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MATERIALS, SYSTEMS DIVISIONS CROSS TRADITIONAL BARRIERS TO FACILITATE RESEARCH

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A Bet That’s Paid Off

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The divisions have nurtured the kind of interdisciplinary research that is producing results.

decade ago, the college placed a high-stakes bet on its future. We needed to decide on a direction: should we invest in all the things we’re doing, or focus on areas where we were already strong and, with additional investment, held the promise of creating world-class excellence?

We bet on the latter and it is paying off.

At the time, we made a decision that we should not maintain a broad slate of all common engineering disciplines, because our size alone would prohibit world-class excellence in them all.

Thus, we sacrificed visibility in popular disciplines such as civil and chemical engineering, as they did not align in interdisciplinary areas where we could be world class. We then identified five broad areas where we had clusters of research strength: bioengineering; photonics and optics; advanced and applied materials; micro- and nano-systems; and information science and cyberphysical systems. We decided to let those areas guide our faculty-hiring decisions and, as time passed, clusters of extreme strength emerged in research thrusts deriving from these areas, particularly those in which our faculty were likely to drive innovations that would be translated into technologies to benefit society. Let me provide some examples.

Under the rubric of biomedical engineering, we have recruited a critical mass of faculty at the intersection of synthetic biology, tissue engineering and mechanobiology. These sub-fields are not completely discrete and we are positioned to drive the genome-through-organ approach needed to understand and treat diseases that lie at the intersection of programming cells, designing new tissue and understanding the mechanical forces that occur naturally in living systems.

Innovations ranging from designer cells for immunotherapy to manufacturing personalized heart tissue at scale are emerging.

In the information science and cyberphysical systems area, we honed in on expertise in autonomous vehicles, smart cities, soft robotics, personalized digital medicine and smart sensors that can detect biological molecules in real time.

In many cases, overlap has emerged among the five areas we identified a decade ago. For instance, the bioengineering and photonics/ optics areas are producing a rapidly emerging impact in neuroscience. Faculty with expertise in data science, modeling and photonics and optics are working on brain-mapping technologies aimed at finding a way to detect Alzheimer’s disease early.

Fostering such synergy and culture was our goal when we created two divisions—Systems Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering—at the same time we defined the areas we were going to pursue. These divisions are interdisciplinary at their core and include faculty from all our departments, as well as other academic units across Boston University. As you can read in this issue’s cover story, the divisions have nurtured the kind of interdisciplinary research that is producing results. They have created the scaffolding that enables us to leverage expertise across departments to create excellence. Indeed, our new $20 million National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (NSF-ERC) to engineer personalized heart tissue in a fashion connected to manufacturability for clinical impact is called “Cellular Metamaterials.” The ERC sits at the nexus of every one of our strengths.

Both faculty and students are energized by how focusing on these areas and building academic programs to support them is leading to ever-more focused research that is having an impact on society. They are excited to see their research leading to emerging technologies, which is, after all, what engineers do.

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BY DEAN KENNETH R. LUTCHEN

CONTENTS • FALL 2019

MULTIPLICATION

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MATERIALS, SYSTEMS DIVISIONS BRIDGE RESEARCH BOUNDARIES

FEATURES

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Alum Works to Diversify Voices in Engineering

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Making It Real Creativity Helps ENG Alum Turn Ideas into Reality

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Faculty News

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Alumni News

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Honor Roll of Supporters

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Bishop Elected to NAE

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

Joseph Healey ’88 Senior Managing Director, HealthCor Management LP

Girish Navani ’91 CEO, eClinicalWorks

Adel Al-Saleh ’87 CEO, T-Systems

Jon Hirschtick Founder & Chairman, OnShape Inc.

Alan Auerbach ’91 Chairman, Founder, President & CEO, Puma Biotechnology

William I. Huyett CFO, Cyclerion

Anton Papp ’90 Vice President, Corporate Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Tye Brady ’90 Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics Deborah Caplan ’90 Executive VP, Human Resources & Corporate Services, NextEra Energy Nizar Dalloul ’83, GRS’87 Chairman and CEO, Comium Group Roger A. Dorf ’70 Former Vice President, Wireless Group, Cisco Systems Brian Dunkin ’85 VP of Medical Affairs, Boston Scientific Endoscopy Global Vanessa Feliberti ’93 Partner, General Engineering Manager, Microsoft Joseph Frassica, MED’88 Chief Medical & Innovation Officer, Philips Healthcare Ronald G. Garriques ’86 CEO and Chairman, Gee Holdings LLC

Amit Jain ’85,’88 President and CEO, Prysm Inc. Dean L. Kamen, Hon.’06 President & Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corp.

Ezra D. Kucharz ’90 Chief Business Officer, DraftKings Inc. Antoinette Leatherberry ‘85 Principal, Deloitte Consulting Peter Levine ’83 General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz Nick Lippis ’84,’89 President, Lippis Enterprises Inc. Andy Marsh ’83 Former CEO, LG Fuel Cell Systems Kathleen McLaughlin ‘87 President, Walmart Foundation, Senior VP & Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc. Rao Mulpuri ’92,’96 CEO, View, Inc.

Sharad Rastogi ’91 Senior VP, Products & Strategy, Dell EMC George M. Savage ’81 Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Proteus Digital Health 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 William Weiss ’83,’97 Vice President & General Manager, General Dynamics-C4 Systems 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

eng west coast alumni leadership council Christopher Brousseau ’91 Founder and CEO, Surface Owl Gregory Cordrey ’88 Partner, Jeffer Mangles Butler & Mitchell LLP 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. Roger A. Hajjar ’88 Chief Technical Officer, Prysm Inc. Mark Hilderbrand ’87 Managing Director, Housatonic Partners Bettina Briz-Himes ’86 Director, Technology Alliances, GoPro

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Kent W. Hughes ’79 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Verizon

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

Michele Iacovone CGS’86,’89 Vice President, Chief Architect, Intuit Inc.

Sanjay Prasad ’86,’87 Principal, Prasad IP

Tyler Kohn ’98 Director, Software Engineering, Ghost Locomotion

John Scaramuzzo ’87 Former Senior Vice President, Scan Disk Inc.

Yitao Liao ’10,’11 Chief Technology Officer, RayVio Corporation

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

Martin Lynch ’82 Chief Operating Officer, Freewire Technologies

Dylan P. Steeg ’95 Director of Business Development, Skytree Inc.

Daniel C. Maneval ’82 Vice President, Pharmacology & Safety Assessment, Halozyme Therapeutics

Francis Tiernan ’70 Former President, Anritsu Company

Sandip Patidar ’90 Managing Partner, Titanium Capital Partners

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

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SEEING AROUND CORNERS

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Making the World a Lot Quieter ENGINEERS HAVE DEVELOPED AN ACOUSTIC METAMATERIAL THAT CAN CANCEL 94 PERCENT OF SOUND

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ith the ever-increasing din of drone propellers, airplane turbines, MRI machines, and urban noise pollution blaring in the mind’s ear, sound-proofing, or blocking, materials that also allow airflow are becoming increasingly desirable. Although noise-mitigating barricades, called sound baffles, can help drown out loud sounds, they are clunky and not well suited to situations where airflow is also critical.

In a paper published in Physical Review, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) and doctoral fellow Reza Ghaffarivardavagh (ME) outline how, using 3D printing and sophisticated mathematics, it’s possible to silence noise using an open, ringlike structure created to mathematically perfect specifications for cutting out sounds while maintaining airflow.

According to Zhang and Ghaffarivardavagh, Boston life is so noisy that you have to find a way to create quiet moments; that’s what got them dreaming up a sound baffle that wasn’t a barrier at all, but an open

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conduit. Such a feat could only be possible by developing a material with unusual and unnatural properties (known as a metamaterial), in this case with the ability to exert an isolated influence on sounds—an acoustic metamaterial.

“Sound is made by very tiny disturbances in the air. So, our goal is to silence those tiny vibrations,” Zhang explains.

“If we want the inside of a structure to be open air, then we have to keep in mind that this will be the pathway through which sound travels.”

They calculated the dimensions and specifications that the metamaterial would need in order to interfere with the transmitted sound waves, preventing sound—but not air—from being radiated through the open structure. The basic premise is that the metamaterial needs to be shaped in such a way that it sends incoming sounds back to where they came from.

As a test case, they decided to create a structure that could silence sound from a loudspeaker. Based on their calculations, they modeled the physical dimensions that would most effectively silence noises.

Bringing those models to life, they used 3D printing to materialize an open, noise-canceling structure made of plastic.

Boston University mechanical and material engineers have created synthetic, sound-silencing structures—acoustic metamaterials—that can block 94 percent of sound.

Reza Ghaffarivardavagh (ENG) (front center) holds two of the open, ringlike structures over his ears while Professor Stephan Anderson (MED) (left), Professor Xin Zhang (ENG) (rear center) and Jacob Nikolajczyk (ENG) (right) make a racket.

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Making the World a Lot Quieter all—94 percent—of the noise, making the sounds emanating from the loudspeaker imperceptible to the human ear.

Now that their prototype has proved so effective, the researchers have some big ideas about how their acoustic-silencing metamaterial could go to work making the real world quieter. It could be used to silence drones, which are becoming more prevalent, and also to block the sound of fans and HVAC systems in homes and offices, while still allowing hot or cold air to be circulated unencumbered throughout a building.

Ghaffarivardavagh and Zhang also cite the unsightliness of the sound barriers used today to reduce noise pollution from traffic and see room for an aesthetic upgrade. “Our structure is super lightweight, open and beautiful. Each piece could be used as a tile or brick to scale up and build a sound-canceling, permeable wall,” Ghaffarivardavagh points out. —kat j. mcalpine

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ogether, the College of Engineering and Smith College are pioneering an innovative 4+1 BS-MS partnership program that will offer Smith College Bachelor of Science engineering students enriching research experiences as they prepare to enroll in one of BU’s Master of Science engineering programs.

“This partnership with Smith College is a natural extension of our mission to create the Societal Engineer,” Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen says. “Much like our students, these talented undergraduates share a commitment to using their engineering skills to address societal challenges, including climate change, health, resource limitations and conflict, among many others.”

“Having demonstrated that commitment in their undergraduate careers, Smith College students are well prepared to elevate their impact on society with an advanced engineering degree that includes exciting and impactful research experiences.”

Director of Smith’s Picker Engineering Program Andrew Guswa says, “With its commitment to creating the Societal Engineer, the

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Associate Professor Cara Stepp

College of Engineering at Boston University is a natural partner for the Picker Engineering Program. Smith graduates will apply their integrative engineering background to innovative research and graduate work to address society’s challenges. This collaboration allows our undergraduates to experience at BU 14 exciting areas of study, including electrical engineering, materials science, product design, and biomedical engineering—the professional home of Associate Professor Cara Stepp (Sargent, BME), one of the first graduates from the Picker Engineering Program.”

“As an alumna of Smith, I am very excited about this formal partnership, one I wish

The mathematically designed, 3D-printed acoustic metamaterial is shaped in such a way that it sends incoming sounds back to where they came from. Inside the outer ring, a helical pattern interferes with sounds, blocking them from transmitting through the open center while preserving air’s ability to flow through.

had existed when I was a student,” Stepp adds. “Both the Smith and BU engineering programs aim to prepare students to address societal challenges through the creative application of science and technology. I am convinced that this collaboration is the ideal mechanism to provide cutting-edge research opportunities and graduate study to Smith engineering students.”

The unique partnership will pair Smith engineering students with faculty in the summer after junior year and give them the opportunity to pursue a follow-on research experience the following summer, just prior to beginning graduate studies. Once enrolled in any of the college’s MS programs, they will also have the option of pursuing a thesis supervised by a faculty member.

Smith students will enjoy other benefits in addition to the early application opportunity.

BU will allow them to waive the required GRE scores as part of their applications, and early decisions will be rendered as applications arrive. Every accepted Smith student will receive a partial scholarship toward tuition— as well as a stipend and housing supplement for each summer research fellowship—and will have the option of applying to the PhD program of their choice at BU during their initial master’s year. —michael seele

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Trying it out in the lab, the researchers sealed the loudspeaker into one end of a PVC pipe. On the other end, the tailor-made acoustic metamaterial was fastened into the opening. With the hit of the play button, the experimental loudspeaker set-up came quietly to life in the lab. Someone standing in the room, based on sense of hearing alone, would never know that the loudspeaker was blasting an irritatingly high-pitched note; however, by peering into the PVC pipe, they would see the loudspeaker’s subwoofers thrumming away.

Ringing around the internal perimeter of the pipe’s mouth, the metamaterial works like a mute button until the moment Ghaffarivardavagh reaches down and pulls it free, when the lab suddenly echoes with the screeching of the loudspeaker’s tune.

By comparing sound levels with and without the metamaterial fastened in place, the team found that they could silence nearly

Seeing Around Corners

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A NEW ALGORITHM EXTRACTS ENOUGH INFORMATION FROM A DULL SHADOW TO RE-CREATE A HIDDEN SCENE

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eeing through walls or around corners has long been considered of unknown position Imaging wall an unrealistic, superhuman power like mind reading and invisibility. Learning what is in a room without directly looking A representation of how the photograph of into it is a goal and area of research called non-line-of-sight the penumbra is taken. vision; until now, the only techniques used to do it haven’t been easily translatable to the field. Associate Professor Vivek Goyal (ECE) and his groundwork has been laid to use these types of techniques to re-create a color image, it hasn’t been done yet. Researchers would need color lasers team have developed a method of seeing around corners that uses just and to shine each color separately, collect that information, and then a simple digital camera and their custom-built algorithms. Their work reconstruct the image. has been published in Nature.

Another non-line-of-sight technique does not involve lasers but “Non-line-of-sight optical imaging techniques like this one could requires the occluding object to move within the scene. This new method be very useful for search and rescue teams, emergency response and does not require calibration, controlled lighting, time-of-flight detection autonomous vehicles,” Goyal says. “If these techniques can be reasonably or scene motion and takes under a second to snap the image—or muleasy to deploy, then they could be carried around by first responders.” tiple images—and about 20 minutes to re-create the scene in full color.

Goyal’s research has focused on using very small amounts of “Weak signals buried in a lot of noise are information, like a weak light signal, to extract important and useful,” Goyal stresses. “There is much more information than seems possible. a universality to shadows that can be exploited In this paper, Goyal, postdoctoral fellow John to extract a lot of important information, even in Murray-Bruce (ECE) and doctoral student low-light scenarios.”

Charles Saunders (ECE) built a way to extract Although researchers have to know the a full-color 2D picture of a scene from a shape of the occluding object to re-create photograph of indistinct shadows, known as a the scene, they don’t need to know where penumbra, on a neighboring wall. the object is; they can learn that information Currently, their technique works only when while also re-creating the scene. And if there an object of known shape is blocking the scene is motion within the scene while the photos in question, but it requires fewer situational of the penumbra are being snapped, they can necessities compared to other methods. re-create an even more accurate picture.

Murray-Bruce and Saunders say that before Goyal believes that his group’s and timethis one, most techniques (called “time-of-flight” of-flight methods complement each other, and methods) used lasers to shine light onto a visible future research will examine how to combine surface in the hidden area, then used the light both sets of principles to further advance nonthat’s reflected back from the lasers to reconReconstructed images (right) of hidden scenes (left) line-of-sight vision. struct an image of that area. And although the extracted from penumbra photographs (center).

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ULTRA-SENSITIVE MOLECULAR TEST GIVES A MORE ACCURATE MEASUREMENT

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hen doctors want to know how much of something is in your blood, they use various lab techniques, all of which are designed specifically a particular substance and, although sensitive, take the measurement at the end of the test and capture only the resulting snapshot. Now, with a new method developed

by Professor M. Selim Ünlü’s (ECE, MSE, BME) lab, researchers can determine a much more exact measurement by continually observing molecular reactions throughout the test. Their work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and PCR (polymerase chain reaction) are two common molecular analysis tests. The former uses antibodies to test for proteins; the latter synthetic DNA to test for genetic material. They’re commonly used to test for infections and transmittable diseases and show promise in early cancer and traumatic brain injury diagnosis.

In the past decade, advances in these tests have created ways to detect and count very low levels of a target called ultra-sensitive assays.

Despite being able to detect single molecules, the readout isn’t an exact count, but rather a close estimation.

With each test, scientists have designed specific detection molecules that bind to their target. By then measuring the number of bound targets, they can determine the amount of the target in the blood. But sometimes non-target molecules will also bind, which can result in an inaccurate count. This makes it difficult to test for certain classes of E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 9 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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A New Way to Count important yet diverse molecules, such as micro-RNAs. “Our new method allows us to step past the trade-off of sensitivity versus specificity,” says Derin Sevenler, a postdoctoral fellow in Ünlü’s lab. “By recording the duration of the individual binding events on video, we can better determine which were the target molecule and eliminate the signal from other non-target molecules.”

The work described in the PNAS paper builds on Sevenler’s yearslong thesis work published in ACS Nano last year. That paper describes a new digital microarray technique that can detect single molecules using gold nanorods; it’s comparable to other state-of-the-art, single-molecule detection systems called digital counting. This new work uses that technique plus an algorithm to process video of the reaction.

The algorithm sorts each binding event and determines if it was the right molecule that bound. And like all other assays, this one must be calibrated. By documenting the number of binding events with solutions where the concentrations of the target molecules are already known, the researchers can build a dataset. Then, when the algorithm determines the number of binding events per hour, it can relate that back to the data and give a readout of the concentration of target molecules.

In the PNAS paper, the researchers added this video-processing algorithm to dynamically track single-binding events, improving the technique from the ACS Nano paper. When the new results were compared

to the results from using only the previous method without the videoprocessing algorithm, they showed that their technique can detect a much smaller concentration—36 times smaller—than it Individual molecules bind to an atomically could before. flat surface and are detected with Traditional endpoint Interference Reflectance Imaging Sensing (IRIS). Each molecule is labeled with a gold assays like ELISA can’t nanoparticle, which is visible as a faint dark compare to this dynamspot when it contacts the surface. Above is ic-tracking technique a graphical representation of how the IRIS software tracks how long these binding because they can’t detect events last before the bond between the single molecules. And molecule and the surface breaks: each event dynamic tracking not only is circled in a different color. outperforms previous digital counting methods because of its 36-times better sensitivity, it also has a wide field of view and can see 12 different reactions at once.

This level of detection could open the door to accurately see micro- and messenger-RNA, and single-strand biomarkers in ultra-low concentrations, applications that could be used for cancer diagnostics, pre-symptomatic viral infection detection and determining how susceptible an infection is to an antibiotic.

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rofessor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) is known for her pioneering work in building metamaterials, artificially designed materials that have properties not found in nature. Now, Aobo Li, a doctoral student in Zhang’s lab, has flipped that concept around to study the properties and functions of a natural material to improve on metamaterial designs.

Li chose to study a type of unicellular algae called diatoms. Their cell walls, or frustules, are made of silica and are hard, like a shell; depending on the species, these shells vary in shape, size and other physical characteristics. In work published in Small and Advanced Functional Materials, both as cover images, Zhang, Li and collaborators studied a particular diatom’s structure, used it as a scaffold to grow nanowires and, most recently, mimicked its structural pattern when making their own metamaterials.

“A lot of researchers find inspiration in their daily lives. Sometimes it’s a random occurrence or thought that connects two ideas together, or

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sometimes it’s more purposeful and they choose to study a phenomenon they become curious about,” Zhang notes. “In my field, that typically isn’t the case, but Aobo has shown how we can expand our inspiration and draw from natural elements and perhaps innovate in ways we couldn’t before.”

As an engineer, Zhang is accustomed to building for a purpose, maybe to fill a gap in current technology. Li has brought science into the lab, seeking answers for the sake of curiosity and then turning those answers into specific purposes.

After understanding the diatom’s properties and its unique structure, they chose to mimic those properties in making the completely artificial metamaterial. The frustule they used as inspiration has a hierarchical pattern of hexagonally spread pores; each pore is inside a group of hexagonally arranged pores as the pores get smaller and smaller. The original frustule looks like a honeycomb, an intricate, repeating pattern of tiny holes arranged in a hexagonal pattern even as they get smaller.

Gold nanowires grow on the frustule of the diatom.

Other researchers have attempted to make metamaterials with hexagonally arranged pores, but instead of arranging those hexagons in hexagons, they arranged them in lines. Preserving the hierarchical pattern in a metamaterial gave Zhang and Li a metamaterial with new properties and the potential to create broadband infrared absorbers.

Although this offers a practical application, the biggest takeaway from their research investigating is why this new metamaterial is such a good infrared absorber—and that comes back to the bio-inspired hierarchical patterns of the pores in the metamaterial.

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Innovation through Bio-Inspired Metamaterials

Strength in Numbers SYNTHETIC BIOLOGISTS ADD COOPERATIVE MOLECULES TO THEIR TOOLKIT

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laborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals from the environment in order to perform desired cellular functions. Synthetic biologists have been able to reconstruct and mimic simpler forms of this cellular signal processing, but now, a new toolset powered by self-assembling molecules and predictive modeling will allow researchers to construct the complex computation and signal processing found in eukaryotic organisms, including human cells.

This work by Associate Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME), Assistant Professor Caleb Bashor of Rice University, BME graduate student Nikit Patel, and other colleagues at MIT, Harvard, the Broad Institute and Brandeis University has been published in Science.

The type of combinatorial signal processing that they’ve been able to engineer synthetically is what cells naturally and elegantly do to enable intricate tasks, like those in embryonic development and differentiation.

“By taking a common principle that we know exists in nature—the ability for regulatory molecules to collaborate and form higher-order assemblies—you can program cells to execute very difficult computational and combinatorial problems,” Khalil explains. “This represents a very different way of engineering genetic circuits than is traditionally done, and it can open up a new class of cellular functions that we can mimic and control.”

First, the researchers built a library of simple, synthetic molecular components that can interact with one another—each of these components has its own unique chemical and kinetic makeup, which can be used to understand its behavior. Using these known properties, they constructed a quantitative model that can predict how different combinations of those molecules come together to build higher-order assemblies. They could then use that predictive model as a guide to design genetic circuits that take advantage of combinatorial assembly to execute desired signal processing functions.

The complex itself is made up of three components: a synthetic transcription factor that controls gene activation; the sequence

of DNA where that transcription factor binds; and a synthetic “clamp” molecule that secures the three pieces together.

That complex can allow them to tune the strength of the cell’s response to an input signal, and shut the response on and off at desired times.

But it’s also much more than that.

“What we are harnessing and trying to build is one of the most powerful and universal features of biology: cooperativity,” Khalil points out. “One way to think about cooperativity is that it allows for the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts.”

“You can think about cooperativity as the same type of signal-processing feature that gives you an analog-to-digital converter,” Bashor adds. “An analog-to-digital converter takes something that’s basically linear and turns it into something switch-like.”

Using their system, engineered cells are made to produce assembly components in response to a desired chemical or environmental input. In one experiment, they programmed yeast cells to respond to two different chemicals, and specifically to respond to varying concentrations of the two chemicals in either analog or digital fashion.

In the analog circuits, the response is continuous; if a small concentration of either or both chemicals is present, there is a graded response. But in the digital circuits, there is an all-or-nothing, discrete response—like a signal conversion to binary code, which is only comprised of 0s and 1s, off and on.

By taking advantage of their new ability to adjust the cooperativity between assembly components, they showed that they could convert the cell’s response from dull to sharp—the more cooperative the complex, the sharper the response. The sharpness of a response—how acutely and intensely a system responds when a signal reaches a critical threshold—is key for digital signal processing.

“Engineering this type of response into transcription factors was central for allowing us to program cells to perform a diverse array of complex functions, such as Boolean logic, time-dependent filtering and even frequency decoding,” Khalil notes.

Associate Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil

That upgrade from analog to digital is the culmination of years of research. The analog-to-digital converter and their other synthetic gene circuits can be used to explore and manipulate the regulatory programs that guide immune and stem cell functions, with the ultimate goal of developing transformational cell-based therapeutics from engineered human cells.

“It’s well known that nature has perfected very powerful information processing with only a small number of parts, but deconvoluting precisely how this works is virtually impossible in human cells due to their complexity,” Dr. Tom Ellis (who was not part of the research) says. “By re-creating the way human cells process information at the DNA level, but in a simple yeast cell model with synthetic parts, they have been able to re-create complex signaling from first principles. This is an excellent example of how thinking like an engineer can unlock a new way to answer major biology questions.”

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igh-power lasers are crucial for biological imaging in research, manufacturing and remote sensing, but most in use today are built with bulk crystals, require careful alignment and maintenance, are expensive and often, not portable. Optical fiber lasers offer solutions to all of those shortcomings, but developing short-pulse, high-power fiber lasers at desired wavelengths is challenging.

Now, Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) and his lab have observed a new effect within fiber optics that opens up a stable and effective way to develop and use a fiberoptic cable to create a laser that can produce high-power light at desired colors. Their work has been published in Optica.

“This paper is a satisfying conclusion of experiments where we were able to achieve the laser performance of interest to biomedical imaging, out of a compact flexible optical fiber, for the first time,” Ramachandran says.

His lab is positioned to do this work due to their expertise in what’s known as multimode fiber optics, a field in which one can control the physical path that light takes as it propagates through a fiber.

Lars Rishoj, a BU senior research scientist and the first author on the study, says that their results were surprising because

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wo undergraduate teams have advanced to the final round of the Cornell Cup, a premier national competition for undergraduate engineering students, and one team won the People’s Choice award during the finals in May. “Both teams are exceptional, with highly dedicated and motivated students,” says Associate Professor of the Practice Alan Pisano (ECE), who advises the teams and teaches the senior design seminars in which both teams first developed their projects.

The competition is a chance for undergraduate students to win up to $10,000 in prize money and showcase their ideas nationally.

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the light behaved in a completely new way by traveling in what’s known as a soliton, or a solitary wave packet, that self-propagates without distortions. In contrast to conventional single-mode fibers, however, owing to the multiple pathways allowed by multimode fibers, these solitons were found to discretely jump across a wide range of wavelengths. By studying the variables of this phenomenon, the researchers were able to choose the wavelength as well as power of light pulses that emanated from the fiber.

“When we discovered this new effect in multimode fibers, exclusive to short pulses of light—short meaning roughly a tenth of a trillionth of a second—we thought it was interesting, but debilitating to the experiment we were then conducting,” Ramachandran explains. “But soon we realized that this

‘lemon’ could result in lemonade because the effect is useful for a new way to create very high-power, short-pulse lasers, of the kind especially useful for imaging deep in the brain.”

By demonstrating their technique with a light wavelength output of 1300nm, a significant wavelength commonly used to image inside cells in laboratory research, the researchers showed a real-world application of multimode fibers in their study. Since their output is directly from a flexible fiber, it could also be used for endoscopy or for developing tethered, wearable microscopes.

“More fundamentally, the process works at any wavelength,” Rishoj notes. “You can basically take any laser, and using this process, you can shift the light to a longer wavelength.”

This could lead to new ways to develop lasers in the crucial mid-infrared spectrum.

The short, high-power pulse of light (in red) travels through the multimode optical fiber. As it travels down the fiber, the packet of light jumps from wavelength to wavelength, a newly observed effect in multimode fiber optics.

The teams, RiverSonde and Vulcan IoT, are headed by student leaders Victor Ly (CE) and Pablo Ferreyra (EE), both seniors. In addition to Ly and Ferreyra, RiverSonde’s members include Anthony Byrne (EE), Adian Mikulic (EE), Nikunj Khetan (ME) and Andy Whitman (ME), while Nicholas Arnold, Soon Sung Hong, Rachel Manzelli and Isa Mustafa, all EE students, make up the Vulcan IoT team.

The Vulcan loT project impressed attendees so much that it was picked for the People’s Choice award at the end of the competition.

“RiverSonde has two mechanical engineers on the team and demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary teamwork in the college,” Pisano says. “Vulcan is a great example of the value of big data and machine learning to solving important problems. Both projects have significant societal value and highlight

the focus of the college in developing the Societal Engineer.”

RiverSonde is developing a low-profile underwater sensor suite that enables inexpensive remote collection of water-quality data from rivers and streams; they chose this project due to rivers and streams being significantly understudied compared with other bodies of water.

“We’ve designed RiverSonde to be hydroelectrically powered by a river’s natural current, making it deployable in low-sunlight areas, and mesh-networking-ready, meaning a multiple-sonde network can be deployed to take remote measurements even in areas without cellular coverage,” Ly explains.

“By implementing sensors and electronics that are typically only found in $3,000plus laboratory probes while still keeping RiverSonde’s base cost under $500, we hope

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to give budget-constrained research and regulatory agencies a powerful new tool to help preserve our rivers for generations to come.

It really is such an amazing opportunity to do great engineering and to have our work shared with the broader academic and research community.”

Vulcan IoT has developed a cheap, lowpower consumption internet-of-things device that monitors environmental factors—such as

humidity, temperature and soil dryness—that contribute to wildfire development, and uses algorithms to predict wildfire occurrence. The Vulcan IoT integrates these outside variables with machine learning algorithms trained on 50 years of fire-inducing weather patterns, analyzes the data via Amazon Web Services and assesses the danger of the current weather conditions in real time to notify responsible agencies so that they can contain the wildfires.

“Our mission is to prevent wildfires and the loss of more lives and homes,” Ferreyra says. “The growing threat that wildfires have posed to the state of California alone requires a new and innovative solution. Since the beginning of 2018, just under 1.5 million acres of land have been burned to the ground by record-breaking wildfires. The current approach to taming wildfires is retrospective, but the Vulcan IoT is preemptive.”

Portable Water Purifier ‘Blue Life’ Wins Imagineering Competition

entrepreneurial capabilities for a chance to win cash prizes and further develop their work. The winning project this year is called Blue Life, a portable, hand-crank-powered water purifier that uses UVc LED lights. He came up with the idea after traveling to Kenya, where access to clean water can be a problem, especially for some nomadic tribes.

“I think the committee liked that I took an experience that I had and applied it to engineering rather than trying to fit an idea to a problem,” Fiaschetti notes. “This purifier will be fully sustainable and fully independent by using the reliability of LEDs to purify the water.”

The solutions to provide clean water to those living or traveling in low-resource areas have mostly been portable water filters that need to be replaced every few months or require regular maintenance, or chemical purification that can be harmful to the environment.

Before UVc LED bulbs were manufactured,

the only way to get a UV light was from a mercury bulb, which is dangerous to humans and the environment and must be handled carefully. LED bulbs are more versatile, and allowed Fiaschetti to create a purification system with the lights inside of a tube that the water would pass through to get clean.

“Earlier this year when I was taking a fluid dynamics class, I took a study break and walked along the esplanade,” he recalls. “During that break, I had this idea of generating power from water pressure, but it wasn’t fully formed yet.

Although the prototype I eventually built of Blue Life doesn’t work off of a water pressure differential, that initial spark gave me the idea, and then through trial and error I was able to come up with a proof-of-concept prototype.”

As the winner, Fiaschetti—who last year won the Best in Class prize as a freshman for his design of a collapsible longboard—will receive a $3,000 grant for product development,

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lean water can be hard to come by in parts of the world where advanced plumbing systems with water filters are uncommon. A past solution has been to use ultraviolet light, and with the increased capability of LEDs to provide a UV light source, this option has become safe, affordable, easy to implement in households and potentially portable. Imagineering Competition 2019 student winner sophomore Justin Fiaschetti (ME) hopes to use the UV-light capability to kill bacteria and turn unsafe water into a clean and safe option.

The Imagineering Competition invites undergraduates to submit extracurricular projects that showcase their creativity and

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The water runs through the clear tube; the LED lights are blue lights that show proofof-concept for developing the purifier with UVc LEDs.

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assistance with patent filing and intellectual property, an invitation to serve on the competition committee next year and marketing analysis consultation.

The $1,500, second-place prize went to junior Adin Field (ME), who presented a cellular-connected refrigerator monitor that sits inside the refrigerator and uses SMS to alert owners if the temperature has dipped below safety standard levels. Field will also receive assistance in patent submission and marketing analysis consultation.

The committee awarded four Best in Class prizes of $500 each: Peter Siegel (ME) was the freshman winner for his non-rigid airborne wind turbine; sophomores Sadie Allen (ECE) and Constantinos Gerontis (ECE) won the category for designing their smart,

linkable organization system called Modulo; Kaihui Gou (ECE), Kang Tai (ECE) and Andrea Cheng (ECE) won the junior prize for their remote control assistance robot; and Nikunj Khetan (ME) took home the senior prize for his quadcopter drone that works in collaboration with his senior design project, RiverSonde, which maps water pollution.

The Imagineering Competition is supported by John Maccarone (ENG’66).

The hand crank seen in the back turns a set of gears that powers a small motor whose power is transferred to electricity and the UVc LEDs.

How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into MRSA Treatment

Photonics researchers at Boston University have developed a drug-free treatment for tough-to-treat MRSA infections. Their technique, which they are preparing to take into a clinical trial, uses phototherapy and hydrogen peroxide to kill 99.9 percent of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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or decades, hydrogen peroxide has been used to treat open wounds by killing everyday bacteria so cuts can heal faster.

Now, with the help of a blue LED light or laser, it can be made powerful enough to kill a particularly lethal kind of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Researchers who invented the technique say they have shown, experimentally, that it can kill 99.9 percent of methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA. (Methicillin is a common antibiotic.) In people, MRSA, which often spreads very quickly, can cause skin and soft tissue infections as well as life-threatening sepsis.

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE, Chemistry & Physics), senior author of the Advanced Science paper on their findings, says it was a Boston University CARB-X report that inspired some members of his biophotonics lab—which manipulates the properties of light for biological and medical applications—to join the fight against antibiotic resistance, pointing out that the report indicated that antibiotic development cannot keep pace with evolving bacteria and that nonconventional approaches are needed.

Cheng’s lab was most interested in tackling MRSA, since it’s difficult to treat and can cause deadly pneumonia infections

in addition to sepsis. In the United States, MRSA infects about 90,000 people each year, leading to approximately 20,000 deaths.

Although it can thrive anywhere people come into contact with each other, it’s especially common in hospitals and nursing homes, where people are more likely to have surgical incisions and skin abrasions. Opportunistic MRSA infections often take root in small breaks in the skin, and because antibiotics aren’t very effective in treating them, can quickly spread throughout the body.

“Golden pigmentation is the universal signature of S. aureus, or MRSA,” Cheng says. While imaging S. aureus under the microscope, the team noticed that blue light caused a traumatic photobleaching effect— destroying pigment molecules responsible for the cells’ golden color—in as fast as seconds of exposure. “For imaging purposes, this is bad,” Cheng explains. “But if it’s bleached, we wondered, is it still alive?”

When MRSA’s golden pigment molecules decompose under blue light, the cell membranes become checkered with vulnerable spots. The team found that blue light destabilizes MRSA cells enough to kill about 90 percent of the bacterial culture, which sounds powerful, but 90 percent isn’t good enough for clinical applications. In fact, in as little as half an hour, the researchers observed that MRSA was able to recover and start multiplying again.

“MRSA grows back very quickly, so to be effective, we need to kill 99.9 percent of bacteria,” notes Pu-Ting Dong, the study’s lead author.

But when hydrogen peroxide is delivered in combination with blue light, it’s able to flood the insides of MRSA cells and cause them to biologically implode, eradicating 99.9 percent of bacteria.

“Antibiotics alone cannot effectively get inside MRSA cells,” Cheng says. “But photons can penetrate a cell.” By doing so, they open a window of opportunity for hydrogen peroxide to wreak havoc.

Perhaps what’s most promising is that blue light phototherapy doesn’t affect healthy cells of the body, so the technique could be used to treat MRSA infections without harming any surrounding tissue or skin.

Partnering with Purdue University microbiologists and researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Wellman Center for Photomedicine, the group analyzed the therapy’s effectiveness in mice, observing that the blue light plus hydrogen peroxide treatment sped the healing of skin wounds infected with MRSA. Since then, the team has made further strides, discovering that pulse laser therapy is even more effective at killing MRSA. “Using a pulsing blue laser, we can significantly shorten the therapy time and

increase the depth of tissues we can effectively treat,” says Jie Hui, a postdoctoral researcher in Cheng’s lab and a coauthor on the paper. “The laser light feels painless and doesn’t give off any sensation of heat, ideal for clinical applications.”

Now, Cheng’s lab is teaming up with David Negron, a Boston Medical Center foot surgeon and BU School of Medicine instructor of surgery, to develop a clinical trial evaluating the technique’s ability to treat patients with diabetic ulcers.

Diabetes, which causes high blood sugar, can damage a person’s circulation and nerves, making it more difficult for the body to heal wounds, especially those located on the lower extremities. Open wounds that can’t heal are highly susceptible to MRSA, and until now, there haven’t been any good options for treatment. As the infection takes hold, it can create a biofilm, a slimy buildup of bacteria that becomes even more stubborn to treat.

“If we can treat diabetic ulcers, that will change people’s lives,” Cheng says. “As scientists, we don’t just want to publish papers, we also want to return the fruits of our work and research funding to society.”

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Jie Hui, Pu-Ting Dong and Professor Ji-Xin Cheng will now focus on translating the blue light therapy into the clinic, where they hope it can help treat patients with diabetic ulcers.

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MULTIPLICATION BY DIVISIONS A conversation at a division seminar led to the research collaboration between Professors Soumendra Basu (left) and Siddharth Ramachandran (right) to develop an optical fiber that fills a gap in current technology.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY DIVISIONS MEAN MORE RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS

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uel cell use could be one of the best ways to mitigate climate change—fuel cells work like batteries, provide efficient power and don’t emit air pollutants. But there are multiple barriers in research and development before they will be available to a commercial market.

Professor Soumendra Basu (ME, MSE) has been working on fuel cells, but, along with everyone else, was stymied by one of those barriers: the material used on the cell’s cathode was unstable and subject to decomposition. For help, he reached out to Professor Karl Ludwig in the Physics Department.

“We have been using really state-of-the-art methods to look at just the surface of these materials to figure out how stable they are,” Basu explains. “And that’s where we collaborate with surface scientists from physics. We bring in the materials and device expertise here in engineering, and the surface scientists bring in the expertise to look at only a very, very thin surface to figure out what’s going on.

“We really made some contributions in understanding the instability of the surface, and this collaborative effort showed how not only the composition of this material, but also how strained it is, plays a role in this surface instability.”

The connection between engineer and physicist was facilitated by their membership in the College of Engineering’s Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) Division, a research-focused unit that includes 87 faculty members from several BU schools.

Their ability to work together and even supervise the same graduate students comes from the MSE Division, without which, this work may not have been successful.

INNOVATING AT EVERY LEVEL The MSE and Systems Engineering (SE) Divisions are built on a unique concept.

“The idea was to create these divisions that would cut across departments and act as a glue among people that may be in different departments, but those people have a common technical language, and do work in the same application space or work that is driven by similar methodologies,” says Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE).

Shortly after assuming the deanship, Kenneth R. Lutchen initiated a review of the academic units with an eye toward aligning the college’s strengths with emerging societal needs; among the results was the creation of the two interdisciplinary divisions that complement the traditional academic departments of Biomedical, Mechanical and Electrical & Computer Engineering.

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Systems engineering and materials science & engineering are two extremely versatile disciplines, and can be applied to almost every field, systems dealing with the more abstract practice of processes and optimization, and materials with the physical world and what things are made of.

Not only are both SE and MSE subject matters unique, but so is the concept of a division. Each faculty member who has an appointment or affiliation in one of the divisions also has a primary appointment in a traditional academic department, which can be within or outside of the College of Engineering. The two main division missions are to act as research units and to award master’s and doctoral degrees, which distinguishes them from discipline-specific departments that also award bachelor’s degrees (although undergraduates can minor in a division), and from research centers that do not award degrees.

“It was really a visionary thing for Engineering to do at the time,” Paschalidis offers. “I think it amplified the strength of the college because we are a particularly small college compared to the rest of the University, but also compared to other institutions. It allowed us to enhance interdisciplinary work, create bridges between departments, and reduce the height of the barriers between departments.”

Division heads Professor David Bishop (ECE, Physics, MSE, ME, BME) and Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) agree.

Assistant Professor Keith Brown (left) and Professor Elise Morgan (right) are trying to figure out how and when different structures fail under compression.

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“When the two divisions were formed, they had to establish themselves in terms of research and build an identity of their own right,” Professor Michael Caramanis (ME, SE) explains. “It took some time, but by now they have managed to be quite successful.”

Success in this case means increasing the size of their faculty, funding and enrollment—all indications that the research is thriving—which over the past 11 years, both divisions have done.

Appointed and affiliated faculty across both divisions now totals 118, up from 87 in 2008; funding in SE has increased from $29 million in 2008 to $47 million in 2017, and has skyrocketed in MSE from $22 million to $82 million in the same time period. Graduate enrollment is up, too, from 32 to 67 in SE, and from 20 to 72 in MSE from 2008 to 2017.

Perhaps the most illustrative sign of success has been the numerous research collaborations within the divisions. Sparked in different ways, these projects range from one researcher lending expertise to another, to large grants that support research projects spanning departments and colleges.

Both divisions have recently helped secure multimilliondollar, collaborative grants that

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involve other colleges at BU as well as other universities. In 2018, Bishop spearheaded the effort that won the University the $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center with the goal of creating personalized heart tissue for clinical use. And this year, Paschalidis led a group as the principal investigator (PI) that was awarded a $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense for developing bio-inspired autonomous control systems.

Cassandras believes that all engineering research is headed down the kind of interdisciplinary path the divisions were created to pursue. “From a research standpoint, the divisions make complete sense because all of engineering has become interdisciplinary,” he points out. “That’s why you see all of these multi-PI projects with people from many different departments. Twenty years ago it would happen, but it was rare. Now, it’s the rule. If anything, we are going to see more divisions like SE and MSE because of how intertwined research has become.”

BUILDING BRIDGES Professor Soumendra Basu (ME, MSE) remembers a chance encounter with Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) at a division seminar being the catalyst for a collaboration that grew from a discussion of an NSF grant.

“The materials science division had a speaker come in and talk about optical fibers, and our resident expert is Siddharth,” says Basu, MSE associate director. “I knew him well, but we never really talked science. So we attended the seminar and then we were just talking outside and he says, ‘Yeah, this is a big problem. There really are no good fibers for mid-infrared range. All the communication fibers are in the visible wavelength.’”

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such novel ideas is all dependent on funding, and since large funding agencies like the NSF generally require at least some preliminary results that attest to the research’s promise, the college offers seed-money grants like the Dean’s Catalyst Awards to help get such projects off the ground.

After winning seed grants from the division and the college, Basu and Ramachandran began work, then applied for an NSF grant and were awarded more than $440,000 to continue the research.

“Nobody is more surprised than I was because I knew nothing about optical fibers, I just knew about processing,” Basu admits.

“So this seminar and the division got two people with two totally different areas of expertise together.”

In the end, their project produced the most efficient fiber for the mid-infrared range.

Even within departments, expertise can vary. Both Professor Elise Morgan (ME, MSE, BME) and Assistant Professor Keith Brown (ME, MSE, Physics) have primary appointments in Mechanical Engineering, the former in the mechanical behavior of biological materials and the latter in nanotechnology and soft materials.

Their research collaboration explores an autonomous method to engineer tough hierarchical materials, a project facilitated by the MSE division. Like Basu and Ramachandran’s collaboration, Morgan and Brown secured a Dean’s Catalyst Award.

Brown’s lab focuses on developing new methods, typically tools, to investigate properties of polymers and soft matter at the mesoscale—the level of matter in between micro- and macroscopic (around 0.1mm to 1mm). He is motivated by the lack of knowledge about the properties of materials at that scale, which is driven by the absence of the necessary tools.

“I was thinking about a 3D-printing system where you can create a structure, test it and then learn from it,” he says. “So if you’ve got an autonomous system you could give it a hypothesis, 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.”

“It became clear to me that one of the most interesting questions you can ask is, How do materials fail?” he continues. “Failure is really interesting because it’s very hard to simulate. It’s pretty clear how a material or structure is going to behave, but as you push it to the point where it starts to crumble, it becomes much more complicated.

And so experiments are really necessary to test it.”

Brown knew that Morgan’s expertise was in bone biomechanics: “And, of course, one of the things we worry about with bones is them breaking, right? So we started talking about how we can learn about different failure mechanisms from an automated researcher.”

As of now, they have completed work on the autonomous system and are beginning to use it to test structures. The system will print a 3D structure, remove it from the printer, put it on a scale, and crush it. It will record every detail of the process, creating a vast database of structures and data around how they behave when they are crushed and potentially experience failure.

“The idea is if you have a lot of data coming in, you can use deep learning approaches to recognize structures that have done better with specific features and explore that region more,” Morgan says.

“The vision is to do such a large volume in the course of a day, whereas it might have taken human researchers months to test that volume.”

And the property that Brown and Morgan first chose to explore is toughness, which is directly related to failure.

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“I think the great research universities like BU have a moral obligation to work on the great problems.”

Toughness and strength are also related, but separate properties.

Glass, she 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.

“If you have glass with a scratch on the surface, it’s going to fracture from a much smaller load than steel,” she explains. “Steel is much more defect tolerant, meaning it’s much tougher than glass.”

“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 definitely lagged behind,” she says. “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.”

The bone itself is made of mineral, which is pretty brittle—tough but not strong. It’s attached to collagen, which is stretchy and strong but not necessarily tough. Together, these two materials create a synergistic structure that boosts the toughness of the entire system.

But the way those two components work together is complicated and not well understood.

“With advances in additive manufacturing, you make very complicated hierarchical component designs,” Morgan notes.

“The rate-limiting step to find the best design 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.”

Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (left) and Professor Sandor Vajda (right) have built an open-source tool that helps researchers across the globe predict protein-protein interactions.

Morgan says that these new structures could be used for protection, such as pads inside of a helmet, and potentially synthetic bone substitutes in the future.

The entire system—including the robotic elements and the software—took about a year to build. They also pulled in another faculty member, Assistant Professor Emily Whiting (Computer Science), to help with the complicated algorithm development. The three applied for and were awarded a Research Incubation Award from BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

In order to have the system be autonomous and not just automated, it needed to run machine learning algorithms during the testing and evaluating 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.

CREATING SPACE In addition to creating new collaborations, the divisions have also helped older ones bring in new funding and graduate students.

Professor Sandor Vajda (BME, SE) and Paschalidis have been working together since before the establishment of the divisions, but have benefited from the collaborative space the divisions have created.

Their decades-long project involves building an automated server to predict how one protein might bind, or dock, to another one. Experimentally, this is an extremely difficult problem to solve

in a biological lab, but by using computational methods, they have developed methodologies for predicting protein structures.

Vajda says that although this work has direct implications in the biomedical space, the work requires a strong background in mathematics and computational methods—a skill set commonly found in systems engineering graduate students. Now under SE, Vajda and Paschalidis can bring these students in to work on computationally heavy projects, and they don’t need a background in chemistry or biology. Instead of approaching the problem from a life sciences standpoint, they can approach it from another angle.

That versatility is what makes these two areas of research so encompassing. Paschalidis, for example, collaborates on projects that involve many different areas, including protein docking, optimizing travel routes to mitigate traffic, and predicting and monitoring radiation-exposure levels in hospitals.

Both of these far-reaching disciplines, although very different, are heavily involved in research to help solve the climate change crisis. SE researchers attempt to optimize smart grids to cut electricity usage, and MSE researchers are developing new materials for more efficient renewable energy generation and storage.

“I think the great research universities like BU have a moral obligation to work on the great problems,” says Bishop. “We’re lucky enough to live very comfortable lives, and I think that comes with the responsibility to focus on some of the big, important problems, which fundamentally require interdisciplinary research.”

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TAKING UP MAKING SPACE ALUM WORKS TO DIVERSIFY VOICES IN ENGINEERING

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rom a young age, Jill Albertelli (ENG’91) liked to solve problems.

She remembers enjoying science and math, and at home, she’d do things like take apart the vacuum cleaner.

“You name it—if it was mechanical, I took it apart at some point,” she says. “But I always put it back together.”

Now, as vice president of Quality at Pratt & Whitney, a jet engine manufacturer, Albertelli is constantly re-engineering practices and processes to improve their business. She not only wants to create a better product, but also wants to be part of the change that creates better ways of working—by bringing more gender diversity to engineering and advancing the perception of what it means to work in Quality.

IT’S ABOUT When it comes to diversity, Albertelli CREATING A sponsors Pratt & Whitney’s women’s council WORKFORCE and is involved in increasing STEM educaCOHESIVE IN tion among young boys and girls.

THEIR GOAL, BUT It’s about creating a workforce that is HETEROGENEOUS cohesive in their goal, but heterogeneous in IN THEIR BACKtheir backgrounds and skill sets, she says.

GROUNDS AND And then it’s about constantly connecting SKILL SETS. AND those groups of people.

THEN IT’S ABOUT “In April we held a women’s leadership CONSTANTLY forum where we had over 1,000 women and CONNECTING men from across the company attend,” she THOSE GROUPS says. “We really position it as a leadership OF PEOPLE. development day. There was a panel of speakers from across the company talking about their career journeys, including everything from job duties to work-life balance.”

And she points out that an event like this isn’t just beneficial for women, but also for men because it helps inform them not only as managers but also direct reports and colleagues. “We also bring in a motivational speaker to talk about different aspects of being in an environment that’s typically more male dominated and managing our way through that,” she says.

With STEM, Albertelli is involved in several initiatives to increase educational opportunities for young school children.

She invites middle and high school students to tour the company’s manufacturing facility and participate in a “job fair” where they can learn about the different types of jobs at the company. And Pratt & Whitney offers internships to students as early as high school.

To her, it’s not just about educating young boys and girls about opportunities in STEM that they could be interested in, but about enhancing innovation.

“It’s proven that when you have a more diverse workforce from all angles that the innovation level of the business is outstanding,” she says. “It’s not just about bringing more women into the picture, but creating a well-rounded group of workers from all backgrounds.”

She knows that this kind of training and exposure can be valuable from her own experience in the Pratt & Whitney manufacturing engineering development program that she completed after graduating from BU. The two-year program consists of up to three jobs in various departments at the company, and exposes new employees to different aspects of jet engine design, manufacturing and repair.

“The program allows you to see and experience different jobs, including a supervisory role,” says Albertelli. “It was great because it was a bit of a jump start as an early career engineer and it gave me the opportunity to really find what I loved doing.”

And although in her 28 years at Pratt & Whitney Albertelli hasn’t stayed in one department, she loves the company’s atmosphere, mission and people. To her, it’s not about a career in a specific field, like jet engine design for example, but rather the type of work she gets to do.

“I love doing a lot of problem-solving,” she says. “I knew I didn’t want to be behind a computer 100 percent of my time, but I’d rather be out on shop floors, talking to engineers and working with people to understand their processes.”

At one point she took a job in sales, which seemed an odd fit for an engineer. But in a business like jet engines, sales teams need engineers.

“We needed technical people to be able to sell our product, and I was well positioned to do that,” she says. “Many of the different jobs I’ve had at Pratt & Whitney I was asked to step into, including my role now.”

“At some point I figured out that I liked the problem-solving aspect of my work,” she says. “I really liked the thought process. And the technical aspects I learned throughout engineering school can be generally applicable in many different situations.”

At the beginning of her time at BU, Albertelli focused on chemical engineering. But prior to her freshman year, she worked at BU in a lab. During her time there, Professor Ted de Winter stopped in the lab and introduced himself and convinced her to sit in on some of his classes. And that is what ended up drawing her into the manufacturing engineering curriculum.

It was the chance to innovate twice that intrigued her: once during the design process and again when she has to actually build the product.

In aerospace, Albertelli was excited by the exceptionally high level of technology and design that goes into the product. Now after being in the aviation industry for almost 30 years, she’s come to see jet engines as more than a very technical product.

“We design and manufacture jet engines, and there are only a handful of companies in the world that can do that,” she says. “What we do is critical from a safety standpoint, lives depend on us. But by working in aerospace I’ve also been able to travel the globe and see how aviation connects economies and helps them grow. We also connect families and support our military.”

With that pride for her industry, employer and product, she’s using her background as an engineer and current position to change how people think about Quality. In almost any industry, she says, the Quality role is seen as a policing function, but she is determined to change that.

“A big part of my role has been communication to help all of our employees understand that different things they do in their job every day can impact the quality of our product,” she says. “That includes a machinist on the shop floor, an engineer making a design or a finance person deciding on a budget.”

Even in an executive leadership role, Albertelli wants to reconcile differences, and bring solutions to not just technical problems but also indirect issues like departmental reputations and company interconnectivity.

Like she says, “Give me a good challenge and I want to go solve it.”

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drian Williams (ENG’01,’07) has always thought about the world from the perspective of “what could be,” within his engineering discipline and in his educational and career pursuits. He’s helped develop novel technologies while getting a doctoral degree in electrical engineering, and most recently won a Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) in Outstanding Technical Contribution in Industry for his work throughout his 12-year career at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.

Williams received his master’s and doctoral degrees from BU’s Electrical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering, studying under Professor Emeritus Theodore Moustakas.

Moustakas remembers Williams as one of his brightest students, and notes that he has attracted many students from Moustakas’s lab to work at Raytheon.

“Adrian was one of the most creative PhD students that I was privileged to have mentored during my career at Boston University,” Moustakas says. “He is a gifted experimental scientist and engineer with a very strong theoretical background.”

“I resonated with the freedom an engineering PhD program affords an individual to creatively tackle problems without known solutions,” Williams explains. “There is inevitably a lot of headbanging in the process, but you are paired with a world-class professor, becoming essentially their protégé absorbing their knowledge and experience as you become a self-sufficient contributor to the field.”

Williams has definitely contributed to his field. At Raytheon, he works as a manager in the semiconductor foundry that makes components for many of the company’s product lines, including radar, jammer, communication and directed energy systems.

Found in smartphones and computers, semiconductors are responsible for the technological revolution. The most common material used in their production is silicon, which has served manufacturers well for the past few decades as improvements are made on existing technology. But there are other materials, such as gallium nitride (GaN)—which Williams has worked with during his entire Raytheon career—that perform better than silicon in semiconductors.

GaN is better because it needs less electricity to power it and also loses less of that electricity when it’s functioning. That means devices made with GaN can be smaller than those made with silicon, and operate on less power.

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In 2009, Raytheon became the first company in the defense industry to launch a GaN foundry, in which Williams played a big part. That same foundry is where Williams is a leader today, and where the company makes GaN integrated circuits, then successfully deploys them into defense systems.

What makes GaN particularly appealing to defense companies is how its sensitivity can afford devices better capabilities in detecting, discriminating and tracking objects at farther distances than silicon can. Developing a radar system that is also smaller can extend its lifetime and transportability, two other key objectives in engineering for defense purposes.

Williams’ contributions to this work led Colin S. Whelan, vice president of advanced technology at Raytheon, to nominate him for the Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) from Black Engineer magazine. Whelan’s nomination letter cites his technical work and more: “Today, Adrian leads a team of fifteen engineers tasked with optimizing the production GaN processes for yield and cycle time. Both as a technical expert and a functional manager, he spends the time to share his vast knowledge with his earlier career employees, mentoring and advocating for them. He provides feedback and continuous communication on how their team fits into the broader company strategy as to grow the careers and capability of his team.”

Whelan’s nomination package includes letters from Whelan, Vice President of Engineering Danielle Curcio, Director of Radio Frequency Components Francois Colomb, Principal Engineering Fellow Nicholas Kolias and engineering fellow Christopher MacDonald.

Williams has received multiple awards from Raytheon and was named Modern Day Technology Leader BEYA in 2011. He holds five patents, with three more pending, all within the GaN technology area.

“The work I’m most proud of at Raytheon are things that I’ve developed in the past as well as projects that I’m working on now that are actually being utilized in real systems that are being fielded to protect the United States warfighter and keep our country safe,” he says. “There’s actually a stark reality to the work, it’s not hypothetical or theoretical, and people are actually depending on the technology that we are developing today.”

That practicality is also what drew him into engineering when he was an undergraduate at Brown University.

“I ultimately focused on electrical engineering because I was fascinated by the invisible energies of electromagnetics and the defiance of classical mechanics shown by the electron and kindred sub-

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TODAY, HE MULTIPLIES HIS EFFECT THROUGH MANAGING A TEAM OF 15 ENGINEERS TASKED TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE ON THE TECHNOLOGIES HE HAD A HAND IN CREATING.

atomic particles,” he recalls. “Most importantly though, engineering offered a practical avenue to make use of scientific knowledge for the immediate betterment of mankind through technology creation and improvement.”

Williams also wanted to improve his own outcomes through education. He grew up with a single mother in Brooklyn, N.Y., who told him that “education was the key to unlock whatever potential you had.”

“I never wanted education level to be a barrier for anything I wanted to pursue in life,” he stresses. “I figured if I attained the highest level of education possible, this would not be an issue.”

BU’s faculty and facilities were selling points.

“Boston University’s world-renowned reputation as an institution paired with its impressive, newly created Photonics Center facility were instrumental in my decision to attend,” he says. “I have found my training invaluable and it has greatly influenced my professional career.”

While at BU, Williams studied and trained under Moustakas, a GaN technology pioneer whose research focused on using GaN semiconductors to create blue light–emitting diodes (LEDs) was first successful in 1990, was issued a patent in 1997, and is being used in countless consumer electronic devices today.

“I was intrigued by what the technology did and the space in which the technology could be used, and the fact that there was a race to make certain functional devices—all of that was exciting,” Williams remembers. “Through the manipulation of the physical materials in these electronic devices, you can create the full spectrum of light, and there were pockets of challenges that at the time weren’t being met by the current technologies.”

He says that high-efficiency green or UV LEDs didn’t exist—but could, through work in this field.

“I was really fascinated by the idea of being able to create something that didn’t exist before, or making existing technology more efficient and make it do more than it could otherwise have.”

He’s spent his professional career at Raytheon, working on their GaN technology to make it better from all sides. This includes process development to enhance device capabilities, process integration to drive foundry efficiency, yield improvement to drive lower device cost and rapid transition to production to stay ahead of competitors. Today, he multiplies his effect through managing a team of 15 engineers tasked to continuously improve on the technologies he had a hand in creating.

“Adrian has used his talent and skills to make important discoveries during his PhD studies, which are going to have a lasting influence in the field of semiconductors of the gallium nitride family,” Moustakas points out. “I am very happy to see that he is continuing to make important contributions to this field in his professional job.”

His team’s work has led to Raytheon winning several multibillion-dollar programs tied to the capabilities afforded by this technology.

“What is awesome about engineering to me is that it’s very much fact based,” Williams says. “If you tell me I need a device with certain parameters, at the end of the day, no matter what you look like or where you come from, if you go into a lab and you come out with a device that can operate at those specifications, people will take notice. You’re judged by your work—I can get the job done and still be me.”

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or those who aspire to one day reach that elusive corner office and become a CEO, step one used to be obvious: get yourself an MBA. But increasingly, that first step is not so obvious. A different degree—engineering—is surging as the key for someone who hopes to run a company. What’s changed? Two words: big data.

The ability to understand and process enormous reams of data and analytics is a big reason why leaders like Google CEO Larry Page, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook have graduate engineering degrees in addition to their MBAs. They are not alone. An annual survey in the November/ December 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR) found that for the second consecutive year, more of the top-performing 100 global CEOs have engineering degrees than have MBAs. To be precise, 34 of the top 100 CEOs on this year’s list have engineering degrees, while 32 have MBAs; more impressive, 10 of the top 20 are engineers.

“An engineering background imbues Kenneth R. Lutchen people with the capacity to compete and innovate in today’s business landscape, one where technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and where almost every product or service requires the integration of multiple disciplines,” says Kenneth R. Lutchen, dean of BU’s College of Engineering and a professor of biomedical engineering.

As for the point about data, Lutchen believes that the value of an engineering degree can’t be overstated. “Engineers,” he says, “are best trained to translate all that complexity into business success.”

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THE RISE OF TECH The rise of data that’s driving the engineeras-CEO trend has been accompanied by another big factor in the swing: the emergence of more powerhouse technology companies. While the 2014 HBR survey included only 8 CEOs from technology companies, just four years later, the list is nearly triple that number: 22.

Even many companies that aren’t pure Jeanne Meister tech are increasingly reliant on technology.

Former CEO Jeanne Meister (Wheelock’73) is a leading global expert on the future of work. As both an author (The Future Workplace Experience) and an in-demand advisor, Meister helps companies understand how emerging trends in technology impact the way work gets done.

She points to three distinctive skills driving the engineer-asCEO trend.

Engineers have unique strengths in evidence-based decision-making. They deeply understand how to organize, interpret and process data.

Engineers are system thinkers who take a holistic approach to analyzing the complexity of any problem and examine it from all angles.

Engineers have curiosity, grit, adaptability, as well as the ability to stick with and solve complex business problems when things are hard and directions are not explicit.

So what do the actual engineers who’ve become CEOs have to say about this shift at the top? Three BU alums who hold top leadership roles stress several qualities their engineering cohorts possess that differentiate them from someone with a more traditional MBA background.

ENGINEERS AS PROBLEM-SOLVERS George Savage (ENG’81) is the cofounder and chief medical officer of Proteus Digital Health (PDH). Savage has a degree in biomedical engineering from BU, an MD from Tufts and an MBA from Stanford.

He describes engineering as “an immensely practical discipline focused on problem-solving, which is the core challenge for CEOs and entrepreneurial teams today.”

Proteus Digital Health is solving health problems by integrating multiple components. “PDH creates digital medicines, consisting of the integration of a grain-of-sand-sized ingestible sensor into a pharmaceutical tablet, an adhesive Band-Aid-sized wearable receiver, a paired mobile phone, a cloud-based personal health George Savage record, and a physician web-portal,” Savage explains. “The complete solution provides feedback to patient and physician about drug-taking and response.”

For Savage, the engineer’s multidisciplinary approach to creating value goes way beyond technology: “Creating and executing a multiyear strategy to secure global regulatory approvals, first for the technology and secondly for the integrated medicine, is one example of applying an engineering approach to solving big, complex problems,” he says.

ENGINEERS AS MASTERS OF DATA Jason Colacchio (ENG’90) is president of Adcco, Inc., a company that uses data to provide actionable insights and optimized solutions to clients and their transportation fleets. As Colacchio explains it, his background as an electrical engineer is essential to how he leverages data on behalf of client companies.

“Engineers understand how to analyze data in order to support decision-making,” he says. “In today’s world of widespread data collection and use, all leaders need to be highly skilled at analyzing and leveraging data.”

Jason Colacchio Colacchio points out that most companies collect increasing amounts of data, but then have no idea how to translate the information into business insights and data-driven decision-making. “There’s a large need today,” he says, “not just in transportation, but in so many industries, to have big data conveyed intelligently and succinctly to decision-makers, and that’s something we engineers excel at.”

ENGINEERS AS COLLABORATORS Computer engineer Angela Pitter (ENG’86,’93), founder and CEO of social media consultancy LiveWire Collaborative, emphasizes how well engineers collaborate to tackle the toughest challenges.

“Starting in engineering school,” she says, “you’re forced to communicate in order to collectively address challenges. It takes an interdisciplinary team with a diversity of skills, methodologies and knowledge to create success. Being understood within a team or across company divisions, as well as connecting with your external stakeholders, is paramount for success.

We engineers do that really well.”

From Pitter’s perspective, engineers are also uniquely skilled at coordinating people, processes and complex systems to tackle business challenges. “I was trained Angela Pitter at BU to approach challenges in a systematic manner,” she says. “You see not only the bigger picture, but how each piece of the puzzle interconnects while simultaneously operates independently.”

ENGINEERS AS LIFELONG LEARNERS Engineers are also profoundly aware of the need to keep on learning because of how quickly industry can change. “What an engineer knows for sure,” Pitter says, “is that nothing stays the

A DIFFERENT DEGREE— ENGINEERING—IS SURGING AS THE KEY FOR SOMEONE WHO HOPES TO RUN A COMPANY. same. Technology evolves so quickly that you have to stay in a mode of continuous learning.”

Savage agrees. “So many businesses today leverage developments in various specialties to build integrated systems or services that provide end-to-end customer solutions,” he says. “Quite often, the connective tissue for these solutions are engineering disciplines such as radio communication, GPS, or predictive analytics.”

An engineering background “gives a CEO a leg up as a ‘native speaker’ in a world increasingly dependent upon advanced technology,” he adds.

Of course, for all the skills learned from an engineering graduate program, inevitably there will be gaps—gaps that perhaps only an MBA could fill. As the latest Harvard study points out, 8 of the top 100 CEOs on its list decided that rather than pick one route or the other, they got both.

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the reason that he was elected to the National Academy of Inventors last year—as a major accomplishment.

Part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the NAE provides engineering leadership in service to the nation and has more than 2,000 peer-elected members, drawn from senior professionals in business, academia and government who are among the world’s most accomplished engineers. Members are nominated and elected based on contributions to engineering research, practice or education; pioneering or advancing fields of engineering; and professional integrity. Notable members include the late Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, astronaut Neil Armstrong, synthetic biology pioneer George Church, transistor co-inventor John Bardeen and Draper Laboratory Founder Charles Stark Draper.

Bishop joins the other two current NAE members at BU, President Robert A. Brown and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Research Professor Farouk El-Baz (Archaeology, ECE), and believes that as BU and the College of Engineering continue to expand, more faculty will be recognized in this way.

“The College of Engineering has had amazing growth over the past 10 to 15 years, and awards like this are an example of the recognition that the University and college are getting and show that we’ve moved into the upper echelons of engineering schools,” he notes.

While recognizing the award is one of the top career honors an engineer can receive in a lifetime, Bishop stresses that his work continues to flourish: “Right now I’m 67 and I’m in the middle of the biggest intellectual challenge of my life.”

He currently heads up the interdisciplinary team at BU and two other universities that are working to develop personalized heart tissue under a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center grant.

“I’m part of a team that’s working to create an all-encompassing solution for heart disease that might save the lives of millions of people,” he explains, and likens this long-term research to playing in his own Super Bowl. “We haven’t won yet, but we are part of this cohesive and extraordinary team that’s constantly strategizing and working together to meet our goal.”

Bishop feels just as he did when he began his career in science when he was 17 years old—excited to solve really difficult problems. “I always knew I wanted to be a scientist—even when I was 10 or 11 years old,” he reflects. “And if you asked me when I was that age what type of career I wanted to have, it would have been the career that I have had.”

David Bishop Elected to the National Academy of Engineering BECOMES THIRD BU ENGINEER TO JOIN PRESTIGIOUS SOCIETY

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hen Division Head of Materials Science & Engineering Professor David Bishop (ECE, Physics, MSE, ME, BME) checked his phone one afternoon in May, he was stunned by what he saw. After a 50-year research career, Bishop received the news via email that he had just been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the premier professional society for engineers.

“It’s an amazing group of people and I’m humbled to be a part of it,” Bishop says. “I feel like the only rational response in this situation is to feel honored. I feel gratitude, surprise and humility.”

The NAE highlighted his work in high-capacity optical switch technology during his 33-year stint at Bell Labs—which was also

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Professor Christopher Chen Presents DeLisi Distinguished Lecture

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n April, Professor Christopher S. Chen (BME, MSE), recipient of the 2019 Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture, presented “How Complex is Simple Enough?

Engineering 3D Culture Models of Physiology and Disease.” The award recognizes faculty members with extraordinary records of wellcited scholarship and outstanding alumni who have invented and mentored transformative technologies that impact quality of life.

Chen’s talk was a trip through his research career in exploring how and why cells organize and interact from the unicellular level to the multicellular, tissue level. His pioneering discoveries and efforts to understand these interactions served as the groundwork for his role as deputy director of BU’s $20 million National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials (CELL-MET), which is working to synthesize personalized heart tissue for clinical use.

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rofessor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE, Chemistry & Physics) has been presented with the Ellis R. Lippincott Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA). Established in 1975 and jointly sponsored by OSA, the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the award is named after a pioneer in vibrational spectroscopy and recognizes those who continue to advance the field in innovative and creative ways.

Professor Christopher S. Chen delivers the 2019 Distinguished DeLisi Lecture.

“When we take cells out of the body and study them in culture, they hardly represent in almost any way whatsoever what’s going on with cells that are in the body,” Chen explains.

“The question is, why are they functioning so differently when you take them out? And the main reasoning has been that the milieu that the cells are sitting in is different when they’re in a plastic dish than when they’re sitting on other cells in the body.”

He points out that the main focus on the environment for cells in the lab has been on the molecular makeup, and creating a culture that mimics the body by adding a series of proteins and growth factors. “In addition to those factors, I’d like to argue that the insoluble environment, or how cells interact with the physical structures that are around them, has a major effect on what they do,” he says.

As a tissue engineer, Chen has strived to understand how the environment surrounding cells regulates cellular functions, such as proliferation, differentiation, migration and suicide. Environmental cues such as the extracellular matrix, neighboring cells and physical forces all play a role in shaping cellular behavior, and how they trigger particular behaviors like tissue formation is just beginning to be understood.

Recently, Chen has engineered platforms where cells are organized in 3D cultures that mimic the architecture of native tissues.

Understanding how tissue architecture contributes to normal and diseased tissue

function has allowed teams to begin to create synthetically engineered tissues that mimic the real thing.

Initiated in 2008, the DeLisi Lecture continues the college’s annual Distinguished Lecture Series, which has honored several senior faculty members. Previous recipients are Professors Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE), Joyce Y. Wong (BME, MSE), John Baillieul (ME, ECE, SE), Malvin Teich (ECE) (Emeritus), Irving Bigio (BME), Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE) (Emeritus), H. Steven Colburn (BME), Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE), Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE), Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry, MED) and M. Selim Ünlü (ECE, BME, MSE).

Widely considered the father of the Human Genome Project, DeLisi was an early pioneer in computational molecular biology and also made seminal contributions to theoretical and mathematical immunology.

He currently serves as Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering and continues to direct the Biomolecular Systems Laboratory, where more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students have trained.

As dean of the College of Engineering from 1990 to 2000, DeLisi recruited leading researchers in biomedical, manufacturing, aerospace and mechanical engineering, photonics and other engineering fields, establishing a research infrastructure that ultimately propelled the college into the top ranks of engineering graduate programs. In 1999 he founded—and chaired for more than a decade—BU’s Bioinformatics Program, the first such program in the nation.

“It is a great honor for me to receive the Lippincott Award based on my persistent efforts in pushing the boundary of the chemical microscopy field, six years after my postdoc advisor Sunney Xie received this Professor Ji-Xin Cheng award,” Cheng says.

It was while studying under Xie at Harvard University for three years (before leaving for a Purdue University professorship in 2003) that Cheng spearheaded the development of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy, which lets researchers noninvasively

image chemical bonds in live tissues and cells.

During his independent career, he’s pioneered a number of innovations that allowed vibrational spectroscopic imaging of living systems from a single bacterium to a human patient. According to Google scholar, his research has been awarded more than $25 million in grants and recognized by an h-index of 72.

Joining BU in 2017 as the inaugural Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics, Cheng was elected an OSA fellow in the fall of 2018 for his outstanding contributions to inventing and developing label-free optical spectroscopic imaging technologies with groundbreaking applications to biology, medicine and materials science.

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rofessor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE) has a vision for self-driving vehicles that would take them from the mundane world of suburban commuting to the most dynamic—and sometimes harshest— spots around the globe. “We are interested in developing fundamental principles that can be applied to autonomous vehicles capable of navigating themselves on the ground, underwater and in the air,” he explains.

To help make that possible, the Department of Defense has awarded $7.5 million in Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) funding for Paschalidis, who will serve as principal investigator, to team up with other scientists from BU, MIT and Australian research universities.

“Our team spans two continents and brings together some of the preeminent experts in neuroscience—with emphasis on localization, mapping and navigation functions—with experts in robotics, computer vision, control systems and algorithms,” he notes. “We’re essentially going to use insights from neuroscience to better organize and control engineered systems.”

Through an undertaking they are calling Project NeuroAutonomy, the international research team’s goal is to investigate how the brains of living organisms—namely, ants, animals and humans—process their spatial environments to derive meaningful navigation information.

“The research that we’ll be doing under this MURI is focused on the most interesting control system out there—the brain and its coordination of the neurosensory and neuromuscular systems in the body,” says co– principal investigator Professor John Baillieul (ME, ECE, SE).

The Australian collaborators, particularly insect navigation expert Ken Cheng of Macquarie University, will draw insight from the way that ants use visual cues to move around. In the United States, BU collabora-

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tors will lead teams that examine animal and human spatial navigation.

“This project offers the potential for some major theoretical breakthroughs for understanding cognition,” adds co–principal investigator Professor Michael Hasselmo (Psychological & Brain Sciences), director of BU’s Center for Systems Neuroscience.

Hasselmo will lead the team’s investigation of how rodents navigate their environment.

He stresses that although this project focuses on navigation, elements of the algorithm the team plans to develop could eventually be applied “to a broad range of different types of intelligent behavior.”

According to co–principal investigator Professor Chantal Stern (Psychological & Brain Sciences), director of BU’s Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, the team will zero in on three big gaps between the navigation prowess of current autonomous vehicle technology and biological organisms to develop the algorithm. Stern will lead team members in using functional MRI to investigate how humans develop a map of their environment and detect changing elements of their surroundings.

Having a fully autonomous vehicle accurately map an area of land or water could be a useful application for military operations, allowing foreign landscapes to be charted without human assistance or putting any lives at risk.

Her team will also investigate how humans decide what’s valuable information and what’s visual clutter as they navigate their environment.

“How do you determine what is a landmark? For example, we can use the Citgo sign as a landmark, but we don’t tell people to turn right at the UPS truck,” Stern says. “The UPS truck is not a useful navigational landmark.”

In other words, because it’s not a stable part of the environment, the UPS truck is just visual clutter.

The team also will examine how we predict the changing dynamics of an environment.

“When you are driving down the street and see a child or a dog or bicyclist on the side of the road, you are already thinking that they might cross the street and you’ll be prepared for [them] to move,” she explains. “But you know the mailbox isn’t going to move. How does the brain do that? How do you understand that prediction?”

John Leonard, a co–principal investigator and the head of MIT’s Marine Robotics group, says he’s looking forward to making use of recent advances in deep learning and object detection.

“Taking the best from biologically inspired models and biologically derived models and combining those with real robot experiments is very exciting,” he says. “The potential impact of the research is aweinspiring. The fact that memory formation is coupled to how an animal or human knows their position . . . perhaps could one day lead to better insights that ultimately might lead to better therapies for memory.”

Team leader Paschalidis predicts the team’s biggest challenge will be the impossible-toread “code” that animals and humans use to navigate.

“We have to infer that code from observations that we make,” he says. “The second challenge will be to translate those observations into specific, detailed control policies [for autonomous vehicles].”

The US-based team also includes Margrit Betke, a CAS professor of computer science, Roberto Tron, an ENG assistant professor of mechanical engineering and systems engineering, and Nicholas Roy, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics.

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How to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Smarter, Bolder

Left: Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen Right: Professor and Chair of the BME Department John White

Lutchen, White Elected Fellows of Elite International Biomedical Society

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oining a group that numbers fewer than 150 fellows worldwide, Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen and Professor John White (BME) have been elected fellows of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), an elite group of the world’s foremost biomedical engineers.

Lutchen, a professor of biomedical engineering and former BME Department chair, was cited for his groundbreaking work in probing the structure-function relations governing lung disease. Among his notable achievements, Lutchen was recognized for pioneering methods to track airway resistance in humans, shedding new light on how the mechanical forces of breathing are critical contributors to the progression of asthma,

emphysema and ventilator-induced lung injury. His patented methods for performing mechanical ventilation were noted, as were his 7,500-plus citations and h-index of 50.

Citing his long history of educational leadership, IAMBE recognized Lutchen as the chief architect and principal investigator on a $14 million Whitaker Foundation Leadership Award and a $5 million Coulter Foundation Award, making Boston University the first to win both. He was the PI on the BME Department’s first-ever T32 Pre-Doctoral Training grant, now in its 23rd year, and as BME chair, he oversaw a dramatic rise in the department’s ranking, from 18th to 6th.

Lutchen is also a leader in professional engagement. He is a past president of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a recipient of the institute’s highest honor, the Pierre Galletti Award. He is a member of the board of directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society, a past chair of the Council of Chairs of Biomedical Engineering, and has served on advisory boards to many BME departments.

He sits on the board of directors of Harvard’s Wyss Institute of Bioinspired Engineering and has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the Journal of Applied Physiology and the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

The IAMBE noted that through these efforts and others, Lutchen has helped increase awareness among the public and government officials that biomedical engineering is aligned with the national interest of advancing our understanding of health and disease while translating technologies that would improve healthcare while reducing costs.

The academy also recognized Lutchen’s advancement of the concept of the Societal Engineer as a foundational goal of engineering education and the creation of several interdisciplinary centers during his tenure as dean.

White, chair of the BME Department, was recognized for his groundbreaking research into how information is processed in the brain.

According to his IAMBE nomination, “Professor White is a world leader in using engineering approaches to answer mechanistic questions in basic and applied neuroscience.

[He] has pioneered the study of how biophysical noise sources limit the signal-to-noise characteristics of neurons and neuronal networks.”

White’s work, the nomination continued, “led the group to develop RTXI, still the world’s most widely used hardware-software system for low-latency, high-rate feedback in neurophysiological experiments.”

White has approximately 100 peerreviewed papers that have been cited nearly 7,000 times. He has raised over $50 million in competitive funding from government funding agencies and private foundations.

Like Lutchen, White has a strong record of professional leadership. He has chaired the annual Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting and served as National Meetings Committee chair, secretary, treasurer, Executive Committee member, member of the Fellows Selection Committee and member of the Development Committee.

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ssistant Professors Brian Walsh (ME, ECE), Michelle Sander (ECE, MSE), Sahar Sharifzadeh (ECE, MSE) and Lei Tian (ECE) have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards.

A premier NSF program for early career scientists, CAREER grants cover five years with a $500,000 maximum funding amount.

Walsh’s award focuses on his research in space physics. The magnetic field around Earth protects it, and the spacecraft orbiting around it, from solar storms that could damage them. But some storms are strong enough to generate cracks or breaks in the magnetic field called “magnetic reconnection,” which can result in disturbances and potential damage to spacecraft. Through the grant, Walsh will study how these cracks form, how they are repaired and how long it takes for them to grow in size. By understanding this process, he and his team hope to develop a physics-based model that would predict how destructive or harmful a crack could be for spacecraft.

Ramachandran Named SPIE and 2019 Vannevar Bush Fellow

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rofessor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) has been named a 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty fellow, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) most prestigious award for a single investigator, and elected a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

He will use the support of the Vannevar fellowship to explore one of the most marvelous optical phenomena: the existence of light beams that, instead of streaming in a straight line, swirl downward like a spiral staircase.

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Sander’s research is about developing new laser sources in infrared and near-infrared wavelengths.

With the award, From left to right: Assistant Professors Brian Walsh, Michelle Sander, Sahar Sharifzadeh, and Lei Tian she plans to use an infrared adoption into existing microscope systems, microscope to develop a noninvasive way to which will enable scientific and biomedical sample cancerous brain cells by intertwining discoveries by providing means to study biomultiple disciplines, from microscopy and fiber logical samples and phenomena that would lasers to biomedical analysis and chemical be otherwise inaccessible. spectroscopy. Her work will help advance Sharifzadeh’s work involves undercancer research in diagnosis and treatment by standing the intricacies of electrons and solar providing details on both biochemical spectral signatures and thermo-physical characteristics. energy; the award supports her research to better understand light interaction with Tian’s award concentrates on tomogcarbon-based organic molecules in order to raphy, a technique that creates sectional create new, more efficient materials for solar images with applications to many different panels. Her team plans to investigate the funfields, including medicine, atmospheric damental properties that govern the behavior science and archaeology. Optical tomogof electrons within organic structures in the raphy is particularly attractive to researchers presence of light, and develop physically since it is noninvasive and uses non-ionizing intuitive models of the influence of molecular radiation. Tian will lead the development of structure on electronic properties. a new type of optical device with a simple experimental set-up to facilitate easy

spawned applications in disparate areas ranging from quantum communications and sensing to high-power lasers and biomedical imaging.

“Generally, when we think of light, we think of a beam that looks like a spot traveling in a straight line,” he explains. “But the beams we will be studying under the DoD fellowship curiously manifest in light traveling in a twisting path, whirling around an axis like a tornado. At a fundamental level, this fellowship will allow us to study these tornado light beams in ways that haven’t been considered in detail yet. What happens when we send these tornado light beams through air, water, different materials? Does the way light interacts with matter change because of this inherent twisting behavior?”

SPIE fellows are distinguished members who have made significant scientific, technical and community contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics and imaging. The society elected

Ramachandran for his work in structured and singular light beams, and their applications to quantum and atom optics, sensors, telecom and biophotonics; optical fibers and guided wave nonlinear Professor Siddharth Ramachandran optics; and photonic crystals.

A fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Ramachandran won an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award for 2013-2015. Among his other achievements, he holds 39 patents, has given 70 invited talks, and his published papers have received more than 6,500 citations.

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Four Professors Receive CAREER Awards

Professor Emeritus Richard Vidale Mourned

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rofessor Emeritus Richard Francis Vidale (ECE), a longtime faculty member, dedicated teacher, and mentor to many at the College of Engineering, died on May 17 at the age of 83.

A BU professor of systems and computer engineering for 37 years, Vidale was the first chair of the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department (as it was formerly known) from 1970 to 1981, and chair of the Systems Department for 10 years before retiring as emeritus professor in 2001.

Upon his retirement, former students came from across the country to thank him for his teaching and mentoring.

“He was very proud, yet in a humble way, of the opportunity to impact the College of Engineering and to ensure that we addressed the role of systems engineering in EE and CE in particular,” Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen said. “He was one of the very early faculty that sparked us moving from a small, narrow college of engineering into the main stream.”

“He was a dedicated teacher, always available to students and a faithful EK100 advisor,”

recalled Professor W. Clem Karl, chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. “As might be expected of a former department chair, Dick was an energetic force providing direction and vision in planning and faculty search.”

Vidale’s research focused on software requirements and Professor Emeritus Richard Vidale taught at BU for 37 years. performance analysis and he also taught and one adjunct of the department when he computer software courses, such as software was chair,” Professor Mark Horenstein (ECE, systems design and software performance SE) remembered. “He was a dedicated serengineering. vant of the department and college, helped He actively participated in several guide the department into what it is today, volunteer activities, including the Wellesley and was the one who brought systems Education Foundation and Partakers, Inc. (a engineering to BU. prison outreach program of the First Parish “Along with his mentorship, he was also Church in Weston), and served the First Parish a great friend and a caring individual. We Church as a member of its standing comactually have the same birthday and it was mittee and monthly covenant group. always a race to see who would get the other a “He hired me and was a mentor and a birthday note first, but Dick always won.” guide to me and the seven full-time faculty

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Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) has been elected a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics for his work in structured and singular light beams, and their applications to quantum and atom optics, sensors, telecom and biophotonics; optical fibers and guided wave nonlinear optics; and photonic crystals.

Professor Manuel Egele (ECE) has been awarded a $750,000 grant entitled “In-Situ Malware Containment and Deception through Dynamic in-Process Virtualization” from the Office of Naval Research.

Professor Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) delivered a keynote address at the 2019 Workshop on Computational

Methods in Online Misbehavior, where he also received the Best Paper Award.

The largest academic conference on web research, the workshop is held at different locations around the world.

Professor Janusz Konrad (ECE) has been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer of the Signal Processing Society, the first society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for the period 2019-2020.

Professors Ajay Joshi (ECE) and Manuel Egele (ECE), along with their doctoral students Leila Delshadtehrani, Sadullah Canacki and Boyou Zhou, have come up with hardware-level protection against memory corruption attacks. Google honored their research proposal, “Securing Processors Using an Array of Specialized and Programmable Policy Engines (ASPEn),” with a Research Award.

Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) received a Durable Equipment Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in recognition of his efforts to develop devices for efficient quantum networking and communication.

Senior Lecturer Christie Bielmeier (ME) and Assistant Professor William Boley (ME) were awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant from the U.S. Army Deployed Warfighter Protection program to develop a chemical-free, insect-resistant protection fabric for utility uniforms.

STUDENTS Postdoctoral associate Carly Ching (BME) has been awarded the USP Quality Institute Fellowship in Quality Medical Products. She will continue to study the role of poor-quality medicines

in fostering antimicrobial resistance.

Doctoral fellow Taylor Lawson (ME) received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. The training grant will focus on Lawson’s current research project, which is aimed at developing a novel method for improving osteoarthritic cartilage that will employ both biomaterials and mechanical engineering and create a technique that will overcome current limitations in the field.

Doctoral fellow Cameron Condylis (BME) was awarded a National Institutes of Health Pre-doctoral National Research Service Award Fellowship to continue his work on “Functional, Anatomical, and Molecular Dissection of Mouse Somatosensory Cortex.”

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ENG’19 graduates (left to right) Michael Fogg, Katie Lo, Constantine Hartofilis, Lucy Raptis and Ezira Yimer Wolle on Commencement day.

“You are actually more than Societal Engineers; you’re Societal Citizens,” Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen told more than 375 graduates. “By being trained at COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES TOUCH ON DIFFERENT WAYS ALUMS USE the intersection of science and THE CONCEPT IN THEIR OWN LIVES technology, you are eminently able to understand and respect the scientific method.

Your responsibility with this capacity is to help A well-known concept within the College those without the scientific and technical know-how to judge data of Engineering, The Societal Engineer was the and help constructively and respectfully.”

Biomedical Engineering major and Technology Innovation minor theme of this year’s undergraduate and graduate Parsa Shahidi (ENG’19) spoke about the three elements that he believes Commencement exercises. At separate ceremonies, drive the idea of the Societal Engineer. First, synergy, or teamwork, helped him and his fellow graduates solve problems in their classes and more than 750 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral form lifelong bonds of friendship. Second, passion, which he said is the degrees were awarded to the Class of 2019. derivative of synergy (the passion that all engineers share is to solve problems, and it is what drives engineers to solve the toughest ones out The undergraduate Class of 2019 gathered at Commencement exer- there). And third, diversity of thought, which ties synergy and passion cises on May 18 at Agganis Arena to celebrate its accomplishments and together and creates the opportunity of holistic learning that Shahidi said he found at BU. graduation from the College of Engineering at Boston University.

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ENG Grads Hear Ways to Embrace the Concept of the Societal Engineer

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Katalina Aguilar “Let us march forward towards that horizon, (ENG’19) (left) bound by our shared mission, our synergy, our pasand Allison Winter sion and our diversity,” Shahidi urged the class. “Let (ENG’19) (right) celebrate their us strive for excellence in everything we do, taking graduation with the best that exists and making it better—because Assistant Professor engineers are the makers of history.”

Sheila Russo (ME, MSE) at Tonie Leatherberry (ENG’85), a BU graduate Commencement. with a BS in mechanical engineering and a concentration in manufacturing engineering who also holds an MBA from Northeastern University, presented the Commencement address, focusing on four key “pearls of wisdom” she shared that showcase what being a Societal Engineer means to her.

Now a principal at Deloitte & Touche LLP, Leatherberry works in the risk and financial advisory practice, supporting key client accounts across strategy, enterprise risk, human capital and technology services.

“The four Cs—community, competency, character and courage— are my simple truth,” she said. “I can tell you it has not all been rosy, and at times difficult. I can tell you many have failed to realize how important these pearls are. I hope my perspectives will inspire you and resonate as you forge your own path to becoming a Societal Engineer.”

Leatherberry discussed how the four Cs have guided her journey to find the best career and path in life. Community is about considering where you will fit the best and make your greatest impact. Competency is about painting a beautiful picture in that community. Character is how you align your career choices with your values. And finally, courage is how you rise to the occasion.

“These are values that you can take with you for the rest of your life to guide you on your journey, wherever it may lead,” she told the assembled graduates. “Giving back and paying it forward are a big part of my legacy. What will be your legacy?

“Find the right community for you to make your greatest impact, seek out those opportunities that help you paint your own version of the art of the possible, work for organizations that align with your core values and your character and find your voice to challenge the status quo and help create opportunities for all.”

Lutchen presented the Award for Teaching Excellence—voted on by the graduating students—to Master Lecturer Enrique GutierrezWing (ME) and the Faculty Service Award to Associate Professor Sean Andersson (ME, SE). Department Awards for Teaching Excellence went to Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (BME), Professor Mark Horenstein (ECE, SE) and Associate Professor Sheryl Grace (ME).

Two days earlier, more than 325 master’s and 59 PhD graduates were celebrated for their achievements in the Case Center Gymnasium while their friends and families looked on.

Wayne W. Duso (ENG’91), general manager of File, Hybrid-Edge, Data Transfer and Data Protection Services at Amazon Web Services,

who earned an MS in systems engineering at BU, gave the graduate Commencement address. He spoke about how as engineers, the graduates have made their own luck.

“There is something I’ve come to deeply understand: a life of continuous preparation, a life of continuous learning, will result in a life filled with opportunity, and with opportunities—sometimes courageously taken—you’ll find yourself experiencing a string of self-made luck,” he said.

“Be an active participant in your career and your life’s journey. Own what you do like it’s going to last forever, but also recognize when it’s time to transition to your next big thing,” he added. “Always be prepared for what’s next, because change is constant and embracing change is necessary to be a true own in your destiny.”

“All of you have dedicated yourself to get to this day. All of you have prepared to meet opportunities head-on and in doing so, each of you have enabled your own luck. You live in one of the most exciting times for engineering professionals. What engineering professionals do is important; we have the ability to advance society in so many ways.

There are so many ‘what’s’ you can affect, it’s beyond exciting,” he concluded. —liz sheeley

IN MEMORIAM Mr. Anthony L. Orphanos (’55), Lowell, Mass.

Mr. Rodney L. Ritter (’67), Sierra Vista, Ariz.

Mr. David J. Clark (’61), Inglis, Fla.

Mr. Ralph F. Tomlinson (’78), Grove, Okla.

Mr. Robert A. Downey (’61), Albuquerque, N.Mex.

Mr. Hai-Tu Yeh (’79), Hendersonville, Tenn.

Mr. Timothy F. Cullinane (’67), Peabody, Mass.

Mrs. Beverly A. Mcgrory (’87), Boxborough, Mass.

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Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends,

/ Honor Roll of Supporters

There is no better time than now to look back over the past several

years and review what the College of Engineering has been able to accomplish as Boston University’s first and extremely successful capital campaign, Choose to Be Great, comes to a close this fall. As I write, ENG is close to achieving its $100M campaign goal. That support has helped ENG reach the next level of excellence by facilitating projects such as the construction of state-of-the-art learning facilities and the expansion of our outreach programs. Independent indicators such as top-tier rankings, externally funded interdisciplinary research centers and high-quality matriculating students are more evidence that ENG is excelling in every capacity.

Most important is the ever-growing engagement and generosity of our alumni, volunteers, faculty, students, parents and friends. The college experienced a 40 percent increase in alumni participation over the duration of the campaign, exceptional momentum that is essential to sustaining continued growth and excellence. Our donors’ philanthropic support, advocacy, professional expertise and shared commitment to the college’s mission make a significant impact on the next generation of future leaders who will move society forward: these are our Societal Engineers.

On behalf of our students and faculty, we sincerely thank you for your partnership.

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eter (ENG’85,’87) and Christine (ENG’87,’89) Renzi credit their engineering education at Boston University for their success after graduation— including helping Peter start and run his own business and giving Christine the training to adapt to a new industry.

“Boston University gave me the foundation and the tools to be successful in life,” Peter says. “When I started my business, Image Stream Medical, I wanted to create the same type of environment I had at the labs and with the people at Boston University. It was just great, it was just such a comfortable environment and one for intellectual, social and emotional growth.”

Christine, who runs a real estate company, feels the same way.

“What BU and engineering taught me is learning how to learn,” she explains. “While I’m not currently working as an engineer, I’m able to use my engineering aptitude

Edwin P. Heaney, Jr. (ENG’86) and Carol A. Heaney ■ Richard A. Heath (ENG’80) and Kathryn Heath ■ ■ Sui C. Heier (ENG’89) and Keith A. Heier ■ Carole A. Heilman (CAS’72) and Richard L. Heilman (ENG’72) ■ Diane M. Heislein and David E. Heislein ■ ■ Joanne Helhowski (ENG’78) and Joseph T. Schmidt ■ Dionte O. Henderson (ENG’09) Nancy Herbert ■ ■ Martin C. Herbordt and Ellen B. Herbordt ■ William Heres (ENG’92,’97) and Kristin A. Heres Lori M. Herman (GRS’78) and David I. Herman (ENG’70) ■ Grace Hernandez and Luis S. Hernandez ■ ■ Pablo H. Hernandez and Catherine L. Hernandez ■ ■ Olivia A. Herrera (ENG’13) ■ Ronald Herzog ■ ■ Veronica C. Herzog (ENG’18) ■ Reza Heydari and Claudette A. Heydari ■ ■ James V. Hickey (ENG’57) and Jean C. Hickey ■ Charles T. Hickson, Jr. (ENG’88) and Susanne Paullin ■ Robert F. Hight, Jr. (ENG’94) and Tomoko T. Hight ■ Ryan M. Hill (ENG’07,’10) ■ Todd A. Hinck (ENG’94,’00,’03) Matthew Hinshaw (ENG’19) ■ Kelsey C. Hirsch (CAS’19, ENG’19) ■ Andrew Hoang (ENG’18) ■ ■ ■ Jaryd I. Hobbs (ENG’17) ■ Mark F. Hodge (ENG’99, Questrom’99) ■

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for all new business ventures, whether property management, technical sales or new business development.”

The education was rigorous and fulfilling, but it was the culture of the college that made them truly enjoy their time at BU. “It’s hard to put into words, but I feel as though the College of Engineering, especially in the Biomedical Engineering Department, and the people in it, was such a young fledgling college and department at the time, with young teachers and professors all trying to find their way, and we all kind of did it together,” Peter recalls.

The Renzis also share an appreciation for the senior design project all College of Engineering undergraduates are required to undertake. Christine credits the process with teaching her valuable presentation skills that gave her the confidence and ability to go into sales, while Peter points out that tackling such a hands-on project with real-world implications gave him the ability to transition into his career and taught him on-the-job skills.

Peter notes that the BME Department, where he did his undergraduate and graduate work, has grown considerably since his time, and as the college announced its plans to

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Christine (ENG’87,’89), Pete (ENG’85,’87), Allie (Questrom’19), Nick (ENG’17) and Jake Renzi (left to right) at BU Commencement 2019.

build the new Bioengineering Teaching and Entrepreneurship Center, he and Christine want to “pay it forward.”

“BU Engineering really worked for us, and so we really felt like we did well and that it was time to give back and help others,” he says.

“It’s about helping the school, supporting the professors that are doing great work and creating opportunity for the students.”

—liz sheeley

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Paying It Forward

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■ 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 1 9 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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Luke E. Nelson (ENG’88) ■ Tammra C. Nelson (ENG’84) and James Hendrix ■ Varouj S. Nersesian (ENG’70,’73) and Ingrid W. Nersesian (Wheelock’70,’81) ■ Chun Ng (ENG’88) Catherine N. Nguyen (ENG’19) ■ Kenneth K. Nguyen (ENG’89) ■ Pho Nguyen (ENG’75) and Vi Nguyen ■ ■ Thanh P. Nguyen (ENG’18) ■ Adriane B. Niehaus (ENG’03) ■ Stephen J. Niemi (ENG’68,’80,’82) and Susan Niemi Jacob L. Nikolajczyk (ENG’18) ■ ■ ■ ■ Suniti N. Nimbkar (MED’88, CAS’88) and Andrew L. Rich (Questrom’01, ENG’01) Luis Nino (Questrom’08,’08) Kaito Niwa (ENG’19) ■ Maarten Noordzij (ENG’19) ■ Bruce L. Norris (ENG’64) and Mary Lynne Norris (CAS’65) ■ Michael J. Norris (ENG’07) ■ Elli Ntakou (ENG’17,’17) ■ ■ ■ Jordan L. Nustad (ENG’19) Mark R. O’Brien (ENG’14) ■ Walter P. Obrochta (ENG’18) ■ Burt D. Ochs (ENG’83) and Cindy M. Ochs ■ M. Christine O’Connor (ENG’84) Eogan C. O’Donnell (ENG’90) and Kellie M. O’Donnell (CAS’89) ■ ■ Alexander J. O’Donovan (ENG’16) ■ Addison P. Ogonoski (ENG’19) ■ Adetoyin A. Olaoye (ENG’02) Ekaterina Oleinik ■ ■ ■ Isabella Olivares (ENG’17) ■ Kyle F. Oliver (ENG’97) Pamela A. Oliver (ENG’84) and Mark R. Whittaker ■ Andrew H. Olney (ENG’90) and Katharine S. Olney (SSW’89) ■ Craig S. Olson (ENG’90) and Dayna L. Olson ■ John C. Olson (ENG’14) David A. Oluwadara, Jr. (ENG’17, Questrom’18) ■ David Opalsky (ENG’83,’92) ■ Francisco Ortiz and Edith Ortiz ■ ■ Dennis J. Osgood (ENG’07) ■ Alexandra M. Osman (ENG’18) ■ Osiagwe Osman (ENG’16) ■ Rodrigo Ospina, Jr. (ENG’19) Susan M. O’Sullivan (ENG’03) ■ Umur Ozal (ENG’96) and Sanem Ozal ■ Hilmi Ozguc (ENG’84,’85) and Gretchen W. Fleming ■ Vivek Pachaury and Madhurima Pachaury ■ ■ Sean M. Packard (ENG’10) Juliet A. Page (ENG’86) and Gregory S. Page ■ Robert W. Paglierani (ENG’66) and Susan D. Paglierani ■ Constante J. Palad, Jr. (ENG’19) Sushrut A. Palatkar (ENG’16) ■ Michael Paley (ENG’95) and Janice S. Paley (CGS’90, COM’92) ■ Joseph L. Palladino (ENG’82) and Diane Wilan ■ ■ Kecia A. Palmer-Cousins (ENG’86) and Kevin M. Cousins ■ Cristina M. Palumbo (ENG’95, MED’99) and Michael H. Palumbo (COM’95) ■ Kristen R. Pamper (ENG’10) ■ Laura Y. Pan (ENG’89) and Victor T. Pan ■ Edward M. Panetta and Patricia A. Gorham ■ ■ Christos I. Panidis (ENG’07) ■ Sanjana Pannem (ENG’16)

George T. Papadopoulos (ENG’01) and Ashley A. Papadopoulos (CGS’99, Wheelock’01) ■ John Papadopoulos (ENG’60) and Mahi A. Papadopoulos Gerasimos Papathanasiou (ENG’95) ■ Joseph A. Pappas (ENG’89) ■ Michael D. Paquette (ENG’84) and Mary T. Paquette ■ Joon B. Park (ENG’67) and Hyonsook Y. Park ■ Joseph H. Passarelli (ENG’88) ■ Ajan B. Patel (ENG’06) ■ Hemali B. Patel (ENG’09) and Sandip Patel ■ Robins N. Patel (ENG’13) ■ Alexander S. Patow (ENG’15) ■ John H. Paul (CAS’90) and Chrysanthea K. Paul (ENG’90) ■ Carolyn K. Paulus ■ ■ Leonard H. Pauze, Jr. (ENG’57) and Joan C. Pauze Adam T. Payne (ENG’98) and Erica J. Payne (ENG’00) Emma E. Pazoff (CAS’19, ENG’19) Brian E. Pecon (ENG’57,’65) and Velva Pecon ■ Jay B. Penafiel (ENG’90) and Elise G. Penafiel ■ Richard L. Perkins, Jr. (ENG’89) ■ David Perreault (ENG’89) ■ Wyatt C. Perry (ENG’19) ■ Marissa R. Petersile (ENG’15) ■ Donna T. Petherbridge and Martin J. Petherbridge ■ ■ Rachel E. Petherbridge (ENG’19) ■ Michael T. Pettit (ENG’14) and Nicole L. Black (ENG’14) ■ Yen Pham (ENG’19, CAS’19) ■ Khai T. Phan (ENG’18) Douglas E. Phillips (ENG’66) and Joyce A. Phillips ■ Zachary A. Phillips (ENG’09) ■ Paulina Phu (ENG’16) ■ Steven L. Picciano (ENG’97) ■ Susan E. Pickett (ENG’93) Martha J. Piligian ■ ■ Spencer P. Piligian (ENG’22) ■ Maricor P. Piloneo (ENG’90) ■ Karl W. Pilz (ENG’00) and Heather R. Pilz ■ Diana B. Pincus (ENG’05) ■ Antonios Pinotsis (ENG’19) ■ Antonio J. Pinto De Arruda Assy (ENG’19,’21) ■ Anthony C. Pippo, Jr. (ENG’67) ■ Anthony N. Pirri (ENG’64) and Catherine H. Pirri ■ Cynthia Pischdotchian (ENG’87) ■ Ian C. Pitcairn (ENG’79) ■ 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 ■ ■ Kevin Pleiss (ENG’92) and Carolyn E. Pleiss Muharrem Plloci and Margret Plloci ■ Herbert S. Plovnick (CAS’67, MED’71) and Kathleen R. Plovnick (CAS’68, ENG’89) ■ Daniel P. Poe (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ ■ ■ Dennis S. Poe and Milja R. Poe ■ ■ Tracy E. Pogal-Sussman (ENG’05,’07) Edward A. Pohl (ENG’84) and Letitia M. Pohl ■ Amilcar U. Pojoy Barrios (ENG’19) ■ Robert V. Polimeno (ENG’92) and Jennifer K. Polimeno (CAS’92) ■ Samuel R. Polio (ENG’09,’12,’14) ■ ■ Emily C. Polson (ENG’13) ■ ■ Hannah R. Polster (ENG’17) ■ Sergei Posnov (ENG’19) ■ Bruce G. Pratt (ENG’69) and Maureen S. Pratt ■

George W. Pratt IV (ENG’17,’17) ■ Peter I. Presel (ENG’61) ■ Christopher W. Prior (ENG’97) ■ Cheryl L. Pritchard (ENG’86) ■ Joseph A. Puglise (ENG’75,’77) and Nora M. Puglise ■ Michael J. Pulliam (ENG’83) and Jacquett Pulliam ■ Zenan Qi (ENG’12,’15) ■ Jing Qian (ENG’14) Juncheng Qian (ENG’19) ■ Ruohui Qiao (ENG’14) ■ Allen Qu (ENG’19) ■ Stephen B. Qually (ENG’72, Questrom’73) and Linda A. Qually (Wheelock’70) ■ Daniel K. Quartey (ENG’19) ■ William G. Quirk (ENG’62) ■ Salwa G. Rafee (ENG’95) ■ Sowmya Ramakrishnan and Rajaram Radhakrishnan ■ ■ Israel Ramirez and Libia Luna ■ ■ Glendon F. Rand II ■ ■ Marc A. Randell (ENG’99) and Abigail Randell (COM’00) ■ Porter G. Raper and Jeanine M. Jackson ■ ■ Lucille J. Raptis (ENG’19) ■ Jason L. Raymond (ENG’99,’02) and Ying Luan ■ Marybelle Raymond (ENG’19) ■ Christopher J. Reaney (ENG’87) and Susan K. Reaney ■ Herbert P. Redman (ENG’63) and Joan E. Redman ■ ■ James L. Reed (CGS’85, ENG’88) ■ Kathy B. Reif (LAW’09) and Roberto Reif (ENG’08) ■ Christine R. Reinders-Caron (ENG’08) and Jeremy Caron Donald C. Reny, Jr. (ENG’88) and Jennifer R. Reny ■ ■ Sandra D. Reulet (ENG’86) and David F. Reulet ■ Jinara D. Reyes (CAS’88, Questrom’99) ■ ■ Joo Sub Rhee (ENG’06) and Eunice R. Rhee (CAS’08) ■ Kenneth B. Rice (ENG’84, MET’96) and Diane Tarr ■ John N. Rich (ENG’90) and Eileen Rich (CAS’91) ■ W. Gregory Richardson (ENG’92) and Julie S. Richardson ■ ■ Michael C. Rigor (ENG’19) ■ Adam S. Riley (ENG’07) ■ Christopher R. Ring (ENG’95) and Jessica E. Ring (CAS’97) ■ Allen J. Riss (ENG’84) ■ Amy N. Robbins (ENG’18) ■ Ethan F. Robbins (ENG’04) and Emily A. Shugarman (Wheelock’03) ■ Michael Robichaud (ENG’11) and Natalie A. Robichaud (ENG’11) ■ Henry A. Robinson (ENG’57) and Carol M. Robinson ■ Lisa Robinson Schoeller (ENG’82, Questrom’98) and Richard J. Schoeller ■ Moises Rodriguez (ENG’17) ■ Nickholas L. Rodriguez (ENG’18, STH’21) ■ Robert G. Rogers III (CAS’00, Wheelock’03) and Lisa W. Rogers (ENG’00) ■ Taylor K. Rohan (ENG’19) ■ Paul C. Rohr and Rita T. Rohr ■ ■ Andres H. Rojas (ENG’19) ■ Joseph K. Rollin (ENG’05) ■ Steven A. Romero and Molly E. Romero ■ ■ Lisa A. Rooker (ENG’13) ■ Robert H. Ropp (Questrom’74,’80, ENG’79) and Alexia L. Jacobs ■ Lourdes E. Roque and Francisco Roque ■ ■ Alexandru S. Rosca (ENG’15) Michael T. Rosenstein (Sargent’89, ENG’93)

Arthur J. Rosenwach (ENG’68) and Rose Rosenwach Giovannibattista M. Rossi (ENG’02, GRS’05) Michael C. Rothko (ENG’18) ■ Theresa M. Rousseau (ENG’88) and Matthew L. Rousseau Geoff Rowland (ENG’05,’05) and Erin Rowland (CAS’05) ■ Sheela D. Rowles (ENG’85,’89) ■ Marvin B. Roxas (ENG’13) ■ Rohan Roy (ENG’12) ■ David Royce (ENG’65) and Mary L. Royce Logan D. Rubio (ENG’19) ■ Gary S. Rudman (ENG’88) and Robin Rudman Nitya Rudraraju (CAS’19, ENG’19) ■ Bradley G. Rufleth (ENG’04) and Lindsey M. Cimochowski (MET’13) ■ Wilhelm H. Ruiz (ENG’82,’83,’91, Questrom’93) ■ ■ Michael P. Runci (ENG’68,’74, Questrom’74) and Janet L. Runci ■ Derek M. Russell (ENG’88) and Elizabeth G. Russell ■ Aidan J. Ryan (ENG’19) ■ Tyler J. Ryan (ENG’17, MED’21) ■ Anthony B. Sabidussi and Alfonsina Comune ■ ■ Lena F. Sabidussi (ENG’19) ■ ■ George R. Sachs (ENG’62) and Judith A. Sachs Avanish Sahai (ENG’89) ■ Sunami Sajjanam Morrison (ENG’16) Jeffrey H. Sakai (ENG’11) Abdu A. Salah (ENG’90,’92) and Cathy Zouval Salah (ENG’89,’92) ■ Eduardo R. Salazar (ENG’18) ■ Olivia C. Salazar (ENG’19) ■ A. Reza Salehi (ENG’88, Questrom’04) ■ Lewis P. Salerno and Barbara M. Salerno ■ ■ Arvind K. Salgam and Manjula Salgam ■ ■ Marwan A. Sallam (ENG’19) William L. Salzer (ENG’72) ■ Alexander G. Samaha (ENG’19) ■ Gerardo A. Sanabria (ENG’02) and Erin K. Sanabria ■ Chelsea Saniel (ENG’12) Sivaramakrishnan Sankarapandian (ENG’18) ■ Anand H. Sanmukhani (ENG’19) ■ Yoko Sano (ENG’92) ■ Dawn Marie D. Sanok (ENG’83) Ling C. Santora and Mark Santora ■ ■ Christopher J. Sanzo (ENG’87) and Roberta J. Groch (CAS’87) ■ Peter C. Sapp and Ellen M. Sapp ■ ■ Hadi M. Sarieddine (ENG’18) Bradley W. Sauln (ENG’14) and Chelsea Sauln ■ Steven G. Saunders (ENG’89) and Susan Saunders ■ ■ David A. Scaduto (ENG’09) Maria Scardera (ENG’84) and Michael P. Scardera ■ Paul D. Schauble (ENG’03) Jeremy B. Schein (ENG’10) Perry M. Schein (ENG’12) ■ William J. Schineller (ENG’89) Eric V. Schmidt (ENG’15) Bertram J. Schmitz, Jr. (ENG’62) David M. Schneeweis (ENG’84) ■ Robert E. Schneider (ENG’79) and Diane M. Schneider ■ ■ Stephen Schottenfeld (ENG’73,’78) Jeffrie F. Schreier (ENG’08) ■ Deborah L. Schuh (ENG’88) and Dana F. Schuh (Questrom’85) ■ Brian L. Schulz (ENG’82) ■ Frank J. Schwamborn (ENG’16) ■ Stephanie R. Sczylvian Mills (ENG’07) ■ Adil M. Seddiq (ENG’02) ■

Rajendranath R. Selagamsetty (ENG’14,’21,’21) ■ ■ Matthew N. Seminerio (ENG’08) ■ Jessica Seto (ENG’19) ■ Daniel Shaffer (CAS’14, ENG’14) ■ Nirmit K. Shah (ENG’16) ■ Pooja D. Shah (ENG’14) ■ Rhea R. Shah (ENG’19) ■ Parsa Shahidi (ENG’19) Sandra D. Shanaberger (ENG’82) and William T. Warner ■ Amy R. Shanler (CAS’96, COM’96,’04) and Michael S. Shanler (ENG’97) ■ Yuecheng Shao (ENG’11) ■ Neal K. Sharma (ENG’01) and Logan Sharma (Sargent’02) ■ Sahil Sharma (ENG’18) ■ Samuel Sharon (ENG’19) ■ Oleg Shatrovoy (ENG’08,’16) ■ Yousef Shayefar (ENG’77) John H. Sheffield (ENG’91) ■ Ryan D. Shimizu (ENG’19) ■ Robert J. Shimkus (ENG’68) and Linda R. Shimkus ■ ■ Ayush A. Shirsat (ENG’20) ■ Gordon A. Shogren (ENG’59) and Frances K. Shogren ■ Koreen J. Shoham (ENG’14) ■ John J. Shynk (ENG’79) and Tokie L. Shynk (SON’79) ■ Josephine F. Siddiqui and Adnan H. Siddiqui ■ ■ Mark P. Sika (ENG’01) ■ Brittany A. Simone (ENG’09) ■ Christopher R. Simons (ENG’15) ■ Kevin F. Sinaga (ENG’19) ■ ■ ■ Amit Singh (ENG’01) and Rashmi Singh Rakesh K. Singh and Vibha Rajat ■ ■ 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) ■ Surya Sivaram (ENG’06) ■ Matthew A. Siwkiewicz (ENG’16) ■ David T. Skodje (ENG’14) Jonathan A. Slager (ENG’15) Thomas S. Slinker (ENG’81) ■ Theodore J. Smigelski (ENG’14) ■ Blake W. Smith (ENG’85,’86) and Karen B. Smith Colin M. Smith and Kathleen Wong ■ David M. Smith (ENG’85) ■ Jennipher J. Smith John F. Smith (ENG’63) ■ Michael A. Snyder (ENG’14) ■ Lucas A. Soffer (ENG’19) ■ Colin B. Soisson (ENG’19) ■ Tatiana Sokolinski (ENG’15) ■ Yubao Song and Hongqin Jiao ■ ■ Rahul R. Soni (CAS’01) Adam H. Sonnenberg (ENG’15,’18,’20) ■ ■ ■ Brandon A. Sookraj (ENG’19) ■ James H. Soutar, Jr. (ENG’64) and Marcia O. Soutar ■ Megan E. Spangler (ENG’95) ■ Julie D. Sperry and David G. Sperry ■ Katherine E. Spignese (ENG’85) ■ Robert R. Spitaels and Ann T. Spitaels ■ ■ Mark D. Spoto (ENG’90) and Elizabeth M. Spoto ■ Laura M. Stefanski ■ ■ H. Allan Steingisser (ENG’99) and Gail Steingisser (CGS’98, Wheelock’00,’01) ■ Jane D. Stepak (ENG’78, CAS’78) ■ Tamara Stephen (ENG’92) ■ Mark Stesney (ENG’91) ■ Margaret Z. Stevens (ENG’87) and S. H. Stevens ■

Susan I. Stevens (ENG’89) and Paul W. Stevens ■ Nicholas B. Stiegman (ENG’12) ■ Alan Stockdale (ENG’87) and Linda Sicuranza Norman Stolack (ENG’62) ■ ■ Randal L. Struckus (ENG’84) and Laurie R. Guptill (CFA’77) ■ Gabriella R. Stueber (ENG’14) ■ Henry B. Stueber and Deanna G. Stueber ■ ■ Eric R. Stutman (ENG’93) and Andrea L. Stutman ■ Timothy F. Styslinger (ENG’90,’92) ■ Ting-Yi Su (CAS’12, ENG’19,’19, GRS’19,’19) ■ Xiaofeng Su (ENG’15) Yinzhu Su (ENG’19) ■ Paul A. Sueno (ENG’02, MED’06) ■ Bharat Sukhwani (ENG’11) ■ Malek M. Sukkar (ENG’92) and Maria Sukkar ■ ■ Todd M. Sukolsky (ENG’13) ■ Edward C. Sullivan (ENG’95) Christopher P. Sullivan-Trainor (ENG’13, Questrom’19,’19) ■ ■ Yingjie Sun (ENG’13) ■ Michelle E. Sutton (CAS’10) and Michael R. Sutton (ENG’11) ■ Priya Swamy (ENG’96) and Prithvi Sankar ■ Anna K. Swan (GRS’94) and James A. Kaufman ■ ■ 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 ■ Frederic J. Syrjala (ENG’58,’60) and Mary E. Syrjala ■ John Szczypien, Jr. (ENG’66) and Diane Szczypien ■ Edward Szeto (ENG’90) Marcos Szydlo (ENG’88) and Faith R. Szydlo (MET’84) ■ Tina L. Ta (ENG’19) ■ Tatang Tabrani (Questrom’81) and Woei Jiing Goh ■ Jianyang Tai (ENG’99) ■ Carlos C. Talavera (ENG’90) and Laura I. Talavera (CAS’90) ■ Ronald Tallon and Sherry A. Tallon ■ Nadina S. Talukdar (ENG’94) Sucheta N. Tamragouri (ENG’18) ■ Ed Tang (ENG’97) ■ Min Tang-Schomer (ENG’06) and Mark Schomer ■ Darrell J. Tanno (ENG’80) and Deborah Tanno (Questrom’81) ■ Koonlawat Tantiponganant (ENG’88) Mark S. Tanzi (ENG’86) ■ Stefano J. Tasso (ENG’13) ■ Marta V. Taulet Sanchez (CAS’19, ENG’19) ■ Raymond S. Taylor (ENG’08) ■ Ann L. Tedford (ENG’78) ■ Kenneth N. Temkin (ENG’68) Emilio A. Teran (ENG’15, Questrom’16) ■ Chuong K. Thao (ENG’19) ■ Charles Thomas (ENG’03,’04) and Jennifer W. Thomas ■ Herbert D. Thompson, Jr. (ENG’66) and Barbara B. Thompson Scott E. Thompson (ENG’16) ■ Alexander W. Thomson (ENG’85) and Veronica Corpuz ■ Martin Tian (ENG’18) ■ ■ ■ Ike C. Tingos (ENG’91,’94) and Artemis Tingos ■ Bruce P. Tis (ENG’95) and Marjorie R. Tis ■ Nidhi S. Tiwari (ENG’19) ■ Jorge L. Tizol (ENG’77) and Vilma L. Rivera ■ Christian P. Tjia (ENG’15) ■

Ho Kai To and Joanne Liang ■ ■ Tania W. To (ENG’17) Tszhang To (ENG’08,’13) ■ Dale A. Tollman (ENG’18) ■ Hala J. Tomey (ENG’94) ■ Richard W. Tong (ENG’06) ■ Garo R. Toomajanian (ENG’85) and Marc Harpin Kevin Torcolini (CAS’81) and Cathy L. Torcolini Alfredo L. Torrejon (ENG’80) ■ Manuel Torres (ENG’90) and Dorothy E. Torres ■ Emanuel D. Torti (ENG’79) ■ Randolph B. Tow (ENG’66) and Susan P. Tow ■ Heather T. Towey (ENG’14) ■ Ian K. Towill (ENG’15) ■ ■ Heather J. Tracey (ENG’91) ■ Hieu M. Tran (ENG’17) Michael J. Trank (ENG’86) and Ana Monica Raposo Peter J. Tranoris (ENG’16) ■ Jacob T. Trevino (ENG’13) ■ Micaela A. Trexler (ENG’16,’17) ■ Alyssa R. Trigger (ENG’10) Fernando M. Trindade (ENG’06) ■ Robert L. Trottier (ENG’88) and Robyn M. Trottier ■ Paul A. Trunfio (ENG’89) and Maureen M. Trunfio ■ ■ Kevin R. Tseng (ENG’91) ■ Timothy J. Tucker and Christine M. Tucker ■ ■ Daniel A. Tyszka (ENG’94) and Gloria L. Sherman-Tyszka (Questrom’89) ■ Obehi Ukpebor (ENG’12) Jason M. Ulberg (ENG’98) and Jaime Ulberg (Questrom’98) ■ Maxim Umnov (ENG’01) Stephen R. Uriarte (ENG’88) ■ Ned Utzig (ENG’86) ■ Kevin M. Valent (ENG’02) and Anna C. Valent Michael A. Valerio (ENG’80) and Elizabeth B. Valerio (CAS’80) ■ ■ Ted R. Van Daalen Wetters and Lisa G. Sandles ■ ■ Hester H. Van Der Laan (ENG’17) Osi M. Van Dessel (ENG’16) ■ ■ Greg T. VandeKerk (ENG’95) and Hollybeth G. Hakes (CAS’95) ■ Guy Vandevoordt and Mady F. Vandevoordt ■ ■ Richard A. Vanetzian (ENG’60) and Eleanor V. Vanetzian ■ Jeffrey D. Vanguilder (ENG’10) Henry X. Varona (ENG’19) ■ Cristian-Ioan Vasile (ENG’16) ■ Almir Velagic (ENG’05) and Elma Kadic ■ Andrew J. Velasco (ENG’09) ■ Dinesh Venkatesh (ENG’92,’98) and Sowmya Manjanatha ■ Ellen A. Verdile ■ ■ Priyal Verma (ENG’19) ■ Astrid S. Vermeulen (ENG’19) ■ German J. Viana (ENG’82) ■ Henry L. Viarengo (ENG’73,’79) and Gail M. Viarengo ■ Paul R. Viens (ENG’97) and Katheryn P. Viens (GRS’20) Boris T. Virnik (ENG’12) Paul J. Vizzio (ENG’10,’15) ■ ■ ■ Gui Von Zuben (ENG’13) ■ Ami N. Vyas (ENG’17) Gregory J. Wagner (ENG’96) and Lisa D. Wilsbacher ■ Nathan F. Waldron (MET’18) ■ Lisa Wall (ENG’81) ■ Baxter K. Walsh (ENG’61) and P. A. Walsh ■ Edmund J. Walsh, Jr. (ENG’83,’83) and Jane M. Walsh ■

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation American Cancer Society Ball Aerospace & Technology Beautiful Enterprise Co Ltd Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Burroughs Wellcome Fund Communication Technology Services LLC Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lam Research Corporation Philips Healthcare Purdue Univ. (Keck Fo.) Verizon Foundation Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated W. M. Keck Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

American Chemical Society Aramco Services Company Arm Inc. Covaris, Inc. Google Inc. Honda Motor Co., Ltd Honda R&D Company Ltd IBM Corporation Northrop Grumman Corporation Osram Sylvania Inc. PTC, Inc. Schlumberger-Doll Research Center The MathWorks Inc. Toyota Info Technology Center U.S.A., Inc.

$25,000–$49,999

American Heart Association Cami Foundation Inc. Dermasensor, Inc. Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. Massachusetts General Hosp. (Leona & Harry Helmsley Char. Trust) Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp.

Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation Sigilon Therapeutics The Argosy Foundation US Israel Binational Science Foundation View, Inc.

$10,000–$24,999

3D Diagnostix, Inc. AMETEK Foundation, Inc. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Molecular Devices, LLC Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund The Benevity Community Impact Fund Verasonics

$5,000–$9,999

Amazon Robotics LLC Harvard School of Public Health (Gates Foundation) Saint-Gobain North America

$2,500–$4,999

Analytikjena Biosero Boston Scientific Corporation

Charles DeLisi Revocable Trust Highres Biosolutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston Scientific Corp) The New York Community Trust

$1,000–$2,499

BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund Etec, Inc Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc. New England Biolabs, Inc. Roney-Fitzpatrick Foundation Teselagen Biotechnology, Inc. The Elizabeth Bascom Charitable Lead UniTrust Vanguard Charitable

$1–$999

Akamai Technologies American Endowment Foundation Apple, Inc. Battelle Boston Scientific Bright Funds Foundation Data Network Associates F5 Networks M.E.A. Engineering Associates, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Northern Piedmont Community Foundation The Thompson Family Trust Wong Family Trust

MATCHING GIFTS 21st Century Fox AbbVie, Inc. Alliance Data Apple, Inc. Avanade Inc. BAE Systems Barclays Capital Bard Davol Battelle Boston Scientific Bright Funds Foundation C.R. Bard Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Elastic Inc. Eli Lilly and Company Gartner Group General Electric Company Goldman, Sachs & Co. Google Inc. Hewlett-Packard Company IBM Innovations in Optics, Inc. Investment Technology Group, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lockheed Martin Corporation Medtronic, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. NextEra Energy Company Northrop Grumman Corporation Parker Hannifin Corporation Paypal Charitable Giving Fund Pfizer, Inc. Philips Electronics North America Corporation Qualcomm Incorporated Raytheon Company Rockwell Automation Textron Inc. The Boeing Company The Plymouth Rock Foundation Travelers Companies TriPyramid Structures, Inc. United Technologies Corporation Verizon Communications

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: A SMARTER SPACE FOR INNOVATION

Construction on the College of Engineering’s next major initiative, the Bioengineering Teaching and Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC), is scheduled for completion this fall.

This cutting-edge facility will be open for students of all backgrounds and disciplines to work on the current and future impact of the intersection of engineering and healthcare.

Through access to state-of-the-art labs and equipment, students can expand their learning experiences and enable their innovative ideas.

We welcome your partnership in developing the next generation of Societal Engineers. Please join us with a gift today at bu.edu/eng/alumni/btec to support student innovators and entrepreneurs of all disciplines.

Thank you and please be sure to visit BTEC on your next trip to campus!

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FACTS AND FIGURES

$97.2M Total amount of research-related expenditures

#16 ENG ranks #16 among private graduate programs, according to U.S. News & World Report

#8 ENG grads are ranked #8 in mid-career salary, according to Payscale