ENG Prof Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors: David Bishop a prolific real-world innovator
New Study Offers Hope for Urban Commuters: A new paper by faculty and student researchers from BU College of Engineering could dramatically ease commuter frustration.
By Maureen Stanton Frustration. Rage. Anxiety. These are just some of the adjectives people use to describe their emotional state when driving the streets of Boston, the sixth-most-gridlock-plagued urban area in the country, according to a WBUR survey. Boston is not alone in dealing with ever-growing commuter frustration, cost, and environmental strain associated with traffic congestion. The average […]
DXL-3 Sounding Rocket: Successful launch on January 19
The DXL-3 sounding rocket launched out of the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska on a Black Brant 9 in the early hours of January 19. The launch is led by the University of Miami, with BU contributing to the science and modeling efforts of the mission, with Cusp Modeling supporting the launch. You can […]
MechE Asst. Prof. Emily Ryan Receives 2017 Scialog Fellowship
In November, Assistant Professor Emily Ryan (ME, MSE) was awarded the 2017 Scialog Fellowship for Advanced Energy Storage, along with some of the nation’s finest researchers in the field. With the Scialog initiative, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) – which awards these fellowships – aims to encourage collaborations between theorists and experimentalists. At […]
CISE Seed Awards for Innovative New Collaborations
The Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) is soliciting research proposals for funding graduate student research aimed at enabling new innovative collaborations involving CISE faculty. The goal of this CISE seed award program is to help broaden the research of CISE faculty and support the development of new research directions that become mature enough […]
Team of Researchers Awarded $1M Department of Energy Contract
A team of College of Engineering researchers has won a $1 million contract from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop COSSY (Computational Occupancy Sensing SYstem), a system of sensors that can estimate the number of people in a room and adjust air flow in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) appropriately, with the goal of saving energy.
New understanding of graphene nanochannels could revolutionize energy-efficient technologies
In a recent paper in Nature Nanotechnology, Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and his team have quantified water slippages in single graphene nanochannels for the first time and detailed why those data are inconsistent.
Oliver McRae (ENG’19) takes his research to the CDC
What first began as a foray into the world of biology quickly changed into mechanical engineering for graduate student Oliver McRae (ENG’19). His time at BUMechE and as a student researcher in Prof. Jacy Bird’s Fluid Lab have landed him a sought-after NSF internship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Cincinnati, […]
Single-dose drug delivery system creates hope for streamlined cancer treatment
An interdisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, chemists, and clinicians led by Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME) has developed a novel sustained-release, biodegradable nanoparticle system that carries a common cancer drug to deliver a therapeutic dose in one injection that has the same curative effect as the standard multi-dose effect.
Undergraduates Receive Recognition for Synthetic Biology Projects at 2017 iGEM Jamboree
Two student teams from BU were recognized for their scientific achievements during the 2017 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Giant Jamboree.