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THE WORLD STOPPED. WE DIDN’T. ENG RESEARCHERS RESPOND TO THE CORONAVIRUS

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ENGINEER MAGAZINE FALL 2020

12 THE WORLD STOPPED. WE DIDN’T. ENG RESEARCHERS RESPOND TO THE CORONAVIRUS

DEPARTMENTS 3 Upfront 20 Research 28 Alumni News

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The Unnecessary Collision: How Not to Navigate a Global Pandemic

BY DEAN KENNETH R. LUTCHEN

How incredibly ironic.

Despite the enormous resources expended by each country to protect its citizens and way of life, the Earth’s population was paralyzed. Not by nuclear war, terrorism or cyberattacks, but by a new, tiny biological substance that cannot even live on its own and did not care what country, religion, economic sector, climate or ethnicity anyone belonged to. In a span of a few months, it shut down the entire planet economically and behaviorally.

While the world is in the midst of a horrendous pandemic, America is in the midst of two. One of those, COVID-19, has moved with lightning speed. The other has been spreading through American culture for the past several years and has now collided disastrously with the coronavirus. This second pandemic might best be described as the anti-science pandemic. And, unless we roll it back, we will dramatically hinder our ability to control the coronavirus—and more lethal viruses in the future.

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From denial about evolution, humaninduced climate change, and the efficacy of vaccinations to conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and the politicizing of wearing masks, anti-science has become an increasingly worrisome tendency in the public.

Anti-science now infects many of the leaders charged with guiding us through our worst health crisis in a century. Leaders are shunning science and technology when we need it most, and in some cases, they’ve shunned rationality entirely—the President himself said, “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases.” Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the coronavirus task force, has a long history of rejecting health-related science and even declared in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that “we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy” even as multiple states reported record increases in new cases.

One honorable exception has been Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectiousdisease expert in the US, who has refused to soft-pedal the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic and has acknowledged the destructiveness of anti-science. “One of the problems we face in the United States is that, unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are—for reasons that sometimes are inconceivable and not understandable— they just don’t believe science and they don’t believe authority,” he said. Antiscientists believe that if the data does not convey the message desired, then just dismiss the data. As White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany put it on whether schools should reopen in the fall, “The science should not stand in the way.”

Unfortunately, the administration and a number of governors seem willing to sacrifice large numbers of lives because they see a bad economy threatening their political prospects. Several governors have now publicly said that we should not depend on experts, as they will only make us worry more and hinder our rate of reopening society. Ironically, their failure to honor the science will only compound the economic disaster.

We need science and technology to save us. Government leaders are literally helpless without the tools and techniques provided by scientists and engineers, which are obvious now: a capacity to develop rapid testing, swift contact tracing, validated models for projecting disease spread and impact of interventions, new treatments to reduce the severity of the virus’s impact, a vaccine and—finally— a massive manufacturing and systems engineering approach to deploy all of these fairly and at enormous scale.

To succeed, scientists and technologists need political, financial and policy guidance that will facilitate the eventual deployment of the fruits of their labor to society. And, given the virus’s neutrality as to whom it infects, these leaders need to ensure all people regardless of race, religion, economic sector or country have access. At the same time, they should be aware that the burdens of the virus have fallen disproportionately on Black and Latinx people, a problem that epidemiologists and public health experts could usefully address.

Our leaders have a choice. They can rapidly provide resources and new funding to the scientific and technological sectors to create real weapons against the virus while simultaneously providing economic support to their citizens until science develops new tools. Or, they can choose to send everyone back to work and thereby tacitly admit that from their perspective, it is fine to watch people die who didn’t have to.

Ultimately, science and technology will bring us out of the COVID-19 pandemic— either aided by, or in spite of, government leadership. Testing capacities will scale up. The automated contact tracing will greatly limit spread. New therapies will become available. And, with a bit of luck, a safe vaccine will emerge, completely wiping out the future impact of this particular virus.

For the long term, our leaders at every level of government need to reaffirm—in word and deed—the value of science and engineering, if we are to conquer our other pandemic.

Portions of this essay recently appeared on BusinessInsider.com

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Antiracism in Action A STUDENT’S OUTRAGE PROMPTS PUBLISHER TO REMOVE TRADITIONALLY USED RACIST LANGUAGE PHRASINGS FROM ENGINEERING TEXTBOOKS

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or decades, engineering textbooks have termed the relationship of a device to others it controls as “master and slave.” In recent years, many attempts have been made to change the language and its racist connotation, but success has not been universal.

A Boston University computer engineering grad student is setting about to change that. Santiago Gomez was so perturbed when he encountered the terminology in a textbook in Professor Roscoe Giles’ (ECE) Logic Design course that he wrote to the publisher, Pearson, and asked that it be changed. His letter prompted Pearson to stop distributing the book while the text is revised, to review its other publications and replace the term throughout its catalog and to begin contacting standards bodies to stimulate broader changes.

“The use of the ‘master/slave’ metaphor to describe the phenomenon of combining two [circuits] is abhorrent,” Gomez

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Gomez’s letter struck a nerve not only at the publisher, but within the College of Engineering as well.

wrote. “As a Latinx student of computer engineering, I request that you update your terminology to prevent further disruption to the learning experience and to take a concrete step towards dismantling systemic racism within engineering.”

After praising the engineering content of the book, Gomez added, “The ‘master/slave’ . . . terminology proved detrimental to my learning environment. It reminded me that Black people’s presence in the sciences is not fully respected. This issue can be remedied by updating the term to reflect current understandings of race in America.”

Gomez’s letter struck a nerve not only at the publisher, but within the College of Engineering as well. Upon learning of it, Dean Kenneth Lutchen and Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Chair Professor W. Clem Karl not only got behind Gomez’s effort, but reached out to the national engineering community to make sure engineering leaders were aware of the need to make the change.

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“ The ‘master/slave’ . . . terminology proved detrimental to my learning environment.

It reminded me that Black people’s presence in the sciences is not fully respected. This issue can be remedied by updating the term to reflect current understandings of race in America.”

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called “flip flops,” which are fundamental to computing technology. “It’s not an exotic or unusual use of the term. It has always been very striking to me. In most of my courses I try not to use it. I’ll use boss/worker or main/subsidiary or something like that.”

Giles, one of the longest-serving Black faculty members at BU, has encountered the term for many years. “I’ve been bothered by it all my life,” he says, noting that it also appears in other engineering contexts and even in photography. “I had come to see it as undesirable, but unavoidable.” But, when Gomez emailed him with the idea to write the letter and asked for his feedback, Giles says he saw the matter in a renewed light.

“The letter reminded me I should have been more outraged by it,” Giles says. “Continuing encounters with an irritation can make you build up a callus. I had built up a callus for this language that I wish I hadn’t built up.”

Giles says Gomez’s letter was eloquent and he did not offer any edits. “I was struck by the sincerity and energy of a student coming to this issue for the first time, and at the time we are in, where a large fraction 4 BU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

of the country is ready to address racism. I thought this language can easily be changed.

I could not have had the insight he had about how it impacted students. He wrote it very well.”

Giles forwarded the letter to a contact at Pearson on June 19, and it quickly rose up the chain of command to a vice president. On June 26, Pearson responded with the pledge to pull the book, revise the text there and in any other Pearson publication where it may appear, and review its policies on the matter.

Santiago also sent it to Assistant Dean for Outreach and Diversity Wynter Duncanson, who brought it to the attention of the dean and ECE chair.

“When I went to Dean Lutchen and ECE Chair Karl, there was an immediate response to make sure this language is removed,” Duncanson says. “Chair Karl recalled that this was the language he had seen in school and that we need to use this as a learning experience and change it.

Dean Lutchen suggested we contact the executive directors of the American Association Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Black Engineers. We wanted to let the leaders of our field know this is what we’re doing to be antiracist.”

Duncanson lauded Pearson’s quick decision but noted that the terminology pervades the engineering field beyond academia. “This is the foundation of our engineering language,” she says. “This is propagated throughout our field. The people who are building the field are building it on what is a racist idea. It’s really great that the voice of a student was able to speak so loudly and create a new language for the field.”

Gomez—who earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from BU in 2014 and recently enrolled in the college’s Late Entry Accelerated Program, which offers MS degrees in engineering to students with nonengineering bachelor’s degrees—said that while the language has offended him since he first encountered it in mid-February, the events of recent weeks prompted his action.

“Nothing would have changed if not for the events of the past couple of months,”

“ I was struck by the sincerity and energy of a student coming to this issue for the first time, and at the time we are in, where a large fraction of the country is ready to address racism. I thought this language can easily be changed.”

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he says. “I hope this will change their editorial policy there and everywhere else it happens. The broader goal is to get other publishers to address this as well, and, even more broadly, to get engineering to be antiracist.”

Gomez and Giles had a follow-up phone call with Pearson on July 8. “The conversation went well,” Gomez says. “I am pleased with the expediency and genuineness of their response. They are actively working with their authors to revise the textbooks.

They have also reached out to the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery about this issue.” — MICHAEL SEELE

ENG Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) has won a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded annually to individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” A Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Zaman focuses on healthcare problems in the developing world.

Zaman Honored with Guggenheim Fellowship RECOGNIZED FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES

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or the past decade, Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE), a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, has aimed his considerable ingenuity at healthcare problems in the developing world. His efforts have included coinventing PharmaChk, an inexpensive, portable, rapid-screening technology that identifies the kind of substandard drugs that put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk in developing countries; designing and teaching a course in humanitarian engineering; and leading study and service projects focused on Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. He has also investigated the harm done by antimicrobial resistance. His 2019 University Lecture focused on the need for, and challenges involved in, developing ethical solutions for refugee health.

Now, in recognition of those and other achievements, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Zaman a fellowship, given to those who, according to the foundation’s website, “are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise” and “have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

According to Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen, “Muhammad’s capacity and passion for bringing engineering creativity and mindset to address extraordinarily important health and medical challenges to under-resourced populations or neglected peoples—such as refugees—will have a broad impact on all of society. Moreover, he brings this passion and approach back to our students and

Zaman is examining antibiotic resistance in refugee settlements.

inspires them even more to become Societal Engineers.”

Zaman says he is extremely honored by the award. “I recognize that I am in the company of exceptional scholars, artists, and practitioners,” he says. “And that’s not only this year’s cohort, but those who, over the years, have transformed my own thinking and work.”

He will use the award to develop a richer, multidisciplinary understanding of how antimicrobial resistance impacts refugee settlements. “The problem of antimicrobial resistance is a universal one,” he stresses.

“But some communities are far more vulnerable due to lack of resources, poverty, lack of trust with the health authorities and poor access to accurate information. Now, in light of COVID-19, there is additional risk of bacterial infections, in addition to the viral infections— and the issue of antibiotic resistance is all the more relevant in these communities.”

Zaman’s current work examines antibiotic resistance in refugee settlements from several angles, including policy analysis and access to good-quality medicines. He is particularly interested in identifying resistance drivers that could be more relevant in a refugee camp than in a developed-world hospital. Such

seemingly disparate approaches to healthcare problems, including an investigation of the processes behind tumor invasion, have long been part of his portfolio.

“I think there are similarities in the way we do problem-solving and analyze the various drivers that affect the overall outcome,” he reflects. “There are also similarities in the tools, both computational and experimental, that we develop, and every now and then tools that we develop for our cancer work come in handy for our global health work and vice versa.”

Zaman’s second book, Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle between People and Pathogens (HarperCollins, 2020), was published in June. His first, Bitter Pills (Oxford University Press, 2018), chronicles the global challenge of substandard and counterfeit drugs.

Zaman is also among this year’s 173 American and Canadian fellowship recipients, selected from almost 3,000 applicants. Since 1925, the foundation has granted more than $375 million in fellowships to over 18,000 individuals, among them scores of Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, poets laureate, members of the various national academies and recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, Turing Award, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors.

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Khalil Awarded Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

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uch like hacking a computer, Associate Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME) hacks nature and the microscopic biological systems that make all life possible. In his lab, Khalil, who is also associate director of BU’s Biological Design Center, has created entire cell colonies capable of being programmed to perform tasks— from eliminating cancer cells to making new classes of drug compounds—by mimicking cellular systems that have evolved over the course of many millennia. Now, Khalil has been awarded the 2020 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, the Department of Defense’s most prestigious award for a single investigator, to explore how cells are capable of passing “memories” down to the next generation of offspring cells, a dynamic known as epigenetic memory.

With his work supported by the fellowship, Khalil will explore how to manipulate epigenetic memory in cells to program self-assembling biological materials, like tissue and other cellular structures.

How did you become interested in synthetic biology?

I was initially trained in mechanical engineering, where I learned the principles of designing and building complex systems.

Traditional approaches to studying biology involve anatomic and genetic dissections, so what drew me to synthetic biology was its potential to offer an inverse approach to studying biological systems, such as designing [genetic components] and combining them in meaningful ways to create new and functional cellular systems from the bottom up.

What aspect of your work will you be exploring with the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship?

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Associate Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME)

tic memories, which can be passed on as useful information from one generation to the next, are not encoded by changes to the genome of the cell. Establishing these epigenetic memories allows cells to learn and adapt to their environments, and crucially, is at the heart of how [similar] cells build multicellular structures, tissues, and organisms. Despite this appreciation, our ability to direct and engineer this capability is limited. Through the fellowship, [my team] will use synthetic biology approaches to learn about how epigenetic memory is established and manipulated, and how we can direct these processes to program cells

to self-organize into desired multicellular structures and materials.

Can you explain the possible applications of epigenetic memory?

As we know, memory is fundamental to manufactured devices like computers. Thus, the ability to encode epigenetic [memories] is fundamental to programming complex computations in living cells. You can imagine future applications, such as engineered cellular sensors that can record and recall environmental signals. Epigenetic memory is also the basis of genetic switches toggling the expression of genes—like an ON/OFF switch. Many biomedical and biotechnological applications rely on precise control of gene expression, for example, controlling differentiation of stem cells or controlling [therapeutic delivery].

This work could also be used to program self-assembling cellular materials that could utilize epigenetic memory to enable on-demand fabrication, maintain structural organization in light of cell division, selfrepair following stress or disruption, and have diverse and tunable material properties that respond to surrounding environmental conditions. We believe that these biological materials will enable [new] dynamics and properties [that are currently] impossible in conventional materials.

What are some of the biggest problems you are working to solve with synthetic biology?

Much of our work has been foundational in nature, focused on understanding the design of molecular circuits that control how genes are regulated in cells. Through this work, we have developed new tools and a strong intellectual foundation for predictably controlling cell and tissue behavior, which we believe will ultimately lead to breakthrough diagnostics and therapeutics for human health. In one immediate application, we are collaborating with [BU College of Engineering associate professor of biomedical engineering] Wilson Wong to develop genetic tools that allow better control of immune cell function to improve cell-based cancer therapies. Another problem we are working to solve with synthetic biology and related technologies in the lab is curbing the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance. —JESSICA COLAROSSI

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Team Led by Ramachandran Wins MURI Award

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s the lead principal investigator, Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, Physics, MSE) was awarded a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant to study the science and applications of singular light beams in the presence of spin-orbit interactions. On June 1, Ramachandran began collaborating with co-PIs at Harvard and Stanford Universities as part of a team that will experimentally and theoretically probe fundamental interactions between the spin and orbital angular momentum of light

Students Shine a Light on Creativity

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esigned to be a creative space where students can work on extracurricular projects and advance their education outside the classroom, the Singh Imagineering Lab hosted a smart light building competition sponsored by Lutron Electronics—a global lighting technology company with advanced products in smart lighting, control and design—in February.

The inaugural Lutron Competition drew interest from 25 students, with 14 teams competing as they learned and showcased new skills. The first Imagineering Lab contest with industry sponsorship gave each team a $50 budget to build a project.

Former Imagineering Lab advisor Noah Abbott (ENG’18), who works at Lutron

in optical fibers, free space and metamaterials.

Generally, light can carry both orbital angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum (SAM) related Professor Siddharth to wavefront Ramachandran rotation and (ECE, Physics, MSE) polarization, respectively. This has led to several scientific and technological applications, including secure quantum communications, super-resolution microscopy and alternative modalities of image processing and sensing. Ramachandran’s team will study spin-orbit coupling that provides a less-exploited degree of freedom to manipulate the linear and nonlinear properties of light carrying SAM and OAM, and manifests

Electronics, approached ENG about hosting a smart light building competition after the company began ramping up recruiting efforts on campus.

Abbott kicked off the event with a presentation about the contest and Lutron, showing one of the company’s smart lights featuring a vibrancy control that changes the emitting spectrum of white light, helping to tune lights to match their environments and highlight artwork in new ways. He demonstrated how the color of Play-Doh changed with the light’s vibrancy adjustments.

Because Lutron encouraged the students to be creative, the broad scope of the competition allowed teams to produce a wide range of products. Isabella Kuh’s team won $250 with the first-place project called Inside Out, a functional art piece depicting a man with a cloud over his head that’s triggered to turn on through sound.

Second place ($100) went to Roman Addokhu for a rustic light bulb that senses and responds to its environment and can be controlled over Wi-Fi; third ($50) to Brian Jung and Peter Siegel for their VU meter,

strongly in nanostructures, high numericalaperture systems and high index-contrast optical fibers. The project will focus on three interrelated topics: pairing topologically complex light with acoustic and optical phonons (which will rewrite design principles for fiber lasers); studying metasurfaces and artificial structures, which are topologically complex and can create new device schematics for OAM/SAM beams; and researching topological invariants to inform the design of spinorbit coupled optical fibers and metasurfaces.

Ramachandran has received several awards for his research on exotic beams in fibers and was recently named to a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship in 2019, the most prestigious award for basic research bestowed by the US Department of Defense.

Ramachandran is using his fellowship to explore light-matter interactions with twisted light beams. His groundbreaking work has also been covered in publications including Science, Nature Communications and Optica. — COLBI EDMONDS

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The winning project

which responds to sounds by displaying different patterns on an LED strip according to the volume of its surroundings.

Most teams built smart functionality into their projects, allowing the lights to be controlled by inputs like sound, or had remote control capabilities through the internet. Other inventive projects included Tupperware that changed colors depending on temperature, and a lamp with a shade that expanded and contracted through sound input. — LIZ SHEELEY E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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Students Take On the Business of Tissue Engineering CELL-MET RESEARCH TAKES FIRST STEPS INTO COMMERCIALIZATION

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In February, the team competed at the TigerLaunch competition in Chicago, earning a spot in the finals in April (from left to right, Jenny Sun, Christos Michas, Ayse Muniz, Ben Swanson and Josh Javor).

Their company is designed for drug developers and researchers to quickly and accurately test their products.

Michigan—work toward this goal through their research.

“The students got together and had to create a product plan, a marketing plan, discover an unmet need, and figure out how to address the unmet need,” says CELL-MET Industrial Liaison Officer/ Innovation Ecosystem Leader Tom Dudley, who alerted the students to the competition. “It was a lot of work to create their business plan—all work they did outside of their normal requirements.”

The first step was submitting their business plan to TERMIS, who judged

submissions and sent the top three to Orlando to give final presentations, which mentors within the tissue engineering industry helped them refine and create with feedback throughout the process.

“The CELL-MET grant provides a good ecosystem to grow types of research that can be used in industry and applied to companies,” Javor notes. “One reason I wanted to take this on was that it was a new learning experience for me. Usually I’m focused on the technical aspects of the work, but I was able to learn about the business perspective, and how to create a marketable, packaged product.”

The team continues to refine and build their company, competing as regional finalists at the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s TigerLaunch, the nation’s largest student-run entrepreneurship competition that features prizes including $35,000 to invest in business, along with mentorship opportunities with venture capitalists and industry professionals. —LIZ SHEELEY

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lthough there are hundreds of university spin-off companies, the vast majority are founded by professors aiming to bring their technology or ideas to the market. Graduate students often don’t have the space or resources to build a company based on their research, even if that research could be commercialized.

When graduate students Josh Javor (ME), Christos Michas (BME) and Jenny Sun (EE) heard about the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) Business Plan Competition, they wanted to team up to explore what building a spin-off company from their research would be like. In the end, their team placed second overall in the competition, held in Orlando, Florida, in December.

Instead of selling a physical product for researchers to purchase, the team decided to market a comprehensive screening platform that would deliver analysis of drug performance, toxicity and more, all related to cardiovascular tissue. Their company, CardioMetry, is designed for drug developers and researchers to quickly and accurately test their products.

They teamed up with colleagues from the University of Michigan who were already doing research under the same $20 million grant awarded in 2018 from the National Science Foundation known as CELL-MET, a multi-institutional Engineering Research Center based at Boston University aiming to synthesize personalized heart tissue for clinical use. Though they come from varying backgrounds, Javor, Michas, Sun, Ayse Muniz and Ben Swanson—all from the University of

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Goyal Elected OSA Fellow

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ssociate Professor Vivek Goyal (ECE) has been elected a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA) “for outstanding inventions in computational imaging and sensing, including unprecedented demonstrations of the utility of weak, mixed and indirect optical measurements.”

“I’m deeply honored to be elected to fellow of the OSA, especially since my research career started far from optics,” Goyal says.

“It’s a testament to the value in letting academic research be driven by curiosity.”

According to the OSA, “Fellows are members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics.

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Professor Vivek Goyal (ECE)

Goyal’s innovations have changed our understanding of what’s possible with optical measurements.

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n recognition of his contributions using optical interference in biological sensing and imaging, Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE, BME) has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, a distinction bestowed upon the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country.

“I’m honored to be chosen as an AIMBE fellow and thrilled to join the growing group of fellows at Boston University,” Ünlü says. “The College of Engineering at BU has allowed me to expand my research in biological sensing and imaging by providing a rich and highly collaborative environment.”

Boston University now has 33 AIMBE fellows, sixth most in the nation, with Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) serving as chair.

A faculty member since 1992, Ünlü is currently doing research focused on

membership may be chosen as Fellows, making the process both highly selective and competitive.”

“Goyal’s innovations have changed our understanding of what is possible with optical measurements,” says his colleague, Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE, BME). Ünlü points to Goyal’s work in demonstrating that very few detected photons are sufficient for imaging. His research has focused on using very small amounts of information, like a weak light signal, to extract much more information than seems possible. In one recent publication in Nature, Goyal and his team showed how to extract a full-color, 2D-picture of a scene from a photograph of indistinct shadows, known as a penumbrae, on a neighboring wall—demonstrating a way to see around a corner.­ — LIZ SHEELEY

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Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE, BME)

Ünlü’s research is focused on developing innovative methods for optical imaging and microscopy. developing innovative methods for optical imaging and microscopy. Ünlü has been able to apply light interference—a concept documented since the 1600s—to enhance the light collection efficiency of photodetectors and develop

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novel biological sensing and imaging technologies. Light interference can be observed in the colorful reflections created by soap bubbles, as their film partially reflects back light at its closely spaced surfaces, preferentially enhancing or decreasing the reflection of colors constituting the white-light illumination. Ünlü uses this concept to detect nanoparticles, as the presence of particles modifies the interference of light reflected from the sensor surface, producing a distinct signal that reveals the size of the particle (which is not otherwise visible under a conventional microscope). This technique has allowed Ünlü to quickly and accurately detect viruses in blood samples.

His method doesn’t require the user to be highly skilled or trained, sample preparation is unnecessary and the instrument does the work—making it ideal for transfer to resource-poor areas.

Most recently, Ünlü is working to pivot his technique to detect the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. — ­ LIZ SHEELEY E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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Biomimicry— the method of taking inspiration from nature and utilizing it to develop strategies to solve human challenges— is a driving principle at Born Global, and a process that students were encouraged to use.

Energy Executive Director Jacquie Ashmore. “And particularly impressed with their motivation and ability to complete the competition in this challenging and stressful time given COVID-19, lockdown and remotely finishing the semester.”

“The first year of the Born Global Foundation Innovation Competition was focused on carbon cycling, and many of the finalists found process innovation solutions,” Samaha notes. “We were particularly pleased with how many students incorporated biomimicry into their design process.”

Biomimicry—the method of taking inspiration from nature and utilizing it to develop strategies to solve human challenges—

is a driving principle at Born Global, and a process that students were encouraged to use in their project development.

Four teams participated; three received prizes. The first-place, $5,000 prize went to a project titled “Redesigning the Urban Environment” by Cathy Cheng (ME’23) and Lekhya Sathi (Sargent’23); second, to “BeagleNet” by Dylan Derose (ME’22), Pavel Gromov (ME’20), Jordan Nichols (CAS’22) and Peter Siegel (ME’22); and third, to “Energy Efficient Architecture” by Kaihui Gou (ECE’20) and Lin Fan (EE’20).

Cheng and Sathi embraced the contest’s theme by bringing biomimicry to their design with their plan to recycle wastewater and produce both food and biomass—a goal they’d achieve by developing photobioreactors to produce biomass and vertical farms to produce food, both of which could be retrofitted onto buildings. The systems would be fed with already nitrogen-rich filtered wastewater acting as a fertilizer. Both systems capture CO2 to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with little impact and cost, and would produce food as well.

According to Ryan, “All the teams presented creative, well-thought-out projects that have great potential to help create a more sustainable world.” — LIZ SHEELEY

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ast fall, the College of Engineering launched a competition aimed at bringing an interdisciplinary approach to solving real-world sustainability problems, particularly carbon recycling processes and materials. The Born Global Competition for Innovation in Sustainability succeeded in producing inventive solutions, doing so even when COVID-19 forced everyone into remote mode in the middle of the project.

Sponsored by the Born Global Foundation—a technology commercialization program for innovation in the bioeconomy focused on economic, process and product innovation at the intersection of waste, energy and food—the competition aimed to change the way students think about renewable energy solutions.

Spanning the entire academic year, the competition and all involved had to pivot when the COVID-19 crisis struck. Instead of a final, in-person presentation, student teams presented their project reports via Zoom.

The Born Global competition aimed to have students focus on developing innovative renewable energy solutions that are easy to implement and economical. Each participating team had to be interdisciplinary, and comprised of students from the College of Engineering as well as from other schools and colleges at BU. Associate Professor Emily Ryan (ME, MSE), whose research focuses on understanding renewable energy storage systems, headed up the contest.

“We were very impressed with all of the teams,” says Ryan, who judged the contest along with Born Global Foundation Chief Executive Officer Kimberly Samaha (ENG’89) and Institute for Sustainable

Dean’s Catalyst Awards Spark Innovation and Collaboration

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esearchers must show proof-ofconcept on their new ideas to win grants and funds from large institutions, an initial investment that can be risky. To help, the College of Engineering set up the Dean’s Catalyst Awards (DCA) in 2007.

Established by Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen, the competitive grant rewards faculty collaboration and innovation by bestowing two years of seed funding on projects to explore new areas of interest that could spark long-term research endeavors and yield new applications across fields.

These grants have fostered collaboration at the College of Engineering and at the University as a whole. In recent years, the $1 million investment in the program has produced at least 19 grant proposals, resulting in $7.9 million in funding from institutions such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. DCA research has resulted in 35 journal or conference papers published or under review, and another 11 in preparation.

The grant rewards faculty collaboration and innovation by bestowing two years of seed funding on projects to explore new areas of interest that could spark long-term research endeavors.

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Joerg Werner (ME) and Keith Brown (ME) are teaming up to combine their expertise to develop a new method of manufacturing and studying thin electrochemical films that could potentially revolutionize battery technology.

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Hadi Nia (BME) and Bela Suki’s (BME) new research will build a novel experimentation system that will be able to integrate long-term mechanobiology features (like breathing) into drug development research.

In addition to creating the environment for physical stress, this model will allow researchers to personalize cell types in both the tumor and non-tumor cells, allowing them to study how lung cells affected by

COPD and cancer will react to cancer drugs, which is currently unknown. It will also let them study how the mechanical stress of breathing affects the immune response in lung cells affected by COPD, also unknown.

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Kamal Sen (BME), David Boas (BME) and Laura Lewis (BME) will study how the normal human brain solves complex scene analysis, potentially leading to pathways we can explore to improve the quality of life in those with impairment disorders.

Boas and Lewis bring their expertise in brain imaging, and Sen his work in auditory processing.

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Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) studies how disinformation starts and then circulates through the internet after the fact. This research will create a web application allowing anyone to interactively explore disinformation campaigns and come to a better understanding of how information transmits through the web. Chris Wells (COM/ CAS), an assistant professor in Emerging Media Studies, will inform on how the new tool communicates with users. Researchers hope to make the new tool available before the 2020 presidential election to help identify false information on the web, so voters can make the most informed decision. The tool is aimed at identifying fake social media accounts and how posts on those sites are disseminated into conversations happening on real accounts.

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Muhammad Zaman (BME) and Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil’s (BME) research proposes to study how low-quality medicines contribute to antimicrobial resistance, which is currently unknown. Substandard drugs, which are most common in low- and middle-income countries where there is already a high burden of antimicrobial resistance, include those with inappropriate amounts of active ingredients, poor dissolution, or increased impurities or degradation products. — ­ LIZ SHEELEY E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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’m glad I’m an engineer right now,” says Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE). “There are so many problems that need to be solved in this crisis and I can actually use my expertise to help.”

Like many other engineers and researchers, Wong dove straight into research to do what she could to help mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the College of Engineering, professors began pivoting their research and curriculums in early March to tackle the many problems associated with the outbreak.

These actions augmented their first wave of efforts in early March, when they gathered personal protective equipment (PPE) from now-closed labs and donated it to healthcare workers in Massachusetts.

After learning of pandemic-related problems that plagued hospitals and testing facilities, such as equipment shortages or the lack of existing devices to help battle the novel disease, BU engineers like Wong applied their expertise to the situation. Collaborations quickly formed across the college and University, with professors, researchers and doctors all eager to lend a hand.

Like many other engineers and researchers, Wong dove straight into research to do what she could to help mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

A sketch of a new type of healthcare protective equipment: a respiratory isolation box. The box would isolate the source of the virus using negative pressure.

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The new 3D-printed bracket (in red) clips onto an endotracheal tube.

box, it’s also being designed to allow three people to work on one patient at a time, and they’re testing the dimensions to make sure healthcare workers can still use the specialized equipment they may need when intubating a COVID-19 patient.

Later in April, they recruited BME engineer Aleks Zosuls to the project, who showed them a photo of the acrylic box based on the Taiwanese design he helped make for Boston Medical Center

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Wong started working on two projects after talking to her cousin, Dr. Steven Horng, an emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

“I started hearing about the PPE shortages from Steven, and then he started to tell me about more of the challenges healthcare workers are facing,” she says. “In mid-April, we were getting close to the predicted peak of cases in Massachusetts, so I wanted to help out any way I could.”

Both of Wong’s projects—collaborations with Master Lecturer Enrique Gutierrez-Wing (ME) and Associate Professor J. Gregory McDaniel (ME, MSE)—are aimed at keeping the virus contained. The first flips who is wearing the protective equipment from the healthcare workers to the patients—her cousin saw a photo of an intubation box a Taiwanese doctor had built, and Horng and Wong thought that they could expand on that idea by making the box a negative pressure chamber to isolate the source of the virus.

Their goal was to design the respiratory isolation box with features that would allow doctors to maintain the same standard of care, with an added layer of protection. In addition to being a negative pressure chamber that keeps air from flowing out of the

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(BMC). But the box he designed cracked when it was dropped, so the team decided to pivot their research. They converted the box to a negative-pressure tent and brought on Christine McKee, Wong’s graduate student, to work on designing and testing it. The team also recruited colleagues across the University, all of whom either donated supplies or their time to the project.

As of September, the tent is in the final testing phase, and Wong has been reaching out to various companies to transition the prototype from final testing to manufacture stage.

To find the best design, Wong and the team are testing each variable that could affect performance. During optimization, they need to make sure the enclosure pressure is always negative so that infected air is not escaping from the tent. The team is figuring out how large the holes can be for a healthcare worker’s hands to go through the shield in order to treat the patient while maintaining negative pressure.

The second collaboration is a 3D-printed bracket that will hold together an endotracheal tube and the respirator circuit it’s attached to. In normal use, these connections between the tube that’s inserted down the patient’s throat and the ventilator machine are loose, designed to be easily disconnected in case the patient needs to be moved in an emergency situation. Sometimes, however, the loose connection comes apart randomly, triggering an alarm that alerts a nurse to reconnect it.

But now, when that disconnection happens, the air coming out of the tube into the room is full of virus, putting anyone in the room at an unnecessarily high risk of infection. The bracket the team is developing easily clips into place to hold the tube and respirator hookup together to prevent this from happening.

The bracket is 3D-printed in a material that can be sterilized, and the prototype is designed with rounded edges so it won’t rip latex gloves.

REAL-TIME LEARNING AND TEACHING In addition to research, Wong teaches the undergraduate course Device Diagnostics and Design. After stay-at-home orders went into place around mid-March, faculty and students had to adjust to remote learning. Since building physical prototypes in engineering classes was no longer an option, Wong ended up scrapping her curriculum for the rest of the semester to create new lectures and projects.

She decided to focus the rest of the semester on COVID-19 and the far-reaching impact the pandemic has had on the world.

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Guest lecturers shared their expertise with her class, covering topics such as supply chain, epidemiology, vaccine and drug development, ventilators and how countries other than the US handled the pandemic.

Because class was online, guests could easily join the class from their homes and from Spain, Switzerland and Italy.

Although students couldn’t build their prototypes, Wong had them come up with new project ideas that could help any aspect of the pandemic. One team came up with a fast way to sterilize masks; another proposed a wearable device that beeped if you attempted to put your hand near your face.

“It wasn’t just the students who were learning in real time,” Wong says. “I am also able to bring my experience of building new devices back into the classroom and integrate what I learned during my research into teaching.”

Klapperich’s team has validated a version of the test for influenza using a bank of deidentified H1N1 patient samples from the 2009-2010 pandemic.

CAMPUS TESTING As campus prepared to welcome students, faculty and staff back in the fall, BU established a COVID-19 testing facility to be headed

by Professor and Director of the Precision Diagnostics Center Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE), whose expertise in point-ofcare testing makes her ideal for the job.

Her first call was to colleague Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, ME, BME). Densmore’s lab—which builds robots that perform sample preparation—can help scale up her test to process samples on a large scale. This will help with the high numbers of repeat testing that have to be performed to protect tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff.

VALIDATING NEW TESTS At the beginning of the pandemic, Klapperich’s lab worked to validate new types of tests. An extreme testing ramp-up was needed, but there were roadblocks and supply shortages; her team has been trying to speed the process up.

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The Precision Diagnostics Center has also been taking on preclinical lab validation of newly developed tests, such as an RNA test that’s faster than the standard one, has limited sample preparation and is being developed by a group at Harvard Medical School.

Klapperich’s team has validated a version of the test for influenza using a bank of de-identified H1N1 patient samples from the 2009–2010 pandemic. Now, with proof-of concept, developers can tweak their assay to make it work for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the meantime, Klapperich awaits de-identified COVID-19 patient samples from collaborators at Boston Children’s Hospital that will be used to validate the next iteration of the test.

The primary benefit of (Ünlü’s) approach is that its testing mechanism does not require extensive sample preparation; another is a reduced chance of false negative results.

A DIFFERENT TYPE OF TEST Elsewhere at the college, Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE, BME) is developing a new test of his own by teaming up with longtime collaborator John Connor from the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at BU and Professor Mehmet Toner from Harvard Medical School to develop a rapid and reliable test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

The current tests look for viral RNA. Building on his previous research, Ünlü’s test is fundamentally different; it would count individual SARS-CoV-2 viruses using antibodies to capture the viruses on the sensor’s surface, which can detect and count them.

The primary benefit of this approach is that its testing mechanism does not require extensive sample preparation; another is a reduced chance of false negative results. Viruses can mutate, and the current tests rely on knowing specific genetic sequences of the virus to detect it. If the virus mutates within one of those sequences, the test could report a false negative (which happened during the 2014 Ebola outbreak). Yet another benefit of the test is that it gets closer to indicating that someone is infectious, as it detects intact viruses rather than viral genetic material.

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IMPROVING NASAL SWABS Because of disruptions in the supply chain due to the pandemic, there has been a shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs used to collect patient samples for testing. Seeking to find an alternative, pathologist Joel Henderson of BU’s School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center reached out to the College of Engineering for help.

Jessie Song, a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering, answered the call.

Song, who does research with Professors Alice White (ME, MSE, BME, Physics) and Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, MSE, MED), is an expert at using nanoscale 3D printing to create tissue scaffolds, and immediately saw the potential of using it to fabricate nasopharyngeal swabs. Song selected a safe and sterilizable resin— often used to fabricate FDA-approved dental medical devices—and assembled the tools necessary to make several different prototypes. Within a week of receiving Henderson’s call, the first batch of nasopharyngeal swabs was printed at BU’s Multiscale Laser Lithography laboratory.

Henderson and his team evaluated different swabs Song fabricated and offered their feedback; for example, they asked if she could make the shafts more flexible and the tips smoother.

She incorporated their suggestions and went through several iterations with Henderson’s team. Her honeycomb design is expected to ease patient discomfort and reduce the chances of false negative results.

“If I got feedback from the medical research team in the morning, I could create a new design by the afternoon and print overnight,” she says. “I would have a new batch of swabs to send to the team to test the next morning.”

“Jessie is a prime example of what makes BU a great place— it is the students,” Grinstaff says.

The team is putting together materials for clinical trial approval. If all goes well, their swabs could be in production before the end of the year.

“Everyone we’ve reached out to has been extremely responsive and cooperative,” says White. “We’ve been able to secure access to six printers around campus, which together could produce over 3,500 swabs a day, if needed.”

The researchers have been in contact with Klapperich and the BU-wide COVID-19 testing facility to make her aware of the new swab design.

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Each device would record the random signals that it transmits, and, with consent, share it with others if the device owner becomes sick.

TRACING POTENTIAL INFECTIONS Testing is usually the first step taken toward understanding a deadly virus, but contact tracing is right behind it. When patients test positive for the virus, public health officials manually conduct contact tracing to alert those in the patient’s orbit that they may have been exposed. But with hundreds of thousands of cases nationally, and thousands of new ones every day, traditional contact tracing is not practical.

Professor Ari Trachtenberg (ECE, Computer Science) along with Research Associate Professor Mayank Varia (Computer Science) and Professor Ran Canetti (Computer Science) have proposed an alert system that can augment manual contact tracing through a voluntary smartphone app.

They developed it as part of a larger group of faculty and students over the summer, and Trachtenberg says they are on track to finish a working prototype app soon.

The app would leverage a short-range communication signal (such as Bluetooth) to constantly broadcast a random signal to

nearby participating devices. Each device would record the random signals that it transmits, and, with consent, share it with others if the device owner becomes sick. In this way, close contacts would know that they have been near a sick individual.

If they wish to share this information with their contacts, participants could choose to update their health status within the app after testing positive for the virus. The advantage of such automated contact tracing is that it can identify contacts who are not known to the user, or were made before the onset of visible symptoms. Trachtenberg’s team is working on ways to assure security and patient privacy, and even develop wearable devices for those without smartphones.

STEPPING UP TO BE SOCIETAL ENGINEERS These projects began almost immediately after the college realized how dramatic the effects of COVID-19 would be, and are just some of the efforts faculty, staff and students are making to help fight the pandemic. To help students understand how many aspects of life have been affected, faculty not only changed how they taught, but some changed what they taught. Putting their own research aside, College of Engineering researchers took their expertise and, as Societal Engineers, put it to work to help their own communities—and they aim to put their ideas into practice beyond Boston, so we can all get back to the new normal soon.

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Throughout his career, Mendez has relied on his College of Engineering training to navigate the corporate landscape. “An engineering degree prepares you by teaching you critical thinking. That way you always look to understand the ‘why’ behind everything,” he says. “I took that approach into the business world, and it has been invaluable.”

Mendez appreciates the ingenuity and teamwork at Quest, which has been crucial during the pandemic.

“One of the most rewarding aspects of my job so far is getting to be involved in the collaborative environment at Quest,” he says. “There are no silos, the executive committee is extremely collaborative and navigating the company is easy. While the pandemic has brought a lot of challenges to our business, it’s also brought us even closer together, as everyone is driving toward one mission to help address the pandemic.”

Mendez is also proud of the work he and Quest are doing to close health disparities in the US; Quest has been working with federally qualified health centers and the National Association of Community Health Centers to provide COVID-19 testing to underserved communities. Typically, fewer tests are available due to the lack of care in those areas, but since those communities are the most significantly impacted by the pandemic, Quest is focusing on providing them with additional, much-needed tests.

“The pandemic has increased the impact those disparities have on communities of color. We know this is a moment when we need to act, have a big voice and make those investments to help balance out these inequities as much as we can,” Mendez says. “This type of work isn’t a fad for me. I understand what it is like to not have much, and I have been able to live my dream and help others. And the COVID-19 health crisis shows there is much more work to be done so that maybe the people who are suffering the most can live their dream one day, too.”

The pandemic has increased the impact of those disparities on communities of color.

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he COVID-19 pandemic has kicked scientists, engineers, doctors and others in related fields into high gear as people step up to help solve new problems that have surfaced since early 2020.

As chief commercial officer at Quest Diagnostics, a diagnostics information services laboratory company, Manuel Mendez (ENG’91) is one of those people. Before the pandemic, Quest served one in every three Americans; now—after the company performed more than 7 million of the COVID-19 tests in the US as of the middle of July—that number is likely to be much greater.

Having joined Quest in October of 2019, Mendez says the pandemic has sped up the learning curve at his new position. He focuses daily on managing Quest’s response to the crisis, proactively working with the public and private sectors to provide testing solutions and make sure every patient is cared for.

“Molecular diagnostics play an important role in safeguarding the general health and welfare of our society; this has never been so clear as during the COVID-19 public health crisis,” he says. “This pandemic has been a challenging time for all of us.

We have a social responsibility to ensure access to testing for every patient, especially those in underserved communities.”

That type of social responsibility drives him. “‘What impact can I make in someone’s life today?’ is the question that gets me out of bed in the morning,” he says.

From a young age growing up in Puerto Rico, Mendez was exposed to how healthcare can make a real impact on people’s lives through his father, a hospital administrator. He was first turned on to engineering through the television show The Six Million Dollar Man, in which the main character has a partially bionic body. (Later, Mendez would learn that the clip of a bionic arm they show during the opening credits was actually filmed at Boston University in the Neuromuscular Research Center.)

Mendez began his career at Abbott Laboratories in Puerto Rico, after hearing about an opening for a biomedical engineer from his grandfather, who had seen a newspaper ad. Growing up, Mendez frequently drove past Abbott, musing that he may work there one day. After graduating from BU, he fulfilled that dream.

Before joining Quest, he worked at QIAGEN, bioMérieux, ThermoFisher Scientific and Abbott Laboratories. He also received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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University’s Student-Built Satellites Blast into Space after Years of Delays The rocket carrying mini-sensors developed by BU students blasted off from New Zealand on June 13.

Brian Walsh’s expertise in small-satellite building was essential to ANDESITE, a BU student project that has successfully launched its first satellite into space.

Joshua Semeter, right, collaborated with Walsh on ANDESITE.

I felt ecstatic and proud . . . would be an understatement,” says Phillip Teng (ENG’19), who worked for two and a half years on ANDESITE, the sensor’s network, adding that the launch was “the culmination of all the design choices and testing methodologies we’ve implemented along the way.”

There is a bittersweet note to the takeoff: it came just weeks after the death of Professor Emeritus Ted Fritz (Astronomy) who, according to Walsh, “founded and really fostered” BUSAT. Walsh and Professor Joshua Semeter (ECE) joined forces when Walsh came to BU in 2015 with research expertise in small satellites and space technology; Semeter developed BUSAT’s science mission in the program’s early years and was already working on what became the ANDESITE launch.

BUSAT improved the satellites’ hardware and software in the three years since the first aborted launch, continuing to test its resilience to shaking and temperature extremes.

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“A lot of the research I’m involved in is building types of things like this—small satellites with sensors to measure things in the space environment—so it was a very natural collaboration” for him and his students, Walsh says.

The rocket will eject a canister that will, in turn, spit out the ANDESITE network of eight wireless sensors. The sensors, able to complete an Earth orbit in 90 minutes, will measure changes in electric currents flowing in and out of the Earth’s upper atmosphere along its magnetic field over the course of a few weeks, collecting data for its BU creators to analyze.

Semeter explains that ultimately, they’re “trying to understand this huge source of heat that impinges the outer atmosphere and . . . causes the atmosphere to become ionized, and therefore interferes with GPS signals and [radio] communications.”

“We get a brief period of excitement at launch,” he says, “and then it’s off to the ground station to start receiving science data as it comes in from the spacecraft.”­— RICH BARLOW

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etter three years late than never. After a long-delayed launch, work built by Boston University SATellite (BUSAT) program students has made it into space.

On June 13, a private rocket made by BUSAT students blasted off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula carrying mini-sensors that will study electric currents in Earth’s magnetic field that can cripple communications and power here on the ground. The launch had been delayed several times, including a planned March liftoff that was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, from which New Zealand has recently emerged, recently announcing there are no new cases.

“Unfortunately, we weren’t able to bring any of the team to the launch site,” says program advisor and Assistant Professor Brian Walsh (ME). “We watched eagerly from home, where many of us gathered on a Zoom meeting.”

Being absent from the liftoff site didn’t diminish the day’s joy for those who had waited so long for the moment. “To say that

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hile machine learning can identify potentially cancerous spots on mammograms or understand a spoken command to play music, researchers don’t fully understand exactly how machine-learning algorithms, well, learn. That blind spot makes it difficult to apply the technique to complex, high-risk tasks such as autonomous driving, where safety is a concern.

In a step forward, a team of researchers led by Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE) has developed a new approach to teaching a robot, or a team of robots, a high-risk, complex task—a framework that could be applied to a host of them.

In a paper published in Science Robotics, the team demonstrated this framework with a proof-of-concept task by teaching two robots to cook, assemble and serve hot dogs together.

“We hope that such an architecture can help us impart our knowledge and objectives to the robot, and improve our understanding of what it has learned, thus leading to more capable robotic systems,” says doctoral fellow and first author of the paper Xiao Li (ME).

Utilizing machine learning and formal methods—an area of computer science that is typically used to guarantee safety, most notably in avionics or cybersecurity software—their work involves two disparate techniques that are difficult to combine mathematically and put together into a language a robot will understand.

Belta and his team used a branch of machine learning known as reinforcement learning: when a computer completes a task correctly, it receives a reward that guides its learning process.

Researchers built a simulation of the experiment to train the robots, denoting a safe region where the robots’ movement

should be confined, and a “serve” region where the robots were supposed to serve the finished hot dog.

The researchers also built what’s known as prior knowledge into the algorithm, information that contained the steps the robots needed to take to successfully cook the hot dogs, like “pick up the hot dog and place it on the grill.”

That knowledge also included information that would be obvious to a human, but not to a robot, e.g., if the hot dog was already being held, it didn’t need to be picked up.

Although the steps of the task are outlined in the algorithm, exactly how to perform those steps isn’t. When the robot gets better at performing a step, its reward increases, creating a feedback mechanism that pushes the robot to learning the best way to, for example, place a hot dog on a bun.

Integrating prior knowledge with reinforcement learning and formal methods makes this technique novel. By combining

When the computer completes a task correctly, it receives a reward.

these three methods, the team can cut down the amount of possibilities the robots have to run through to learn how to cook, assemble and serve a hot dog safely.

To test their theory that combining the three would be the most effective and safe way to teach these robots to cook hot dogs, researchers measured the success rate of each robot when it was trained with any combination of reinforcement learning and the other two techniques; they were able to show that the highest success rate for both robots was when all three techniques were combined. Success here meant task completion while also remaining safe.

Unlike other types of machine learning, this framework allows researchers to analyze the success rate of the task’s stages, allowing them to understand and eliminate bottlenecks in the machine-learning process—something that is extremely difficult to do.

Belta sees this work as a proof-of-concept demonstration of their general framework, and anticipates that moving forward, it can be applied to other complex tasks, such as autonomous driving.­— LIZ SHEELEY

The two robots, Jaco and Baxter, must work together to cook, assemble and serve a hot dog. They have to detect and find their supplies, shown in the upper left-hand corner, which are tracked with motion-capture throughout the experiment.

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Researchers have developed a new paradigm that would allow a drone to fly from point A to point B without a planned route. was tested on virtual drones as they flew through a virtual forest. To see how robust this policy was, they had the drones fly through multiple types of environments— from a complex, heavily wooded forest to a sparse one.

Paschalidis notes the most surprising element of the study was that the policy helped the drone navigate through all of the different environments.

Typically, drone control policies are optimized for a specific mission, which

As the moth navigates what it thinks are trees (the light rods), the researchers can capture this movement data and extrapolate how the moth flies around different types of forests.

renders them fragile to unexpected events.

This research is getting one step closer to an adaptive, self-aware autonomous vehicle policy that will allow drones to fly in a dynamic, complex and unknown environment.

The work is part of a $7.5 million MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant awarded by the Department of Defense for developing neuro-inspired autonomous robots for land, sea and air.

Paschalidis says that collaborators from various universities will help gather data from other animals and insects, such as mice and ants, to develop more robust autonomous vehicle navigation policies.

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hen an autonomous drone is deployed for a mission, it flies on a specific, programmed route. If there are any surprises along the way, the drone has a difficult time adapting to the change because it’s not programmed on how to do that.

Now, researchers have developed a new paradigm that would allow a drone to fly from point A to point B without a planned route—with the help of moths. Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE, BME), his team and collaborators at the University of Washington have extracted information about how a particular species of moth travels through a forest, and then used that data to create a new control policy for drones.

Presented in PLoS Computational Biology, theirs is the first published work that uses data from an animal to improve autonomous drone navigation.

They first had researchers at the University of Washington collect data on how the moths would fly around a virtual forest, taking measurements on things like their flight trajectories, force and speed along the way. Those data were then used to extrapolate what kind of navigation policy the moths employed.

“We discovered that the moths relied heavily on what is known as ‘optical flow,’ ” Paschalidis explains. “That is a pattern of the motion of the various objects in the environment that is caused by your own motion relative to these objects, in this case, the moth’s own motion.”

That perceived motion then allows the moth to react to objects in the appropriate way, as objects that are moving fast are close, and those moving slowly are farther away.

This is similar to how humans react while driving; if a car suddenly appears extremely fast in front of your car, you’ll brake, but if a car is far away and speeding around, you don’t have to react quite as quickly.

Understanding how the moths flew helped the researchers develop a drone policy that

The research team took inspiration from the compound eye of insects, such as the fly (A). A compound eye is composed of multiple lenses that each detect particular angles of light (B); the team took this structure and turned it into angle-sensitive metasurfaces (C).

A Bug’s-Eye View

IMAGE PROVIDED BY ROBERTO PAIELLA

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lthough we’ve developed the ability to shrink down a camera to fit on a phone, the underlying principle of the camera itself hasn’t progressed.

As a camera gets smaller, there’s a trade-off between field of view and image quality: the larger the field of view, the more distorted an image will be.

Taking inspiration from nature, Professor Roberto Paiella (ECE, MSE) and Assistant Professor Lei Tian (ECE) have developed a new type of camera that mimics the compound eye of insects, such as the fly, to solve this trade-off problem of single-lens, system-based cameras. Unlike compound eyes in nature, however, their device is based on flat—rather than curved— geometry and operates without lenses.

Their work has been published in Nature Communications.

“There’s no standard technology to develop a camera with curved geometry, which has complicated the implementation of cameras directly inspired by the compound eyes of insects,” Paiella explains.

This new type of camera mimics the compound eye of insects, enabling a wide field of view.

“Until now, cameras have been flat with a single lens, and all the accompanying technology has been built around that standard. We had to introduce a new approach based on nanophotonics to be able to realize our flat, lensless design.”

Paiella and Tian wanted to develop a new camera and technology that could eventually be commercialized, so they used standard materials and fabrication processes to construct their prototypes.

To build a flat optoelectronic compoundeye camera, they began by developing novel metasurfaces—each of which is designed to only transmit light coming from certain angles and reflect the rest—to replace the traditional camera lens. This means that different metasurfaces are responsible for

detecting a combination of points within the field of view. That information is collected and analyzed by a novel algorithm developed by the research team to reconstruct an image.

“We used similar principles to medical imaging analysis for MRI or CT, where the final images are reconstructed from the raw data by a designed transformation,” Tian notes.

These novel metasurfaces could also be tweaked to expand into other imaging capabilities, such as polarization vision—which is how many insects see, by sensing the directions of electrical currents.

This new framework is a proof-ofconcept design to show the benefits of combining these novel metasurfaces and computational imaging, which together make optoelectronic compound-eye cameras that allow for a wide field of view, highly miniaturized dimensions, and great flexibility in the placement of the different metasurfaces on the final product. These properties are ideally suited for application in medical equipment such as endoscopes, or swallowable cameras, or in surveillance and autonomous drones where the camera needs to be particularly small. — LIZ SHEELEY E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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Mining Bacteria Parts to Build Aroundthe-Clock Biosensors

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magine a Fitbit that measures much more than steps, heart rate and calories burned, and continually tracks all of the indicators of physiological health that currently require expensive and timeconsuming blood plasma analyses. The device is inexpensive, reliable and powered by the same proteins that our bodies produce all day, every day. Although it sounds like a far-fetched concept by today’s standards, Professor James Galagan (BME) says research conducted in his lab could speed that device along from the drawing board to our daily lives.

A team of researchers from Galagan’s BU lab and the University of Bordeaux was inspired by the one commercially successful biometric device that monitors a physiological function around the clock:

the continuous glucose monitor, which performs its central task by a protein obtained from a microbe that senses glucose.

“There are potentially millions of similar proteins,” Galagan says. “They can sense just about anything that affects our health. A primary reason we don’t have more sensors like the glucose sensor is that the proteins needed to make those sensors haven’t been identified.” So, his team—which includes faculty members Professors Mark Grinstaff, Allison Dennis, and Catherine Klapperich— set out to find a few.

Described in a paper published in Nature Communications, their findings used a novel screening approach to identify the first known bacteria-derived sensor for detecting progesterone, a female hormone that plays a critical role in reproduction.

The team then developed technology that translated the sensor’s detection capabilities into an optical output, creating the first real-time, optical—and reversible— progesterone sensor.

The sensor’s reversibility allows it to generate continuous measurements as the hormone’s level rises and falls in the body, similar to the glucose sensor. It also sets the sensor apart from existing antibody-based methods for measuring progesterone, which provide only a measurement from a single point in time.

In a test using artificial urine, the researchers found that the sensor, which can be equipped with an inexpensive and portable electronic reader for point-ofcare applications, could detect progesterone with a specificity sufficient for clinical use. All of which suggests that it could be suitable for home use, replacing many laboratory-based tests for progesterone measurements that are required during the process of in vitro fertilization.

The study’s big takeaway, says Galagan, is that it’s a “first proof of principle that we could take an organism, identify a new sensing protein, isolate this protein from the bacterium, and engineer it into a sensor device that is applicable to point-of-care use. As far as we know, this has never been done before.”

He emphasizes that the newly developed approach does not use the bacteria as a sensor. Rather, it mines the bacteria for protein parts, isolates those parts, and then turns them into sensors that can be used for device engineering.

The paper’s technology provides a foundation for developing many more sensor devices based on the same class of proteins. The researchers are currently building on that foundation—developing technology to immobilize and deploy such sensors and working on ways to convert its detection capabilities into a direct electronic signal. — ART JAHNKE

DESIGN CELLS/ISTOCK

Could proteins taken from bacteria, like E. coli depicted here, be a new platform for biometric devices that continuously monitor body functions?

Boston University biomedical engineers have developed a proofof-concept that suggests the idea is within reach.

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A Gold Standard Gets a Modern Makeover

Results in hours versus days.

MEASURING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN HOURS

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ntibiotic resistance continues to be a difficult problem to solve. One of the most effective ways to curb increasing resistance is to test infectious bacteria’s reaction to several antibiotics before choosing which one to prescribe to a patient, a process that typically takes several days. Now, Professor Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE) and his group have cut that time down to hours.

Published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, their work uses a microfluidic device to first capture bacteria within a small channel and then detect the bacteria’s growth before and after exposure to antibiotics.

This new rapid antibiotic susceptibility test works the same way as the tried-andtrue method by measuring bacterial growth in antibiotics—but instead of needing to see the growth, researchers can measure it with electrical currents, allowing them to understand how the bacteria are reacting to a treatment on a microscale.

The current, gold-standard method for antibiotic susceptibility requires scientists to take a sample of the infection, culture the bacteria so they grow, and then test several antibiotics on them—a process that takes two to three days. With this new method, results can be seen within a couple of hours.

The test is simple to implement and— unlike the traditional method—operating the device doesn’t require expensive training. It could easily be utilized in the clinic to test bacteria in the common urinary tract infection, for example.

Building the microfluidic device presented the most difficult challenge, Ekinci says, as it needed to have very small constrictions to trap the tiny bacteria inside. They created the intricate device by pushing current photolithography techniques to their limits.

Tens of bacteria needed versus thousands.

Professor Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE)

The technology to measure the tiny differences in electrical signals already exists—it’s how a smartphone operates.

Ekinci decided to use the concept of electrical resistance as a way to measure the growth rate (whether it was positive or negative) of the bacteria. By doing this, he only needed to wait for tens of bacteria to grow rather than the thousands necessary using the current method.

The more bacteria present, the greater the resistance to electrical current. Taken over time, multiple resistance measure-

Instead of needing to see bacterial growth, researchers can measure it with electrical currents and understand how bacteria are reacting to treatment. ments can track the growth rate of these bacteria when exposed to different antibiotics; whichever antibiotic inhibits growth the most would be the best one to prescribe to the patient suffering from the infection.

Because bacteria develop resistance when they are exposed to an antibiotic— but survive treatment—tests like these are necessary. Letting any survive allows the bacteria to adapt to the antibiotic, creating a stronger form of that bacteria and leading to superbugs. — LIZ SHEELEY E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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Better, Simpler Detection

The chip can be tiled, this rendering showing many serpentine waveguides on a single chip. Guiding light through all the waveguides simultaneously provides enhanced capabilities, such as increasing the range and resolution of the detector.

LIDAR-ON-A-CHIP COULD MAKE BUILDING AUTONOMOUS CARS MUCH EASIER

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Dostart, a National Science Foundation graduate fellow who is continuing his career at NASA Langley Research Center, and Bohan Zhang, a National Defense Science and Engineering graduate fellow. The group collaborated closely with Professor Kelvin Wagner and his lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Instead of using electronic control circuits that would be programmed to generate and steer an optical beam, the new silicon chip uses a serpentine structure designed to distribute light and form and steer the beam in two dimensions in response to the user’s manipulation of only the input laser wavelength. As the laser wavelength changes, the angle of the emitted light also changes, effectively steering the outgoing laser beam to carry out a two-dimensional angular sweep. Instead of needing to control thousands of electronic circuits, this chip requires only the one control variable: the wavelength of light.

“There’s not really a technology that’s scalable up to large apertures,” Popovic says.

“This paper is demonstrating a single optical tile that is the first step of an approach that breaks a lot of these barriers. What’s unique about this thing is basically that it’s an ultra-low complexity, kind of a gamechanging design for an optical beam steer-

ing chip in the sense that it has basically zero controls.”

The chip can be tiled, meaning the team can create many serpentine waveguides on a single chip or use a series of chips, and guide light through all the waveguides simultaneously to provide enhanced capabilities, such as increasing the range and resolution of the detector. Sensors based on such chips could be placed in different spots around a car so that each array of on-chip serpentines can act as a detector in different directions.

For example, the iPhone has an assembly of small parts, including a laser and lens, that together can detect a face for its facial identification feature. Instead of a complex assembly of parts, Popovic’s team has shown that a key component of such a system, the beam-steering device needed for high-resolution images, can be realized on a single chip—allowing future lidar systems to be much simpler, and potentially be entirely integrated in a single chip or chip package. This could significantly lower the cost of these technologies in many applications such as phones, cars and satellites. These chips can also be made using the same manufacturing processes and factories currently in place, another benefit to rapid transition to application and adoption. — LIZ SHEELEY

IMAGE PROVIDED BY MILOS POPOVIC

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hen developing new technologies, engineers are constantly pushing the limits of currently available electronics—but progress can only get so far before parts must be invented that create new, extended limits. Associate Professor Milos Popovic (ECE) and collaborators have built a new type of silicon chip that will help advance technologies, such as sensors, for self-driving cars and smartphone face recognition.

Technologies that need to detect remote objects with fine resolution rely on lidar, the optical version of radar, and use laser beams rather than radio waves. Unlike radar systems, lidar is capable of generating high-resolution 3D images and can more accurately detect the shape of an object.

Lidar systems are currently bulky components, but their performance, resolution, cost and complexity could all be improved if they could be realized on a silicon chip— creating lidar-on-a-chip.

To accomplish this task, a tiny silicon photonic chip will require additional electronic components to steer a laser beam emanating from the chip surface, detect its reflections from distant objects, and generate the 3D image. In order to detect an object with high resolution at even moderate distance—say, 300 feet away—the electronics would need to be highly complex, which makes scaling up this type of system extremely difficult. There would be hundreds to thousands of electronic components required just for forming and steering the beam to the correct location.

In a paper published in the journal Optica, Popovic’s team describes how they constructed a new chip with an all-optical, electronics-free steering capability in two dimensions—without compromising the lidar performance.

The team included Popovic’s graduate students and co-lead authors Nathan

When the Robot Becomes the Researcher

Built to study the mechanics of 3D-printed components, the entire BEAR system contains five printers, a six-axis robotic arm, a scale and a universal testing machine.

NEW AUTONOMOUS RESEARCHER CAN SPEED UP DISCOVERY OF THE BEST 3D-PRINTED MATERIALS

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALDAIR E. GONGORA AND BOWEN XU

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dditive manufacturing—or 3D printing—has vast applications, some of which are in the medical, aerospace and consumer fields. To further advance the area, researchers must study the best way to produce 3D-printed parts that can withstand more rigorous use than a 3D-printed prototype for research would receive.

Assistant Professor Keith Brown (ME, MSE, Physics) and Professor Elise Morgan (ME, MSE, BME) have developed a method of testing the mechanical properties of thousands of 3D-printed structures to catalog and understand them in an extremely efficient way. Their work has been published in Science Advances.

Their collaboration came out of a mutual interest in testing the toughness of materials—Morgan’s expertise lies in the mechanical behavior of biological materials and Brown’s, in nanotechnology and soft materials. Over the past few years, they have built an autonomous robot, or “researcher” (as they call it), to run this toughness experiment on its own, and it has since cataloged thousands of 3D-printed structures.

“I was thinking about a 3D printing system where you can create a structure, test it and then learn from it,” Brown recalls.

“If you’ve got an autonomous system that you could give a question, something like, ‘I want to know what kind of structure is going to have the best property,’ then it will automatically test structures, and tell you the answer.”

Known as BEAR (Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher), the automated researcher was designed to perform experiments on its own, designing and testing parts to determine their mechanical properties. The system can print a 3D structure,

remove it from the printer, weigh it using a scale and then crush it. It records every detail of the process, creating a vast database of structures and data related to how the materials behave when they are compressed, including whether, and how, they fail.

Brown and Morgan first chose to explore the property of toughness, which directly correlates to failure. Toughness and strength are related, but separate properties—glass, Morgan says, is actually stronger than steel, but only when it has no defects. And defects are almost impossible to prevent during even the most advanced manufacturing.

“Over many centuries of work in materials, and in mechanical engineering more broadly, we have gotten good at designing, fabricating and manufacturing strong materials, but designing tough materials has lagged behind,” she notes. “But it turns out that nature’s pretty good at designing tough materials. Bone, for instance, is surprisingly tough, considering what it’s made of.”

They also pulled in another faculty member, Assistant Professor Emily Whiting (Computer Science), to help with the complicated algorithm development. In order for the system to be autonomous—not

just automated—it needed to run machinelearning algorithms during the testing and evaluation phases. While the system runs, it learns about failure in 3D-printed parts, and can choose the next design to test based on past results.

This work with BEAR is just one example of how an automated researcher can be used to speed up typically slow and monotonous experiments. And although through developing and optimizing BEAR more than 2,500 structures were tested, only 32 were needed to reach the optimal structure design for toughness, showing them that they can test much more complicated structures than they have so far.

“With advances in additive manufacturing, you make very complicated hierarchical component designs,” Morgan says. “When trying to find the best design, the ratelimiting step is testing them and evaluating the results, but the advances in autonomous systems and robotics have enabled us to open up that rate-limiting step quite a bit.”

Brown and Morgan say that in the future, these new structures could be used for protection—such as pads inside of a helmet—and, potentially, synthetic bone substitutes. — LIZ SHEELEY E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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alumni Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends, It doesn’t seem possible that just one year ago, I wrote the end-of-thefiscal-year letter for this magazine, sharing good news about the College of Engineering’s achievement of $99.3 million as BU completed its campaign. It was a great note on which to end the year and begin to look forward to the launch of the next campaign. Instead, we have been consumed with regrouping, given the restrictions that we are all dealing with due to the pandemic.

Regroup means “to reassemble or cause to reassemble into organized groups, typically after being attacked or defeated.” Well, in a sense, we were attacked (by COVID-19), but we are clearly not defeated. Though our total giving for the college is behind compared to last year, many of you have told us that you remain committed to your alma mater and plan to resume giving once your personal situations become more stable. We are sincerely grateful for the continued loyalty and support so many of you have demonstrated over the last few months by joining Zoom meetings, making participatory gifts, helping to hire our students for jobs or internships and engaging in many of the informative webinars BU has been hosting since March.

I have full confidence that the leadership of the College of Engineering will successfully guide us through this new way of life, and that we will emerge stronger and wiser for it. Your support has been—and will be—more critical than ever to get us to the other side. Your philanthropy, advocacy, professional expertise and shared commitment to the college’s mission make a significant impact on the next generation of future problem solvers and leaders, our Societal Engineers, who will improve the quality of life for all of us.

On behalf of our students and faculty, we sincerely thank you for your engagement. I look forward to a time when we can all be together again.

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Gregory D. Seiden (ENG’80) and Robin K. Seiden ■ ■ Nimis S. Sheth (ENG’87, Questrom’87) and Geeta S. Thorat ■ ■ Surya Sivaram (ENG’06) and Soundararajan Srinivasan ■ ■ Monica L. Slegar (ENG’02, Questrom’05) ■ ■ Alfred A. Snyder (ENG’69) ■ ■ Avrum E. Spira (ENG’02) and Susan Pruyn ■ ■ ■ Mu-En Steeg (CAS’94) and Dylan P. Steeg (ENG’95) ■ ■ Victor K. Tan (ENG’85) and Toreh Wong ■ H. T. Than (ENG’85, LAW’93) and Kim Quyen V. Pham (ENG’91) ■ ■ Lisa H. Theobald (MET’95) and Carl E. Theobald ■ ■ Francis A. Tiernan (ENG’70) and Barbara H. Tiernan ■ ■ Michelle F. Tortolani (ENG’82,’89) ■ ■ Greg T. VandeKerk (ENG’95) and Hollybeth G. Hakes (CAS’95) ■ ■ Timothy S. Wadlow (ENG’97) and Erin F. Largay ■ Steven P. Weibel (ENG’89,’91,’97) and Cristina Weibel (GRS’98) ■ ■ Chengjian Weng (ENG’99) and Jia Zeng ■ ■ John A. White and Sonia Witte ■ ■ ■ Berl P. Winston (ENG’64) and Alice J. Winston (Wheelock’65) ■ ■ Chi-Hua P. Wu (ENG’93) ■ Wenhao Yang (ENG’20, CAS’20) ■ ■ Matthew A. Zahn (ENG’94) ■ ■ Xianfeng Zhao (ENG’04) and Yanyan Wang ■ ■ Bernardo J. Zubillaga and Susana Herrera ■ ■

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Anonymous Rommel Acuna (ENG’93) and Jennifer M. Acuna Ahmed Adda-Berkane (ENG’93) ■ Abdurrahman O. Addokhi (ENG’19,’24) ■ Kaya A. Adelzadeh (ENG’20) Adi Wibowo Adisaputro (ENG’92) Joel U. Aduba (ENG’20) ■ Patrick Agri (ENG’20) ■ Gulrukh Ahanger (ENG’93,’99) ■ Charlie E. Ahern (Questrom’66) and Guangming Zhao ■ ■ Raja M. Ahmed and Nuzhat Mansoor ■ ■ Sunil D. Ahuja (ENG’03) ■ Ajitha N. Akavoor and Prasad R. Akavoor ■ Omar M. Al Taee (ENG’20) ■ William T. Alex (ENG’89) ■ Khaled A. Alfadl (ENG’94) Luigi R. Aliberti and Lori A. Venezia-Aliberti ■ ■ Assel Aliyeva (ENG’16,’21,’21) ■ ■ David P. Allen (ENG’90, CAS’85, GRS’87) and Sheila L. Allen (Sargent’88) ■ James D. Alman (ENG’87) ■ May E. Alsaleh (ENG’20) ■ Srinath Amaravai (MET’10) Luca Amorosa (ENG’20) ■ Brian S. Anderson (ENG’87) and Jacqueline M. Anderson ■ Susan J. Angell (ENG’86) and Jeffrey P. Blais ■ Ashley Antony Gomez (ENG’19) ■ ■ Kesav Anupindi (ENG’18, Questrom’19)

Lewis S. Applebaum (ENG’56) and Barbara Applebaum Matthew J. Appleman (ENG’12) Javier F. Araque and Yaneth R. Araque ■ Sarthak Arora (ENG’20) ■ Graham P. Arrick (ENG’15) John James K. Arteche (ENG’18) and Chayanan Arteche ■ Michael O. Ashenuga (ENG’92) and Elizabeth M. Vondrak ■ Laura Askew-Crawford (ENG’86) and Alex Crawford, III ■ Miguel A. Asmal and Rosa Asmal ■ ■ Charles S. Asmar, Jr. (ENG’55,’58) and Mary M. Asmar Shaurya Atal (ENG’20) ■ Kevin A. Atkinson (CAS’18) ■ Jeffrey M. Atwood (ENG’95) and Nancy L. Atwood (CAS’95) ■ Christopher S. Austin (ENG’01) and Natalia Austin ■ Matthew Averill (ENG’20) ■ Nicholas A. Azzari (ENG’20) Kengo Baba (ENG’95) Sunita Babbar (ENG’89,’91) ■ Albert Backus, Jr. and Kimberly K. Backus ■ ■ Alexander Backus (ENG’17) ■ Norman L. Bailis (ENG’65) and Joyce M. Bailis ■ Karen T. Bain (ENG’87) and Harold R. Bain ■ Stanley N. Baker, Jr. (ENG’69) and Marilyn L. Baker Mary K. Balaconis (ENG’09) ■ Jacob T. Ball (ENG’20) ■ Raymond F. Ball (ENG’72) ■ Alejandro A. Bancalari (ENG’13) ■ Jared M. Bancroft (ENG’06, MET’14) ■ ■ Michael A. Baptist and Karen E. Lau-Baptist ■ ■ Michelle M. Baquie (ENG’03) ■ Carly J. Baracco (ENG’19) ■ Tristan Barako ■ ■ Jessica P. Barry (ENG’20) ■ Joseph M. Basile (ENG’82) ■ Soumendra N. Basu and Alokparna S. Basu ■ ■ Rebecca A. Bates (ENG’90,’96) ■ Troy A. Bauma (ENG’20) ■ Alexa M. Beach (ENG’17) ■ Andrew B. Beck (ENG’14) ■ Jenette M. Begley (ENG’85) and Adrian Begley ■ Michael P. Begley (MET’16) ■ Amir H. Behnia (ENG’92,’93) ■ Jesse V. Belanger (ENG’16) ■ ■ ■ Cassandra M. Belmarsh (Wheelock’94,’95) and Michael D. Belmarsh (ENG’95, MET’00) ■ ■ Jack A. Belmont (ENG’20) ■ Peter H. Belmonte (ENG’10, BUA’06) ■ Ronald A. Benius (ENG’66) and Rita M. Benius ■ Christopher Benoit (ENG’88) ■ Kenneth B. Benson (ENG’63) and Janet G. Benson ■ Kenza Bensouda (ENG’20) ■ Frederick W. Berenbroick (ENG’87) and Clair J. Berenbroick ■ William Bergersen and Gail L. Bergersen ■ ■ Jerry L. Berkowitz (ENG’98)

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Honor Roll of Supporters

Leonard S. Bernstein (ENG’72) and Barbara P. Bernstein ■ Ellen H. Bessette (ENG’20) ■ James D. Bethune (ENG’64, Questrom’74, Wheelock’91) ■ ■ ■ Ali Beyzavi (ENG’16) ■ Ritesh R. Bhandari (ENG’96, MED’00) and Sumita Bhandari (LAW’00) Kunal N. Bhatia (ENG’11) ■ Laura J. Bickmeier (ENG’98) and Jeffrey A. Bickmeier ■ Nevenka L. Bierny (ENG’92) ■ Jason R. Biesma (ENG’18,’19) ■ ■ Steven J. Bilodeau and Leslie A. Bilodeau ■ ■ Omar Bin Adai (ENG’94) ■ Kim L. Blackwell (ENG’81) and Mont M. Blackwell ■ Stefanida K. Blake (ENG’98,’00) and William J. Blake Gregory E. Blanchard (ENG’96) and Melissa L. Jendzejec-Blanchard ■ Jose L. Blanco (Questrom’76, ENG’76) and Tania Blanco Jo-Ann Blatchford (ENG’84) and Robert Halliburton ■ Jose P. Bleda-Lorenzo and Laura Vilalta-Novell ■ ■ Daniel L. Blum (ENG’95, Questrom’95) and Anne Krisel ■ Kip L. Bodi (ENG’06, GRS’07) ■ ■ Roman Bokhenik (ENG’10) ■ Emily A. Bonazelli (ENG’13) ■ David E. Borchardt (ENG’83, CGS’80) and Priscillla W. Borchardt ■ Matthew R. Boucher (ENG’20) ■ Sarah A. Boucher ■ Delilah E. Bowman (ENG’87) ■ Evan A. Bowman (ENG’17) ■ Matthew Boyd (ENG’20) ■ Kishore P. Bramhamdam (MET’19) ■ Sondra J. Brandon (ENG’87,’88) Richard Bresnahan (ENG’16) ■ John C. Broderick (ENG’70,’77) ■ Abraham Bromberg (ENG’61) and Barbara C. Bromberg ■ Alfred S. Brothers, Jr. (ENG’64) and Sandra J. Brothers ■ ■ Kara A. Brotman (ENG’00) ■ Brittany S. Brown (ENG’20) ■ Byron T. Brown (MET’87) ■ William W. Brown (ENG’65) ■ Mark D. Brownschidle (ENG’92) and Pauline Brownschidle ■ Pamela S. Brownstein (MED’10) and Kenneth Lipstein Adam Bulakowski (ENG’99) and Lauren Bulakowski ■ Kevin H. Burek (ENG’08) ■ Cheryl T. Burgess (ENG’97) Sherrill I. Burgess (Questrom’84) and John E. Massidda ■ ■ Anna V. Burkatovsky (ENG’16) Chandler W. Burke (ENG’17) Brian P. Butler, Jr. (ENG’20) ■ ■ ■ Christopher L. Butler (ENG’00) ■ James J. Byrne (ENG’93) and Sarah M. Byrne (Sargent’93) ■ Zhongyuan Cai (ENG’20) ■ Alejandra J. Cambonchi (ENG’15) ■ Lisa M. Campana (ENG’10,’12) ■ Stephen M. Campbell (ENG’97) ■

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Cara T. Cantwell (ENG’04, CAS’04) and Patrick R. Cantwell ■ Mingzi Cao (ENG’18) ■ Yuxin Cao (ENG’17) ■ Paul A. Caouette (ENG’70) and Honoria Niehaus James H. Caplan (Questrom’83, ENG’79) and Heather C. Caplan (Questrom’94) ■ Francis J. Capone (ENG’59) ■ Rogelio Careaga and Rebecca Westwood ■ ■ Ryan M. Carey (ENG’09,’12) ■ Lindsay E. Carlson (ENG’11) ■ Audrey B. Casavant (ENG’79) and Richard B. Casavant ■ James R. Cavanaugh, Jr. (ENG’88) and Lisa Cavanaugh ■ Victor Cervantes, Jr. (ENG’14) ■ Lisa D. Cervia (ENG’12) ■ Brian A. Cha (ENG’20) ■ Srinvasan Chakravarthi (ENG’01) and Rashmi Chakravarthi Thomas E. Chamberlain (ENG’61) and Mary A. Chamberlain ■ Kwok-Wai Chan (ENG’87, MET’09) and Shing-Pik K. Yung (Sargent’87) ■ Louis Chan (ENG’09) ■ William L. Chan (ENG’79,’85) and Pearl C. Chan ■ ■ Zachary T. Chapasko (ENG’17) ■ ■ ■ Jonathan R. Chapman (ENG’13) ■ Jimmy C. Chau (ENG’09,’11,’16) ■ Wesley R. Chedister (ENG’00) ■ Geguo George Chen (ENG’88) and Lihua Zhang-Chen ■ Jong H. Chen (ENG’96) ■ Xiaoxi Chen (ENG’18) ■ Yu Chen (ENG’15) ■ Zhao Chen (ENG’88) and Shukfan Szeto Jesada Chenarak (ENG’19) ■ Haotian Cheng (ENG’20) ■ Kenneth T. Cheng (ENG’84) ■ Lan Cheng and Baosen Zhou ■ ■ Stephen D. Cheng (ENG’12) ■ Peter K. Cherry and Brenda M. Cherry ■ Kim W. Cheung and Heng Zhang ■ ■ Jerry Chew (ENG’70) ■ Alexia M. Chiclana (ENG’18) Edmond W. Chin (ENG’74, Questrom’75) and Susan Y. Chin (Wheelock’75) ■ Robert Chin (ENG’70) and Diana H. Chin ■ Kyoung-Won S. Cho (ENG’88) and Joseph I. Song ■ Kengyeh K. Chu (ENG’11) ■ Jan Chudzik and Malgorzata I. Chudzik ■ Howard T. Chun (ENG’83) ■ Anthony H. Chyn (ENG’05) ■ Carol M. Cicco ■ ■ Vincenzo F. Cicco (ENG’20) ■ Peter M. Cirak (ENG’01,’07) and Erika N. Cirak ■ Julia A. Cirillo (ENG’20) ■ Daniel J. Clancy (ENG’91) and Allison P. Clancy ■ Charles F. Clarke, III and Vanessa B. Clarke ■ ■ Chase C. Clarke (ENG’20) ■ Susan Cleaver (Questrom’92) ■ ■ ■ Daniel D. Clevenger, Jr. and Maria L. Clevenger ■ ■ Jasmine R. Clevenger (ENG’20) ■ Richard H. Coco (ENG’62) ■

Joseph E. Coffey, Jr. (ENG’72) and Sharon R. Coffey ■ Brian J. Collins and Jeannine M. Collins ■ ■ Nat J. Collins (ENG’91,’91) ■ Antonio J. Colorado (ENG’62) ■ Max R. Condren (ENG’10) ■ Timothy G. Conley (ENG’86) ■ Charlene E. Conlin Cain (SON’68) and Michael P. Cain ■ Robert G. Connors (ENG’60) ■ Adam R. Contos (ENG’97, GRS’96) ■ Jonathan E. Cook (ENG’20) ■ Thomas K. Cooney (ENG’89,’91) ■ Evan M. Cooper (ENG’84) and Lisa A. Cooper ■ ■ Robert B. Cooper (ENG’65) and Joan C. Cooper ■ Braden A. Corbin (ENG’18) ■ Lemil Cordero and Lidia E. Cordero ■ Louise R. Corman ■ ■ William G. Corrigan (ENG’62) and Eileen J. Costigan Manuel J. Costa (ENG’84) ■ ■ Paul Couto (ENG’94) and Kim W. Fusaris ■ Patrick W. Crawford (ENG’15) Carleton W. Crockett (ENG’80) and Maureen Crockett Kelly B. Cronley (ENG’05) and Joe Cronley ■ Brian J. Cruise (ENG’97) and Kimberly Vuong Antonio A. Cruz, Jr. (ENG’06) and Cassandre A. Cruz (CGS’06, COM’08) ■ Hengdong Cui (ENG’06,’07) ■ Ryan K. Cully (ENG’20) ■ Jordan G. Cumper (ENG’10) ■ Anthony Cuomo, Jr. (ENG’93) and Gina Johnson-Cuomo ■ Richard D. Curtis (ENG’58) and Le May A. Curtis ■ Megan M. Dacek (ENG’16) ■ Derrick D. DaCosta (ENG’90) ■ Maisam Dadgar Kiani (ENG’10,’11) and Annamaria K. Lukes (Pardee’12) ■ Saimrunali V. Dadigala (ENG’20) Kathryn M. D’Agnes (ENG’07) ■ Wei Dai (ENG’99) and Sau Sim Lee ■ Thyagaraju Damarla (GRS’87, ENG’93) and Bai K. Damarla H. Alan Daniels (ENG’59) and Barbara J. Daniels ■ Susan C. Daniels (ENG’81) and Mark S. Daniels Dennis J. D’Antona (ENG’73) and Janet M. D’Antona Hemang D. Dave and Theresa Dave ■ ■ Neha H. Dave (ENG’11) ■ ■ ■ Benjamin C. Davenny (ENG’00) ■ Aixa T. Davila (ENG’20) ■ ■ ■ Gregory C. DeAngelis (ENG’87) and Karen J. DeAngelis J. Evan Deardorff (ENG’93) ■ Alicia N. DeCesaris (ENG’94) Benjamin D. DeFrancesco (ENG’88) and Andria Tejada-DeFrancesco ■ Foster J. DeGiacomo (Questrom’51, ENG’61) and Nancy C. DeGiacomo ■ James M. Delani, Jr. (ENG’88) and Christina F. Adams (MET’88) ■ Benjamin E. Delcid (ENG’18) ■ Maurizio A. Della Polla (ENG’13) ■ Frank A. DeLucia, Jr. (ENG’89) and Adriana DeLucia

Jacqueline A. DeMartini (ENG’83) ■ Robert J. Demidowicz (ENG’87,’88) ■ Jialin Deng (ENG’20) ■ Marc P. Denner and Catherine E. Denner ■ ■ Sara S. Denner (ENG’20) ■ Robert J. D’Entremont (ENG’62) and Ruth M. D’Entremont ■ Samuel J. DePalma (ENG’18) Douglas K. DePiero (ENG’92) and Tina G. DePiero (ENG’88) ■ Darash Desai (ENG’12,’14) ■ ■ William R. Desmarais (ENG’05) ■ Robert L. DesRosiers (ENG’84) and Julieta A. DesRosiers ■ Raghunathan Dhananjay Finjamur (ENG’02,’11) Ali-Zain Dhukka (ENG’12) ■ Thomas M. DiCicco, Jr. (ENG’01) and Andrea DiCicco ■ Frederick R. Dickinson and Beatrice M. Dickinson ■ ■ Gabriel V. DiFilippo (ENG’58) and Mary E. DiFilippo ■ Joseph J. DiLorenzo (ENG’84) ■ Anthony L. DiPietro (ENG’66) and Janice E. DiPietro ■ Allan J. Dolinski and Claudette C. Dolinski ■ ■ Anthony Donnaruma (ENG’84) ■ Sheila J. Dooley (ENG’91) ■ Erin C. Dorsey (ENG’20) ■ Weina F. Dorsky (ENG’03) and Jason M. Dorsky Neil Doshi (ENG’20) ■ Paul J. Dougherty (ENG’01,’02) ■ Lisa F. Drake ■ ■ Shengchen Du (ENG’13) ■ Zhihao Duan (ENG’20) ■ Joseph Duca (ENG’67,’68) and Nancy J. Duca ■ James A. Duda (ENG’84, MET’11) and Sharon P. Duda ■ Deborah L. Dunklee (ENG’87, Questrom’98) and Jason R. Dunklee (ENG’05) ■ ■ Michaelina C. Dupnik (ENG’14) Timothy M. Durkin (ENG’09) ■ John A. Duval (ENG’89) and Kathleen R. Duval ■ Nicholas C. Eberhard (ENG’20) ■ Darren M. Edmonds (CAS’96) and Anita M. Edmonds (ENG’97) ■ Richard B. Egan, Jr. (ENG’78) and Jeannie Egan ■ Howard C. Ehrlich (ENG’60) and Nina W. Ehrlich ■ Gerald R. Eisler (ENG’72) and Rosemarie Eisler ■ Yasemin Eken and Kevin Maher ■ ■ Riad S. Eledelbi (ENG’96) and Joslyne J. Hanna (Pardee’96) Samantha Eligene (ENG’20) ■ Charles C. Eliot (ENG’58) and Nancy G. Eliot ■ Katherine Elkind (ENG’18) ■ Levi J. Emery (ENG’20) ■ Monica L. Eng (ENG’11) ■ Dennis Enos (ENG’68) ■ Charles R. Enriquez (ENG’92) ■ Sheldon J. Epstein (ENG’59) ■ Egem Eraslan (ENG’14) Laura J. Erb (ENG’20) ■

Elijah T. Ercolino (ENG’10) and Kristine Dennery ■ ■ Karle L. Erf (ENG’20) ■ Aune E. Erickson ■ ■ David G. Erickson (ENG’93) and Melissa J. Erickson (CAS’92, Wheelock’94) ■ ■ Charles F. Evans (ENG’84) ■ Samuel J. Evans (ENG’20) ■ Alfred W. Everest, Jr. (ENG’59) and Christine A. Everest ■ ■ Ryan J. Ewing (ENG’20) ■ Veronica A. Faller (ENG’13, MED’17) ■ Yuguang Fang (ENG’97) and Jennifer Y. Lu ■ Zheng Fang (ENG’20) ■ Caleb H. Farny (ENG’04,’07) and Natalie G. Farny ■ John J. Farrell (ENG’14,’14) and Andrea F. Farrell ■ ■ ■ Veronica M. Farrell and Steven Farrell ■ ■ Aleksandra Fatyga (ENG’20) ■ David L. Feldman (ENG’66) and Patricia A. Feldman ■ Rosanne E. Felicello (UNI’99, LAW’02) and Marc J. Albanese (ENG’99,’03) ■ James Ferguson, Jr. (ENG’61) and Patricia Ferguson ■ Martha E. Ferris (ENG’82) Ignacio E. Fimbres, Jr. (ENG’20) ■ Sharon Kaiser Fincher (ENG’82) and Thomas G. Fincher ■ John G. Finck (ENG’61) ■ Yevgeniy Finegold (ENG’04, MET’10) ■ Paul J. Finklestein (ENG’79) and Lisa D. Finklestein ■ Andrew M. Fisher (ENG’10,’17,’17) ■ Michael P. Fitzpatrick (ENG’19, Wheelock’20) ■ Elizabeth A. Fitzroy ■ Roland W. Fitzroy (ENG’68) ■ James P. Flanigon (ENG’09, GRS’09) and Michelene Flanigon ■ Leslie M. Flores Burgos (ENG’19) ■ Erik Fogelberg ■ ■ Robert H. Foney Man K. Fong (ENG’90) ■ Stephen P. Foraste (ENG’91,’94) and Alyssa Duffy ■ Howard N. Forbes (ENG’81) and Digna M. Forbes (CAS’82) ■ Carl H. Ford (ENG’93) ■ Mark R. Ford, Jr. (ENG’77,’83) and Priscilla W. Ford ■ Donald A. Foster (ENG’92) and Carole C. Foster ■ Justin M. Foster (ENG’11,’12) and Corrine Foster ■ Liam A. Fox (ENG’16) Brynna Freitag (ENG’19) ■ Patricia K. Freitag (CAS’84, Wheelock’91) and David W. Freitag (ENG’91) ■ Stephen P. Fricke (ENG’91) and Amy L. Brenner-Fricke (COM’89) ■ Joshua I. Friedensohn (ENG’10) Helaine R. Friedlander (Wheelock’75) ■ ■ Natalia A. Frumkin (ENG’20) Richard Fu (ENG’18) ■ Brian C. Fuchs (ENG’87) ■ Richard A. Fuller (ENG’88) and Tiffany Fuller ■ Raymond M. Gabriel (ENG’02)

Roger J. Gagnon (ENG’68) and Christine C. Gagnon ■ Scott J. Gaines, Jr. (ENG’20) ■ Peter Galindez, Jr. (Sargent’87) and Brenda K. Galindez ■ ■ Heather N. Gamble (ENG’17) Aesha A. Gandhi (ENG’20) ■ Xinwei Gao (Questrom’14) ■ Sharon I. Garde (ENG’86) and Cesar A. Garde ■ Timothy S. Gardner (ENG’00) and Wendy C. Gardner (CGS’95, Sargent’97) ■ Joseph L. Gargiulo (ENG’79) and Lydia Gargiulo Erika Gartner (Pardee’11) Haile Z. Gebre and Belaynesh B. Berihun ■ ■ Gregory M. Genecin (ENG’16) Timothy A. Geraghty (ENG’16) ■ Arincheyan Gerald (ENG’20) ■ George L. Getchell (ENG’54) and Veronica G. Getchell ■ Emily Ghosh (CAS’16, ENG’19) ■ Vittorio Giammarino (ENG’24) ■ Judy S. Gibbs (ENG’91) ■ Timothy J. Gibbs (ENG’88) and Susan S. Gibbs (ENG’88) ■ Heather L. Gillis (ENG’98,’98) Patrick Gillooly (ENG’87) and Christin L. Gillooly (Sargent’92) ■ Mary Ann Givens (ENG’92) Rose Godfrey and Paul Godfrey ■ ■ Paul A. Goguen (MET’82) Sean P. Gold (ENG’85,’88) Daniel G. Goncalves (CAS’05, Wheelock’10) ■ ■ Miguel Angel Goni Rodrigo (ENG’18) ■ Stephen P. Gonzales and Catherine B. Gonzales ■ ■ Justin E. Gonzalez (ENG’20) ■ Erica G. Goodman (Wheelock’97, Sargent’94) and Joshua Goodman ■ Krithi Gopalan (ENG’20) Srikanth Gopalan and Sowmini Sampath ■ ■ ■ Michael W. Gor (ENG’79,’80) ■ Richard G. Gould (ENG’90, CGS’85) and Diana Stilwell ■ Raymond M. Govotski (ENG’95) ■ Carl I. Graham (ENG’87) ■ Alison Graves-Calhoun (ENG’91) and W. Byron Calhoun ■ Michael J. Greaney (Wheelock’98) and Katherine J. Greaney (ENG’00) ■ Salvatore Greco, Jr. (ENG’68) ■ Charles J. Green (ENG’79) and Kerin L. Green ■ Kenneth L. Green and Deanne M. Green ■ ■ Michael J. Green (ENG’09) and Stephanie L. Teale ■ Daniel P. Greenberg (ENG’01) and Erica M. Kusnyer Greenberg (CAS’01) ■ Francis A. Greene, Jr. (ENG’83) Gregory G. Grozdits (ENG’99, MET’09) ■ Tianyu Gu (ENG’18) ■ Catherine E. Gueli (ENG’88) George C. Guerra (ENG’84) ■ Jeraldin Guerrero (ENG’17) ■ Matthew D. Guild (ENG’04) and Melissa C. Guild (Pardee’04) ■ Katarina Gullotta (ENG’18) ■

Nina H. Gummadi (MED’20, CAS’20) and Christopher R. DeLucia (ENG’17, CGS’17) Elizabeth L. Gunnell and Richard Gunnell, Jr. ■ ■ Jinshan Guo (ENG’12) Rui Guo (ENG’07) ■ Song Guo (ENG’07,’11) and Chunxia Fan (ENG’07) ■ Zhangcheng K. Guo (CGS’17, ENG’20) ■ Aman Gupta (ENG’20) Ana Paula Gushken (ENG’20) ■ Marjan L. Hadipour (ENG’13) and Roy Sun ■ Natasha A. Hagen (ENG’12) ■ Daniel S. Hagg (ENG’95) and Jennifer Watters ■ Marie Haggerty (ENG’84) and Guy A. Perrault Varshith Hakkithimmanahalli Anilkumar (ENG’17) ■ Ronald J. Halaby (ENG’62) and Elaine T. Halaby Joseph E. Hale (ENG’83) ■ Roswell G. Hall, III (ENG’72) and Gretchen O. Hall ■ Sydney T. Hall (ENG’20) ■ Thomas R. Hall (ENG’12) Ashley M. Hamlin (ENG’20) ■ Alexander L. Hammerman (ENG’20) ■ Chien-Jih Han and Patricia S. Han ■ ■ Cong Han (ENG’19) ■ Elisabeth Y. Han (ENG’18,’19) ■ Michael T. Hanna (ENG’17, CGS’17) ■ MaryLynn L. Hansen (ENG’88) ■ Jean-Christophe P. Harmange and Michelle E. Harmange ■ ■ Melissa Harper-Maniaci ■ Phillip Thomas Harrington Masis (ENG’20) ■ Jamin C. Harris (ENG’20) ■ Constantine Hartofilis (ENG’19) ■ Matthew H. Hastie ■ Carly L. Hattrich (ENG’20) ■ Steven E. Haug and Christine E. Haug ■ ■ Tyler J. Hayman (ENG’19) ■ De H. He and Koon Sun Zhan ■ ■ Wenbo He (ENG’15,’16,’16) ■ Richard A. Heath (ENG’80) and Kathryn Heath ■ ■ Calvin S. Heiling (ENG’15) ■ Carole A. Heilman (CAS’72) and Richard L. Heilman (ENG’72) ■ Diane M. Heislein and David E. Heislein ■ ■ Kevin R. Hemmer (ENG’05) ■ Dionne D. Henry (ENG’90) and Ena M. Henry Martin C. Herbordt and Ellen B. Herbordt ■ Lori M. Herman (GRS’78) and David I. Herman (ENG’70) ■ ■ Arcadio Hernandez, Jr. (ENG’96) Elizabeth R. Hernandez (ENG’20) ■ Grace Hernandez and Luis S. Hernandez ■ ■ Selena B. Hernandez (ENG’20) ■ Olivia A. Herrera (ENG’13) ■ Jacob Herrmann (ENG’12,’15) ■ Reza Heydari and Claudette A. Heydari ■ ■ Angela B. Hidalgo (ENG’20) ■ Patricia A. Hill (MET’86) and Adam Northrup Hill ■ Ryan M. Hill (ENG’07,’10) ■ ■ ■ Todd A. Hinck (ENG’94,’00,’03) ■ Matthew Hinshaw (ENG’19) ■ Kelsey C. Hirsch (ENG’19) ■ Mark F. Hodge (ENG’99, Questrom’99) ■ Mark J. Hoffman and Nancy A. Hoffmann ■ ■

Peter H. Hoffman (ENG’74, Questrom’01) and Pam W. Hoffman ■ Ryan M. Hoffman (ENG’20) ■ Samuel M. Hoffman (ENG’12) ■ Thomas E. Hoffmeister (ENG’96) Spencer J. Hogan (ENG’98) ■ Arthur G. Holden (ENG’66) and Laurie C. Holden ■ Ralph Holmberg (ENG’66,’70) and Carolyn Murphy ■ Norman S. Hom and Susan T. Nonaka-Hom ■ ■ Sungwon Hong (ENG’17) ■ Betty Horna (Questrom’07) ■ Glenn D. House, Sr. (ENG’90) and Teresa G. House ■ Peter T. Houston (ENG’58) and Ann B. Houston ■ Hao Hu (ENG’16) ■ Yihao Hu (ENG’18) ■ Belinda Y. Huang and Michael K. Chan ■ ■ Shuran Huang (ENG’15) Zhibin Huang (ENG’20) ■ Annemarie G. Hudak (ENG’90) ■ Anna B. Hughes (ENG’17) ■ C. Arthur Hughes (ENG’62) ■ Nina L. Hughes (ENG’94) Nicolas H. Hunt (ENG’20) ■ Faheem H. Hussain (MED’95, ENG’91) and Ambreen Hussain Robert J. Iacovone (ENG’69) and Carolyn M. Iacovone ■ Hany N. Ibrahim (ENG’93) ■ Majid M. Ikhwan (ENG’03) and Larisa Epshteyn (Questrom’06, COM’06) ■ Ryoshin L. Imai (ENG’90,’91,’93) and Yoko Imai ■ Greg Ingram ■ Ryan T. Ingram (ENG’18) ■ Anastasios S. Ioannidis (ENG’87) and Margarita Zega ■ Gerard D. Irmer (ENG’64, CGS’63) and Lois J. Irmer ■ Stuart E. Irwin (ENG’69) and Marjorie R. Irwin Anna Jablonka (ENG’94) and Rafal M. Jablonka ■ Jonathan T. Jackson and Shwuhuey Jackson ■ Jerold L. Jaeger (ENG’93) and Robin Jaeger Raymond L. Jalette (ENG’71, MET’74) and Shaolin Pan ■ ■ ■ Kedar R. Jalihal and Aarati K. Jalihal ■ ■ Cary G. James (ENG’10) ■ Joan S. James and Anand James ■ Richard S. Jamieson (ENG’62) and Jeanine M. Jamieson ■ ■ Paul A. Janson (ENG’69, MED’73) and Mary B. Janson Theresa R. Jay (ENG’87) and John H. Jay, Jr. ■ Bridgette M. Jean-Jacques (Sargent’94) and J. Dennis Jean-Jacques (ENG’93) ■ Dorothy G. Jensen (ENG’90) Hanchong Jin (ENG’20) ■ Rubing Jin (ENG’14) Yuan Jing (ENG’02,’05) Ali Jiwani (ENG’15) ■ John B. Johnsen ■ ■ Alfred S. Johnson (ENG’64) and Rafaele M. Johnson Ronald H. Johnson (ENG’59) and Mary J. Johnson ■ Aleksander J. Jonca (ENG’10) ■ ■

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Passing the Baton ALUM GIVES BACK TO ENSURE STUDENTS RECEIVE THE BEST ENGINEERING EDUCATION

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lexander Adam (ENG’92,’95,’03) was initially drawn to Boston University by a track and field scholarship, then quickly found the biomedical engineering program. And although he went on to earn three degrees in that field, he wants today’s students to have even more options than he did.

“I’m very grateful for the opportunities that BU gave me to come overseas, be part of a team and get exposure to subjects that led me to pursue patent law such as technology transfer,” says Adam, a native of Germany who is now a patent attorney I want to help in Boston. current students He praises the find more college for being flexopportunities ible when—between completing his master’s beyond the excellent research degree and starting his doctoral program—he labs we have decided to return to already.

Germany to train with the German national track and field team. Aiming to participate in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, he placed third overall in Germany and didn’t qualify. He then returned to BU to start his doctoral program in the Neuromuscular Research Center.

As alumni, Adam and his wife Davina D. Wong (Questrom’02) have supported the college over the years, most recently donating to help get the Bioengineering Technology and Entrepreneurship Center up and running.

“I want to help current students find more opportunities beyond the excellent research labs we have already,” Adam says. “These additional hands-on learning spaces like BTEC help enhance the curriculums, and since not every undergraduate student will be able to work in a research lab, these other opportunities give them collaborative research experiences in partnership with industry.”

Christopher J. Jung (ENG’20) ■ Hyun J. Jung (ENG’93) ■ Annie Kadets ■ Daniel R. Kallman (ENG’94) ■ Ita C. Kane (ENG’12) ■ Steven I. Kane (ENG’63,’71) and Susan M. Kane (Wheelock’63, DGE’61) ■ Ashvin Kannan (ENG’92,’97) and Madhuri Ramanathan (ENG’94) Jonah A. Kaplan (ENG’13,’15) ■ Yiannis G. Karavas (ENG’15, MET’20) Ramin Karimpour (ENG’86,’91) and Afsaneh Rabiei ■ John D. Kariouk (ENG’84) and Kathryn H. Kariouk William J. Karlon (ENG’88,’91) Elaine R. Kasparian ■ ■ Prakash S. Kasturi (ENG’98) ■ Walter S. Katuschenko (ENG’60) and Jacquelynn S. Katuschenko ■ John Kaufhold (ENG’95,’01) and Elizabeth Appel (CAS’94) Michael J. Kaufman (CAS’87) and Jenifer M. Kaufman (ENG’90) ■ ■ Edward A. Kazanjian, Jr. (ENG’68) and Mary A. Kazanjian ■ Michael P. Kazenel (ENG’80) and Susan P. Caplan (BUTI’80) ■ Michael N. Keefe (ENG’89) and Ana C. Keefe ■ Thomas D. Keegan (ENG’94) and Beth A. Keegan ■ ■ Laura M. Kegelmeyer (ENG’86,’88) ■ Aly S. Kelly (ENG’09) ■ Thomas F. Kelly, III (ENG’89) Jakov M. Kendes (ENG’18) ■ Ricardo L. Kenny (ENG’83) Traci M. Kent (ENG’14) ■ Leena Khan (CGS’18, ENG’20) ■ Rahat Khan (ENG’17) ■ Ali Khanehzar (GRS’20,’20) and Rahele Hassanzadegan ■ Yasaman Khazaeni (ENG’16) ■ Amaan A. Khimani (ENG’19) ■ Khalil R. Khouri (CGS’10, ENG’14) ■ Kenneth Kilborn (CGS’79, ENG’88) and Debora C. Kilborn Myungchan Kim (ENG’99,’01) and Kyoungeun Bae ■ ■ Spencer Kim and Joon Wang ■ ■ Walter M. Kimball (ENG’61) and Gloria B. Kimball Rachel Kinoshi (ENG’16) ■ Thomas F. Kinst (ENG’91,’94) and Traci L. Kinst (ENG’92) ■ Erica L. Kinzelberg (CGS’18, ENG’20) ■ Jeffrey P. Kittredge (ENG’15) Joshua A. Klein (ENG’19,’19) ■ Joshua C. Kline (ENG’09,’12,’14) and Amy C. Kline (ENG’12) Ronald W. Knepper and Helen A. Knepper ■ Ethan C. Knight (ENG’16) ■ Paul B. Kocincki (ENG’66) and Lindsey A. Kocincki ■ Michael S. Koeris (ENG’10) ■ Samantha E. Koplik (ENG’20) ■ Julie A. Kopser (CAS’87, GRS’88) and Matt D. Kopser (ENG’86) Georgi Korobanov (ENG’06) ■ Natalya Kotlyar (ENG’09) ■ Roy A. Kraus and Nancy E. Kraus ■ ■

Graciela P. Kravtzov (MET’01) and Jose O. Ferreyra ■ ■ Maria E. Krepcio and Christopher J. Krepcio ■ ■ John A. Kuffner (ENG’92) ■ Isabella P. Kuhl (ENG’20) Subi Kulla and Olimpiada Kulla ■ ■ Karen E. Kullas (ENG’77) and Bruce Newcomb ■ Daniel B. Kupratis and Maureen B. Kupratis ■ Meghan E. Kupratis (ENG’18) ■ Cathy M. Kurata (ENG’06) ■ Jayson H. Kurrle (ENG’07) ■ William C. Kurtz (ENG’60) and Ruth M. Kurtz ■ Abena N. Kwakyi (ENG’11) ■ Boissevain Kwan (ENG’83) ■ Ariadna Labra (ENG’20) ■ Wei Lai (ENG’07) ■ Michael L. Laiman (ENG’86) Regina M. Lally (Wheelock’09) and Richard W. Lally (ENG’21) ■ ■ Francine Lalooses (ENG’02,’03) Stephen P. Lalooses (ENG’99) Saroj Lamichhane (MET’19) ■ Manuel A. Landa (ENG’66) ■ Li Lang (ENG’01) Jesadang Laohaprasit (ENG’97) ■ John M. Laracy (CAS’83) ■ Stephen E. Larkin and Kathryn C. Larkin ■ ■ Steven A. LaRochelle (ENG’18) Alan A. Larocque (ENG’72, GRS’79, MED’80) and Kathleen A. Larocque (CAS’74) ■ Justin P. Latona (ENG’95) Joel A. Lavoie (ENG’18, MED’21) ■ Carolyn A. Lawrence (ENG’99,’10) Patrick J. Leach (ENG’16) Ian A. Leatherman (ENG’11) Cheryl C. Lee (ENG’16) Chung Y. Lee and Hyun S. Kim ■ ■ Hyohyung Lee and Youngseon Kang ■ ■ Kenneth K. Lee (ENG’00) Kristen L. Lee (ENG’11) ■ Minha Lee (ENG’20) ■ Theodore Lee (ENG’00) ■ Vincent D. Lee (ENG’17) ■ Zheng X. Lee (ENG’84) ■ D. Martin Leibold (ENG’89) and Kathleen D. Leibold Jose A. Lemus (ENG’17) ■ Thomas A. Lentz (ENG’83) and Cynthia A. Lentz ■ Daniel J. Leonardis (ENG’04) Max J. Lerman (ENG’12) and Paulina A. Lerman (COM’11) ■ Deborah A. Leszczynski (ENG’20) ■ Lori H. Leveckis ■ Robert Lewallen ■ ■ Ang Li (ENG’18) ■ David Li (ENG’20) ■ Jiang Li (GRS’17) Pearl Li ■ Shaohua Li (ENG’11) Xiao Li (ENG’20) ■ Chao-Yu Liang (ENG’86) and Hsiu-Ling Liang ■ Xiaoyou Liang ■ Ying Liang ■ Yitao Liao (ENG’10,’11) ■ ■ Bosheng Lin (ENG’98) Hung-Ching Q. Lin (ENG’20) ■

Su Kyung Lin (ENG’09) Yun-Te Lin (ENG’15) David B. Lindquist (ENG’82) and Therese Lindquist ■ Xiao Ling (ENG’19) Kyle W. Liskow (ENG’98) and Heather H. Liskow Ronald J. Listro (ENG’78) ■ Huajun Liu (ENG’98,’99,’04) and Zhe Ren ■ ■ Jingjiang Liu (ENG’16,’18) ■ Kainan Liu (ENG’20) ■ Linda Liu and Yuechao Zhao ■ Ning Liu (ENG’20) ■ Spencer W. Liu (ENG’19) Tiancheng Liu (ENG’18) Victor Liu (ENG’10) ■ Yong Liu (ENG’02) and Jinou Xie ■ Apollo Lo (ENG’20) ■ Brian Lo (ENG’13) and Kylie J. Lo (ENG’13) David W. Loehle and Diane M. Loehle ■ Jennifer C. Logan (ENG’79,’80) ■ Jeannie J. Lu (ENG’95,’96, MET’00) ■ Li Y. Lu ■ ■ Shuiyu Lu and Hongfang Jin ■ ■ Yanchen Lu (ENG’15,’19) ■ ■ ■ Yang Lu (ENG’14,’14) ■ James E. Luck (ENG’93, CAS’94) ■ Mark A. Lueders (ENG’81) Roberto Luis-Fuentes (ENG’20) ■ Prashant Luitel (ENG’14) ■ Margaret Lundin (ENG’73) ■ Amanda S. Lynch (CAS’00, COM’00, Wheelock’04) and Eric J. Lynch (ENG’00,’05) Chaoyi Ma (ENG’20) ■ Weida Ma (ENG’20) ■ David L. Mabius (ENG’07,’09) ■ Lawrence E. Mabius and Kathy L. Mabius ■ ■ Roger S. Mabon (ENG’88) Cameron S. MacDonald Surman (ENG’20) ■ Colin R. MacDougall (CGS’16, ENG’20) ■ Cameron I. MacFarlane (CGS’10, Questrom’12) Heather N. Macken (ENG’10) ■ Sarah C. Maggipinto (ENG’20) ■ Maria C. Magno (ENG’96) ■ Henry A. Magnuson, III (ENG’78) and Ann M. Magnuson ■ Kenneth S. Maguire (ENG’68) ■ Gopi N. Maguluri (ENG’04) ■ Shaahid A. Mahmed (ENG’18, Questrom’19) ■ Michael J. Mahnken (ENG’84) and Sheryl M. Mahnken ■ Anthony S. Maita (ENG’16) Yash Vishal Majithia (ENG’20) ■ Agnes D. Malaret-Collazo (ENG’87) and Ernesto C. Batista ■ Abdallah Malhi ■ ■ Varun V. Malikayil (ENG’20) ■ Vineeth V. Malikayil and Geetha Prabha ■ ■ Rajiv K. Manchanda (ENG’89) ■ Charles R. Manning (ENG’12) and Will Moran ■ Colin J. Mansfield (ENG’12) Edward S. Mansfield (ENG’64,’68) and Dolores L. Mansfield ■ Fahim Manzur (ENG’08) Maria Marca and Segundo Avila ■ ■ Samantha M. Marfoglio (ENG’18)

Joseph A. Margarones (ENG’89) ■ Harold M. Martin (ENG’82) ■ James A. Martin (ENG’98) Justin M. Martin (ENG’09, Questrom’16) and Stephanie G. Martin (CGS’06, Sargent’08) ■ ■ Kyle S. Martin (ENG’20) ■ Kyle T. Martin (ENG’07) Peter F. Martin (ENG’70) and Irene Y. Martin ■ Cora E. Martinez and Romel E. Beiner ■ ■ Jeffrey A. Marx (ENG’01) ■ Garth H. Mashmann (ENG’06) ■ Donald A. Massett (ENG’84) and Cathy Massett ■ Peter F. Masucci (ENG’70) and Kathy E. Masucci (CAS’71) ■ Michael Matatia (ENG’82) and Susan D. Matatia ■ Patricia Mathews and John Mathews ■ George P. Matisse (ENG’89, Questrom’91) ■ ■ Juluis D. Matonis (ENG’59) and Regina Matonis ■ Yuya Matsuda (ENG’20) ■ ■ ■ Joy T. Matsui (ENG’05) ■ Misako A. Matsuoka (ENG’90) ■ Emil E. Matula, Jr. (ENG’88) and Yolanda Lopez ■ Kathleen A. Matula ■ Kenneth R. Maxwell (ENG’66) and Donna C. Maxwell ■ Ronald S. Maxwell (ENG’78) and Starr J. Maxwell ■ Kevin M. McAllister and Ellen M. McAllister ■ ■ Stephen A. McBride (ENG’71,’72, Questrom’73) and Christine M. McBride ■ Lawrence N. McCarthy, Jr. (ENG’69) ■ Lester McCoy, Jr. (ENG’06,’11) ■ Francis P. McDermott (ENG’62) ■ Jerome W. McDonald (ENG’01) ■ Loretta C. McHugh (ENG’00) and Evan McHugh ■ Ethan P. McIlhenny (ENG’20) ■ Robert C. McKinstry, III (ENG’84) ■ ■ John J. McLaughlin (ENG’92) and Anna Hundt ■ John M. McLoughlin (ENG’82) and Lori McLoughlin ■ Neil P. McManus (ENG’59) and Judith A. McManus ■ Michael D. McMullen (ENG’90) and Michelle D. Search (Questrom’89) ■ Lexyne L. McNealy Jackson (ENG’02) ■ John A. McNeill (ENG’94) and Kristina Wile Alice D. McWade ■ ■ Armando Medeiros (ENG’85) Nancy J. Medeiros (ENG’89) Hemal P. Mehta (ENG’04) and Parikha S. Mehta (ENG’02,’03) ■ Philip J. Melchiorre (ENG’84) ■ Susan Y. Melville and Brian K. Melville ■ ■ Julio C. Membreno (ENG’20) ■ Nicholas A. Memme (ENG’16) ■ Ethan J. Mendes (ENG’19) ■ Lingmin Meng (ENG’01) and Chenhao Yuan ■ Kevin J. Mercer (ENG’15) ■ Janine R. Mereb (GRS’84, ENG’84) ■ Carolina Mesa (ENG’15) Pamela L. Metz (ENG’81) ■

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Ihwa Miao (ENG’93) ■ Jakub M. Michna (ENG’03) Marc D. Milgram (ENG’95) David S. Miller (ENG’91,’94) and Barbara Miller ■ Deborah Miller (ENG’86, MET’92) Debra Miller ■ ■ Robert D. Miller (ENG’00) ■ Cheryl J. Mills (STH’92) and Carey G. Spain ■ Regan N. Mills (ENG’99) and Isabel B. Mills ■ Henry E. Moeller (ENG’86) and Karen K. Moeller ■ Samuel S. Moijueh (ENG’15) Curtis D. Moore (ENG’68) John A. Moore and Barbara F. Moore ■ ■ John Erik Moore (ENG’89,’92) and Deborah J. Moore (ENG’89) ■ Jonathan R. Mooty (ENG’90) ■ Carlos Moreira (ENG’99, MET’03) ■ ■ Jonathan G. Morgan and Julie Morgan ■ Yosuke Mori (ENG’87) and Chiharu Mori ■ Fred Morrison (ENG’62) and Barbara M. Morrison (CAS’64) ■ Moriison S. Morrison and Sarojini Morrison ■ Ronald P. Morrissey (ENG’92,’01) ■ Robert A. Morse, Sr. (ENG’63) ■ John L. Mosley (ENG’13) ■ Ernest M. Moy and Barbara A. Bartman ■ ■ Mary C. Moyer (ENG’20) ■ King F. Mui (ENG’15) ■ Debangshu Mukherjee (ENG’13) ■ John P. Mullen (ENG’85) and Carole K. Mullen (CGS’75, Wheelock’77) ■ Christine S. Mulvey (ENG’11) Timothy D. Murray (ENG’84) and Susan H. Murray ■ Krishna Murugan (ENG’20) ■ Faith M. Musenge (MET’20) ■ Donald W. Myers, III and Cindy L. Myers ■ ■ Huntley B. Myrie (ENG’95) and Carolyn R. Collins-Myrie (ENG’94,’00) ■ Adam M. Nadeau (ENG’08) ■ Gail A. Nagle (ENG’84) and Richard J. Nagle ■ Lance S. Nakano (ENG’17,’18) Van Galaxy B. Naldoza (ENG’20) Dylan T. Nash (ENG’20) ■ Anila Ndreu-Lamaj ■ ■ Joseph S. Neiss (ENG’05) ■ Sebastian J. Nevarez (ENG’20) ■ Kenneth K. Nguyen (ENG’89) ■ Thanh P. Nguyen (ENG’18) ■ Truc V. Nguyen (ENG’90) ■ Jacob L. Nikolajczyk (ENG’18) ■ ■ ■ ■ Daniel T. Niles (ENG’89) and Jennifer S. Niles (CAS’89) Xu Ning (ENG’08,’09) and Shujun Li Yuqiang Ning (ENG’20) ■ Luis Nino (Questrom’08,’08) ■ Rebecca Nitzan and William Quick ■ ■ Gennifer A. Norman (ENG’20) ■ Michael J. Norris (ENG’07) ■ Elli Ntakou (ENG’17,’17) ■ ■ ■ Steve T. Numata (ENG’20) ■ Kevin M. O’Brien (ENG’93) and Elizabeth B. O’Brien (ENG’93) Burt D. Ochs (ENG’83) and Cindy M. Ochs ■ Eogan C. O’Donnell (ENG’90) and Kellie M. O’Donnell (Pardee’89) ■ ■ Pamela A. Oliver (ENG’84) and Mark R. Whittaker ■

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Andrew H. Olney (ENG’90) and Katharine S. Olney (SSW’89) ■ Craig S. Olson (ENG’90) and Dayna L. Olson ■ David Opalsky (ENG’83,’92) ■ Chukwuemeka E. Opara, Jr. (ENG’20) ■ Alan L. Oslan (ENG’80) Rodrigo Ospina, Jr. (ENG’19) ■ Susan M. O’Sullivan (ENG’03) ■ Nadia Ouhib (ENG’11) ■ Ambika Pachaury (ENG’20) ■ Mariano N. Pache (ENG’20) ■ Juliet A. Page (ENG’86) and Gregory S. Page ■ Robert W. Paglierani (ENG’66) and Susan D. Paglierani ■ David S. Pak and Pia H. Pak ■ ■ Michael Paley (ENG’95) and Janice S. Paley (CGS’90, COM’92) ■ Joseph L. Palladino (ENG’82) and Diane Wilan ■ ■ Joseph L. Paller (ENG’20) ■ Gunnar T. Palsson (ENG’10) Cristina M. Palumbo (ENG’95, MED’99) and Michael H. Palumbo (COM’95) ■ Laura Y. Pan (ENG’89) and Victor T. Pan ■ George T. Papadopoulos (ENG’01) and Ashley A. Papadopoulos (CGS’99, Wheelock’01) ■ Gerasimos Papathanasiou (ENG’95) ■ Joseph A. Pappas (ENG’89) ■ Michael D. Paquette (ENG’84) and Mary T. Paquette ■ ■ Michael J. Paradie (ENG’86,’90) and Dalia M. Paradie (COM’87) ■ Devang K. Parikh (ENG’99) ■ Devang S. Parikh (MED’07) ■ Milan M. Parikh (ENG’20) ■ Ioannis Paschalidis and Georgia Mourtzinou ■ Jes F. Pascua (ENG’88) and Pamela Pascua ■ Christina J. Pasdo (ENG’91) and Michael J. Pasdo Mark Pastarnack and Michele Pastarnack ■ ■ John H. Paul (CAS’90) and Chrysanthea K. Paul (ENG’90) ■ Kirsten H. Paulson (ENG’82) and Mark A. Paulson Carolyn K. Paulus ■ ■ Leonard H. Pauze, Jr. (ENG’57) and Joan C. Pauze ■ Luanne C. Pavco and Lance J. Luttschwager ■ ■ Brian E. Pecon (ENG’57,’65) and Velva Pecon ■ Jay B. Penafiel (ENG’90) and Elise G. Penafiel ■ Sara M. Perez (ENG’20) Samantha H. Perez Menendez (ENG’20) ■ Javier J. Perez-Andreu (ENG’80) and Marta J. Perez (Questrom’80) ■ Richard L. Perkins, Jr. (ENG’89) ■ David Perreault (ENG’89) ■ Alexandria A. Persaud (ENG’18) Jeffrey F. Petersen and Kathrine L. Petersen ■ ■ Marissa R. Petersile (ENG’15) ■ Rachel E. Petherbridge (ENG’19) ■ Jacqueline M. Petit (ENG’83) and Alan N. Petit Michael T. Pettit (ENG’14) and Nicole L. Black-Pettit (ENG’14) ■ An H. Pham (ENG’16, CGS’16) ■

Douglas E. Phillips (ENG’66) and Joyce A. Phillips ■ Zachary A. Phillips (ENG’09) ■ Paulina Phu (ENG’16) ■ Steven L. Picciano (ENG’97) ■ Cynthia Pischdotchian (ENG’87) ■ ■ Angela M. Pitter (ENG’86, MET’93) and Richard E. Wright ■ Cameron A. Pizzo (ENG’17) ■ Michael P. Platt (ENG’13) and Judy Theresa Platt ■ ■ Herbert S. Plovnick (MED’71, CAS’67) and Kathleen R. Plovnick (ENG’89, CAS’68) ■ Daniel P. Poe (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Dennis S. Poe and Milja R. Poe ■ ■ Edward A. Pohl (ENG’84) and Letitia M. Pohl ■ Robert V. Polimeno (ENG’92) and Jennifer K. Polimeno (CAS’92) ■ Camila M. Portal Dorado (ENG’19) ■ Shilpa N. Prasad (ENG’18, MED’22) ■ Bruce G. Pratt (ENG’69) and Maureen S. Pratt ■ Peter I. Presel (ENG’61) ■ Zenan Qi (ENG’12,’15) ■ Jing Qian (ENG’14) ■ Stephen B. Qually (ENG’72, Questrom’73) and Linda A. Qually (Wheelock’70) ■ Daniel K. Quartey (ENG’19) ■ Samuel N. Quick (ENG’20) ■ William G. Quirk (ENG’62) ■ Sowmya Ramakrishnan and Rajaram Radhakrishnan ■ ■ Siddharth Ramesh (ENG’20) ■ Carlos V. Ramirez, Jr. and Donna J. Brister ■ Marc A. Randell (ENG’99) and Abigail Randell (COM’00) ■ Elena Rantou and Demetrios P. Margaronis ■ ■ Jason L. Raymond (ENG’99,’02) and Ying Luan ■ Christopher J. Reaney (ENG’87) and Susan K. Reaney ■ Herbert P. Redman (ENG’63) and Joan E. Redman ■ ■ James L. Reed (ENG’88, CGS’85) ■ Kathy B. Reif (LAW’09) and Roberto Reif (ENG’08) ■ Jordan A. Remar (CAS’20, ENG’20) ■ Donald C. Reny, Jr. (ENG’88) and Jennifer R. Reny ■ ■ Linda A. Reynolds (ENG’89) Joo S. Rhee (ENG’06) and Eunice R. Rhee (CAS’08) ■ Kenneth B. Rice (MET’96, ENG’84) and Diane Tarr ■ Meaghan E. Richardson (ENG’20, CAS’20) ■ W. Gregory Richardson (ENG’92) and Julie S. Richardson ■ ■ Christopher R. Ring (ENG’95) and Jessica E. Ring (CAS’97) ■ Allen J. Riss (ENG’84) ■ Amy N. Robbins (ENG’18,’22) ■ Ethan F. Robbins (ENG’04) and Emily A. Shugarman (Wheelock’03) ■ Nicolas J. Robertson (ENG’20) ■ Michael Robichaud (ENG’11) and Natalie A. Robichaud (ENG’11) ■ Lisa Robinson Schoeller (ENG’82, Questrom’98) and Richard J. Schoeller ■ James M. Robson (ENG’20) ■

Nicholas L. Roca (ENG’20) ■ Gerrick J. Rodrigues (Pardee’95) ■ Moises Rodriguez (ENG’17) ■ Nickholas L. Rodriguez (ENG’18, STH’21) ■ Irena M. Roggeveen (ENG’20) ■ Paul C. Rohr and Rita T. Rohr ■ ■ Alec I. Roig (ENG’20) ■ Joseph K. Rollin (ENG’05) ■ Lisa A. Rooker (ENG’13) ■ Robert H. Ropp (Questrom’74,’80, ENG’79) and Alexia L. Jacobs ■ Terri N. Rosen (COM’01) and Joshua D. Rosen (ENG’03) ■ Nicholas J. Rosenberger (ENG’20) ■ Michael T. Rosenstein (Sargent’89, ENG’93) ■ Alexander J. Rosenthal (Sargent’21, ENG’21) ■ Giovannibattista M. Rossi (ENG’02, GRS’05) ■ Michael C. Rothko (ENG’18) ■ Geoff Rowland (ENG’05,’05) and Erin Rowland (CAS’05) ■ David Royce (ENG’65) and Mary L. Royce ■ Joshua D. Rubin (ENG’20) ■ Gary S. Rudman (ENG’88) and Robin Rudman ■ Bradley G. Rufleth (ENG’04) and Lindsey M. Cimochowski (MET’13) ■ Michael P. Runci (ENG’68,’74, Questrom’74) and Janet L. Runci ■ Derek M. Russell (ENG’88) and Elizabeth G. Russell ■ Matthew L. Russell (ENG’20) ■ Maureen Ryan Colbert (ENG’92) ■ Lynn F. Sabio (ENG’84) and Charles J. Happ ■ Wali A. Sabuhi (ENG’17, MED’23) Marcia Sahaya Louis (ENG’16,’21) ■ Nicholas J. Saia (ENG’20) A. Reza Salehi (ENG’88, Questrom’04) and K. Sorur Talaee Rad ■ Lewis P. Salerno and Barbara M. Salerno ■ ■ Samantha M. Salerno (ENG’20) ■ Arvind K. Salgam and Manjula Salgam ■ ■ Donald C. Salmon, Sr. and Jane E. Salmon ■ Gerardo A. Sanabria (ENG’02) and Erin K. Sanabria ■ Dylan L. Sanders (ENG’20) ■ Radhakrishna Sanka (ENG’16,’21) ■ Sivaramakrishnan Sankarapandian (ENG’18) ■ Yoko Sano (ENG’92) ■ Leonardo P. Santiago (ENG’04) William A. Santos (ENG’15) and Samantha Santos ■ Christopher J. Sanzo (ENG’87) and Roberta J. Groch (CAS’87) ■ Ellen C. Sapp and Ellen M. Sapp ■ ■ Steven G. Saunders (ENG’89) and Susan Saunders ■ ■ Frank Savoca, Jr. (ENG’16) ■ Crystal D. Sayles (ENG’78, CGS’75) David A. Scaduto (ENG’09) ■ John A. Scaramuzzo, Jr. (ENG’87) and Lena Scaramuzzo ■ Maria Scardera (ENG’84) and Michael P. Scardera ■ Perry M. Schein (ENG’12) ■ William J. Schineller (ENG’89) ■ Thomas G. Schlatter (ENG’94) and Tania A. Schlatter (CFA’90) Eric C. Schmitt (ENG’11) Bertram J. Schmitz, Jr. (ENG’62) ■ David M. Schneeweis (ENG’84) ■

Robert E. Schneider (ENG’79) and Diane M. Schneider ■ ■ Jeffrie F. Schreier (ENG’08) ■ Brian L. Schulz (ENG’82) ■ Frank J. Schwamborn (ENG’16) ■ Julia M. Schwartz (ENG’20) Alana M. Schwarz (ENG’20) ■ ■ ■ Adil M. Seddiq (ENG’02) ■ Juan See (ENG’07) Albert R. Seeley (MET’95, ENG’85) and Lauren M. Seeley Rajendranath R. Selagamsetty (ENG’14,’21,’21) ■ ■ James A. Seluga (ENG’07) Mitchell S. Shack (ENG’91) ■ Nirmit K. Shah (ENG’16) ■ Elmutaz M. Shaikho Elhaj Mohammed (ENG’18) ■ Sandra D. Shanaberger (ENG’82) and William T. Warner ■ Amy R. Shanler (CAS’96, COM’96,’04) and Michael S. Shanler (ENG’97) ■ Meryl R. Shea (ENG’20) ■ John H. Sheffield (ENG’91) ■ Skye L. Shepherd (ENG’20) ■ Eric J. Sheppard (ENG’83) and Veronica M. Sheppard James M. Shifrin and Mary-Grace Shifrin ■ ■ Andrew Shin (ENG’20) ■ Ayush A. Shirsat (ENG’20) ■ Gordon A. Shogren (ENG’59) and Frances K. Shogren ■ Anshu Shrivastava ■ ■ Sumit Shrivastava ■ ■ Tomohiro Shu (ENG’20) ■ Steve Shubat (ENG’05) John J. Shynk (ENG’79) and Tokie L. Shynk (SON’79) ■ Mahmud A. Siddiqi and Rehana I. Siddiqi ■ ■ Musab A. Siddiqui (ENG’15) ■ Mark P. Sika (ENG’01) ■ Philippe Sikias (ENG’99,’00) and Sima Sikias Matthew D. Silva (ENG’97) and Alicia M. Silva (Sargent’96,’98) Peter C. Simko (ENG’94) and Jeanne M. Simko Elena B. Simoncini (ENG’10) Christopher R. Simons (ENG’15) ■ Hannah E. Simpson (ENG’08) Arundeep Singh (ENG’19) ■ Anthony Sinopoli (MET’00) and Michele T. Sinopoli (ENG’99, MED’03) ■ Tracy M. Sioussat and Mark F. Cardono (ENG’91) ■ Elly A. Sirotta (ENG’01, Questrom’08) and Stacey L. Sirotta (Sargent’01,’03,’08) ■ ■ Harold K. Sit (ENG’76) ■ Tanvinder Skiba and Gene Skiba ■ ■ Evan S. Slack (ENG’96) ■ Thomas S. Slinker (ENG’81) ■ Theodore J. Smigelski (ENG’14) ■ David M. Smith (ENG’85) ■ Jennipher J. Smith ■ John F. Smith (ENG’63) ■ Kyra W. Smith (ENG’20) ■ Andrew J. Smolenski (UNI’09, Questrom’09) and Anna A. Smolenski (ENG’09) Cameron Snow (ENG’18) ■ John B. Snyder (ENG’17) Michael A. Snyder (ENG’14) ■ Tatiana Sokolinski (ENG’15) ■

Eric Sondergeld and Cindy Sondergeld ■ ■ Juliet E. Sonkoly (ENG’00) James H. Soutar, Jr. (ENG’64) and Marcia O. Soutar ■ Katherine E. Spignese (ENG’85) ■ Frank A. Spinelli (ENG’02) ■ Robert R. Spitaels and Ann T. Spitaels ■ ■ Mark D. Spoto (ENG’90) and Elizabeth M. Spoto ■ Sanjana Srisakulchawla (ENG’20) ■ Peter F. Staats (Questrom’76) Laura M. Stefanski ■ ■ Jane D. Stepak (ENG’78, CAS’78) ■ Tamara Stephen (ENG’92) ■ Michael G. Stephenson (ENG’16,’20) Mark Stesney (ENG’91) ■ Margaret Z. Stevens (ENG’87) and S. H. Stevens ■ Norman Stolack (ENG’62) and Patricia Stolack ■ ■ Randal L. Struckus (ENG’84) and Laurie R. Guptill (CFA’77) ■ Paige D. Studer (Wheelock’82) and John A. Studer (ENG’84) Gabriella R. Stueber (ENG’14) ■ Henry B. Stueber and Deanna G. Stueber ■ ■ David H. Stull and Jessica R. Downs ■ ■ Eric R. Stutman (ENG’93) and Andrea L. Stutman ■ Timothy F. Styslinger (ENG’90,’92) ■ Todd M. Sukolsky (ENG’13) ■ Alexander Y. Sun (ENG’19) Siying Sun (ENG’20) ■ Michelle E. Sutton (Pardee’10) and Michael R. Sutton (ENG’11) ■ ■ Priya Swamy (ENG’96) and Prithvi Sankar ■ Patrick J. Sweeney (ENG’85) and Sherri C. Sweeney ■ Charles M. Sweet (ENG’91) and Julia P. Sweet ■ Edward L. Symonds (ENG’87) and Cathy J. Symonds ■ John Szczypien, Jr. (ENG’66) and Diane Szczypien ■ Carlo M. Taglietti (ENG’20) ■ Jianyang Tai (ENG’99) ■ Zafar Takhirov (ENG’12,’18) and Alice T. Takhirov (ENG’12) Carlos C. Talavera (ENG’90) and Laura I. Talavera (CAS’90) ■ Ronald Tallon and Sherry A. Tallon ■ Chinh Tan (ENG’86,’88) and Yue Zhang Ed Tang (ENG’97) ■ Tianyi Tang (ENG’20) ■ Darrell J. Tanno (ENG’80) and Deborah Tanno (Questrom’81) ■ Koonlawat Tantiponganant (ENG’88) ■ Ye Tao (ENG’06) and Siwei Chen (LAW’04) ■ Kenneth R. Taylor, Jr. (ENG’98) Raymond S. Taylor (ENG’08) ■ Ann L. Tedford (ENG’78) ■ Teera Teeraphantuvat (ENG’96) ■ Kimberly J. Tencza (ENG’20) ■ Paulo E. Tenreiro (ENG’95,’00) ■ Oleg V. Teplyuk (ENG’18) Richard P. Tetreault, Sr. and Susan M. Tetreault ■ ■ Charles Thomas (ENG’03,’04) and Jennifer W. Thomas ■ Jack W. Thomas (ENG’20) ■

Jordan W. Thomas (ENG’20) ■ Alexander W. Thomson (ENG’85) and Veronica Corpuz ■ Emily A. Thunberg (ENG’20) ■ Chuan Tian (ENG’13) ■ Martin Tian (ENG’18) ■ Flemming Tinker (ENG’99) Bruce P. Tis (ENG’95) and Marjorie R. Tis ■ ■ Nidhi S. Tiwari (ENG’19) ■ Jorge L. Tizol (ENG’77) and Vilma L. Rivera ■ Gregorius Tjahaja ■ Christian P. Tjia (ENG’15) ■ Bianca A. Tlapanco (ENG’16) Tszhang K. To (ENG’08,’13) ■ Daniel Tokar (ENG’62,’64, Questrom’64) and Taffy J. Pettit Eric J. Ton (ENG’20) ■ Richard W. Tong (ENG’06) ■ Garo R. Toomajanian (ENG’85) and Marc Harpin ■ Alfredo L. Torrejon (ENG’80) and Lucy Q. Torrejon ■ Judith K. Torres (ENG’20) ■ Nicholas A. Tortora (ENG’20) ■ Kristen R. Toutant (ENG’10) ■ Randolph B. Tow (ENG’66) and Susan P. Tow ■ Heather J. Tracey (ENG’91) ■ Hieu M. Tran (ENG’17) ■ Micaela A. Trexler (ENG’16,’17) ■ ■ Morris Trichon (ENG’68) and Joann F. Beer ■ Fernando M. Trindade (ENG’06) ■ Robert L. Trottier (ENG’88) and Robyn M. Trottier ■ Alexander Tsang (ENG’90) Kevin R. Tseng (ENG’91) ■ Timothy J. Tucker and Christine M. Tucker ■ ■ Benjamin A. Tzeel ■ Jason M. Ulberg (ENG’98) and Jaime Ulberg (Questrom’98) ■ Stephen R. Uriarte (ENG’88) ■ Isioma C. Utomi (ENG’07) Ned Utzig (ENG’86) ■ Srujan V. Vajram (ENG’20) ■ Michael A. Valerio (ENG’80) and Elizabeth B. Valerio (CAS’80) ■ ■ Guy Vandevoordt and Mady F. Vandevoordt ■ ■ Richard A. Vanetzian (ENG’60) and Eleanor V. Vanetzian ■ Seshasayee Varadarajan (ENG’99) and Shubhashree Venkatesh ■ Cristian-Ioan Vasile (ENG’16) ■ ■ ■ Dinesh Venkatesh (ENG’92,’98) and Sowmya Manjanatha ■ Ellen A. Verdile ■ ■ Vinita Verma (ENG’15) ■ Katheryn P. Viens (GRS’20) and Paul R. Viens (ENG’97) ■ Carrie A. Vinch (ENG’88) Paul J. Vizzio (ENG’10,’15) ■ ■ ■ Duc H. Vo (ENG’93) Linden V. Vo (ENG’20) ■ ■ Lindsey A. Volk (ENG’20) ■ Gui Von Zuben (ENG’13) and Sydney F. Von Zuben (CAS’13) ■ Evelyn Vuilleumier ■ ■ Andrew A. Wagner (ENG’94) and Priya T. Wagner (CAS’94) ■

Gregory J. Wagner (ENG’96) and Lisa D. Wilsbacher ■ Lisa Wall (ENG’81) ■ Mary F. Wall (ENG’20) ■ Gordon A. Wallace (ENG’20) ■ Baxter K. Walsh (ENG’61) and P. A. Walsh ■ Edmund J. Walsh, Jr. (ENG’83,’83) and Jane M. Walsh ■ Gary F. Walsh (ENG’11,’13) and Carolyn Walsh Wendy Wan (ENG’89) Hongchuan Wang (ENG’13) ■ Le Wang (ENG’14, Questrom’19) Richard Wang (ENG’07) ■ Yu Wang (ENG’01, GRS’06) and Raoyang Zhang ■ David A. Warner (ENG’60) ■ Philippa Warner ■ James T. Warren (ENG’20) ■ Peter G. Warren (ENG’73) and Pamela S. Warren ■ Tom W. Warzeka (ENG’91) ■ Jon-Michael Washington (ENG’19) ■ Michael A. Washington, Sr. and Suleima Washington ■ ■ Mary Anne Wassenberg (ENG’90) and Michael W. Wassenberg ■ Jia Wei (ENG’14) and Shaohui Wang Jason A. Weiner (ENG’02) ■ Jeannette L. Wellman (ENG’87) ■ Hanqing Wen (ENG’16,’16) and Cheng Zhang (ENG’16) ■ Joel F. West (ENG’57) and Elizabeth S. West ■ Thomas G. Westbrook (ENG’91) and Mary D. Gibbs-Westbrook ■ Heather B. White (ENG’92) and Darwin K. White Ronald D. White ■ ■ Andrew I. Whiting (ENG’02) and Amanda Whiting ■ Norman L. Whitley (ENG’75) ■ Lawrence H. Wight (ENG’65) ■ Robert A. Wilkinson (MET’08) and Michelle T. Sonia ■ Adrian D. Williams (ENG’01,’07) Dwight Williams (ENG’80) and Rochelle A. Buford-Williams Joyce M. Wilt (ENG’86) and Michael J. Wilt Philip T. Winterson (ENG’62) and Barbara A. Winterson ■ Thomas F. Witherell, II ■ Barbara M. Wojtlowski (ENG’08) ■ Timothy S. Wolfe (ENG’11) Hasting S. Wong (ENG’67,’68) and Josephine N. Wong (GRS’68) ■ Mary S. M. Wong (ENG’84, MET’88) ■ John W. Wright ■ ■ Nicholas G. Wright (ENG’00) Barry Q. Wu (ENG’86,’92) ■ I-Hsien Wu (ENG’05) Jiaqian Wu (ENG’19) Shilu Wu (ENG’20) ■ Tianming Wu (ENG’07) ■ Sean C. Wyatt (ENG’00) and Tiffanni Wyatt ■ Xinyu Xing (ENG’00) ■ Haiyun Xu (ENG’19) ■ ■ ■ Shuang Xu (ENG’20) ■ Scott Yamashita (ENG’93,’96) ■ Xuri Yan (ENG’11) ■ Alexander L. Yang (ENG’16) ■

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Loyalty Society Member | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 2 0

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Honor Roll of Supporters

Holson Yap (ENG’05,’06) and Marissa Scipione ■ Siavash Yazdanfar (ENG’96) ■ Chuck Yee (ENG’90) and Angela Yee ■ Jihpeng P. Yeh (ENG’93) ■ Noam B. Yemini (ENG’07) ■ Jessica R. Yen (ENG’10) ■ Patrick H. Yen (ENG’08) ■ William W. Yen (ENG’17) ■ ■ Jamie Yieh (ENG’96) ■ Charlene Ying ■ ■ Jillian E. Yong (ENG’18) ■ Joseph R. Young (ENG’95) ■ Pamela M. Young (ENG’98, LAW’14) Susan M. Young ■ ■ Jeeyuen Yu (ENG’95, MET’00,’01) and Michelle L. Yu Weicheng Yu (MET’18) ■ Xi Yu (ENG’18,’18) ■ Xunjie Yu (ENG’19,’19) ■ Kang Yuan (ENG’13) and Xiangying Qian Alberto N. Zacarias (ENG’89,’90) ■ Hanan Zaheer (ENG’19) ■ Diane F. Zanca (ENG’85) ■ Guylherme T. Zaniratto (ENG’98) ■ Nicole K. Zarillo (ENG’20) ■ Joshua S. Zeisel (ENG’07) ■ Qingtai Zhai (ENG’04,’07) ■ Jiang Zhang (ENG’12) ■ Lin Zhang (ENG’20) ■ Ningyuan Zhang (ENG’20) ■ Qian Zhang (ENG’99) ■ Ting Zhang (ENG’17) Wei Zhang (ENG’03) ■ Yalun Zhang (ENG’15) ■ Yuting Zhang (GRS’07) and Matthew S. Chen (MET’04) ■ Qi Zhao (ENG’12,’16) Shanshan Zhao (ENG’19) ■ Zixiao Zhao (ENG’14) ■ Jiefu Zheng (ENG’13)

Yutong Zhou (ENG’20) ■ Russell S. Zide (MED’94, ENG’85, GRS’90) and Jennifer A. Rehm (MED’95, GRS’90) Brandon H. Ziolkowski (ENG’20) ■ Todd E. Zive (ENG’98) and Mindy C. Zive ■ Gregory A. Zoeller (ENG’12) Jeffrey R. Zuccaro (ENG’05) and Rebecca K. Zuccaro (COM’05) Zamir Zulkefli (ENG’05,’05) ■ Richard Zulman and Colleen Zulman ■ Edward H. Zuniga (ENG’18) Steven H. Zysman (ENG’85) ■

CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS $50,000+

Anonymous Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Alphabet Inc. (Google) Amazon Robotics LLC American Cancer Society American Heart Association Analog Devices, Inc. ARM Inc. ASELSAN Ball Aerospace & Technology Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Communication Technology Services LLC eClinicalWorks Facebook, Inc. Honda Motor Co., Ltd Hong Kong Foundation for Charities Limited International Association of Oil & Gas Producers Johnson & Johnson Lam Research Corporation Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

MathWorks Inc. Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc. Nissan North America Inc. Novartis Institutes For BioMedical Research, Inc. One Mind Foundation Pfizer, Inc. Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation Royal Philips Electronics R-Tech Investments LLC Saudi Aramco Senti Biosciences The Benevity Community Impact Fund The New York Community Trust Total E&P Technology USA Verizon Communications Inc. W. M. Keck Foundation Wellcome Trust

$25,000–$49,999

American Endowment Foundation Dermasensor, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. Osram Sylvania Inc. Sigilon Therapeutics The Maccarone Family Fund of Goldman Sachs The W. Bradford Ingalls Charitable Foundation Trust US Israel Binational Science Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

Dean Kamen Revocable Trust Fondation Leducq

$2,500–$4,999

BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund Quest Diagnostics, Inc. The Calculus Project Inc.

$1,000–$2,499

Cabot Corporation Lando & Anastasi, LLP Roney-Fitzpatrick Foundation UBS Donor-Advised Fund Varian Medical Systems, Inc.

$1–$999

Ann T. Spitaels, Living Trust Data Network Associates Poppin Inc. Sanabria Family Trust Sigma XI Scientific Research Society Wong Family Trust

$10,000–$24,999

AMETEK, Inc. Cami Foundation Inc. Catalyst Foundation Massachusetts Clean Energy Center PTC, Inc. Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund Verasonics

IN MEMORIAM Daniel S. O’Brien (’14), Cranston, R.I.

John D. O’Neil (’62), Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

Robert V. Garner, Jr. (’55), Hampton, Conn.

Robert P. Fanning (’63), West Falmouth, Mass.

Richard A. Paulson (’57), North Falmouth, Mass.

Robert W. Q. Lew (’65), Framingham, Mass.

Ronald Henry Johnston (’58), Windham, N.H.

Alan P. Daurio (’69), Nipomo, Calif.

George Allan Chadwick, Sr. (’59), Windham, N.H.

David I. Herman (’70), Ridgefield, Conn.

Robert F. Mulholland (’59), Portsmouth, R.I.

Vincent A. Palazzo (’78), Wellfleet, Mass.

Herbert W. Phelan (’60), Tukwila, Wash.

Jacquelyn M. Marston (’90), Hollis, N.H.

Bruce Q. Hanley (’61), South Paris, Maine

Christopher Francis Young (’93), Narragansett, R.I.

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FALL 2020

THE MAGAZINE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

engineering leadership advisory board John E. Abele Founder & Director, Boston Scientific

Amit Jain ’85,’88 President and CEO, Prysm Inc.

Jill Albertelli, ‘91 Vice President, Quality, Pratt & Whitney

Dean L. Kamen, Hon.’06 President & Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corp.

Adel Al-Saleh ’87 CEO, T-Systems Alan Auerbach ’91 Chairman, Founder, President & CEO, Puma Biotechnology Tye Brady ’90 Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics Deborah Caplan ’90 Executive VP, Human Resources & Corporate Services, NextEra Energy

Anton Papp ’90 Vice President, Investments and Corporate Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc. Sharad Rastogi ’91 Senior VP, Products & Strategy, Dell EMC

Anand Krisnamurthy ’92,’96 President and CEO, Affirmed Networks

Kimberly Samaha ‘89 CEO, Born Global LLC

Ezra D. Kucharz ’90 Chief Business Officer, DraftKings Inc.

George M. Savage ’81 Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Proteus Digital Health

Abhijit Kulkarni ‘93,‘97 VP, Research and Technology, Advanced Bionics Corporation Antoinette Leatherberry ‘85 Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Roger A. Dorf ’70 Former Vice President, Wireless Group, Cisco Systems

Peter Levine ’83 General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz

Brian Dunkin ’85 VP of Medical Affairs, Boston Scientific Endoscopy Global

Nick Lippis ’84,’89 President, Lippis Enterprises Inc.

Vanessa Feliberti ’93 Distinguished Engineer, Substrate Platform, Microsoft

Andy Marsh ’83 Chief Operating Officer, Dynavac

Joseph Frassica, MED’88 Chief Medical & Innovation Officer, Head of Philips Research, Philips Healthcare

Kathleen McLaughlin ‘87 President, Walmart Foundation, Senior VP & Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc.

Ronald G. Garriques ’86 CEO and Chairman, Gee Holdings LLC

Manuel Mendez ‘91 Chief Commercial Officer, Quest Diagnostics

Joseph Healey ’88 Senior Managing Director, HealthCor Management LP

Rao Mulpuri ’92,’96 CEO, View, Inc.

William I. Huyett CFO, Cyclerion

Girish Navani ’91 CEO, eClinicalWorks

Binoy K. Singh, MD’89 Associate Chief of Cardiology, Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore LIJ John Tegan ’88 President and CEO, Communication Technology Services LLC Francis Troise ’87 Former CEO & President, Investment Technology Group

Michele Iacovone CGS’86,’89 SVP, Chief Information, Security & Fraud Officer, Intuit Inc.

Gregory Cordrey ’88 Partner, Jeffer Mangles Butler & Mitchell LLP

Tyler Kohn ’98 Director, Software Engineering, Ghost Locomotion

Claudia Arango Dunsby ’92 Vice President, Operations, Hybridge IT Richard Fuller ’88 Senior Principal Engineer-Systems, Semtech Corporation Timothy Gardner ’00 Founder & CEO, Riffyn Inc.

Emeritus Board Members Richard D. Reidy, Questrom’82 Former President and CEO, Progress Software Corp.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology & Public Policy; Former Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Roger A. Hajjar ’88 Chief Technical Officer, Prysm Inc. Mark Hilderbrand ’87 Managing Director, Housatonic Partners Bettina Briz-Himes ’86 Director, Technology Alliances, GoPro Kent W. Hughes ’79 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Verizon

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Solomon R. Eisenberg

senior associate dean for academic programs Elise Morgan

associate dean for research & technology development Thomas D. C. Little

associate dean for educational initiatives

Sanjay Prasad ’86,’87 Principal, Prasad IP

Martin Lynch ’82 Chief Operating Officer, Freewire Technologies

Gregory Seiden ’80 Former Vice President, Applications Integration, Oracle Corp.

Dylan P. Steeg ’95 Vice President of Business Development, Aible

Beatriz Mendez-Lora ’88 President, M-P Consultants

Francis Tiernan ’70 Former President, Anritsu Company

Xu Ning ’08,‘09 Engineering Manager, Uber, Inc.

Joseph Winograd ’95,’97 Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Verance Corp

Richard Lally

Michael Seele

Wynter Duncanson

Liz Sheeley

Lisa Drake

Rich Barlow, Jessica Colarossi, Colbi Edmonds, Art Jahnke

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Kenneth R. Lutchen

Anthony Pecore ’95 Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Investments

John Scaramuzzo ’87 CEO, Broadreach Consulting LLC

Sandip Patidar ’90 Founder and Managing Partner, Titanium Capital Partners

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