MassDOT to Hold Public Meeting on Comm Ave Makeover
State will outline roadway’s deck replacement, address concerns The commonwealth will begin next summer to replace the aging Comm Ave Bridge over the Mass Pike between BU’s central and west campuses. Graphic courtesy of MassDOT. The public is invited to a meeting to discuss a major construction project that will replace the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge over […]
US Secretary of Energy Moniz to Receive Honorary Degree
Focuses on clean energy, nuclear issues Ernest Moniz. Photo (left) courtesy of the Department of Energy. Engineering a clean-energy future is very much on Ernest J. Moniz’s mind these days, as the world tries to turn the Paris Agreement on climate into action to reduce global warming. As US Secretary of Energy, Moniz directs the […]
Future Engineers Learn Real-life, Hands-on Design
ENG’s Gerald Fine wins Gitner Award for classroom tech use During close to 30 years in business, Gerald Fine was surprised that young engineers were uncomfortable with new technologies. Photo by Cydney Scott. Almost 30 years in business left engineer Gerald Fine troubled as he spied the horizon of his profession. Too many young colleagues […]
Sharing the Field’s Allure
ENG brings engineering to schools to bring students to engineering Josiah Quincy Upper School students and Gretchen Fougere, ENG associate dean for outreach and diversity, who says ENG’s goal is “to broaden and build the pipeline from K-12 schools into engineering.” Photos by Cydney Scott. It’s a warm spring morning at the Josiah Quincy Upper […]
The Inventor
For ENG’s Greg Blonder, a great product requires perfect timing Click here to view this video: Greg Blonder, an ENG mechanical engineering professor, describes three of his inventions and how their success or failure was the result of market timing. The enormous popularity of Beats by Dre headphones have made cofounders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine […]
Hope for the Battle against Type 1 Diabetes
Benefit corporation founded by parents of children with the disease Ed Damiano (center) and members of new medical device company Beta Bionics, whose mission is to improve the health of people with type 1 diabetes: (from left) design engineers Raj Setty and Rob LeBourdais; senior engineer Firas El-Khatib; Ed Raskin, VP for public benefit development […]
ENG Makes Highest-Ever Grade in US News Rankings
Questrom, SED, LAW also do well Interdisciplinary research helped the College of Engineering to secure ample outside funding and a personal best in the latest US News rankings. Photo by Cydney Scott. The College of Engineering has earned its highest-ever ranking from US News & World Report, placing 35th among its peer American schools in […]
Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill
Grad students learn to lobby for policy, funding Graduate students in the sciences learn how to advocate for science on Capitol Hill in the Making Our CASE: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering workshops. Photo by Nicolas Raymond via Creative Commons license. The federal government funds about 80 percent of the research conducted at Boston […]
Show Me the Data
First BU Data Science Day draws cross-disciplinary crowd Azer Bestavros, director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (center), and the cochairs of Hariri’s first BU Data Science Day, Prakash Ishwar (left) and Dino Christenson (right), were delighted by the large, cross-disciplinary crowd that came together to talk about how data […]
UROP Student’s Project: A Thinking Robot
Self-directed ‘bot can identify objects In the following video, watch Emily Fitzgerald’s artificially intelligent robot. “That is a ball.” “I do believe that is a cone.” “Seems like a wonderful book.” The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But […]