MechE Students Work With Alum to Bring AI-Driven Product to Market
What does it take to design an aesthetically sleek AI-driven product with mass market appeal? Three MechE MS students, Ben Wheeler (ENG ’25), Nick Teguis (ENG ’25), and Tage Colberg (ENG ’25) got into the depths of this question over the Spring 2025 term. Working with Alumni Samuel (ShengEr) Zhou (CAS & QST’ 22) and […]
Novel Solutions to Health Disparities
A skin tone colorimeter and a cornea transplant training tool took first prizes in the Design-A-Thon.
An Automated Tomato Picker Built in Less Than Two Months
If indoor farming is the future of sustainable agriculture, then AgroBot might help it scale up.
EPIC at Ten
“EPIC is not a stagnant facility.” With new equipment and a new director, this is the place to come to gain hands-on experience in design, prototyping, and small-scale manufacturing.
United Healthcare shooter used gun from a 3D printer – Should it be that easy?
A professor of the practice of mechanical engineering weighs in on the misuse of additive manufacturing technologies.
How to Produce the Tech Workforce We Need
In Harvard Business Review, Ken Lutchen shares the BU ENG recipe for a successful industry-academia partnership.
Endowment Funds Student Design Projects
Covers costs of supplies in maker spaces.
Pros Who Know Bolster EPIC Lessons
It’s one thing to design a pump that works. It’s quite another to choose the right materials, components, and manufacturing processes to ensure that thousands of identical pumps can be made efficiently, cost-effectively, and safely.
Building the Workforce of Tomorrow
When it comes to finding a job after graduation, knowledge gained in the classroom and lab is, of course, critical. But, today’s employers in the rapidly advancing engineering field want more. They want the kind of hands-on skills with the latest technologies that enables new hires to hit the ground running.
Where You Bring Ideas Into Reality
New EPIC Director Anna Thornton sees the cutting-edge facility as a place where faculty, students and industry work together to solve engineering challenges With a broad vision for the high-tech manufacturing and design space at the heart of Boston University’s campus, Professor of the Practice Anna Thornton (ME) has taken the reins as the new […]