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ByteLight Awarded Funded Services through U-Launch Program

ByteLight one of seven innovative cleantech companies selected for technical development, entrepreneurial advisory and incubation services BOSTON, MA – October 5th, 2011: ByteLight has been selected for funded services through U-Launch, a US Department of Energy-funded grant-based award program that provides funded services to promising clean energy start-ups. These grant awards were offered as part […]

Altug to Give Invited Talk at Oct ’11 IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting

Hatice Altug, Assistant Professor, department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is giving an Invited Talk at the  IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting to be held 9-13 October in Arlington, Virginia. Her talk title is ” Plasmonic-enhanced Detectors and their Applications in Smart Lighting ”  For more information about the conference please visit IEEE Photonics Society. […]

BU’s ByteLight Team Selected for Highland Capital Summer Entrepreneurship Program

The BU ByteLight team of Aaron Ganick, Daniel Ryan, Travis Rich, Schuyler Eldridge & Simon Zhang were selected from a large group of applicants to participate in the Summer@Highland 2011 program! ByteLight was one of the semifinalists in BU’s $50K New Venture Competition, showing great promise for their creation of intelligent, energy efficient lighting and […]

BU Team Wins First Annual Smart Lighting Challenge

Ten teams of students from several colleges came together on Saturday to compete in the first annual Smart Lighting Challenge, held at the Boston University School of Management. The winners of the competition were BU students Connor McEwen (EE’14), Felipe Spinel (SMG’12), Parker Fox (SMG’12) and Ahmad Nawasrah (SMG’12), who showcased their ideas for utilizing […]

Systems Engineering Adds Energy, Environment Option to Graduate Degrees

Boston University’s Division of Systems Engineering has added an Energy and Environmental Systems concentration option to its Master of Science (MS) and Master of Engineering (MEng) programs. As part of the concentration, students have the option to focus their learning through a selection of courses such as Sustainable Power Systems, Solar Energy Systems, Clean Technology Business Models, and Energy and […]

Students Compete to Bring Innovation from BU Lab to the Marketplace on April 9

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON (4-4-11) — Engineering and business students from Boston University and two other area colleges will compete in an April 9 contest to devise product strategy for an emerging lighting technology being developed at BU. A panel of judges drawn largely from industry will decide who gets the prize money. The Smart […]

BU Students Invited to Devise Real-Life Solutions, Win Cash at Smart Lighting Challenge

Next month, BU undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines are invited to participate in the Smart Lighting Challenge, an engineering design and business strategy competition in which they can win cash prizes. Students will devise real-life improvements to the design, manufacturing process and product strategy for emerging solid state lighting technologies under development at […]

Conference Explores Wide Range of Smart Lighting Applications

When the National Science Foundation Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) was launched in 2008, one of its main objectives was to create an optical wireless network using LED-based visible light. While this remains a top priority, the Center has since explored several other applications of LED-based lighting systems, including boosting workplace productivity, detecting bio-terror […]

Moustakas, Altug and Zaman Win Faculty Awards

By Mark Dwortzan College of Engineering Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs Selim Ünlü announced the recipient of the College’s Distinguished Scholar Award—Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE)—and the winners of the Early Career Research Excellence Award—Assistant Professors Hatice Altug (ECE) and Muhammad Zaman (BME)—at the ENG faculty meeting on December 20. Distinguished Scholar Award The […]