{"id":76674,"date":"2018-09-14T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=76674"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:12:25","slug":"welcome-new-bumeche-faculty-fall-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2018\/09\/14\/welcome-new-bumeche-faculty-fall-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome New BUMECHE Faculty (Fall 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are so happy to announce the recent addition of two very talented and passionate BUMECHE faculty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/09\/SAM1568-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-76675\">William (Will) Boley is a new BUMECHE Assistant Professor.\u00a0His research focuses on multi-functional additive manufacturing for electronics, optics, sensors, and shape-shifting structures. Prior to joining the department, he was\u00a0a Postdoctoral Fellow in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Will received his Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University with a focus on functional inkjet printing. Prior to joining Harvard, he also carried out postdoctoral research on soft electronics and robotics at Purdue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/09\/Beilmeier_Christie_2018_-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"285\" class=\"wp-image-76671 alignleft\"><\/p>\n<p>Senior Lecturer, Dr. Christie Bielmeier, brings her research of developing eco-friendly bug-resistant products to BU Mechanical Engineering Department. She works to bring her entrepreneurial sprit and research based experience to the classroom. She hope to engage BU students with the development of less toxic, insect resistant clothing for people throughout the world.\u00a0Bielmeier teaches product development and CAD courses at BU.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the classroom, Bielmeier is CTO and founder of Lil Buggers, creators of the world\u2019s first chemical-free insect resistant clothes for kids. This Boston-based company uses cutting-edge textile design: their innovative garments protect\u00a0 kids from mosquito and tick bites without chemical additives.\u00a0\u00a0Lil Buggers gear\u00a0is hand sewn and embroidered in Somerville, MA and can be purchased\u00a0online.\u00a0 Lil Buggers fabric was developed for the military, but strong enough to standup to whatever kids can dish out!\u00a0 The fabric\u00a0features UV protection, moisture resistance, and high durability.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are so happy to announce the recent addition of two very talented and passionate BUMECHE faculty. William (Will) Boley is a new BUMECHE Assistant Professor.\u00a0His research focuses on multi-functional additive manufacturing for electronics, optics, sensors, and shape-shifting structures. Prior to joining the department, he was\u00a0a Postdoctoral Fellow in the John A. Paulson School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127180,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76674\/revisions\/127180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}