Getting Power to the People
Caramanis Awarded Sloan Foundation Grant to Improve Electricity Distribution Networks By Michael Seele While the use of clean, renewable energy is rising nationally, its growth is being restrained by an imbalance between the consumption and generation of power. Wind and solar power are clean and cheap, but their availability varies widely depending on location, season […]
Protection from Ransomware like WannaCry
By Eugene Kolodenker Eugene Kolodenker (EE BS ’12, CE MS ’17) works in application development with a focus on cyber security systems at MITRE. This article originally appeared on Eugene Kolodenker’s blog, Kolobyte. A system to defeat ransomware was recently developed by myself and three of my cybersecurity research colleagues: Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Manuel Egele, […]
Announcing the 2017 MSE Innovation Grant Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 MSE Innovation Grants! The idea behind BU MSE Innovation Grants Program is to create a low overhead way of encouraging innovation and risk taking in a national funding environment that makes this increasingly difficult. Each year we will be awarding about five awards of approximately $10k each. Any […]
Time On Her Side
Alumna Pioneers Time-Management Tools Through Email Calendar Function By Sara Cody The first time Vanessa Feliberti (ENG’93) met Bill Gates, she knocked his socks off, literally. Feliberti, a self-described “early bird,” has worked at Microsoft for the past 25 years, and on this particular day, she arrived early to clean her office, expecting to […]
Dynamics of Space Vehicles Field Trip to the Haystack Observatory | April 22, 2017
Written by Grace Ware (Junior) On Saturday I hopped on a bus with a group of students and our professor to make the hour long drive to the MIT Haystack Observatory, where we would see firsthand the equipment used to scan the sky and the space beyond. Once there, Phil Erickson, the assistant director at […]
BME Assistant Professor Ahmad Khalil Featured in New BU Research Article
An article about one of BME’s most astounding faculty members has been published in BU Research! You can find the article by clicking HERE.
BU ECE Honor Society
By Amy Pollard (GRS ’19) The Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) announces the reinstatement of the Kappa Sigma chapter of international honor society IEEE-HKN. Kappa Sigma demonstrates ECE students’ high level of achievement and affirms ECE’s commitment to student success. ECE gains access to a large network of industry leaders and […]
Hacking Nature
Mo Khalil and collaborators at BU’s Biological Design Center look for synthetic-biology solutions to the world’s biggest problems. By Chris Berdik In the summer of 1989, nine-year-old Ahmad “Mo” Khalil immigrated with his family to America from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As their plane descended into JFK Airport, Khalil and his younger brother Ayman pressed their […]
ECE to the Rescue
Student projects on display at ECE Senior Design capstone event By Joel Brown for BU Today Photos by Dave Green Raindrops slap the hood of red Ford Taurus idling under an open-ended tent on Cummington Mall behind the Photonics Center. In the driver’s seat, Omar Janoudi is jacked into the car’s onboard data systems through its diagnostic […]
Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts
Undergraduate Researchers and Mentors Move ENG Forward By Sara Cody Ribbons of neon light undulate in the northern night sky, a technicolor display of pinks, greens, yellows, blues and reds against a backdrop of stars. They have captured the human imagination for millennia: the ancient Greeks thought they marked the gates of the home world […]