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A YEAR OF SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT In 2012–2013, the Boston University College of Engineering continued its rise among the nation’s best engineering programs. A few highlights:

The College’s overall ranking among programs, placing it in the top 20 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The number of places the College has risen in the U.S. News ranking since 2005.

Increase in applications over the last five years.

$437,205

Amount contributed to the Engineering Annual Fund, marking the fund’s sixth consecutive record year.

70%

5,676

Increase in donors who gave $1,000 or more over the past five years.

32%

The percentage of College of Engineering female undergraduates, well above the national average of 18.6 percent.

Number of applications received for this year’s freshman class, a record.

Increase in applications over last year.

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CONTENTS • FALL 2013

> ENG LAUNCHES SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY CENTER

< SHAPING LIGHT WITH DEFORMABLE MIRRORS

URBAN LIFE 2.0

Putting Design Front and Center

ENG to Launch Engineering Product Innovation Center

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Bridging the Communication Gap CE Alums’ App Empowers Speech-Impaired Patients

End-to-End Care MFG Alums Lead Top-Tier eHealth Company

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Putting MOOCs Where Our Mouths Are BY DEAN KENNETH R. LUTCHEN

he media are offering us a vision of higher education’s nirvana. It is a virtual academy where courses are taught online to anyone who wants to take them by a select set of elite lecturers from elite universities, and where there is no charge for tuition. These Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, we are told, will instantly and dramatically bring down college costs and make advanced knowledge available to all, quickly rendering the centuries-old model of higher education obsolete and ﬁnancially bankrupt. Ergo, once enough MOOCs are created, everyone in the world in a particular discipline will get the same degree from the world’s only institution: “Internet University.” For free. But this won’t happen anytime soon, and the nation ought to do

Engineering Leadership Advisory Board John E. Abele Founder & Director, Boston Scientiﬁc Gregg Adkin ’86 Vice President, EMC Ventures Adel Al-Saleh ’87 Group Chief Executive, Northgate Information Solutions Alan Auerbach ’91 CEO, President and Chairman, Puma Biotechnology, Inc.

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everything we can to prevent it from happening at all. For sure, these MOOCs, which have soared in availability in the last couple of years, are a valuable new instrument in higher education’s toolbox, but what they really represent is an opportunity for higher education to amplify the quality of residential education using online techniques. The media—and even several college presidents—have allowed MOOC developers to drive the narrative. They promote this technology as an opportunity to educate the planet’s masses at low cost, and there is some credibility to this potential. The media, then, extrapolates this to mean MOOCs should bring down the cost of higher education. But where their argument loses its way is in its failure to distinguish between a degree—a piece of paper certifying the completion of a set of courses in a particular discipline—and an education—the transformation of a young adult into an individual with lifelong learning and societal skills, an enhanced capacity for creative and analytic thought, and an appreciation and skill for how human interactions and dialogue are essential components of design, creativity and societal function. An individual could conceivably use MOOCs to get a degree, but an education—and with it the ability to think and adapt effectively to an ever-changing world over a

lifetime—is well beyond this technology’s capabilities. As they are presently used, MOOCs have several other shortcomings. With little or no intellectual or financial investment, the vast majority of students do not finish their courses. Also, you don’t need to be an education expert to know that thousands-to-one student-professor ratios cannot foster learning, and while MOOCs tout interactivity, students never engage each other face to face. History also shows that giving a product away soon results in the product’s collapse. Does this mean we should discard MOOCs? On the contrary, they offer great value if we use them in the right way. Our primary motivation should not be amplifying access and quality of course contents to the world’s masses for free. Learning by the masses will happen as a side benefit to the people who take them and perhaps to society at large. But, we need to view MOOCs as an opportunity to dramatically amplify the quality of a college education. MOOCs can enhance the preparation of Societal Engineers if they are used to invert the traditional instructional model of classroom lecture followed by homework. This much more powerful pedagogy allows concepts to be presented online in whatever quanta in time and content makes the most

sense to enhance learning. With MOOCs and other advances in online learning software, we can better motivate students to engage the material before class, perhaps accelerating adoption of a more impactful pedagogy of using class time to amplify application and context, guided by the professor and with interaction among students at a premium. This will likely improve education by orders of magnitude. Face-to-face interaction among students and with their professor teaches students to develop creativity, defend their ideas, explore new ones, and appreciate how their ideas may or may not be compatible with others and how they ﬁt into society. MOOCs may be a good way to present new ideas and concepts, but they are not a substitute for a group of people getting together and hammering out complex solutions to technological and societal problems. We need the leaders of higher education in this nation to recapture the control of the dialogue behind MOOCs. They need to “put MOOCs where their mouths are” and to convey that their pursuit is not about ﬁnances but about the quality with which we can amplify a college education at our institutions. Hence, while they are unlikely to reduce the cost of college, the value proposition at our institutions will go way up. That is a good thing.

Adam Crescenzi ’64 Founding Partner/Owner, TELOS Partners Roger A. Dorf ’70 Former Vice President, Wireless Group, Cisco Systems Ronald G. Garriques ’86 CEO and Chairman, Gee Holdings LLC Norman E. Gaut Chairman, SuperWater Solutions Inc., Co-Founder, PictureTel Co. Joseph Healey ’88 Senior Managing Director, HealthCor Management LP

Jon K. Hirschtick Founder & Board Member, Solid Works Corporation William I. Huyett Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc. Amit Jain ’85, ’88 President and CEO, Prysm Inc. Dean L. Kamen, Hon. ’06 President & Founder, DEKA Research & Development Nick Lippis ’84, ’89 President, Lippis Enterprises Venkatesh Narayanamurti Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology & Public Policy; Former Dean, School of Eng. & Appl. Sciences, Harvard University

Stephen N. Oesterle, MD Senior Vice President—Medicine & Technology, Medtronic, Inc. Anton Papp ’90 Vice President, Corporate Development, Teradata Inc. Richard D. Reidy, SMG’82 President and CEO, Progress Software Corp. Binoy K. Singh ’89 Cardiologist, Columbia University John Tegan ’88 President and CEO, Communication Technology Services

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Putting Design Front and Center COLLEGE TO LAUNCH ENGINEERING PRODUCT INNOVATION CENTER

s ENGineer went to press, construction was underway on the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), a 15,000-square-foot, $9 million facility that will give students the opportunity to develop the skills and acquire the knowledge they will need to succeed in tomorrow’s manufacturing enterprises. Featuring $19 million in state-of-the-art design software donated by PTC—as well as advanced machining tools, laser processing equipment, rapid 3-D printers and intelligent robotics—EPIC will allow students to learn how to create innovative new products in an integrated, holistic way that encompasses design, prototyping, fabrication, manufacturing and lifecycle management. The facility will include a flexible design studio, demonstration areas, laboratories and a machining and fabrication center, all in a reconfigurable layout that will be easily adaptable to future technologies and needs. EPIC will serve as a resource to significantly increase the amount of design work in the undergraduate curriculum through stand-alone courses, enhancements to existing courses and opportunities to collaborate with fellow students, faculty and working engineers from a variety of disciplines. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

College Launches Synthetic Biology Center DREAM TEAM FACULTY TO ADVANCE HIGH-IMPACT FIELD systems biology, leveraging their ability to reverse-engineer natural biological networks to help in the modeling, design and forwardengineering of synthetic biological networks with novel functions. “We envision that CoSBi will serve as a focal point for activities in synthetic biology at Boston University and the larger Boston area, and help to advance the ﬁeld toward applications in biomedical research, health care and other areas,” said Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE), the center’s director and one of the pioneers of synthetic biology. Located at 36 Cummington Mall, CoSBi takes advantage of the newly renovated wet and dry facilities on the second ﬂoor and computational space on the third. Core faculty includes Collins and assistant professors Ahmad “Mo” Khalil (BME), the center’s associate director; Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME); and Wilson Wong (BME), with 11 associate faculty members drawn from the College of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences and School of Medicine.

Generous Alumni Create Societal Engineering Fund

David Kiersznowski (‘90), Adel Al-Saleh (’87) and an anonymous alumnus. They seeded the fund with the expectation that other alumni and parents will contribute to it until it reaches $2 million, the point at which it will permanently sustain Societal Engineer programs that exist now and others that may exist in the future. “This fund will have an incredible impact on our ability to create Societal Engineers for many, many years to come,” said Lutchen. “Through their generous leadership in getting the fund almost halfway to our goal, these four alumni have laid a very strong foundation. I invite all of our friends to join in building this future together.” Healey, a member of the Engineering Leadership Advisory Board, said, “This fund allows the College to sustain and build its efforts to prepare students to impact society no matter what field they go into. I believe it will have a profound impact on students for many years to come, and on many, many people whose lives they will touch.”

It began as Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen’s idea for creating engineers ready to impact society. It became real and then exploded in popularity through an array of co-curricular and extracurricular initiatives—from the Binoy K. Singh Imagineering Laboratory to the Technology Innovation Scholars Program—that resonated with students. The concept, Boston University Creating the Societal Engineer®, was even trademarked last year. Now, with additional support from many generous ENG friends, four ENG alumni have made a set of six-figure gifts to create a new fund that aims to permanently secure the future of Societal Engineering. The new Societal Engineering Fund has been established with a $500,000 pledge from Joseph Healey (’88), and six-figure major gifts from 4

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The center will develop and support large-scale, collaborative projects, organize an annual symposium and seminar series, and support research training, education and outreach activities. “A central goal of CoSBi will be to prepare the next generation of synthetic biologists for this multidisciplinary type of research at an early stage,” said Khalil, “and to challenge them to think conceptually and creatively about how engineering can help in understanding life.”

BU’s synthetic biology Dream Team (from left) Ahmad “Mo” Khalil, James J. Collins, Douglas Densmore and Wilson Wong

Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen (left) with Joseph Healey (’88), who made a $500,000 gift to establish the Societal Engineering Fund.

Kiersznowski added, “The Boston University College of Engineering is distinguished by its commitment not only to training excellent engineers but also to inspiring them with a passion to serve society.” Over the next four years of the Campaign for Boston University: Choose to Be Great, all alumni are invited to aid that effort with their own gifts, large and small. To make your gift to the Societal Engineering Fund, please visit bu.edu/eng/alumni/give. — Michael Seele

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Synthetic biology brings together engineers, biologists and other life science researchers to develop molecular biological systems that rewire and reprogram organisms to perform speciﬁed tasks. The ﬁeld promises not only to yield new insights into biology, but also to spark new technologies that could revolutionize health care, energy and the environment, food production, materials and global security. Recognizing the wide-ranging potential of synthetic biology and the trailblazing efforts of many of its faculty, the College of Engineering is launching the BU Center of Synthetic Biology (CoSBi) this fall to advance this emerging discipline. Poised to take a nationally prominent role in advancing synthetic biology research, CoSBi unites core engineering faculty members who have diverse research interests, including microbial and metabolic engineering, immuno-engineering, cell reprogramming, computer-aided design and automation, single-cell analyses and systems modeling. The center also involves leading researchers across the University with expertise in

Sounding Out Tumors PORTER ADVANCES PROMISING NONINVASIVE CANCER TREATMENT

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Associate Professor Tyrone Porter (ME, BME)

Treatment options for solid, cancerous tumors include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, but all three involve lengthy recovery times and damage healthy tissue and the immune system. Over the past five years, Associate Professor Tyrone Porter (ME, BME) has advanced a technique that combines nanotechnology and focused ultrasound for tumor destruction while avoiding the harmful side effects associated with conventional treatment methods. Developed in collaboration with Nathan McDannold, research director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School Focused Ultrasound Laboratory, the technique injects nontoxic liquid perfluorocarbon nanodroplets into the bloodstream, where they accumulate in solid tumors over time. High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) pulses are

then used to vaporize the nanodroplets within the tumor. The process yields microbubbles that boost tissue absorption of ultrasound, producing sufficient heat to kill the tumors in less time than when using HIFU alone. Using tissue-mimicking hydrogels as a model for solid tumors in an article published recently in the Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound, Porter has shown that microbubble-enhanced HIFU can destroy solid tumors using 70 percent less acoustic power while reducing the ultrasound exposure time by at least 50 percent when compared to conventional HIFU. “This results in less risk of skin burns because you’re using much less energy, dramatically cuts down the time for treating larger tumors, and makes it possible to treat tumors in organs protected by bone such as

the ribcage or skull,” said Porter. Funded by a new four-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Porter and McDannold are now investigating whether their technique can be used to destroy tumors in the kidneys, which are partially protected by the ribcage and therefore more difficult to treat with ultrasound. By sharply reducing the power and time needed to destroy cancer tumors in the kidney and other organs protected by bone, the researchers aim to make ultrasound a viable option for treating hard-toreach solid tumors. “Ultrasound for destroying tumors is not widely accepted in the US,” said Porter. “I’m hopeful that our work will lead to wider acceptance of using ultrasound to treat solid tumors and provide a new treatment option for inoperable cancers.” E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

Confronting Antibiotic Resistance COLLINS RESEARCH BREAKS NEW GROUND The researchers also showed that once treated with antibiotics, phages infect a wider range of bacteria species than they did beforehand, thereby potentially spreading antibiotic resistance to a larger population of bacterial cells. Another strategy to deal with antibiotic resistance is to enhance existing antibiotics to combat bacterial infections more effectively. In a separate study published in January in Nature Biotechnology, also funded by the NIH and HHMI, Collins and researchers in his lab advanced a new technique that systematically identiﬁes genes within E. coli bacteria that inhibit the production of molecules called reactive oxygen species (ROS) that damage the bacteria’s DNA. Once those genes are disabled, the bacteria dramatically increase their production of the DNA-damaging molecules, enabling lower doses of existing antibiotics to kill the more vulnerable bacteria. Collins’s discovery establishes, for the ﬁrst time, a comprehensive, systems-level understanding of the metabolic pathways that produce ROS, thus enabling scientists to pinpoint new gene targets and potential sidekick drugs that enhance antibiotic effectiveness.

“ANTIBIOTICS’ EFFECTS ON PHAGES COULD BE PLAYING A KEY ROLE IN THE EMERGENCE OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND IN CAUSING CERTAIN ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENTS TO FAIL,” SAID COLLINS.

A reservoir of phage genes may be undermining antibiotic treatment.

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As more and more bacteria show resistance to antibiotics, researchers are redoubling their efforts to uncover and block pathways by which this resistance develops. One largely unexplored pathway is the community of viruses called phages, most of which reside in the gut, that infect and replicate within speciﬁc bacterial cells in the body while leaving native human cells intact. A study published in the June issue of Nature co-authored by Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) and three current or former BME graduate students and postdocs—Sheetal R. Modi, Henry H. Lee and Catherine S. Spina—shows that at the same time that antibiotic treatment depletes gut bacteria, it also infuses fast-replicating phages with antibiotic-resistant genes that they “hand-deliver” to surviving bacteria. “Antibiotics’ effects on phages could be playing a key role in the emergence of antibiotic resistance and in causing certain antibiotic treatments to fail,” said Collins, whose work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). According to the study, which was largely conceived and implemented by Modi, as phages interact with surviving bacteria after an antibiotic treatment, they transfer to the bacteria genes that confer resistance to several antibiotics, not just the administered drug.

Oil for the Joints GRINSTAFF ADVANCES NEW OSTEOARTHRITIS TREATMENT A research team led by Professor Mark W. Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry) has developed a new joint lubricant that could bring longer-lasting relief to millions of osteoarthritis sufferers. The new synthetic polymer supplements synovial fluid, the natural lubricant in joints, and works better than comparable treatments currently available. According to Grinstaff, the best fluid supplement now available offers temporary symptom relief but provides inadequate lubrication to prevent further degradation of the cartilage surfaces that cushion the joint. To achieve both objectives, Grinstaff, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School orthopedic surgeon Brian Snyder and four Boston University chemistry and engineering students, fellows and clinicians have advanced the first synthetic synovial fluid. They describe the unique polymer and its performance in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The most common form of joint disease and a leading cause of disability in the elderly, osteoarthritis (OA) affects about 27 million Americans and 200 million people worldwide. Characterized by pain and swelling, the disease emerges in hand, hip, knee and other commonly used joints where degradation of cartilage and synovial fluid results in boneon-bone abrasion. Treatments range from anti-inflammatory drugs to total joint replacement. While there’s no cure for OA, one treatment—injecting a polymer to supplement synovial fluid in the joint—promises to relieve symptoms and slow the disease’s progression by reducing wear on cartilage surfaces. “From our studies, we know our biopolymer is a superior lubricant in the joint, much better than the leading synovial fluid supplement, and similar to healthy synovial fluid,” said Grinstaff. “When we used this new polymer, the friction between the two cartilage surfaces was lower,

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RAMACHANDRAN CORKSCREWS LIGHT TO MOVE MORE DATA FASTER If you thought there was no problem with Internet bandwidth, consider that on a typical weeknight Netﬂix alone serves up almost a third of all Internet traffic to homes in North America. And that’s without streaming Game of Thrones. Now think about the explosion of mobile devices and their insatiable demand for more data faster. In fact, the people who worry about such things as bandwidth capacity have been anxious for years over where the next breakthrough will come from. Now it seems there’s a good chance that it will come from the College of Engineering, where Associate Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) has developed a new ﬁber-optic technology that can transmit vastly greater amounts of data at very low cost. Described in the June 28 issue of the journal Science and funded by the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, the technology uses donut-shaped laser light beams called optical vortices, also known

as orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, which were thought to be unstable in fiber until Ramachandran proved otherwise. Working with researchers from the University of Southern California, Tel Aviv University and OFS-Fitel, a fiber optics company in Denmark, he demonstrated not only the stability of the beams in optical fiber, but also their potential to boost Internet bandwidth. “Our discovery of design classes in which they are stable has profound implications for a variety of scientific and technological fields that have exploited the unique properties of OAMcarrying light, including the use of such beams for enhancing data capacity in fibers,” said Ramachandran, who was named by the IEEE Photonics Society as one of six Distinguished Lecturers for the 2013–2014 term, an award that honors researchers who have made outstanding technical, industrial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field of lasers and electro-optics.

Professor Mark W. Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry)

resulting in less wear and surface-to-surface interaction. It’s like oil for the joints.” Another advantage of the polymer is its large molecular weight or size, which prevents it from seeping out of the joint, enabling longer-lasting cartilage protection. Unlike the leading synovial ﬂuid supplement, which lasts one or two days, the new polymer remains in the joint for more than two weeks. The research is supported by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Flex Biomedical, a startup co-founded by Grinstaff and Snyder.

In an optical vortex, the light twists like a tornado as it moves along the beam path, rather than in a straight line.

He and his collaborators recently created an OAM fiber with four modes, or distinctive paths of light, each carrying a cache of data from one end of the fiber to the other. They showed that for each OAM mode, they could send data through a one-kilometer fiber in 10 different colors, or wavelengths of data-carrying laser signals, and achieve a transmission capacity of 1.6 terabits per second. How fast is that? Fast enough to transmit eight Blu-ray DVDs per second. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

LEAPing Forward ENROLLMENT SKYROCKETS IN PROGRAM FOR LATE-ENTRY ENGINEERS

Building Prototypes and Societal Engineers IMAGINEERING LAB USE GROWS DRAMATICALLY

In his senior year in high school, Jeff Worthey received acceptance letters both from music schools and the College of Engineering. He pursued the former path—eventually earning a master’s in music from Yale University—but he wasn’t the typical music major. “My elective slots were filled with physics and calculus,” Worthey recalled, “and I was more interested in disassembling my flute than practicing scales.” This mechanical proclivity led to an apprenticeship with a flute maker and a quest for more training in mechanical design, which in turn led him to discover the College of Engineering’s Late Entry Accelerated Program (LEAP). Today Worthey is well on his way to earning a master’s in mechanical engineering, even though he lacked an undergraduate degree in engineering. For 30 years, LEAP has enabled nontraditional students and working professionals with a bachelor’s in any field to obtain a graduate engineering degree. Buoyed by the rising tide of interest in engineering in a tight job market, heightened demand for rapid, cost-effective pathways to career change in an uncertain economy, and success stories from satisfied alumni, the program’s applicant pool has grown by 50 percent and new enrollments have doubled in the past year. Since 2008, applications have increased fivefold and new enrollments have quadrupled. 8

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LEAP alum Paul Casey (EE, MS’88), director of engineering at Kofax, a leading business process solutions company, helps current LEAP students think about their programs and future career plans at a LEAP networking event.

Guided by a faculty advisor, LEAP students take 10 to 12 undergraduate engineering courses to get up to speed before entering a regular master’s program in biomedical, computer, electrical, mechanical, photonics, manufacturing, systems or materials science & engineering. “Some schools accept students from nonengineering backgrounds on an individual basis, but lack the kind of formal program we have to prepare them and get them accepted into graduate study in engineering—and we provide ongoing career development as well,” said Kirstie Miller, the College’s director of Professional Education & Corporate Relations. By Commencement last May, 80 percent of the LEAP Class of 2013 had found jobs or gained acceptance to a graduate program. Today there are more than 250 LEAP alumni and 123 current students, and they’re much more than a cohort; they’re a community. “The greatest strength of LEAP is the community it has created,” Worthey observed. “Being surrounded by driven, talented LEAPers from diverse backgrounds creates a unique experience and sets LEAP apart from other alternatives.”

In the beginning, the new Singh Imagineering Lab gleamed like a brand-new car in a showroom, its many features not yet road tested but full of promise. Just before its October 2011 grand opening, the 1,343-square-foot lab’s fixed and mobile workbenches stood empty; its drill press, band saw, and soldering stations silent; its hammers, power drills, and building materials untouched. As the first equipment training sessions got underway that fall, activity was sporadic, but usage of the Imagineering Lab has increased dramatically since. According to computer sign-in data starting in April 2012, the lab was used at least 617 times by 193 different people in a one-year period. “There’s been a remarkable increase in traffic this year compared to last year,” said David A. Harris (ME’15). “There are times when you walk by and every machine is in use.” Envisioned by Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen as a place where College of Engineering students could develop a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation—and as a “sandbox” for engineering experimentation—the Imagineering Lab provides the tools, machinery and building materials for undergraduates who wish to pursue their own extracurricular ideas and designs, from the whimsical to the serious. For Tucker Strzempko (ME’14), the lab has been a high-tech sandbox where he applied his engineering skills to creating his own version of “cornhole,” an outdoor game in which players strive to land a beanbag in a hole on a board. Strzempko used a jigsaw, power drill and screws in the lab to make his cornhole boards. Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos and Lanke A. Fu (both ME’14) used the lab’s workspace and tools to help transform society. In April, they took the $2,500 first prize in the second annual Imagineering Competition for their project, Smart Bike, a bicycle they enhanced to automatically shift gears in response to changing terrain and road conditions. Smart Bike may be used not only as a nonpolluting mode of transportation,

The Smart Bike display shows the rider’s torque, speed and cadence.

but also as a means of outpatient rehabilitation for people recovering from leg injuries. Whether for pure entertainment, to boost our quality of life, or both, Imagineering Lab projects are helping undergraduates construct prototypes of tomorrow’s technology and build their own capabilities as Societal Engineers. Imagineering Lab programming is supported by the Kern Family Foundation and alumni contributions to the ENG Annual Fund.

Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos (ME’14) (2nd from left) and Lanke A. Fu (ME’14) (3rd from left) won the Imagineering Competition’s $2,500 first prize for their entry, Smart Bike.

Think Globally, App Locally STUDENT GROUP DEVELOPS SOFTWARE TO ADDRESS SOCIETAL CHALLENGES In the Global App Initiative’s computer lab, the Harlem Hospital team works on integrating new health-related content on asthma to their app.

In August 2012, the College of Engineering ran a five-day residential workshop called Clean App Your Neighborhood, in which 30 undergraduates and recent graduates from across the country designed and built mobile apps to boost the productivity of volunteers for five community service organizations seeking to improve access to health care, education, nutrition and other critical resources. Supported by BU faculty and industry experts, the participants assessed each organization’s needs, developed a project plan and initial concept design, produced a rapid prototype of its app, and solicited feedback from organizational representatives. Eager for a year-round version of the highly successful workshop, five College of

Engineering undergraduates formed a student organization, the Global App Initiative (GAI), so undergraduates across BU could learn how to design and build mobile apps while addressing the needs of community service organizations. Since its founding in September 2012, GAI has grown to more than 100 members, produced several apps for volunteer-driven organizations recruited by GAI—and recently began to ﬁeld requests from organizations around the world. Working in teams, the club has already developed apps to solve problems for four community service organizations, including Harlem Hospital’s pediatric emergency

department. The Harlem Hospital team’s app provides simple, clear and concise instructions to parents with educational and language challenges so they can respond more effectively to children with asthma, sickle cell anemia and other illnesses. The group now has its sights set on a massive global project to convert landﬁll waste into energy. “The work offers a lot of freedom of expression and team interaction, and provides a great opportunity to make a real difference,” said Habib Khan (ECE’14), president of GAI. “While you have the time as a student, why not give back to the world?” Supported by funding from the Kern Family Foundation and ongoing training sessions from BU and industry professionals, the club meets at 110 Cummington Mall in a classroom and computer lab where members design, develop and publish open-source apps that any organization can use. “GAI reﬂects the College’s commitment to educating students to become Societal Engineers who apply what they learn to solve challenging problems faced by communities and the world at large,” said Jonathan Rosen, GAI faculty advisor and the College of Engineering’s director of Technology Innovation Programs. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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This Smart City is edging closer to reality, thanks in large part to College of Engineering researchers who are laying its mathematical and technological foundations. Working with industry, the City of Boston, local neighborhoods and academic colleagues at Boston University and beyond, they are advancing a new kind of urban information infrastructure that consists of multiple wireless sensor networks across the city that collect and transmit data, and centralized software programs that receive the data, analyze it and act upon it. Incorporating sophisticated systems engineering techniques, the software will make optimal decisions and allocate resources—from Internet access to teams of ﬁrst responders—in real time. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the departments of Defense, Energy and Homeland Security, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the private sector, faculty and students throughout the College are developing Smart City technologies and applications that may transform the city from a passive living and working environment to a highly dynamic one that’s more efficient, cleaner, safer and less costly than ever before. This interdisciplinary effort is particularly timely as cities across the globe strive to accommodate signiﬁcant population growth and an aging society, all while minimizing overall carbon footprint and costs. “These new systems have the clear potential to improve not only city function but to reduce and control the carbon footprint

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magine visiting a city that runs so smoothly it’s practically hassle-free. When you’re behind the wheel of your electric rental car, a sensor network ﬁnds and reserves a desirable parking spot or recharging station, or reroutes you to avoid a traffic jam. In your hotel room, a smart micro-grid minimizes your electricity consumption, and overhead LED lights provide Internet connectivity in addition to illumination. Around the clock, a ﬂeet of cameras with sophisticated software patrols the streets and other public spaces for suspicious activities, advanced hardware and software in your smartphone keep your personal data secure, and an electronic implant enables health care professionals in your home clinic to monitor your vital signs remotely and proactively prevent disease.

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The closed-loop system defining a Smart City entails not only collecting data from sensors, but also implementing control actions through devices based on intelligent decision making.

and environmental impact as cities grow,” says College of Engineering Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. “So we’re really getting two for the price of one.” As they move Smart City concepts from the lab to real city streets, College of Engineering faculty and students are not only advancing new systems for more efficient, low-carbon urban living, but also exploring their economic, environmental and public policy implications. Their work could lead to signiﬁcant improvements in how we get around, power homes and offices, communicate, and stay safe and healthy in cities, suburbs and beyond.

Laying the Foundation The engine of a Smart City is information. Up-to-the-minute data on bridges, highways, buildings, vehicles, utilities, trash cans and other municipal resources is collected around the clock by a network of sensors deployed throughout the city, and relayed to a commandand-control center where software can analyze the data, make real-time decisions and implement actions that range from directing a driver to an open parking spot to dispatching a garbage truck to an overﬂowing can. Funded by a $1 million grant from the NSF, a research team led by Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) is creating the information infrastructure for a wide range of Smart City applications aimed at improving the quality of urban life. The BU team includes Professors Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE), Azer Bestavros (CS) and Assaf Kfoury (CS, SE). “The whole concept of a Smart City is beginning to gain prominence in the US and abroad,” says Cassandras. “Our approach is unique in its focus on sensor network infrastructure, its use of optimization techniques for dynamic resource allocation, and its development of a new software framework for real-time, Smart City applications.”

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THE RESEARCHERS ENVISION AN INTELLIGENT, CITYWIDE GPS SYSTEM THAT RESERVES THE NEAREST AVAILABLE PARKING SPOT WITHIN A SPECIFIED PRICE RANGE.

Because sensors don’t transmit well over long distances and are limited by their battery life, Cassandras and his team envision a widely distributed network of sensors visited periodically by police cruisers, buses, taxi cabs and other vehicles that continuously move through a city like blood coursing through veins and arteries. When close to the sensor, each vehicle could interrogate it, upload its data and transmit it to a command-and-control center. To determine where to locate the sensors, how to schedule vehicles to ensure that information is collected often enough, and resolve other implementation challenges, the researchers are developing algorithms, running simulations and staging small mobile robot experiments.

Smarter Mobility After commuting from your home in Natick, you and your spouse arrive in Boston’s downtown Theater District, and your destination playhouse comes into view. But rather than anticipating a frantic search for a vacant parking spot in your price range, you relax and let the app on your smartphone guide you to one reserved just for you.

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To demonstrate the viability of their Smart City information infrastructure, Cassandras and his collaborators are developing three applications aimed at reducing the congestion, pollution, fossil fuel consumption, accidents, cost and sheer inconvenience associated with operating motor vehicles in an urban environment. The ﬁrst is a Smart Parking system that assigns and reserves parking spaces based on a smartphone-equipped driver’s requested destination and price range. Building on a system developed by Cassandras and systems engineering graduate student Yanfeng Geng

Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) and systems engineering graduate student Yanfeng Geng (PhD’13) developed a preliminary version of a Smart Parking system that enables a driver to enter a desired destination and price range into a mobile device and reserve a vacant, appropriately priced parking space that’s closest to the destination.

(PhD’13) now in operation in a parking garage on Commonwealth Avenue, the researchers envision an intelligent, citywide GPS system that reserves the nearest available parking spot within a speciﬁed price range. Managing hundreds of simultaneous requests for vacant parking spots throughout a city, it would direct subscribers from their present location to the closest (and if desired, cheapest) parking spot to their destination. “Studies have shown that in any major city center, about 30 percent of cars are cruising around looking for parking, increasing air pollution and traffic congestion,” says Cassandras, noting that searches for parking in major urban downtowns take an average of eight minutes. “Our system could reduce all those problems.” Based on the Smart Parking system, the second application enables electric vehicle drivers to reserve recharging stations at desirable locations along their travel route. At each station, drivers can pay to download electric power to their vehicle from a smart grid—or get paid to upload excess electric power from their vehicle to the grid. The third application, a traffic regulation system, dynamically controls traffic lights based on real-time road conditions, thereby improving the ﬂow and reducing exhaust emissions of vehicles throughout a city. “Green and red cycles could be controlled based on what’s actually happening on the roads,” Cassandras explains. “For example, using cameras and sensors embedded in the street, the system could adjust green lights based on congestion on Commonwealth Avenue, keeping lights red on side streets until the congestion clears.” The system could also prolong green lights for drivers at intersections where there’s no oncoming traffic.

Smarter Energy Use You arrive at the theater, ﬁnd your seats and wait for the show to begin. As you look around the auditorium, you marvel at all the light ﬁxtures and air conditioning that it takes to illuminate and cool such a vast space. But your program informs you that the theater is a highly energy-efficient, low-carbon building, thanks to a software-controlled array of sensors that monitor each room throughout the day, minimize power use, and tap into a supply of renewable energy produced by a rooftop wind turbine. A Smart City could reduce your carbon footprint not only as you travel to a downtown destination, but also once you get there. Supported by a $2 million grant from the NSF, Professors Michael Caramanis (ME, SE) and John Baillieul (ME, SE) and two architecture faculty members at MIT are collaborating on a holistic, data-driven approach to lower the carbon footprint and energy cost in buildings. Their approach could make a big difference in commercial buildings, which account for 18 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions and 36 percent of national electric utility demand. Caramanis and Baillieul aim to leverage synergies between advanced, micro-grid-equipped buildings and utility retail marE N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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AN ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEM ON THE BUILDING SIDE OF THE METER CAN MONITOR AND CONTROL POWER CONSUMPTION AND FORECAST DEMAND.

MS’13) have designed software that determines actual ﬂow rates on a room-by-room basis by using the building automation system and measuring the system response. The information can be used to determine what reduced airﬂow rates could be used in each room while meeting its ventilation requirements. “This ensures that building performance objectives are met while minimizing energy use for every space within a building,” says Gevelber, whose project is funded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the BU Technology Development office. “All without changing any equipment or requiring manual, room-by-room measurements.”

Professors Michael Caramanis (left) and John Baillieul (right) (both ME, SE) explore ideas for advanced sustainable building design with Scot Hops, director of Sustainability for Saunders Hotel Group & Ecological Solutions, at the Lenox Hotel in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

kets to reduce electric power consumption, accommodate unpredictable clean energy generation fluctuations, and reduce reliance on carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels. “We are proposing to build an advanced intelligent system on the building side of the meter that can monitor and control consumption, forecast demand and obtain occupants’ power consumption preferences regarding heating, cooling and lighting,” says Caramanis. “This system will create a virtual energy market with humans in the loop on the building side of the meter, and enable the seamless and productive exchange of electric energy with energy markets on the utility side of the meter.” The team’s research shows that building instrumentation and data collection coordinated by decision-support software motivate occupants to monitor and control smart appliances, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and other grid-friendly devices. Distributed generation systems, such as rooftop photovoltaics, together with diverse new power users, such as electric vehicles, enable advanced building communities not only to tap external power sources but also to sell some of their own power to the grid. Meanwhile, College of Engineering researchers are developing a smarter way to reduce building energy consumption by making heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems more efficient. HVAC systems account for 30 to 50 percent of energy use in mid- to largesized buildings, and energy use and cost scales strongly with airflow. This is particularly true in older buildings designed when energy was much cheaper and HVAC systems relied on high airflow rates to ensure adequate ventilation and comfortable temperature and humidity levels. But heating, cooling and circulating so much air is costly. To optimize airflow rates and dramatically reduce energy consumption and costs, Associate Professor Michael Gevelber (ME, MSE, SE), Adjunct Associate Research Professor Donald Wroblewski (ME) and Gevelber’s research assistant Paul Gallagher (ME, 14

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Smarter Lighting and Communication After the curtains come down, you and your spouse walk to what used to be a WiFi-enabled café to discuss the play over dessert. To check out a local TV theater critic’s reaction to the performance, you pull out your tablet and bring up a video stream of her live review. Making this possible is a set of energy-efficient LED lights overhead that provide not only illumination but also high-bandwidth Internet access. The Smart City of the future will not only improve the flow of motor vehicle traffic in urban downtowns but also speed up Internet traffic through a new kind of specialized LED light. Requiring far less energy than incandescent or compact fluorescent bulbs, a new generation of highly adaptable and computer-controllable solid state “Smart Lights” could illuminate a defined space and facilitate highspeed, optical wireless communication and networking among electronic devices within that space. For example, Smart Lights could illuminate your living room and connect your laptop, smartphone, printer and other networked devices in the room to the Internet. Developed by Professor Thomas Little (ECE, SE) and other College of Engineering faculty and students in collaboration with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of New Mexico researchers at the NSF Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (SLERC) under an $18.5 million grant, Smart Lights can be programmed to provide illumination only as needed, and exploited by a smart grid to reduce electricity demand within a room, building or city during peak periods. Other potential uses include navigation for indoor spaces such as malls and museums, bluespectrum lighting control for improved sleep, and in-home activity monitoring for the elderly. As a commercial and residential lighting source, LEDs are unique in their ability to turn on and off very quickly—so quickly the eye cannot notice—and therein lies their ability to transmit data to equipped devices. And they can do so at larger bandwidth and with higher security than radio-based WiFi. Little is shipping these devices to the SLERC’s industrial and educational outreach partners. It’s a development that could spark new

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Researchers at the NSF Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center are enhancing the BU Smart Lighting prototype in collaboration with academic and industrial partners.

advances leading to commercialization. “Our prototype demonstrates the viability of using modulated LED light at a useful data rate,” he says. “The next step is to make the system completely self-contained, embedding all functionality within the luminaire.” At that stage, each “bulb” will serve as an Internet and data communication access point for any electronic device within range, and thus enable multiple devices to communicate with one another.

“SMART LIGHTS” CAN ILLUMINATE A DEFINED SPACE AND FACILITATE HIGH-SPEED, OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING.

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As you exit the café, you notice police cruisers and ﬁre engines a block away. Edging closer, you see a bomb-detecting robot manipulating a backpack apparently abandoned on the sidewalk. Data relayed from a rooftop camera had quickly pinpointed the backpack as a suspicious object, triggering the investigation. As it improves the ﬂow of motorized and online traffic and optimizes energy use, the Smart City will also keep an electronic eye on your safety, and not a moment too soon. Each week more than 30 million surveillance cameras produce nearly 4 billion hours of video footage, far more than human analysts can process. Even where software is used to sift through the data for suspicious activity, the algorithms

used are not always up to the task, especially in busy urban areas. Now Professors Janusz Konrad (ECE) and Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE), with more than $800,000 in funding from the NSF, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, have devised a technique to process video data and pinpoint unusual events in cluttered urban environments that’s much faster and more reliable than conventional approaches. “Typical approaches entail tagging, identifying and tracking every single object, but in an urban setting with too many moving objects, you can’t track them all,” says Saligrama. “Instead of tagging and tracking objects, our idea is to collect pixel-level statistics and monitor variations over time. Using cameras with embedded algorithms, we’ve shown that pixellevel anomaly detection can work.” The new technique detects and computes motion statistics at each pixel across time to identify and locate anomalous pixels; data collected on these anomalies can then be tracked via conventional software systems. With funding from the Office of Naval Research, Saligrama is also developing a Google-like capability to search and retrieve footage of potentially suspicious activities in large surveillance videos. In a related effort supported by a $450,000 NSF grant, Konrad, Associate Professor Prakash Ishwar (ECE, SE) and ECE graduate E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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SALIGRAMA IS DEVELOPING A GOOGLELIKE CAPABILITY TO SEARCH AND RETRIEVE FOOTAGE OF POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES IN LARGE SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS.

College of Engineering researchers have developed a novel statistical technique to identify and locate pixel-level changes that depart from normal activity within a monitored scene—changes that could indicate potential security threats.

student Kai Guo have developed a new framework for real-time action recognition—the automatic detection of animate actions, such as walking, jumping or waving, from camera-recorded video— that consistently exceeds the performance of state-of-the-art methods. The NSF has also awarded nearly $800,000 to Konrad, Ishwar and ECE graduate student Jonathan Wu and collaborators at the Polytechnic Institute of New York to explore how cameras could be enhanced to recognize hand and body gestures, and thereby authenticate individuals seeking access to a smartphone, tablet, laptop, building or other secure domain.

Smarter Health Care The backpack turned out to be harmless, but the incident sent your heart rate soaring. Not to worry; your cardiologist has you covered. Your wearable wireless body sensor relays your vital signs to your clinic, triggering a phone call if those signs indicate any reason for concern, or an email if a follow-up appointment is warranted. While watching out for your safety, the Smart City will also monitor your health, taking preventive actions to minimize your exposure to disease—actions still uncommon in today’s health care system. Despite spending about $3 trillion annually on health care, the US recently ranked lowest among 19 industrialized countries in its rate of preventable deaths. But medical experts believe that a more proactive, data-driven health care management strategy could yield dramatic improvements in health outcomes and also signiﬁcantly lower costs. To that end, Professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE), Dr. William Adams (BMC) and MIT Professor Dimitris Bertsimas, funded 16

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College of Engineering researchers are developing mobile apps that serve as personal health agents, reminding patients of medical appointments or to take prescribed drugs.

by a $2 million NSF grant, are pursuing a comprehensive approach to intelligently processing electronic health records and wireless body sensor data, and directing physician attention to preventing serious medical conditions. The researchers plan to apply data mining and optimization techniques to records and data collected from Boston Medical Center, insurance claims and wireless, wearable sensors to

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Professor Janusz Konrad (ECE) demonstrating a sequence of distinctive gestures that a smartphone, laptop or other secure device could interpret as a password. Konrad’s and Associate Professor Prakash Ishwar’s (ECE, SE) work on gesture-based authentication was profiled in the Boston Globe.

produce algorithms that group patients based on their risk of developing an acute condition. The model would suggest targeted preventative actions for, and responses to, chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. “What motivated us to start this particular project is the recognition that the US health care system is extremely inefficient as it is geared toward treating acute conditions,” says Paschalidis. “There are, we believe, tremendous opportunities for preventing the occurrence of these conditions and the expensive hospitalizations they cause.” In a related project, Associate Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE), director of the BU Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care, and Cassandras are developing apps that remind patients of times to take prescribed drugs and of medical tests and screenings, and enable them to schedule medical appointments.

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A Smart City Testbed College of Engineering researchers who are developing Smart City concepts and technologies are putting them to the test via the Sustainable Neighborhood Lab (SNL), a BU-organized living laboratory for enhancing urban sustainability and quality of life. The SNL serves as a platform for interdisciplinary research, innovation and experiential education at several schools and colleges across Boston University, integrating environmental science; systems and technology; human behavior; ﬁnance and business; and policy and urban planning. Working with Boston neighborhoods and nonproﬁts, commercial groups, the City of Boston and local utilities, and with support from companies such as IBM and Wells Fargo, SNL-based researchers are testing their ideas in real-world scenarios and collecting mean-

ingful data to inform innovation aimed at improving quality of life in urban environments. For example, College of Engineering researchers plan to test the Smart Parking system with The SNL aims to advance a Smart City on-street parking, and have investigated innovation ecosystem consisting of academic, public and private sector partners. advanced energy efficiency technologies at Boston’s Lenox Hotel and with Roxbury’s Madison Park Development Corp., which operates more than 1,000 housing units for low-income Bostonians. In March, the SNL and the College of Engineering convened a major Smarter Cities conference at the BU Photonics Center, centered on emerging technologies that Boston University, the City of Boston and industry leaders such as IBM—the conference sponsor—are pioneering to collect, analyze and act on data to improve the quality of urban life. The conference furthered the SNL’s goal of advancing a Smart City innovation ecosystem that leverages synergies among academic, public and private sector partners. “What has emerged is the potential for Boston to become an iconic example of smarter cities, and of how public-privateacademic partnerships can not only achieve smarter cities, but can sustain the innovations to keep them going,” says Dean Lutchen. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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hile hospitalized for a heart attack and stroke in 2008, Professor Emeritus Theodore Morse (ECE) found himself unable to speak or write. Making the simplest requests for food, pain medication and other basic needs became an arduous task. The experience stuck with Morse as he recovered his speaking and writing abilities, leading him to propose an ECE senior design project for a system that would enable patients to communicate with nurses and other caregivers, regardless of speech or language barriers. Nick Dougherty, Eric Hsiao and Greg Zoeller (all CE’12) and two other CE seniors took up the challenge

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“FOR SOMEONE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY AND DIFFICULTY COMMUNICATING, OUR APP COULD TRANSFORM A FIVETO 30-MINUTE INTERACTION DOWN TO FIVE SECONDS.” only means of communication are paper and pen, whiteboards and lipreading. “Having a phone or iPad application that allows the patient to communicate many common concerns and emergency needs is a wonderful option that we welcome in the hospital environment,” says Marian Jeffries, clinical nurse specialist for the Thoracic & Laryngeal Surgery Unit at MGH. “Just the thought that the patient can be ‘heard’ and can still ‘express’ what they want or need is a comfort for our patient population. When testing this Verbal device on six of our patients without a voice, it addressed many of their concerns about what was needed for them to feel safe.” Feedback from the MGH pilot led to several upgrades, including audio-enhanced icons; the ability to customize the app to the needs of patients and caregivers, such as adding patient-speciﬁc requests for particular foods; a feature that prioritizes patient requests; and new technology that enables patients to send messages to the iPhones of nurses and other caregivers. Unlike existing iPhone- and iPad-based patient communications apps with limited functionality that can cost thousands of dollars to purchase, Verbal integrates several features in one simple, customizable interface and enables patients to communicate with a community of caregivers—all for a much more affordable monthly subscription fee.

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in the 2011–2012 academic year, producing an iPad app that allows patients to click on categorized, picture-based icons to ask their nurses for water, bathroom access and other common services, or to indicate the level and location of pain. To determine which services to include in their app, the team shadowed nurses, interviewed speech pathologists and information technology professionals, and tested the system with six patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), all while consulting with Morse and Associate Professor of the Practice Alan Pisano (ECE), their senior design project advisor. As the spring 2012 semester came to a close, the project received the Entrepreneurial Award from a panel of ECE alumni judges and placed second in the College of Engineering’s annual Societal Impact Capstone Project Awards. Encouraged by positive feedback from patients, health care providers and engineers, and driven to apply their engineering and entrepreneurial skills to improve the quality of patient care, Dougherty, Hsiao and Zoeller formed a company, Verbal Applications Inc., to develop the app further and market it to hospitals and other health care organizations. “Our main objective was to bridge the communication gap between patients and their caregivers, especially for people who have difficulty communicating due to aphasia, ALS, autism and other diseases,” says Dougherty. “For someone with limited mobility and difficulty communicating, our app could transform a ﬁve- to 30-minute interaction down to ﬁve seconds.” In the year following their graduation, all three Verbal co-founders devoted nights and weekends to the startup while supporting themselves with day jobs—Dougherty and Zoeller as web developers at Homesite; Hsiao as a software engineer at Hubspot. During that year, the team continued to pilot the app at MGH— particularly in the Respiratory Acute Care and Thoracic Units, where patients’ speaking ability is often compromised and their

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The Verbal app interface allows speech-impaired patients to request everything from a meal to a bed adjustment.

POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT VERBAL “The Verbal app will aid in communication with a vulnerable population—those who cannot speak for themselves— allowing patients to state their needs and caregivers to meet them in a timely manner without frustration on either end.” —Susan Gavaghan, clinical nurse specialist at MGH “Most people with aphasia report feeling isolated and ignored and this is especially true when they are in an unfamiliar environment. If they are not able to communicate their needs it is not only frustrating but can have serious consequences. The Verbal app creates a sense of normalcy in a frightening experience.” —Ellayne S. Ganzfried, executive director of the National Aphasia Association

“Other apps are very bulky and unsophisticated,” Hsiao maintains. “We’ve worked a lot on the interface to keep it simple, visually appealing, user-friendly, patient-focused and affordable.” After leaving their day jobs in May, the three CE alums are now working full time on Verbal, often logging 10- to 12-hour days. As the company’s CEO, Dougherty focuses on strategic planning and financing, while Hsiao, the CTO, pursues product development and engineering, and Zoeller, the COO, conducts marketing research and develops code for the app. “You really have to love and believe in what you are doing and that you can execute,” says Zoeller, who was particularly drawn to the project, as his mother is a nurse at MGH. “My time at BU definitely prepared me for the long hours and the intense workloads of starting your own company. Some of those classes were brutal, in a good way, but if you have a good team around you, the challenges are easy to overcome.” Since going full time, the biggest challenge the team has faced is the steep learning curve associated with becoming first-time entrepreneurs. “We have all had small-scale side projects we have released into the public, but the hurdles that come up in the ‘real world’ are far more challenging,” Dougherty observes. “Yet, with the support of our resources at BU, we have been more than ready to meet each challenge we have encountered. We have great connections through our professors and classmates, and organizations such as the BU ENG Career Development office and the BU Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship & Commercialization (ITEC).” Armed with new business strategy ideas gleaned from competing in the ITEC New Venture Competition (where they outperformed nearly four dozen teams to become one of six finalists and emerged with the People’s Choice Award), the team spent the summer working out of technology incubator space at ITEC’s Venture

Startup Camp. As one of 128 state ﬁnalists in the Mass Challenge startup accelerator, they also gained access to office space at the Boston Seaport. Both programs provide mentorship, funding and access to high-tech investors. “This team has a lot of energy and passion about their business,” says Beth Goldstein, director of New Venture Competitions at ITEC. “They have done their homework and are willing to put the time and effort into understanding the needs of the community and how they can meet those needs.” The Verbal team ultimately aims to deploy its app not only in hospitals but also in senior centers and private homes. Another potential market is the military. Buoyed by a letter of support from former Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, Verbal is working toward a partnership with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish communications solutions for veterans suffering from brain injuries or speech impediments. In the long run, the Verbal co-founders envision a full cloud-based patient care solution consisting of the app and an online patient care portal that could be set up at a nursing station as a one-stop-shop to manage customized app software and track patient progress. The process of designing and upgrading Verbal has transformed not only the app but also the developers. “I’ve become signiﬁcantly more passionate about the project after witnessing ALS and aphasia patients try to interact,” notes Hsiao. “The sad part is that they’re all mentally sound but they just have so much difficulty communicating what they need. So if something as simple as Verbal can help, even just a little bit, then I know we’re on the right track.” More information about Verbal is available at verbalapplication.com. Rachel Harrington contributed to this article. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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“Our practice found eClinicalWorks to be an affordable but high-value, top-notch, cutting-edge system, and we implemented it in 2004,” says Block, who spent six months reviewing different EHR systems. “The software has helped our medical office evolve into an efficient, modern platform of patient care, and paid for itself by the end of the first year because of the significantly reduced overhead costs of running a practice.” Andrew Baumel, a pediatrician in Framingham, Massachusetts, has found another reason to love the product. “One thing that separates eCW from its competitors is that it is easy to use,” he says. “There are many things that I as an end user with no special IT skills can do with the program that most other EHR programs would require a person with advanced computer skills to handle.” The Path to eClinicalWorks Lured to BU by his cousin Mahesh and the opportunity to work with computer-aided design and manufacturing tools in the Manufacturing Engineering program, Girish spent many late nights as a teaching assistant in a computer lab developing robot control software, feeding the software to a robot the next morning to test it out. That experience, combined with SMG courses in supply chain management, helped him land his first job at Teradyne, where he developed software for semiconductor manufacturing robots. He continued to develop commercial-grade software for Fidelity, then honed his entrepreneurial skills by starting an e-commerce venture at Aspen Technology. Meanwhile, Mahesh worked in software quality assurance for PTC and managed financial management systems as an assistant vice president at Jennison Associates for nearly a decade. After successfully developing and selling two small-scale software packages in their spare time, Girish and Mahesh felt confident they could come up with a breakout software product if they could find the right application. In 1999 they pooled funds and hired two programmers to develop a modern software platform, and discovered that application. With Dr. Raj’s input, the Navanis envisioned a comprehensive, paperless health care information system that combined wireless technology and tablet computers. “Health care was completely paper-based with most medical providers,” Girish recalls. “We found an opportunity for technology to connect the front and back end of physicians’ offices at a competitive cost.” And so eClinicalWorks was born. PHOTO COURTESY OF eCLINICALWORKS

n 2007, New York City deployed a comprehensive electronics health records (EHR) software package in the practices of 3,200 primary care physicians covering three million underserved NYC residents, nearly half of the city’s population. Within five years, the technology—which improves detection of preventable health conditions across patient populations and triggers reminders and counseling to help patients better manage their care—enabled an additional 81,000 diabetes patients to manage the disease more effectively, 96,000 people to reduce their high blood pressure, and 58,000 smokers to kick the habit. “The development and expanded use of electronic health records has given doctors the tools to improve both the length and quality of New Yorkers’ lives and it is rewarding to see the program become a national model,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a February 2012 event celebrating the success of the technology. The software solution at the heart of this success story was produced by Westborough, Massachusetts-based eClinicalWorks®, a top-three market leader in digital clinical systems that counts 80,000 physicians and 472,000 health care professionals among its customers across all 50 states. With the industry’s largest cloud computing network, approximately one in four Americans’ health data are stored using eClinicalWorks software. Named to the Inc. Magazine 500 list of fastest-growing private companies, the 14-yearold business strives to provide faster, better and cheaper technology and services that improve the quality of health care. Much of the brainpower behind eClinicalWorks was shaped at the College of Engineering. Two of the company’s three cofounders—cousins Girish Kumar Navani (’90), the CEO, and Mahesh Kumar Navani (’91), the COO—completed master’s degrees in Manufacturing Engineering at BU. A man with a passion for software development and a strong competitive streak that runs from weekend cricket to NFL fantasy football, Girish oversees company strategy, sales, marketing, and business and product development. With a fervor for translating the company’s vision into consistently effective action, Mahesh directs financial and operational activities, including software development and customer service. Joining forces with Girish’s brother-in-law, primary care physician Raj Dharampuriya, the company’s chief medical officer, the Navanis developed a comprehensive e-health solution that addresses clinical, financial and communications aspects of patient care. The software books appointments; displays patient medical history, current meds, lab results and other data in the exam room; sends prescriptions to a selected pharmacy; bills insurance companies; sends reminders to patients about medications, diet, exercise and other information to support their self-care; provides an online portal where patients can interact with doctors; and more. “We provide a one-stop-shop solution for the health care provider and the patient,” says Mahesh. “Our solution encompasses every touchpoint in the health care supply chain.” Health care providers such as Bradley M. Block, a family medicine physician at a Florida clinic, have gravitated to eClinicalWorks (also known as eCW) because it delivers high performance at a competitive price.

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eCLINICALWORKS IS A COMPREHENSIVE E-HEALTH SOLUTION THAT ADDRESSES CLINICAL, FINANCIAL AND COMMUNICATIONS ASPECTS OF PATIENT CARE. THE SOFTWARE DOES EVERYTHING FROM DISPLAYING A PATIENT’S MEDICAL HISTORY IN A PHYSICIAN’S OFFICE TO PROVIDING AN ONLINE PORTAL WHERE PATIENTS CAN CONTACT THEIR DOCTORS.

Today, what matters most for the Navanis is how the company’s software is making a profound difference in the lives of patients and physicians. Toward that end, they view their work like a game of golf in which you have to hit every shot right to win the game. “When you’re developing a product or service, everyone needs to deliver consistently with quality or else the whole company suffers,” says Mahesh, who draws on lessons learned at BU on problemsolving and teamwork to do just that. Adds Girish: “I’m constantly asking myself the question, what can I do better tomorrow?” One reason eClinicalWorks has reached the top tier of EHR companies is a signiﬁcant cadre of satisﬁed customers eager to spread the word. Aided by this virtual sales force, eClinicalWorks now claims the largest market share of customers in the business with the smallest sales department. But most importantly, the product is improving health outcomes for those customers. “I’ve had a customer look me in the eye and say that with eClinicalWorks he was able to save three women through early detection of breast cancer,” says Girish. “I see this as far better than building smartphones or e-commerce systems. By digitizing health care, we’re enabling patients to get diagnosed faster and sooner, and have better lives.” More information about eClinicalWorks is available at eclinicalworks.com. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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ENG Professor Brings the World into Sharper Focus BIFANO DELIVERS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR LECTURE ON SHAPING LIGHT WITH DEFORMABLE MIRRORS For 15 years, Professor Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE) has developed deformable mirrors that are widely used to compensate for optical aberrations in telescopes and microscopes. His “adaptive optics” technique leverages micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology—electrostatic actuators and ﬂexible layers of silicon—to shape the mirrors precisely and thus bring images of everything from retinal cells to planets into sharper focus. On April 9, Bifano traced the evolution of his trailblazing work on deformable mirrors at Boston University and Boston Micromachines Corporation (where he’s the founder and chief technology officer) in the 2013 College of Engineering Distinguished Scholar Lecture,

“Shaping Light Professor with Deformable Thomas Bifano Mirrors.” (ME, MSE) Speaking from delivering the podium of Distinguished Scholar the Colloquium Lecture Room at the Boston University Photonics Center (which he directs), he addressed students, faculty and researchers from throughout the BU academic community and beyond. Initiated in 2008, the annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series honors a senior faculty member engaged in outstanding, high-impact research at the College of Engineering.

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systems. Such systems could be used to address renewable energy, medical, environmental remediation and other critical societal challenges. In recognition of his exceptional research, Densmore was invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in September. Jasti aims to develop new ways to synthesize well-deﬁned, uniform structures from which carbon nanotubes—extremely thin, hollow cylinders composed of carbon atoms—can be constructed. Because of their unique properties, carbon nanotubes may ultimately be used to enable diverse applications including new solar energy materials, components for faster electronics and single-molecule biosensors. In recognition of his exceptional research achievements and potential, Jasti also received a 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship totaling $50,000. Nazer plans to explore a novel approach to wireless communication that could lead to substantially higher data rates. The technique may eventually enable many users to simultaneously occupy the same channel while operating at extremely high data rates.

Assistant Professors Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME), Ramesh Jasti (Chemistry, MSE) and Bobak Nazer (ECE, SE) each received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in recognition of their outstanding research and teaching capabilities. Collectively, they will receive nearly $2 million over the next ﬁve years to pursue high-impact projects that combine research and educational objectives. Densmore’s CAREER award will advance a synthetic biology platform designed to dramatically reduce the time, costs and complexities associated with assembling DNA to create novel living

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Fighting H1N1 with Tobacco Plants PROJECT EARNS JOSEPH VON FRAUNHOFER PRIZE FOR ENG’S SHARON After decades of demonization as a health menace, the tobacco plant is about to become a source of potentially lifesaving medicines, thanks in part to the work of Professor Andre Sharon (ME), who leads a team that built a fully automated factory that uses synthetically altered tobacco plants to rapidly produce vaccines for some of the world’s most deadly viruses, including H1N1, yellow fever and malaria, as well as for emerging biological threats. Those efforts have earned Sharon, director of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI) at Boston University, the 2013 Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize. The 50,000 euro prize was presented in June in Hannover, Germany, at a gala attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Sharon shares the award with colleague Vidadi Yusibov, the executive director of the

Professor Andre Sharon (ME) was recognized for his work in cultivating tobacco plants to produce vaccines.

Delaware-based Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology (CMB) and a senior research fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, where the tobacco plants are cultivated to produce vaccines. This is the first time in the award’s 35-year history that it has gone to an American. — By Amy Laskowski, BU Today

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ZAMAN WINS FOUR AWARDS

Zaman Wins Four Prestigious Awards

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RECOGNITION HIGHLIGHTS EXCEPTIONAL IMPACT AS RESEARCHER AND EDUCATOR Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) won four highly competitive awards in 2013 that underscore his growing impact as a researcher and educator at Boston University and around the world. Issued annually to a single member by the world’s largest international society of biomedical engineers, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Early Career Achievement Award recognizes significant contributions to the field of biomedical engineering as demonstrated by innovative research, product development, patents and publications. Receiving the award during the opening ceremony of the EMBS annual conference in July in Osaka, Japan, Zaman was honored for his key contributions in developing novel quantitative experimental and computational models of tumor development, growth and metastasis, and new engineering tools to address high-impact global health challenges. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Academies and USAID, the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) Health grant supports collaborations between NIH researchers in the US and researchers in the developing world to address critical public health needs. The recipients of one of 16 such grants worth up to $450,000 over three years, Zaman and Iwan Ariawan of the University of Indonesia plan to field test Zaman’s user-friendly, low-cost, counterfeit drug detection system, PharmaCheck, for drugs used to save mothers dying from postpartum bleeding in Indonesia. Zaman and BU graduate students Darash Desai (BME) and Andrea Fernandes (School of Public Health) also received an $18,500 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance to advance PharmaCheck toward commercialization. Finally, Zaman will receive the IEEE Education Society’s Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award—which recognizes outstanding teaching performance, development of new teaching methods, and curricular innovation—at the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference in Oklahoma City in October. Both at the University of Texas, where he served as assistant professor of biomedical engineering from 2006 to 2009, and at Boston University, his academic home since 2009, Zaman has championed several highly innovative educational practices that range from obtaining frequent, anonymous feedback from students while a course is in progress, to illustrating theoretical course concepts with highly relevant, real-world examples. As director of the BU Laboratory of Engineering Education & Development, he engages students in the development of global health technologies for resource-limited countries and works on capacity building and engineering education in these countries.

BU Innovator of the Year: Theodore Moustakas RECOGNIZED FOR SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS WITH COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE, Physics) has won Boston University’s 2013 Innovator of the Year Award, which recognizes a faculty member whose peer-recognized, worldclass research and ideas have led to the formation of companies that beneﬁt society at large. Jean Morrison, BU provost and chief academic officer, presented the award to Moustakas on July 16 at Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll, the University’s annual networking event for those involved in university technology transfer in the Boston area. Moustakas is the co-inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED). His lab develops semiconductors for photonics and other applications. Moustakas also founded RayVio Corporation, a venture-backed company that makes ultraviolet LEDs, compact, energyefficient, durable and environmentally friendly substitutes for mercury lamps used in water puriﬁcation and disinfection systems. “Professor Moustakas is an entrepreneurial scientist whose inventions have been licensed to a number of companies, including major manufacturers of blue LEDs and lasers,” said Morrison. “His accomplishments in the past year include

Paschalidis Named Editor-in-Chief of New IEEE Journal The Control Systems Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has chosen Professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE) as the inaugural editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS). TCNS will publish high-quality papers on systems with interconnected components, emphasizing topics related to the control of these systems. The scope of the new quarterly publication, the first issue of which is slated for March 2014, will be broad and include topics such as communication networks, cyber-physical systems, biological networks, electric power networks and social/economic networks. “The launch of this journal is exciting because there is quite a bit of work done at

Jean Morrison, University provost and chief academic officer, presents the Innovator of the Year Award to Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE, Physics).

nine peer-reviewed papers published and five patent filings.” “Through working in an interdisciplinary field like materials and device physics I have had the privilege to collaborate with and benefit from many colleagues at BU as well as at other institutions,” said Moustakas. “And I have been blessed to have mentored so many bright and talented young people over the last 26 years.” — By Kira Jastive, BU Today

Boston University on networks with innovative and ‘non-traditional’ applications including robot networks, network security, smart cities and networks arising in biological contexts,” said Paschalidis. “This Professor Yannis Paschalidis new journal offers (ECE, SE) a venue for such work, which has so far been missing.” The journal will be sponsored primarily by the IEEE Control Systems Society as well as the IEEE’s Communications Society, Computer Society, and Robotics and Automation Society. The IEEE is a professional association dedicated to technological innovation and excellence. The group has more than 425,000 members from more than 160 countries. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 3 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

NEWS BYTES FACULTY › Mass High Tech named Assistant Dean for Outreach & Diversity Gretchen Fougere one of 20 “2013 Women to Watch.” The award recognizes Fougere’s leadership in making a signiﬁcant impact in inspiring local and national K–12 students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers, particularly through the ENG Technology Innovation Scholars Program.

› Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) was elected as one of seven new Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the leading professional society for biomedical engineers. Wong’s research has led to a better understanding of cellular processes involved in artherosclerosis and new therapies that can be used in surgical repair and Professor Joyce early detection of Wong (BME, the disease. MSE) › In the news: Professor Enrico

Assistant Dean for Outreach & Diversity Gretchen Fougere working with Chelsea High School students on a Smart Lighting design challenge.

› Assistant Professor Xue Han (BME) was among a select group of leading neuroscientists invited to the White House in April to hear President Barack Obama announce $100 million in initial funding for the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative, which seeks to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain and catalyze new treatments for brain disorders.

› Professor Mark Horenstein (ECE) was named an International Fellow by the European Federation of Chemical Engineering Static Electricity in Industry Group. Every four years, the honor recognizes dedicated service and notable contributions to the advancement of industrial electrostatics by researchers and teachers.

› Professor Barbara ShinnCunningham (BME) was named Vice President-Elect of the Acoustical Society of America, a professional society of over 7,000 members.

› Computational modeling tools developed by Professor Sandor Vajda (BME, Chemistry) and Research Assistant Professor Dima Kozakov (BME) played a key role in California high school junior Eric Chen’s selection as one of 15 ﬁnalists in the 2013 Google Science Fair. Chen’s project used these tools to advance drug discovery for new, highly lethal inﬂuenza virus strains. 28

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Bellotti (ECE, MSE) appeared in IEEE Spectrum; Assistant Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) became the ﬁrst female columnist for Circuit Cellular in September, with her biweekly “Green Computing” column; Assistant Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME) appeared on a Discover magazine panel; Assistant Professor Michael Smith’s (BME) research was highlighted in The Scientist; and Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman’s (BME, MSE) counterfeit drug detection system was featured in a Popular Science article.

fully incorporating the SkyDrive API ﬁle-hosting service into their software project, which simpliﬁes and speeds up real-time digital document sharing.

› ECE PhD candidate and LEAP student Molly Crane (MS’12) received a fellowship from the Clare Boothe Luce Program, the largest source of private funding for women in science, engineering and mathematics. › An ENG and SMG student/faculty team that included ME senior Ryan Cruz took ﬁrst prize in the energy efficiency category of the annual MIT Clean Energy Prize in May, one of six premiere US regional clean energy student business plan competitions. The team, Aeolus Building Efficiency, won $20,000 for its business plan and presentation for a full-service company that utilizes software to optimize airﬂow and reduce energy consumption in large office HVAC systems. Aeolus also won third prize at the BU Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship & Commercialization (ITEC) New Venture Competition.

STUDENTS & ALUMNI › PhD students Carl Beigie (BME), Patrick Gregg (ECE), Daniel Reynolds (BME) and Benjamin Weinberg (BME) received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, which provide a $30,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance for up to three years to outstanding full-time US graduate students.

› This spring a team of ECE seniors— Brad Berk, Nick Lippis, Patrick Maruska and Robins Patel—became one of 13 ﬁnalists to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup US Finals and pitch their business to the Silicon Valley startup community. Known as Pitch, the team emerged with a $1,000 SkyDrive Boost Award for skill-

ECE Entrepreneurial Award winners Nick Lippis, Brad Berk, Robins Patel and Patrick Maruska (all ECE’13) presenting their software system, Pitch, on ECE Day.

Consisting (from left) of Associate Professor Michael Gevelber (ME, MSE, SE), David Cushman (GSM’14), Jonathan Ellermann (GSM’13), Ryan Cruz (ME’13) and Benjamin Smith (GSM’13) and Adjunct Associate Research Professor Donald Wroblewski (ME) (not pictured), Aeolus outperformed 15 other teams from nine states.

› ECE PhD student Jeffrey Demas was awarded Honorable Mention in the Maiman Student Paper Competition for a paper he co-authored with other members of Associate Professor Siddharth Ramachandran’s (ECE, MSE) lab on a method of developing new highpower fiber laser sources. His paper placed in the top three out of more than 1,000 student papers submitted to the 2013 Conference on Lasers and ElectroOptics. Patrick Gregg (ECE) was named a semifinalist in the competition. › The Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) selected PhD students Nga Ho (BME) and Jacob Trueb (ME) as two of 10 finalists for its 2013 Student Technology Prize for Primary Care. Each student received $10,000. Ho seeks to build a rapid, highly sensitive,

point-of-care, low-cost virus diagnostic system that will detect HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C simultaneously in resource-limited settings; Trueb is developing a noninvasive, microﬂuidic chip cartridge that performs point-of-care allergy testing.

Nga Ho (BME) (left) and Jacob Trueb (ME) (right) were two of 10 finalists for the 2013 Student Technology Prize for Primary Care.

› Haiyao “Cassie” Huang (ECE, PhD’15) was named one of 30 Google Anita Borg Memorial Finalists. Huang received a $1,000 scholarship and was invited to attend the annual Google Scholars’ Retreat this summer in New York City. Working closely with Assistant Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME), Huang is developing CAD tools for synthetic biology, with a focus on integrating synthetic biology and microﬂuidics. › Wei Si (PhD’15), Morteza Hashemi (PhD’16) and Professors Ari Trachtenberg and David Starobinski (both ECE, SE) are working with General Motors Research to determine if using wireless sensor networks— rather than wires whose collective weight increases fuel consumption— might be a greener way to construct tomorrow’s vehicles. › Waygo, a two-year-old company that makes an optical character reader translation app initially focused on translating Chinese to English, won Most Promising Startup at the Echelon 2013 conference in Singapore. Waygo has about 40,000 users. Huan-Yu Wu (MS, EE’10), one of Waygo’s three co-founders, serves as the back-end engineer. › Cellanyx Diagnostics, a startup combining nanomedicine and predictive diagnostics to improve results for prostate cancer patients, won ﬁrst prize at the BU Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship & Commercialization New Venture Competition. Team members were Brad Hogan (GRS’13), Kevin Yu (BME’10) and Jonathan Varsanik. — Mark Dwortzan, Rachel Harrington, Chelsea Hermond (SMG’15) and Zara Mahmood

College of Engineering Welcomes New Faculty The College of Engineering welcomed four new faculty members for the 2012–2013 academic year. Experts in diverse fields, they reflect the College’s interdisciplinary nature and are expected to bring innovative ideas to its classrooms and research labs. In addition, the College promoted five outstanding faculty members. NEW FACULTY Professor Alice E. White (ME, MSE) is the new chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Previously chief scientist of Bell Labs, where she worked for more than 30 years, White has a PhD in physics from Harvard University and a broad technical background in materials science and opticalcomponent fabrication. Since 1989 she has held various leadership positions at Bell Labs including director of Integrated Photonics Research, vice president of the Physical Technologies Research Center, and president of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium. Named a Bell Labs Fellow in 2001 for her work in “developing and applying novel integrated photonic device technologies in advanced optical networks,” she is a member of the Materials Research Society and a fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE Photonics Society and the Optical Society of America. She holds five patents and has authored more than 125 publications. Professor Christopher Chen (BME, MED) hails from the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Skirkanich Professor of Innovation in Bioengineering and was founding

director of the Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration. Widely recognized as a world leader in tissue engineering and mechanobiology, Chen aims to identify underlying mechanisms by which cells interact with materials and other cells to build tissues, and to apply this knowledge to better understand the biology of stem cells, tissue vascularization and cancer. Holding an MD from Harvard Medical School, a PhD in medical engineering and medical physics from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, and an MS in mechanical engineering from MIT, Chen has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and several other honors. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Assistant Professor J. Scott Bunch (ME, MSE) joins the faculty from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he served as assistant professor of mechanical engineering. A recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2011 and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Microsystems Technology Office Young Faculty Award in 2008, Bunch investigates graphene and the other twodimensional atomic membranes in order to better understand the fundamental mechanical properties of materials as they reach true atomic size, and to explore potential applications for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). He received his PhD in physics from Cornell University in 2008. Assistant Professor Allison Dennis (BME, MSE), formerly a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, develops novel semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots, which function as highly tunable ﬂuorophores, or ﬂuorescent

tracers, and applies this technology to biological imaging. Her research could lead to more rapid detection of complex mixtures of biological targets, such as multiple cancer gene mutations, in a single sample. A former Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Ocean Optics Young Investigator of the Year Award from SPIE in 2008 and the Biomedical Engineering Society Extended Abstract Award in 2009, Dennis earned her PhD in bioengineering in 2009 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. PROMOTION TO PROFESSOR An NSF CAREER Award recipient and corecipient of a $15 million Army Research Laboratory grant, Enrico Bellotti (ECE, MSE) specializes in the design of energyefficient photonics materials and has developed water puriﬁcation systems, infrared detectors and lighter energyefficient batteries and devices for soldiers in combat. A fellow of the Optical Society of America, Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) holds 32 patents, has co-edited a book, and written or co-written more than 200 articles, papers and lectures in the ﬁeld of optics and applied physics. An expert in enhancing cyber security, Ari Trachtenberg (ECE, SE) received an NSF CAREER Award in 2002. His research interests also include cryptography, algorithms and data structures, and computer networks. Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) studies cellbiomaterial interactions, tissue engineering and theranostics, researching the regeneration of tissue and the integration of drug delivery with acoustic imaging. PROMOTION TO TENURED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Russell Giordano (MSE), also an associate professor in the Department of Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials at the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, patented and commercialized hybrid ceramic dental material that offers improved resistance to fracture and better machining properties than existing materials. — Mark Dwortzan and Tom Vellner (COM’13), BU Today

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ANA SOFIA CAMACHO (BME’13) RECEIVED THE ANITA CUADRADO MEMORIAL AWARD FOR ENTHUSIASM AND DEVOTION TO THE COLLEGE.

Graduation Speakers Embrace Perseverance, Serendipity

peakers urged undergraduates to persevere to achieve their dreams, and told graduate students to embrace serendipity during their respective graduation exercises on May 18. Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, addressed bachelor’s degree recipients at Commencement exercises in the morning; Warren Grill (BME’89), the Addy Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, spoke at the graduate convocation later in the day. Two hundred and sixty-two Bachelor of Science degrees were awarded at the undergraduate Commencement, held at the Track & Tennis Center. Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen acknowledged the demanding

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engineering curriculum and the social opportunities students gave up to earn their diplomas. “Without question, no one worked harder than you did,” Lutchen told the graduates. Lutchen introduced Langer, a member of the National Academies, recipient of numerous top engineering awards and prizes, and the author of some 1,200 articles, who has been cited more than any engineer in history. Using his own career as a chemical engineer—in which he rejected multiple lucrative offers from oil companies and overturned conventional wisdom to develop plastics that could be used to deliver medically important large molecules to patients—as an example, Langer encouraged the graduates to follow their passions, chase their dreams and persevere in the face of adversity.

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Undergraduate student speaker Erik Frazier (BME’13) and Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, addressed bachelor’s degree recipients at Commencement exercises.

Noting that his ideas were eventually adopted by pharmaceutical manufacturers, resulting in products that, in some cases, saved people’s lives, Langer urged the graduates to “dream big about things you can do to improve the world. People will tell you it’s impossible. If you persist, there’s very little that isn’t possible.” That thought was echoed by student speaker Erik Frazier (BME’13), who told his classmates, “The next chapter of our lives is filled with a series of blank pages. Our degrees do not come with a map of the future. You can start filling in the blank pages by defining what you think engineering is. Find your passion. Find the essence of why you became an engineer.” In the afternoon at the Fitness & Recreation Center, Grill addressed the 119 recipients of Master of Engineering, Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the graduate convocation. He observed that serendipity helped produce several important advances in science and engineering. In his case, a rejection for a summer fellowship at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute due to a professor’s oversight led to a summer research assistant position with that professor that sparked his interest in an academic career. “As you move forward in your career and life,” Grill told the graduates, “be willing to accept the accident, embrace serendipity and seize the opportunities that are created.” Among those attending the morning Commencement were the parents of Austin Brashears, who died in a car accident while studying abroad in New Zealand last year. They traveled to campus to see their son’s classmates graduate and also to witness a moment of silence observed in his memory.

Two Alumni—One Mission to Mars IN JUNE AT THE SOFITEL HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES, THE BU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING PRESENTED A PROGRAM/RECEPTION FEATURING ANITA SENGUPTA (ENG’98), A SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER AT THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL) WHO ENABLED THE CURIOSITY ROVER’S SUCCESSFUL LANDING ON MARS, AND MATTHEW HEVERLY (ENG’05), A MOBILITY SYSTEMS ENGINEER AT JPL AND THE ROVER’S LEAD DRIVER.

Transforming Diabetes Treatment IN MAY AT THE SINGH IMAGINEERING LABORATORY, ENG ALUMS AND PARENTS GATHERED AT A RECEPTION FEATURING PROFESSOR EDWARD DAMIANO (BME), WHO DESCRIBED HIS WORK CREATING A BIONIC PANCREAS THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE TREATMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH DIABETES.

For the Love of the Game JAMES, ARMANDO (ENG’85) AND AMANDA MADEIROS AT THE BOSTON RED SOX PREGAME BBQ IN JUNE.

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2000 Trevor Shaw, BS, Albuquerque, New Mexico • NICOR Inc. hired Trevor as an SSL engineering team member to help with the development of new LED lighting solutions. He has worked as an engineer for 13 years, ﬁve of which were directly related to LED lighting while he worked in the aerospace industry.

Carol Thorstad-Forsyth, BS, West Palm Beach, Florida • Carol was promoted to partner at Fox Rothschild LLP. She provides strategic guidance on intellectual property protection and represents major defense contractors and leaders in global communications, document management, consumer goods and network/software solutions. She also serves as an attorney in residence mentor for the Florida Atlantic University Adams Center for Entrepreneurship, advising students, faculty, alumni and FAU Business Plan competitors on intellectual property and engineering design.

2001 Cammen Chan, MS, Chandler, Arizona • Cammen published All-in-One Electronics Guide: Your complete ultimate guide to understanding and utilizing electronics! in May. The book provides a comprehensive overview of electronics for everyone from hobbyists to electrical engineers, and serves as a practical reference for design, analysis and applications. Cammen has worked in the semiconductor industry as an electrical engineer for 17 years, and is currently training embedded systems engineers, pursuing research, writing technical materials and serving as an adjunct faculty member at seven colleges.

2012 Jarred Callura, PhD, Melbourne, Florida • Jarred is working at United Therapeutics Corporation exploring synthetic biology solutions to developing new drugs for people with chronic and life-threatening conditions. During his time in the Collins Lab, he developed a genetic switchboard controlling the expression of multiple genes.

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Professor Guido Sandri, 1930–2013 Guido Sandri, a highly esteemed, boundlessly enthusiastic professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering (AME) from 1983 to 1998 and Sandri was a highly prolific engineer and artist. adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Metropolitan College thereafter, died on July 19 after a long illness. An expert in statistical mechanics and wave propagation who published nearly 100 journal articles since the 1950s and had once corresponded with Albert Einstein, Sandri served as a catalyst for much of the old AME department’s research and a mentor to many highly successful PhD students. Student evaluations of his courses ranked him as one of the best teachers in the College. “He was iconic and so deeply part of the College’s history,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. Associate Professor Sheryl Grace (ME) remembered Sandri as a “Renaissance man” who took classes in Shakespeare, philosophy, music and art; an avid painter himself; and a mentor to most of the AME faculty with a theoretical bent. Before joining the Boston University faculty, Sandri held posts at several prestigious research organizations, including the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (where he assisted renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer). He earned his PhD in physics at MIT and his BA in physics at Harvard University. Sandri is survived by his wife, Willma Nash Sandri. Condolences may be addressed to Professor Raymond Nagem, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 110 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215. 32

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Remembering Anthony Barksdale When Anthony Barksdale (ENG’16) died in March, memorials of various forms sprouted around campus, a testament to his generosity of spirit. Associate Professor Sheryl Grace (ME) recalled Barksdale’s sharp mind. “The blade he designed for our simple wind turbine tabletop test outperformed all of the others,” said Grace, who taught Barksdale in her Introduction to Wind Energy class. A pilot who flew Cessna planes, he was especially interested in computer engineering and aeronautical design. Also an avid snowmobiler and four-wheeler, Barksdale was a 2012 graduate of Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire, where he played football and varsity basketball, earning the Coach’s Award senior year. He was the recipient of a US Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award and a Humanities Award. — By Rich Barlow, BU Today

PASSINGS Therese Teitsch (’90, ’92), Cazenovia, NY John Eismont (’86), New Britain, CT Kenneth S. Woodard (’73), Millis, MA Robert E. Abate (’65), Kingston, MA Adolph J. Buczynski (’61), Andover, MA Leroy S. Damon (’59), Ogden, UT Armand G. Stravato (’58, CGS’57), Amarillo, TX Warren W. Lumb (’55), Methuen, MA Thomas Anderson (’55, CGS’54), Sarasota, FL Harry W. Thornton (’53), Winston-Salem, NC

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Honor Roll of Supporters

Dear Friends, Imagine the impact your generosity is having on College of Engineering students, funding transformative experiences like these: • Ryan Cruz (ME‘13/Energy) and three GSM students won first place for energy efficiency and a $20,000 prize at the MIT Clean Energy Competition for their business plan for a company that reduces energy consumption in large commercial buildings. • Inspiration Ambassadors such as Brad Berk (CE’13) mentored Boston public school students for three years—inspiring many to pursue engineering—and launched a startup. • Members of the Society of Women Engineers such as Kayla Kruper (ME’12) attended the SWE National Conference in Chicago, where they networked, interviewed, shared tips with other undergraduate women and landed job offers. • David Harris, David Sindel (both ME’15/Aero) and Drew Kelley (CE’14), leaders of the BU Rocket Propulsion Group, are preparing to launch a two-stage, 35-foot hybrid rocket into space and then recover the rocket and its payload. • Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos and Lanke Fu (both ME’14), won first prize at the second Imagineering Competition for their automatic transmissionenhanced Smart Bike. I hope you will savor reflecting on the accomplishments of such outstanding and ambitious students, whose educations you are enriching through your generosity. Again—for the sixth consecutive year—you broke records for ENG annual giving and the number of leadership donors ($1,000 and up). And again, graduating seniors led the way, with over 50 percent contributing to the Senior Class Gift! Thanks, seniors, for showing your leadership! The results get even better: total philanthropy by alumni and parents, corporations and foundations—including major gifts and grants to the College—continues to grow dramatically. And in just three years, the Engineering Capital Campaign has received more than $44 million toward its $60 million goal! Some highlights: • Ron Garriques (ME’86) made a seven-figure pledge and John Tegan (MFG’88) committed $250,000 to the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC). • Procter & Gamble and PTC made substantial pledges to EPIC, for which PTC also committed design software valued at nearly $19 million! • Joe Healey (BME’88) pledged $500,000 and Adel Al-Saleh (EE’87) committed $100,000 to the Societal Engineering Fund. • Francis “Skip” Harrington, Jr. (Aero’70,’72) pledged $100,000 for a Century Challenge scholarship. • The Kern Family Foundation committed more than $420,000 to teach entrepreneurship. Generosity like yours makes a huge difference in the lives of undergraduates and makes the College’s quantum leap in excellence possible, from a dramatic increase in the number of applicants (which has doubled in three years) to prestigious international faculty awards to top-40 recognition in the U.S. News & World Report’s survey of US engineering graduate programs. Thanks for jumping aboard and joining this adventure. I promise you will enjoy it! My warmest thanks,

Bruce Jordan, Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations P.S. I hope to see you at our events in the year ahead, when we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the College of Engineering!

$100,000–$249,000 Anonymous ■ Linda S. Lipay ■ ■ ■

$50,000–$99,999 Roger A. Dorf (ENG’70) and Sandra M. Dorf ■ ■ David E. Hollowell (ENG’69, ’72; GSM’74) and Kathleen A. Hollowell (GRS’71, SED’77) ■ ■ Najeeb S. Hosni and Badrieh Hosni ■ John J. Tegan (ENG’88) ■ ■

$25,000–$49,999 Mary S. Abele (CAS’60) and John E. Abele ■ ■ Adel B. Al-Saleh (ENG’87) and Gladys Al-Saleh ■ Anonymous ■ Francis A. Harrington (ENG’70, ’72, ’77) David F. Kiersznowski (ENG’85) and Demi D. Lloyd ■ ■ John A. Maccarone (ENG’66) and Young O. Maccarone ■

$10,000–$24,999 Anonymous ■ ■ ■ James F. Bopp ■ ■ ■ Lawrence F. DePaulis (ENG’99) and Debra DePaulis Hanna G. Evans ■ ■ Nicholas J. Lippis (ENG’84, ’89) and Lillian A. Lippis ■ ■ ■ Marten Mickos and Annika Mickos ■ ■ Husam H. Nazer (ENG’95) and Nadia M. Khodeir ■ ■ Binoy K. Singh (ENG’89) ■ ■ Philip Taymor and Kathleen Taymor ■ ■ ■ Gordon R. Walsh (ENG’67, ’68; GSM’71) and Irene S. Walsh ■ ■

$5,000–$9,999 Stormy Attaway (GRS’84, ’88) and Theo A. de Winter ■ ■ ■ Edward S. W. Boesel (ENG’70) ■ Christopher H. Brousseau (ENG’91) and Mary Lou K. Cronin ■ ■ Tony L. Fant and Sheila M. Fant ■ ■ Norman E. Gaut and Madeline S. Gaut ■ ■ Bradley S. Howe (ENG’84, ’89) and Jacqueline M. Howe (SMG’83) ■ Brendon J. Howe (ENG’84) and Lynne M. Wadman-Howe (SED’87) ■ Dean L. Kamen (HON’06) ■ ■ Ezra D. Kucharz (ENG’90) and Jennifer M. Kucharz ■ ■ Andrew J. Marsh (ENG’83) and Heather J. Marsh (CAS’83) ■ ■ Eric J. Meltzer (ENG’82) and Brooke Meltzer (CGS’80, MET’82) ■ ■ Richard D. Reidy (SMG’82) and Minda G. Reidy (SMG’82, GSM’84) ■ ■ ■ Glenn J. Riedman (ENG’90) and Jill Riedman ■ Mark R. Templeton (ENG’09) and Betsy Templeton ■ ■ Francis J. Troise (ENG’87) ■ ■

$2,500–$4,999 Gregg E. Adkin (ENG’86) and Kim A. Adkin ■ ■ Charles E. Bascom (ENG’64) and Christina M. Bascom ■ ■ Bettina Briz Himes (ENG’86) and Peter G. Himes ■ Peter K. Cocolis (ENG’64) and Lorraine P. Cocolis (SAR’63) ■ ■ ■ George S. Corey (ENG’85) ■ Thomas R. Donahue (CAS’81) and Frances L. Donahue (ENG’82) ■

Patrick J. Foley (ENG’91, ’94) and Kerry C. Foley (ENG’91) ■ ■ Jennifer R. Gruber (ENG’99, ’99) and Ron Sostaric ■ ■ Alireza Hakimi (ENG’82, ’86) and Nazila Bidabadi (SDM’87, CAS’82) ■ Kenneth E. Hancock (ENG’92, ’01) and Hsi Pin Chen (CAS’89, SPH’91; MED’96, ’96) ■ ■ Ruth A. Hunter (ENG’64, GSM’86) ■ ■ Michele J. Iacovone (CGS’86, ENG’89) and Lisa Hu (CGS’86, COM’88) ■ ■ Amit Jain (ENG’85, ’88) and Rachana Jain ■ ■ ■ Gayle W. Lutchen (SED’93) and Kenneth R. Lutchen ■ ■ ■ ■ Martin I. Lynch (ENG’82) and Kelly Lynch ■ ■ Daniel C. Maneval (ENG’82) and Edna C. Maneval ■ ■ David W. Maruska (ENG’82) and Dorothy J. Maruska ■ ■ ■ Carl L. Myers (ENG’65) and Jane S. Myers ■ ■ Steve N. Oesterle ■ Taki G. Pantazopoulos (CGS’80, ENG’83) and Elaine V. Pantazopoulos ■ ■ Sanjay Patel (ENG’87) and Falguni S. Patel ■ ■ G. Anthony Reina (ENG’93) and Bryn J. Reina (SAR’92) ■ ■ Michael L. Salamone (ENG’84) and Pamela Salamone ■ ■ Yannis Skoufalos and Maria Kalomenidou ■ ■ Frederic J. Syrjala (ENG’58, ’60) and Mary E. Syrjala ■ John J. Ullo ■ and Patricia J. Ullo ■

$1,000–$2,499 Yavuz Aktas and Yesim Aktas ■ ■ ■ Colleen B. Athans (ENG’89) and Dean G. Athans ■ Thomas G. Bifano ■ ■ David J. Bishop ■ ■ ■ Lori B. Bornstein (ENG’88) ■ David J. Brand (ENG’83) and Deborah P. Brand ■ ■ Saad N. Buisier (ENG’03) and Rita M. Buisier ■ Regina G. Carolan (ENG’97, ’03) ■ ■ Wesley R. Chedister (ENG’00) ■ ■ Wayne Cheung (ENG’99) ■ ■ Jason P. Colacchio (ENG’90) and Tracy L. Colacchio ■ ■ James A. Connors (ENG’97) ■ Gregory S. Cordrey (ENG’88) and Stephanie K. Cordrey ■ ■ Adam D. Crescenzi (ENG’64) and Linda C. Crescenzi ■ Abdulrasul A. Damji (ENG’85, ’90) and Amina A. Damji ■ ■ David Dean (ENG’73) and Deborah P. Rata ■ ■ Charles DeLisi and Lynn DeLisi ■ ■ ■ Solomon R. Eisenberg and Terri B. Eisenberg ■ ■ ■ ■ Tahsin M. Ergin (ENG’81) and Colleen P. Ergin ■ ■ Christopher A. Frail (ENG’97) and Melissa Frail (ENG’97) ■ Janet A. Fraser (ENG’81) and Gregory B. Fraser ■ ■ Ronald G. Garriques (ENG’86) and Karena Garriques ■ ■ John M. Garvey (ENG’86) and Kimberly J. Garvey ■ ■ Reza K. Gharavi (ENG’87) ■ Muckai K. Girish (ENG’94,’97) and Sandhya R. Girish Steven D. Girouard (ENG’89) and Cynthia L. Girouard (SAR’89) ■ ■ Warren M. Grill (ENG’89) and Julia Grill ■ ■ Keith G. Haggerty (ENG’88) ■ ■

HONOR ROLL William T. Hathaway (ENG’65) and Joan L. Hathaway ■ ■ Bader M. Hawary (ENG’01, ’02) ■ Wan L. Ho (ENG’73) and Kan-Ying Fung (CAS’74) ■ Iftekhar Hossain and Feroza K. Hossain ■ ■ ■ Robert H. Howland (ENG’82) and Michele H. Howland ■ ■ William I. Huyett and Lauren M. Huyett ■ ■ Jennifer L. Jackson (ENG’96) ■ Bruce C. Jordan ■ ■ ■ Kyung W. Kang ■ ■ Michael N. Keefe (ENG’89) and Ana C. Keefe ■ ■ Karen E. Kullas (ENG’77) and Bruce Newcomb ■ ■ David W. Lacey (ENG’65) and Andrea L. Lacey ■ ■ Justine Laugharn (ENG’83) ■ Min-Chang Lee ■ ■ ■ ■ Larry Leszczynski (ENG’85) and Anne E. Hines (ENG’87) ■ ■ Jason R. Light (ENG’02, ’04) and Samantha Nagle-Light ■ ■ Thomas P. Lisowski (ENG’95) ■ ■ Thomas D. Little ■ Jeanne M. Mathews (LAW’84) ■ ■ Marguerite P. Matson William N. McClelland (ENG’84) ■ James R. McCoy (ENG’85, GSM’05) ■ ■ Shaun P. McManimon (ENG’83) ■ Richard J. Mendes (ENG’86) and Catherine Mendes ■ Pamela L. Metz (ENG’81) ■ ■ David S. Miller (ENG’91, ’94) and Barbara Miller Theodore D. Moustakas ■ ■ ■ ■ Kurukundi R. Murthy (ENG’90) and Barbara A. Kowack-Murthy (ENG’90) ■ John D. O’Neil (ENG’62) and Mary L. O’Neil ■ ■ Christopher N. O’Sullivan and Genevieve O’Sullivan ■ ■ Osman Oueida (ENG’01) ■ ■ George S. Ouellette (ENG’81) ■ ■ Christos I. Panidis (ENG’07) ■ ■ Anton T. Papp (ENG’90) and Susan Papp ■ ■ Kevin K. Parker (ENG’89) and Kimberly G. Parker ■ ■ Sandip A. Patidar (ENG’90) ■ James S. Paulsen (ENG’69, ENG’72) and Susan C. Paulsen ■ ■ Joseph A. Pellegrino (LAW’78) and Kathleen B. Pellegrino (ENG’62) ■ Michael D. Poling and Mary J. Poling ■ ■ Ram Das Rao (ENG’88) ■ ■ Kyle Richard (ENG’86) and Kristin Richard ■ ■ Alan G. Rottman ■ ■ ■ Ronald A. Roy and Nancy S. Roy ■ ■ ■ ■ Frank N. Salamone (ENG’94) ■ George M. Savage (ENG’81) and Nancy K. Savage (COM’80) ■ ■ Richard C. Scully (SMG’78, ENG’81) and Deborah L. Cobb (SAR’77) ■ Gregory D. Seiden (ENG’80) and Robin K. Seiden ■ ■ Leonid Shaffer and Olga Shaffer ■ ■ ■ Ushir N. Shah (ENG’98) and Susan R. Shah ■ ■ Benjamin D. Sullivan (ENG’97) ■ ■ Jonathan S. Tang (ENG’06, ’09) ■ Francis A. Tiernan (ENG’70) and Barbara H. Tiernan ■ ■ Daniel A. Tyszka (ENG’94) and Gloria L. Sherman-Tyszka (GSM’89) ■ Selim M. Ünlü and Nese Lortlar-Ünlü ■ ■ ■ Alan Williams (ENG’93; GSM’11, ’12) and Elizabeth K. Williams Albert C. Williams (ENG’89) ■ ■

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Joseph M. Winograd (ENG’95, ’97) and April M. Winograd ■ Berl P. Winston (ENG’64) and Alice J. Winston (SED’65) ■ ■ ■ Stephen T. Witkowski and Laura Witkowski ■ ■ ■ Hasting S. Wong (ENG’67, ’68) and Josephine N. Wong (GRS’68) ■ ■ Robert P. Wotiz (ENG’99, ’05, ’06) ■ ■ Sang S. Yi (ENG’00) ■ Janice K. Zika (ENG’84) ■ ■

$500–$999 Robert P. Aftring and Margaret O. Sowell ■ Anthony Agnese (ENG’86) and Ruth A. Agnese ■ Husain M. Al-Bustan (ENG’89, ’91) Mark A. Allen (ENG’87) and Phyllis J. Allen ■ Muhanad Al-Sultan (ENG’92) Lawrence J. Aube (ENG’84) and Bernadette M. Aube ■ Joseph M. Basile (ENG’82) Paul A. Bierden (ENG’92, ’94) and Sheryl C. Bierden (SAR’95, ’97) ■ Myra J. Brennan (ENG’93; SDM’98, ’99, ’03) ■ Sarah H. Brukilacchio (ENG’89) and Thomas J. Brukilacchio Marjorie F. Hsu (ENG’86, GSM’93) and David R. Buckler Nicholas Caffentzis (CAS’82) and Laura Caffentzis ■ Ignatius D. Calalang (ENG’88, ’99) ■ Stephen M. Campbell (ENG’97) ■ James H. Caplan (ENG’79, GSM’83) and Heather C. Caplan (GSM’94) ■ Frederic D. Carter (ENG’97) ■ David A. Castañón and Brenda Metzler ■ Chun-Wei Chan (ENG’06) ■ ■ Lou Chitkushev (ENG’96) and Irena Vodenska (UNI’09) ■ Daniel J. Clancy (ENG’91) Mary R. Covert (GRS’77) and Eugene E. Covert Thyagaraju Damarla (GRS’87, ENG’93) and Bai K. Damarla ■ Hemang D. Dave and Theresa Dave ■ ■ Alexander C. Demusz (ENG’08) ■ Thomas M. DiCicco (ENG’01) ■ Sheila J. Dooley (ENG’91) and Randy Dooley ■ Robert A. Downey (ENG’61) Lawrence S. Drasner (ENG’89) and Dawn M. Drasner ■ Richard B. Egan (ENG’78) and Jeannie Egan ■ Howard C. Ehrlich (ENG’60) and Nina W. Ehrlich James Y. Fong (ENG’71, ’74) and Margaret Y. Fong ■ Gary A. Freeman (ENG’86) and Sarah Kahn ■ John Gillespie (ENG’85, ’87) ■ Edward M. Govoni (ENG’69) and Patricia A. Govoni ■ George C. Guerra (ENG’84) ■ Daniel S. Hagg (ENG’95) and Jennifer Watters ■ Gerard E. Hahn (ENG’91) Sandra L. Hall (ENG’81) and William C. Hall ■ Man Hyun Han (ENG’90, ’91) and Jeejoung K. Han William M. Hauser ■ ■ Charles T. Hickson (ENG’88) and Susanne Paullin ■ Ralph Holmberg (ENG’66, ’70) ■ Jim Huang (ENG’95) and Christine A. Huang Kent W. Hughes (ENG’79) and Debra S. Hughes ■ Koji Ishizawa (ENG’91) David H. Johnson (ENG’65, ’66) and Rebecca G. Thompson ■

Ronald H. Johnson (ENG’59) and Mary J. Johnson ■ Peter C. Jones (ENG’96) and Julie A. Flaherty (CAS’93, COM’93) Himansh Khanna (ENG’89) and Malti Raisinghani (ENG’93) ■ Min Ki M. Kim (ENG’86) and Michelle Kim William C. Kurtz (ENG’60) ■ Kwok S. Lee and Pont S. Lee ■ Martin Leibold (ENG’89) and Kathleen D. Leibold ■ John H. McIver (ENG’81, GRS’90) ■ Frances A. Murphy ■ Pamela A. Oliver (ENG’84) and Mark R. Whittaker ■ Luis A. Pagan-Carlo (ENG’85) ■ Devang K. Parikh (ENG’99) Jay B. Penafiel (ENG’90) and Elise G. Penafiel Jeffrey T. Roy (ENG’95) and Whitney J. Roy ■ David Royce (ENG’65) and Mary L. Royce ■ Maria A. Scardera (ENG’84) and Michael P. Scardera ■ Dana F. Schuh (GSM’85) and Deborah L. Schuh (ENG’88) ■ Brian L. Schulz (ENG’82) ■ Greg Slyngstad and Mimi Slyngstad ■ Dylan P. Steeg (ENG’95) and Mu-En Steeg (CAS’94) ■ Ed Tang (ENG’97) ■ Kristen Tannler and Jon Tannler ■ Ann L. Tedford (ENG’78) Mark Thomas and Virginia Thomas ■ ■ Michelle F. Tortolani (ENG’82, ’89) ■ Jason M. Ulberg (ENG’98) and Jaime Ulberg (SMG’98) ■ Jui-Tai Wang (ENG’85, ’86) and Kai-Luan H. Lam (SMG’85) Thomas G. Westbrook (ENG’91) and Mary D. Gibbs-Westbrook ■ Adam K. Wise and Ann S. Wise ■ ■ Siavash Yazdanfar (ENG’96) ■ Yaopeng Zhou (ENG’05, ’08, ’09) ■ ■

$250–$499 Alexander Adam (ENG’92, ’95, ’03) and Davina D. Wong (GSM’02) ■ Farah A. Alabdulrazzaq (ENG’97) Omar Ali (ENG’96) Jae W. An (ENG’95) Peter J. Argue (ENG’08) ■ Rohan M. Arun (ENG’10) ■ ■ Edward M. Ballanco (ENG’91) and Eileen Ballanco ■ Christopher R. Benoit (ENG’88) and Debra L. Benoit ■ James Bethune (ENG’64, GSM’74, SED’91) ■ ■ ■ John J. Bolton (ENG’89)and Colleen R. Bolton ■ Jeffrey S. Bowen (ENG’93) Lake Bu (ENG’08) ■ Kevin H. Burek (ENG’08) ■ James J. Byrne (ENG’93) and Sarah M. Byrne (SAR’93) ■ Ezra B. Caplan (ENG’04) ■ Steven Chan and Celia Chan ■ ■ Tatiana Chapsky (ENG’81, ’83) Kenneth T. Cheng (ENG’84) ■ Edmond W. Chin (ENG’74, GSM’75) and Susan Y. Chin (SED’75) ■ Howard T. Chun (ENG’83) ■ Christopher G. Cimento (ENG’84, GSM’91) ■ Richard H. Coco (ENG’62) ■ Joseph E. Coffey (ENG’72) and Sharon R. Coffey ■ Jeffrey T. Coffin (ENG’92) Margaret G. Conkey ■ ■ Diane M. Covert and Steven Covert

Veronica Crichton-Rochford (ENG’95) and Ted Rochford Daniel C. Cullinane (ENG’63) Michael J. Cunha (ENG’04, ’06) ■ Robert K. Cunningham (ENG’88, GRS’98) and Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham Anthony Cuomo (ENG’93) and Gina Johnson-Cuomo ■ Wei Dai (ENG’99) and Sau Sim Lee ■ Peter M. Dichiara (ENG’85, LAW’93) and Liz Dichiara ■ Allan J. Dolinski and Claudette C. Dolinski ■ Michael Duchnowski (ENG’91, ’93) and Magda Duchnowski ■ John A. Duval (ENG’89) and Kathleen R. Duval ■ Charles R. Enriquez (ENG’92) ■ Jose R. Esquivel (ENG’88) and Cecilia Esquivel ■ Peter C. Fang (ENG’75) and Josephine T. Fang William D. Felder and Katharine C. Felder ■ Martha E. Ferris (ENG’82) ■ Sharon K. Fincher (ENG’82) and Thomas G. Fincher ■ Andrew M. Fisher (ENG’10) ■ ■ Richard A. Fuller (ENG’88) and Tiffany Fuller ■ Mary A. Garrett (ENG’80) Xhorxhi Gjoka (ENG’12) ■ ■ Raymond M. Govotski (ENG’95) ■ Paul W. Gross (ENG’93, ’98) Tara L. Heath (ENG’96, GSM’02) and Russell W. Wolf (CAS’97, MET’01) ■ Sui C. Heier (ENG’89) Richard L. Heilman (ENG’72) and Carole A. Heilman (CAS’72) ■ Yue-shun E. Ho (ENG’89) ■ Peter H. Hoffman (ENG’74, GSM’01) and Pam W. Hoffman Joan M. Holman (ENG’82) Jody L. Hoppe (ENG’82) Nicholas K. Katzenberger (ENG’94) and Gretchen B. Katzenberger (COM’92) Thomas Keegan (ENG’94) ■ Raymond A. Keffer (ENG’09) Sharon Kilduff (ENG’91) and Jeffrey L. Higginson Steven B. Kushnick (ENG’80) and Debra Kushnick ■ Boissevain Kwan (ENG’83) ■ Robert Lacy and Adene B. Lacy ■ ■ Michael L. Laiman (ENG’86) ■ Manuel A. Landa (ENG’66) ■ Chak S. Lau and Sui C. Lau ■ ■ Andrew E. Lazar (ENG’89) Robert B. Leonard (ENG’84) and Ilene H. Leonard ■ Sydney R. Lillard (ENG’96) ■ Gib L. Lundquist ■ Heather N. Macken (ENG’10) ■ ■ Kimchi Mai (ENG’93) and Thien P. Le ■ Mark Manton and Yanyun Wang ■ ■ Peter F. Martin (ENG’70) and Irene Y. Martin ■ George P. Matisse (ENG’89, GSM’91) ■ Eric Maxwell (ENG’98) ■ Kathleen L. McLaughlin (ENG’87) Jeffrey M. Melzak (CAS’84) and Julie S. Melzak (ENG’87) ■ Ihwa Miao (ENG’93) Jeffrey W. Moore (ENG’89) ■ Adam M. Nadeau (ENG’08) Ly V. Nguyen (ENG’87) ■ Francisco Ortiz and Edith Ortiz ■ John Papadopoulos (ENG’60) and Mahi A. Papadopoulos Stephen Pickett (ENG’99) Peter I. Presel (ENG’61) ■ Andrew P. Quick (ENG’92, ’95) and Tracy M. Quick (SED’93)

James D. Quinty (ENG’86) and Elizabeth Quinty William G. Quirk (ENG’62) ■ Jinara D. Reyes (CAS’88, GSM’99) ■ ■ James H. Ritteman (ENG’75, GSM’75) Stephen L. Rodi (ENG’07, ’08) ■ Paul C. Rohr and Rita Rohr ■ ■ John Rooker and Sue Kosmal-Rooker ■ ■ Arthur J. Rosenwach (ENG’68) and Rose Rosenwach Geoffrey N. Rowland (ENG’05, ’05) and Erin C. Rowland (CAS’05) ■ Don Rushing and Beth Rushing ■ ■ Melanie Sabo (ENG’81) ■ William L. Salzer (ENG’72) ■ Andrew Schmidt and Jamie Lohr ■ ■ Jim Schmidt and Pamela Vlahakis ■ Eric J. Sheppard (ENG’83) and Veronica M. Sheppard ■ Monica L. Slegar (ENG’02, GSM’05) ■ Patricia N. Speelman (ENG’74) Mark D. Spoto (ENG’90) and Elizabeth M. Spoto ■ Henry B. Stueber and Deanna G. Stueber ■ ■ Qun Sun and Hangchun Hu ■ ■ Dale Tills and Deborah Tills ■ Zachary T. Tills (ENG’13) ■ ■ Fernando Trindade (ENG’06) ■ Viktor Vajda (ENG’02, ’04; MET’06) ■ Dinesh Venkatesh (ENG’92, ’98) and Sowmya Manjanatha Peter J. Vergados (ENG’64) and Angelica D. Vergados Paul J. Vizzio (ENG’10) ■ ■ Matthew J. Walker ■ Peter G. Warren (ENG’73) and Pamela S. Warren Norman L. Whitley (ENG’75) Philip T. Winterson (ENG’62) and Barbara A. Winterson ■ Kevin Wong (ENG’12) ■ ■ Nicholas G. Wright (ENG’00) ■ Matthew A. Zahn (ENG’94) Gracemarie F. Zambuto (ENG’90) and Domenic A. Zambuto Joshua S. Zeisel (ENG’07) ■ Todd E. Zive (ENG’98) ■

$1–$249 Gemma Y. Acheampong Elizabeth A. Afanasewicz (ENG’05) Joseph P. Aftring Kimaya A. Agarwal (ENG’13) ■ Qaasim H. Ahmed (SMG’13) ■ Serap Aksu (ENG’12, ’13) ■ Abdulaziz M. Al-Awadhi (ENG’13) ■ Marc J. Albanese (ENG’99, ’03) and Rosanne E. Felicello (UNI’99, LAW’02) ■ William T. Alex (ENG’89) ■ Mahmood I. Alhusseini (ENG’11) ■ David P. Allen (CAS’85, GRS’87, ENG’90) and Sheila L. Allen (SAR’88) ■ Kevin F. Allgaier (ENG’09, ’10) James D. Alman (ENG’87) ■ Mark T. Andersen (ENG’06) Richard D. Anderson (ENG’63) and Martha A. Anderson Susan J. Angell (ENG’86) ■ Anonymous ■ Anonymous ■ Alfredo Arguelles ■ ■ Cheryl L. Armstrong (ENG’70) Samuel L. Aronie (ENG’67) and Joanne K. Aronie George J. Arouchon (ENG’54) and Ellen M. Arouchon Martin D. Arrick and Linda K. Arrick ■ Gregory T. Arzoomanian (ENG’84) ■ Michael O. Ashenuga (ENG’92) and Elizabeth M. Vondrak ■ Elisabeth A. Ashforth (ENG’97, GSM’08) ■

Russell C. Ashley ■ Amy C. Ashur (ENG’12) Charles S. Asmar (ENG’55, ’58) and Mary M. Asmar ■ Yasmin M. Atefi (ENG’12) Ben Athanasiou (ENG’67, ’69) and Linda M. Athanasiou Aleksei M. Austin (ENG’07) Ali M. Ayub (ENG’01, ’08) ■ Christopher S. Babinec ■ Norman L. Bailis (ENG’65) and Joyce M. Bailis ■ Dominique E. Baker ■ Stanley N. Baker (ENG’69) and Marilyn L. Baker Raymond F. Ball (ENG’72) ■ Alejandro A. Bancalari (ENG’13) ■ Lucas E. Bannister (ENG’13) ■ Martha Bannister ■ Cris Banson (ENG’89) John R. Barclay (ENG’63) and Brenda L. Barclay Susan J. Baronoff ■ John C. Barrett (ENG’13) ■ Vincent A. Barry (ENG’89) and Jessica L. Barry (COM’86) Tom S. Bartkiewicz (ENG’82) and Andrea A. Bartkiewicz ■ Victor L. Bartolome (ENG’07) ■ Soumendra N. Basu and Alokparna S. Basu ■ ■ Jennifer B. Baverstam ■ Arnold H. Bearak (ENG’80) and Adena R. Cohen-Bearak (SPH’99) ■ Christian D. Becker (ENG’87) and Laurel Becker ■ Joni Becker ■ John A. Bednarz (ENG’63) and Regina A. Bednarz Peter F. Beer (ENG’84, ’88) and Jessica T. Beer Thomas M. Behrendt (ENG’84) ■ Lori Beiner (ENG’97) ■ Carolyn V. Bekampis (ENG’80) and Francis C. Bekampis Peter H. Belmonte (ENG’10) ■ Thomas D. Belna (ENG’12) Neil D. Beneck (SPH’94) and Marie Saint-Hilaire ■ ■ Bryan H. Benesch (ENG’78) and Nancy S. Goldberg ■ Kenneth B. Benson (ENG’63) and Janet G. Benson ■ Samuel E. Bentson (ENG’09) ■ Stanislav Beran (ENG’69) and Virginia A. Beran ■ William Bergersen and Gail L. Bergersen ■ ■ Bradley T. Berk (ENG’13) ■ Robert J. Berkovits (ENG’77) and Patricia M. Berkovits Jerry L. Berkowitz (ENG’98) Stanley N. Berman (ENG’62) and Carone B. Berman ■ Jordana B. Bernard (ENG’82) Manuel Berroa and Tomasa Pujol ■ ■ Ryan T. Bersani (CAS’06, COM’11) ■ ■ Michael A. Bertorelli (ENG’76) ■ Steven A. Bethke (ENG’95) Cecile Beyh (ENG’87, ’87) and Yehia Beyh Marko Z. Bezbradica (CAS’13) Nidhi Bhatia (ENG’00, GRS’01) ■ Michael N. Bhatt (ENG’13) ■ Willard L. Bickford (ENG’92) Kayla P. Binggeli (ENG’12) Robert Binggeli and Dale E. Binggeli ■ ■ William J. Bintz and Amy O. Bintz ■ ■ Barney Black and Helena C. Black ■ Irma E. Black (ENG’82) and Dennis L. Black ■ Kim L. Blackwell (ENG’81) and Mont M. Blackwell ■ Gregory E. Blanchard (ENG’96) and Melissa L. Jendzejec-Blanchard ■

Jo-Ann Blatchford (ENG’84) and Robert Halliburton Jens Blauert ■ Barry Blesser Trygve M. Blix (ENG’61) and Katherine Blix ■ Daniel L. Blum (ENG’95, GSM’95) John R. Boath (ENG’00) Jeffrey C. Bogoian (ENG’10) Andrew D. Bolton (ENG’04) ■ Mark E. Bonadies (ENG’95) ■ Emily A. Bonazelli (ENG’13) ■ James M. Bongiovanni (ENG’90) and Siubhan K. Bongiovanni (ENG’91) ■ Vincent Bonnassieux and Aida Bonnassieux ■ ■ David E. Borchardt (CGS’80, ENG’83) and Priscillla W. Borchardt ■ Brooke E. Borel (ENG’02) ■ Robert B. Borucki, Sr. and Caroline M. Borucki ■ ■ Joseph R. Bosco (ENG’88) and Susan E. Lane-Bosco Leonard W. Boyle (ENG’61) and Kathleen A. Boyle ■ Thomas P. Boyle and Anita Boyle ■ ■ Kevin Brandenburg and Karen Brandenburg ■ ■ Patrick J. Brandenburg (ENG’12) ■ Shawn A. Brandt (ENG’93) and Karen Leopold Thomas Brashears and Julie Brashears ■ ■ Dennis M. Breen (ENG’93) and Anita A. Breen (CAS’91) Kathryn D. Brennan (ENG’86) and Leo C. Brennan Scott C. Bressler (CAS’94, ENG’07) ■ Andrew J. Breuder (ENG’68, MED’77) and Elizabeth A. Breuder ■ Harry T. Breul (ENG’55) and Doris H. Breul ■ Todd A. Brewton ■ ■ Cassandra L. Bridges (ENG’84) ■ Jeffrey T. Bridges and Kerri B. Bridges ■ John C. Broderick (ENG’70, ’77) ■ Sean P. Broderick (ENG’89) Stephen T. Brogan (ENG’13) ■ Alfred S. Brothers (ENG’64) and Sandra J. Brothers ■ ■ Kara A. Brotman (ENG’00) Charles A. Brown (ENG’68) and Martha A. Brown ■ Nathaniel R. Brown (ENG’90) Paul H. Brown (ENG’11) and Dora D. Brown ■ William W. Brown (ENG’65) ■ Andrew R. Brughera (ENG’95) ■ ■ Doug Brunghart ■ Laura C. Brutman (ENG’89) and Len B. Brutman ■ Christopher H. Buder (ENG’99) and Heather A. Buder (SMG’98) ■ Tariq K. Bugrara (ENG’13) ■ Adam Bulakowski (ENG’99) and Lauren Bulakowski ■ Matthew E. Burg (ENG’05) Marina B. Burkatovskaya ■ ■ John S. Burke (ENG’11) ■ Albert C. Busk and Gayle Busk ■ ■ Charlene E. Cain (SON’68) and Michael P. Cain Luan Cako and Vilma Cako ■ Stuart D. Calder (ENG’08) and Adriel E. Calder (ENG’08) ■ Vito Calefato and Maria Calefato ■ ■ Gian D. Calvesbert (ENG’06) ■ Ana S. Camacho (ENG’13) ■ Tristan J. Campbell (ENG’13) ■ Francis J. Capone (ENG’59) and Diane M. Capone Kaila M. Cappello (ENG’13) ■ Mark F. Cardono (ENG’91) and Tracy M. Sioussat ■ Matthew F. Carey (ENG’09) Peter A. Cariani ■

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Alumni Gifts Enrich Student Experience Five years ago, gifts of $5,000 to the ENG Annual Fund were few, but in recent years, their number has increased as many donors view them as a way to make a real difference in the education of the individual student. The Annual Fund is a well from which the College can draw to enhance the student experience beyond what tuition alone can offer. One way a number of donors are connecting their gifts to individual students is through the Summer Term Alumni Research Scholars (STARS) program, which allows undergraduates to work in faculty research labs during the summer while contributors cover the cost of their housing. Each $5,000 donation sponsors one undergraduate faculty-mentored, full-time summer researcher. Last year Husam Nazer (BME’95) sponsored John Glynn (CE’14), who spent the summer before his junior year developing hardware for “Smart Lights” that communicate wirelessly, enabling applications that range from highbandwidth Internet access to “Smart Rooms” that automatically adjust lighting levels based on activity within the room. Glynn worked for Professor Thomas Little (ECE, SE) as a full-time research assistant, but might not have had that opportunity if not for Nazer’s targeted gift. In a letter to Nazer, Glynn wrote, “Your gift allowed me to stay on campus for the

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summer term free of charge while enriching my undergraduate experience by bolstering my résumé, allowing me to do research with Professor Little, enabling a hands-on learning experience and extending my network. Without it, I would have spent the summer as a valet driver and would not have had this amazing opportunity.” Through earmarked contributions to the ENG Annual Fund at the $5,000 level and up, the College offers STARS participants summer housing stipends in an on-campus, apartmentstyle residence hall, or reimbursement for reasonable off-campus summer housing costs. This year, program donors sponsored 10 STARS students, and many received notes like Glynn’s at the end of the summer. Nazer, a partner in DoubleLine Equity, LP, who has sponsored three STARS students annually since 2010, supports the students because it affords them exceptional opportunities to apply what they learn in the classroom to a real-life innovation setting. “I have always believed that what makes societies and countries excel is innovation,” says Nazer. “Innovation is driven by trial and error in unstructured environments that allow individuals to think outside of the confines of a classroom, where important learning also takes place. As an alumnus, supporting STARS students as they pursue innovation in faculty labs gives me a special sense of pride.” For Andy Marsh (ME’83), president of Rolls-Royce’s Marine Services Division, sponsoring STARS students offers a threefold return on the investment.

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Husam Nazer’s (BME’95) generosity to the ENG Annual Fund has enabled several undergraduates to pursue high-impact summer research with ENG faculty, unburdened by the high cost of Boston rents.

“My goal in supporting students through STARS is the personal satisfaction of knowing I’m enabling a student to further his or her education, helping the University to make research progress, and seeing the field of engineering continue to grow,” he says. “I have benefited greatly from my education at BU and want to see others have the same experience.” The STARS program has proven extremely popular among students, and while the increasing number of supporters has allowed more students to participate, there are still more undergraduate applicants than there are donors. For information on how you can support a STARS or other student through the ENG Annual Fund, contact the ENG Development & Alumni office at engalum@bu.edu.

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Creating Societal Engineers Relying on gifts from generous alumni and parents like you, the Engineering Annual Fund greatly impacts the educational experience of ENG undergraduates by supporting essential programs and activities that extend beyond what tuition and external research funding can provide. For example, EAF contributions have made it possible for Engineers Without Borders to make several trips to the rural community of Naluja in Zambia to develop, test and deploy ampliﬁed cell phone signals that enable faster diagnosis of HIV in infants; a water ﬁltration system that removes high levels of E. coli and other harmful bacteria; and a system supplying more reliable electric power to the local health clinic.

1. (left to right): Mohammed Jafri [cell phone amplification device (antenna) mentor], Nathanael Lee (BME’15), Hunter Chaconas (water filtration system mentor), Tamika (driver), and Daniel Sade (ME’14). The team built the antenna, prototyped a water filter and collected other data in Naluja. 2. Mohammed Jafri (left) and Daniel Sade (right) mounting the antenna on a water tower. 3. Nalujan villagers at the only working water pump in the community. 4. Nathanael Lee pouring water into the filter prototype.

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Douglas Densmore PhD, University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering My research develops computational tools for engineering biological therapeutics, materials and sensors. These “synthetic biological” systems can be described at a high level regarding desired functionality and then transformed automatically into DNA sequences. This involves techniques from electrical and computer engineering where semiconductor circuits are replaced with genetic circuits. Imagine a genetic compiler where the 1s and 0s of computing are replaced with the ATCGs of DNA. During this process, error-prone, tedious manual assembly can be replaced with liquid-handling robots or microﬂuidic chips. This work will usher in a revolutionary advance in bioengineering where new biological solutions can be created much more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of current solutions.

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JESSICA SCRANTON

BU and the College of Engineering have fostered an interdisciplinary environment crucial to my research. Computer engineers and bioengineers can work together to create hybrid solutions taking the best of both disciplines. The newly formed Center of Synthetic Biology (CoSBi) will provide a world-class framework for large-scale projects, education and outreach, which will help the research grow and impact the larger research communities.