Deniz Cetin Wins MSE Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award
Congratulation to Deniz Cetin for winning the MSE Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award! MSE Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award: Deniz Cetin (MSE, PhD, 2017) Advisor: Professor Srikanth Gopalan “Thermodynamic Stability of Perovskite and Lanthanum Nickelate-Type Cathode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells” This research investigated alternative, novel cathode materials for solid oxide fuel […]
Sepideh Pourazarm Wins ENG Societal Impact Dissertation Award and SE Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award
Congratulations to Sepideh Pourazarm for winning the ENG Societal Impact Dissertation Award and the SE Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award! ENG Societal Impact Dissertation Award Sepideh Pourazarm (SE, PhD, 2017) Advisor: Professor Christos Cassandras Control and Optimization Approaches for Energy-Limited Systems: Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks and Battery-Powered Vehicles” SE Outstanding Dissertation of the […]
Class of 2017: Remember Your Roots
Commencement Ceremonies Honor ENG Graduates Story and Photos by Sara Cody All eyes were on the Class of 2017 as more than 360 graduates gathered at Commencement Exercises on May 20 in Agganis Arena to celebrate the next chapter of their lives. A common refrain throughout the day urged graduates to remember their roots as they […]
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 […]