wide gap between new medical devices doctors need and the ones companies decide to make. This disconnect can leave doctors accepting something like a surgical instrument that hasn’t been redesigned in half century even when it can cause medical problems. Now, what started out as a year-long practical course for master’s students in Boston University’s biomedical engineering department, has turned into a way to help close that gap.
Goyal Receives IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Vivek Goyal won a 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. His article, titled “Message-Passing De-Quantization with Applications to Compressed Sensing,” was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in December 2012. Goyal is one of three authors, including Ulugbek S. Kamilov (Washington University in St. Louis) […]
NASA to Launch BU Student-Built Microsatellites
If MacGyver were on a mission to study the aurora, this is the satellite he might build: a grid of scrap solar cells pasted onto an iPad-size green rectangle of circuit board, a six-inch cut of stainless steel tape measure soldered in one corner as a makeshift antenna, and inside, a suite of smartphone-class sensors that anyone can buy on the internet.
Design, Engineer, Iterate, Build: The Ian Schon (ENG’12) Story
When it comes to your career path, Ian Schon (ENG’12) advises students to think like engineers – formulate a hypothesis, map your trajectory, and think critically. Being a product designer came naturally to Schon, who always liked to make stuff since a young age. “My grandfather was an engineer, and he has this great […]
BU-Led Study May Explain CTE without Concussions
A new BU-led study published Thursday in the journal Brain suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is caused by head injuries, not by concussions. The research explains why 20 percent of athletes who exhibited the early stages of the progressive brain illness postmortem never had a diagnosed concussion.