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A Year of Success and Achievement The Boston University College of Engineering continued its rise among the nation’s best engineering programs in 2011–2012. A few highlights:

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

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The amount of research dollars expended per faculty member, placing the College among the top 12 percent of engineering research programs nationally, according to U.S. News & World Report.

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The percentage of College of Engineering undergraduates who are women, well above the national average of 18.6 percent.

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Making the World Safer Through Technology

Shaping the Future of Bionic Technology Three ME Alums Are Making a Difference in the Lives of Amputees

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ENG Alum Upends Conventional Wisdom on Traumatic Brain Injury Causation

Technology Innovation Concentration Introduced 3 Freshman Wins Imagineering Competition 4 CISE Celebrates a Decade of Achievement 5 Building Apps to Serve the Community 5 Microfluidic Chip a Breakthrough in Flu Detection 6 Innovative Method Upgrades Synthetic Biology 7 New Findings on Cell-Protein Communication 7 Technology Innovation Scholars Share Their Passion for Engineering with K–12 Students 8 Career Development Office Highlights 9 Project Mailbox: Helping Students Give Back to the Community 9

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A Trademark Education By Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen

Boston University Creating the Societal Engineer®. The ® indicates that the College applied for and, this past July, was granted exclusive use of this phrase by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It represents our commitment to creating engineers with the skills and passion to improve society. In the five years I have been dean, the College has undergone an evolution in how it prepares students. We aim to form Societal Engineers whose engineering foundations can position them to engage individuals from all disciplines to advance society and address its continuous challenges. So, why did we go through the trouble to trademark this phrase? For the answer, read through to the end. Back in 2007, we began by establishing two interdisciplinary research divisions—Systems Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering—that bring together faculty and graduate students from all engineering departments and beyond to contribute to these rapidly emerging fields. Then, we spread the change to undergraduates, establishing a series of interdisciplinary concentrations in fields like nanotechnology, energy technologies, and, most recently,

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technology innovation (see page 3). Undergraduates can sample or even add a concentration to their traditional engineering degree programs, allowing them to use their quantitative problem-solving skills in a cutting-edge field. But that isn’t enough. In order for our graduates to be true innovation leaders in the 21st century, we must expose them to experiences outside of engineering. They need to be able to communicate with professionals and citizens in other fields and see the world from other perspectives if they are to lead the multidisciplinary teams so common in today’s global workplace. And, in doing so, they help others understand the innovation process and how technology can help solve their problems. One way we do this is by forging relationships with other schools and colleges at BU. Today, our materials researchers are working with faculty at the Goldman School of Dental Medicine and several of our faculty are working on important global health initiatives with colleagues at the School of Public Health. Our undergraduates can now take courses in the College of Arts & Sciences that examine public policy and environmental issues, and get exposure to leadership principles and the technology commercialization process through the School of Management. As technology plays an increasingly larger role in the communications industry, we are discussing partnership opportunities with the College of Communication and the College of Fine Arts. We have nearly completed our work with colleagues in the School of Education to devise a program that will equip

engineering majors to become “teacher-engineers” and address the nation’s challenge in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education. As we broaden our students’ perspectives, we also need to provide them with hands-on learning that illustrates the connection between their coursework and what they really want to do: innovate and improve people’s lives. Last year we opened the Binoy Singh Imagineering Laboratory, where students can work on extracurricular projects and explore commercial uses for them. This fall, we are building the Engineering Product Innovation Center, which will allow our students to merge the engineer’s product design expertise with the business person’s commercialization abilities, thus taking on an entrepreneurial mindset. You will hear more about this exciting center, which promises to transform the undergraduate experience for all our students, in the coming months. I believe that the Societal Engineers of today and tomorrow need an education that excites them about the many opportunities to improve our world that are available to someone with an engineering degree. In the last year or two, I’ve noticed that this concept is resonating with other leading engineering schools, which are beginning to speak to their students in similar terms. Boston University Creating the Societal Engineer® may belong to us, but by trademarking it, our primary goal was, frankly, to draw attention to the idea, and we would actually welcome and invite our colleagues to imitate it. The concept should be universal and ingrained in engineers everywhere.

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his fall the College of Engineering added a Technology Innovation concentration option available to ENG undergraduates in all majors. This new concentration introduces engineering students to an entrepreneurial mindset by exploring how technical innovations are translated into marketable products and businesses. The concentration is a key element of BU’s participation in the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) and leverages the College’s Societal Engineer initiatives as well as those involving ENG-SMG collaborative activities and BU innovation competitions. “This concentration is the latest in a growing suite of educational initiatives focusing on the Societal Engineer, and in particular, on instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in all our undergraduate students,” said Donald Wroblewski, who spearheaded the concentration as associate dean for educational initiatives.

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Technology Innovation, continued “The association with KEEN also provides a wealth of experiential activities that deepen students’ educational experience.” As part of the concentration, students will take a sequence of four courses (16 credits). Two courses—Business of Technology Innovation and Technology Commercialization—are required; the remaining two courses may be selected from a list that includes Technology, Society and Policy; Product Development; and Project Management for Software-Intensive Systems, among other offerings. Students are also required to complete a relevant experiential project through a company internship or participation in a program such as the Entrepreneur Design Contest, the Imagineering Competition or Technology Innovation Scholars. The College of Engineering offers four other concentrations—two available for all ENG undergraduates (Energy Technologies and Environmental Engineering, or Nanotechnology), and two available only to Mechanical Engineering majors (Aerospace Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering). ENG concentrations are designed to help students complement their undergraduate degrees with specialized areas of focus and expose them to some of the most exciting emerging fields in engineering. —Kathrin Havrilla

The judges assessed each project for originality, ingenuity and creativity; quality of design and prototype; functionality; and potential to positively impact society.

Spacefaring Freshman Wins College’s First Imagineering Competition Since opening last October, the Singh Imagineering Lab has lived up to Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen’s vision of the facility as a place where College of Engineering students can cultivate their entrepreneurial spirit and develop as Societal Engineers who apply their expertise to advance our quality of life. On April 24 in the Ingalls Engineering Resource Center conference room, a number of undergraduates showcased their extracurricular efforts to do just that, as they vied for top prizes in the College’s first annual Imagineering Competition. Facing a judging panel of four College faculty members and administrators across an oblong conference table, the competitors described, demonstrated and defended original projects that they developed in the Imagineering Lab and other on-campus facilities. The judges assessed

First prize winner David Harris (ME’15) delivering a PowerPoint presentation on his project, a low-cost sounding rocket.

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each project for originality, ingenuity and creativity; quality of design and prototype; functionality; and potential to positively impact society. The winner of the $2,500 first prize was David Harris (ME’15), who designed, built and tested a prototype of a sounding rocket that could be used to take measurements and perform scientific experiments in suborbital flight. The 12-foot, 70-pound, two-stage rocket is intended to launch small payloads for $1,400—a pittance compared to NASA’s $1 million price tag for hitching a ride on a larger-scale sounding rocket, or the $200,000 required by the cheapest commercial alternative. To cut costs, Harris is developing the rocket largely from commercial, off-the-shelf components. “My vision is that we can have access to space for any project, any time, any budget,” the freshman declared, exuding the confidence of a seasoned CEO as he delivered his PowerPoint presentation. “If we can lower the cost of access and reduce the barriers, then anybody in any country can access the capabilities that space has to offer, such as medical research, security and defense applications and earth science missions.” Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos (ME’14) won second prize ($1,500) for a prototype of a highly accurate, affordable, easy-to-assemble, desktop 3-D printer that could serve as a cheap alternative to commercial models used for rapid prototyping of manufactured products. Alex Kithes (EE’14) and Matthew Pollack (ME’14) won third prize ($1,000) for a low-cost personal wind turbine. Sponsored by John Maccarone (ENG’66), the competition was designed to reinforce the ideal of creating the Societal Engineer by spotlighting student efforts to design, build and test new technologies that promise to positively impact society. Imagineering Lab programming is supported by the Kern Family Foundation and alumni contributions to the ENG Annual Fund.

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Systems Science: Shaping Society’s Future CISE Symposium Celebrates Organization’s First 10 Years For the past 10 years, the Boston University Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) has served as an interdisciplinary research and education center advancing leading-edge concepts and practical applications involving the modeling, design, analysis and management of complex systems. During that period, CISE has seen its faculty—drawn from the College of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences and School of Management— grow from five to 35 and its annual external research funding rise to $5 million, resulting in major advances in robotics, automation and control; communications and networking; computational biology and medicine; information sciences; and production, service and energy systems. To celebrate faculty and student achievements over the past decade and explore upcoming challenges and opportunities in the field, CISE organized a daylong symposium, “Systems Science: Shaping Society’s Future.” Held at the Photonics Center on May 10, the symposium featured presentations and a panel discussion by CISE-affiliated faculty and other information and systems engineering leaders from across the country, and a poster session

featuring CISE graduate student research. Presentations showcased recent advances in systems science that support improved decision-making and could lead to more highly organized, controlled and optimized “smarter” systems for transportation and civil infrastructure in urban areas, energy and power systems, and health care systems. “This symposium is a perfect reflection of how CISE will bridge the basic sciences to applications so that society benefits,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. In their presentations, participating College of Engineering faculty illustrated how they’re applying systems science to automate and optimize processes, from finding parking spots in an urban center to developing the smart grid to boosting the effectiveness of antibiotics. The symposium concluded with a panel discussion on emerging challenges and opportunities in the field with academic and industry leaders in systems science. To frame the discussion, Tamer Bas¸ar, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, identified population growth and the decline of natural resources as key challenges facing society, and systems science as the go-to toolkit to use those resources more efficiently.

Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Professor of Operations Research and co-director of the Operations Research Center at MIT, and Professor Michael Caramanis (ME, SE) at the CISE Symposium poster session.

Upgrading Community Service Undergrads Develop Mobile Apps that Make a Difference The Massachusetts Service Alliance (MSA), which supports numerous AmeriCorps programs and volunteer-driven organizations across the commonwealth, sought an app enabling a volunteer to find a service opportunity by zip code and interest area and share it on social networking sites. That app now exists, thanks to a new fiveday, intensive summer residential workshop called Clean App Your Neighborhood. Hosted August 7–12 by the College of Engineering and funded in part by the Kern Family FoundaTeam Appocalypse met with Massachusetts Service tion, the program brought Alliance representatives Shana Lothrop (top/left) and together 30 Lindsay Snyder (top/second from left) to discuss their undergraduates and recent initial plans for an app to help potential volunteers graduates from identify suitable service BU and five opportunities, share them on other academic social networking sites and track hours served. institutions from Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri and Washington to design and build apps for five different community service organizations. “In five days, the students went from meeting each other for the first time to giving professional presentations on their advanced prototypes of mobile apps that they had developed from scratch,” said Jonathan Rosen, director of Technology Innovation Programs at BU, who conceived and organized the workshop. Supported by instructional sessions and advice from BU faculty and industry experts on how to design, storyboard, prototype and demonstrate an app on the Apple iOS5 platform, each of five teams assessed its organization’s needs, developed a project plan and initial concept design, produced a rapid prototype of its app, and delivered a final presentation.

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ENG ENG Microfluidic Chip Demonstrates Rapid, Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Flu Detection The novel H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods widely used to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now a four-year, National Institutes of Health-funded study of 146 patients with flu-like symptoms spearheaded by Associate Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE) has validated a prototype rapid, low-cost, accurate, point-of-care device that promises a better standard of care. Once optimized and deployed in the clinic, the new device could provide clinicians with an effective tool to quickly diagnose both seasonal and pandemic strains of influenza and thus limit the spread of infection. The study’s research team—Klapperich, Qingqing Cao (ME PhD’11), Madhumita Mahalanabis (BME postdoctoral fellow), Jessie Chang (BME MS’10), Brendan Carey (BME’11), Christopher Hsieh (BME’11) and Ahjegannie Stanley (summer intern) from the College of Engineering; medical personnel from the Boston University Medical Center Emergency Department; and an infectious disease physician from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School—published its findings in the March 22 online edition of PLoS ONE. To produce a faster, cheaper, highly accurate flu diagnostic test that could be run at the point of care, the researchers miniaturized an expensive, three-hour, lab-scale diagnostic test—known as RT-PCR and now considered the gold standard in flu detection—into a single-use microfluidic chip. About the size of a standard microscope slide, the integrated chip consists of a column at the top that extracts RNA from signature proteins in the sample associated with the influenza A virus; a middle chamber that converts the RNA into DNA; and a climate-controlled lower channel used to replicate the DNA in sufficient quantities so it can be detected by an external reader. Working with two types of nasal specimens, the researchers used the chip to produce results that matched the high accuracy and relatively fast turnaround time of the lab-scale method.

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“We wanted to show that our technique was feasible on real-world samples prepared on the chip,” said Klapperich. “Making each chip single-use decreases the possibility of cross-contamination between specimens, and the chip’s small size makes it a good candidate for true point-of-care testing.” The researchers next plan to optimize their method so that it can produce results in a third less time (an hour) with chips that cost half as much to make (five dollars). In recognition of the clinical potential of her point-of-care, microfluidic chip technology, Klapperich has received a $9 million

grant from the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to start the Center for Innovation in Pointof-Care Technologies for the Future of Cancer Care, which will be part of the NIBIB Point-ofCare Technologies Research Network.

A: Two of the microfluidic chips running in parallel on lab bench. B: Close-up of one of the chips filled with blue dye to show the channel architecture. C: Schematic of the overall process flow from patient sample collection to chip loading to thermal amplification to readout of DNA concentration.

Highly accurate and fast, the chips are about the size of a microscope slide.

Upgrading Synthetic Biology’s Toolkit New Method Could Enable Reprogramming of Mammalian Cells Through the assembly of genetic components into “circuits” that perform logical operations in living cells, synthetic biologists aim to artificially empower cells to solve critical problems in medicine, energy and the environment. To succeed, however, they’ll need far more reliable genetic components than the small number of “off-the-shelf” bacterial parts now available. Now a new method developed by Assistant Professor Ahmad S. Khalil (BME), Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) and collaborators at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT could significantly increase the number of genetic components in the synthetic biologist’s toolkit and, as a result, the size and complexity of the genetic circuits they can build. The development could dramatically enhance their efforts not only to understand how biological organisms behave and develop, but also to reprogram them for a variety of practical applications. Described in the August 2 online edition of Cell, the method offers a new paradigm for constructing and analyzing genetic circuits in eukaryotes—or organisms whose cells contain nuclei, which include everything from yeasts to humans. Instead of constructing these circuits with off-the-shelf parts from bacteria and porting them into eukaryotes, as

most synthetic biologists do, Khalil and his collaborators have engineered these circuits using modular, functional parts from the eukaryotes themselves. With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and other sources, the research team built their synthetic genetic circuit parts from a class of proteins, known as zinc fingers, which can be programmed to bind desired DNA sequences. The modularity of the new parts enables a wide range of functions to be engineered, the construction of much larger and more complex genetic circuits than what’s now possible with bacteria-based parts, Assistant Professor and ultimately, the development of much more Ahmad S. Khalil (BME) powerful applications. “Our research may lead to therapeutic applications, such as the dynamic modification and control of genes and genetic networks that are important in human disease,” said Khalil. Potential medical applications include stem cell therapeutics for a wide variety of injuries and diseases and in-cell devices and circuits for diagnosing early stages of cancer and other diseases. The new method may also equip groups of cells to perform higher-order computational tasks for processing signals in the environment in sensing applications.

Biological Telephone Research Yields New Insights on How Cells and Proteins Communicate Assistant Professor Matthias Schneider (ME) has found evidence of a highly efficient means of communication between cells and proteins: they “talk” to each other. In other words, acoustic signals propagate from one cell or protein to another, thereby signaling their neighbors to take a specified action. Schneider, two of his graduate students—Josef Griesbauer and Stefan Bössinger—and a former colleague from the University of Augsburg in Germany, Achim Wixforth, described their research in the May 9 online edition of Physical Review Letters. “Our findings support the controversial idea that sound propagation is the basis of inter- and intra-cellular communication and the foundation of nerve pulse propagation,” Schneider maintained. “This may lead to a fundamentally new way of thinking about organs, including the brain, and to novel approaches in treating organ disease and the engineering of artificial organs.” Scientists have long identified two mechanisms for inter- and intracellular communication—immediate contact, in which proteins on the membranes of two neighboring cells collide; and diffusion, in which a protein on one cell membrane dispatches particles through the cell that eventually impact another protein or cell. Schneider’s efforts to uncover a third mechanism—acoustic waves— stems from the work of Albert Einstein and Konrad Kaufmann (a former

An acoustic pulse propagating along a 2-D-interface is predicted to be the physical basis of protein communication and a crucial mechanism for enabling the cell or an organ to orchestrate its activities.

mentor of Schneider’s) and the realization that the inner landscape of individual cells is crowded with a network of two-dimensional ridges, known as “interfaces,” that form a distinct, continuous pathway leading from one end of a cell to another or even connecting multiple cells. Over the past two years, Schneider and his collaborators have conducted experiments to show that 2-D acoustic waves propagate along these interfaces, just as sound travels through air. They created a prototypical interface by spreading soap-like lipid molecules from a cell membrane onto a water surface. Once the lipids formed a two-dimensional film, the researchers added a solvent such as ethanol or chloroform to excite one end of the film and produce an acoustic wave, and used a pressure sensor to measure unmistakable changes in pressure at the other end of the film. Their results suggest that proteins attached to neighboring cells can “communicate” across the continuous 2-D interfaces via acoustic waves, potentially enabling biological activities that range from energy consumption to digestion. To confirm this phenomenon in living systems, Schneider plans to investigate sound wave propagation in algae, earthworm and, ultimately, human cells. E n g i n ee r fa l l 2 01 2 www.bu.edu/eng

ENG ENG Bringing Engineering Home Technology Innovation Scholars Inspire K–12 Students across the Nation In her presentation to the Utica Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology, a magnet public high school in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Nicole Black (BME’14) highlighted the prominent roles that engineers have in society, from medicine to energy to transportation, drawing on examples from her courses and research at Boston University. “At the beginning of the presentation, only a few kids raised their hands when I asked who was interested in pursuing a career in engineering,” said Black, “but when I asked this question at the end, over half raised their hands.” Black is one of 30 Technology Innovation Scholars, a select group of dynamic College of Engineering sophomores, juniors and seniors charged to share their passion for innovation and engineering with elementary, middle and high school students in greater Boston as well as with students in their hometowns. Since the program’s founding in January 2011, Technology Innovation Scholars—collectively known as the College’s “Inspiration Ambassadors”—have introduced more than 2,000 K–12 students across the country to the excitement and societal impact of engineering, guiding interactive presentations and design challenges and serving as mentors to Boston-area FIRST robotics teams. The program initially visited hometown schools during this year’s winter and spring breaks, when 17 Technology Innovation Scholars met with K–12 students in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Pennsylvania. Incorporating information about their own engineering education and aspirations, Technology Innovation Scholars delivered presentations showcasing engineering’s substantial contribution to overall quality of life, exciting career opportunities in the field, and how K–12 students can become part of the next generation of engineers. Cassidy Blundell (BME’12) and Oliver Kempf (Aero’12) returned to Red Hook High School in upstate New York to share their journeys to

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On April 13, several Technology Innovation Scholars visited Pioneer Charter School of Science in Everett, Massachusetts, transforming the middle and high school’s traditional “Mad Science Day” into “Mad Engineering Day.” The Scholars gave presentations on the societal impact of engineering, answered questions about the field and led demonstrations to illustrate how engineers solve critical problems in clean energy, global health and nanomedicine.

and through the College of Engineering and field questions from 60 high school freshmen and seniors. The two Technology Innovation Scholars stressed how a love for problem solving and a willingness to work hard and make mistakes had propelled their class through four rewarding years. “I was struck by their poise, knowledge base and honesty in promoting the field of engineering and themselves as exemplary role models,” said Nick Ascienzo, Blundell’s and Kempf’s high school math teacher, who hosted the visit. At her former public high school in South Portland, Maine, Dorothea Crowley (BME’12) engaged with more than 80 students in five different classrooms as she explored with them what it means to be an engineer. “I think the students were amazed at all the cool stuff that is going on and my proximity to it as an engineering student,” she said. “I also think the fact that I was once a student in exactly each of their places encouraged them to believe that becoming an engineer was not beyond their reach.” The Technology Innovation Scholars have also developed, tested and facilitated several new “Innovations in a Box” design challenges that demonstrate emerging technologies and highlight College of Engineering research— including global health, nanotechnology, robotics, Smart Lighting, synthetic biology and clean energy—and its potential impact on how we live. In one design challenge on Smart Lighting, high school students at the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School worked in

teams to explore circuits with incandescent and LED bulbs and measure their power and brightness. They evaluated the bulbs’ performance in terms of energy efficiency, environmental impact and quality of light. The Technology Innovation Scholars not only introduced LED technology to the students but also engaged them in conversation about what it means to be a Societal Engineer who balances the effect of technology choices on energy, the economy and environment. The Scholars also mentor FIRST robotics teams that compete annually in the Boston regional competition at BU’s Agganis Arena. This year, 17 Scholars met weekly with eight teams in Quincy, Dorchester, Boston, Brighton, Roxbury and Cambridge; three of the teams won awards at the competition. “One relatable role model, engaging presentation, design challenge and mentoring relationship at a time, Technology Innovation Scholars show younger students that engineering is cool and enhances all of our lives, from developing new technologies to giving access to clean water to discovering new ways to diagnose and treat disease across the world,” said Gretchen Fougere, the College of Engineering’s assistant dean for Outreach and Diversity. “Becoming an engineer opens a world of opportunities to transform your own life and change the world at the same time.” Supported by the Kern Family Foundation and alumni contributions to the ENG Annual Fund, Technology Innovation Scholars receive a $1,200 stipend and ongoing training sessions.

ENG Senior Spearheads Student-Friendly Charity Eat, Drink, Impress: ENG Career Development Office Prepares Students for Professional Encounters

Nationally recognized recruiting expert Maureen Crawford Hentz shaking hands with BME undergrad Michael Wexler, who demonstrates impeccable etiquette through his one-handed “drink-plate hold,” firm handshake and direct eye contact.

Try holding a plate of sesame chicken tenders and a wineglass with one hand and shaking a recruiter’s hand firmly with the other, all while making direct eye contact. One awkward move could undermine years of stellar grades and research achievements, shifting you from the “maybe” to the “no” column in a split second; but making a good first impression while you balance food and drink could help get you to “yes.” To learn how to navigate the rocky shoals of interviewing and networking while dining, 80 undergraduate and graduate students attended the College’s first Engineering Etiquette Dinner in March. Guided by nationally recognized recruiting expert Maureen Crawford Hentz, the dinner featured a standing reception and three-course meal, and interactive demonstrations and advice on how to eat, drink and impress prospective employers. The etiquette dinner is one of the latest initiatives of the Career Development Office (CDO), which provides College of Engineering students with career fairs, company information sessions, online job listings, résumé and cover letter workshops, mock interviews and one-onone career counseling. The CDO also recently introduced its students to a “Dress for Success” event, where representatives from clothing stores Ann Taylor and Men’s Wearhouse presented guidelines on how to dress appropriately for networking events, interviews and other professional activities. “You can sell yourself on a résumé and cover letter, but you also have to sell yourself in person,” said CDO Director Dottie Catlin, “and that includes dressing, acting and communicating appropriately. Companies want prospective employees to show that they’re well-rounded, and have what it takes to represent the company after they’re hired.” To maximize students’ opportunities to market their technical and people skills, the CDO is constantly devising and implementing services designed to bring students and employers together. For instance, since the CDO switched from an engineering-only employment website to the BU-wide CareerLink database in 2011, employers can recruit students at multiple BU schools and colleges, resulting in expanded job listings for College of Engineering students. The CDO also facilitates on-campus recruiting, where employers can interview up to 20 applicants in 48 hours and “speed networking” events with College of Engineering alums and hiring managers representing various organizations in academia, government and industry. The CDO’s latest matchmaking initiative is the Just-In-Time Career Fair, which links job- and internship-seekers and employers before the Spring Semester comes to a close, rather than only in February, when on-campus career fairs are traditionally held. Organized by the CDO and five other BU career offices, the inaugural event attracted 1,125 students and 94 companies. According to a CDO survey of the Class of 2011, 82 percent of respondents reported that they had found a job or internship related to their engineering major, entered a graduate program or started military service within six months of graduation. Of those who landed a job, nearly all reported that the CDO played a key role in the process. “From attending networking nights, career fairs and other events, I was able to investigate what I wanted to do far before graduation,” said Donald Dougherty (CE’12), a computer engineer at Brickyard VFX, a digital production studio. “Rather than going in blind, I had internships and connections, which helped me decide on the perfect job.” Through multiple meetings and mock interviews with her career advisor and attending CDO events, Colleen Neely (ME’13) landed a summer internship with Dräger Medical, a global leader in medical and safety technology. “I was able to use the skills and confidence I acquired through CDO events and services to communicate effectively with potential employers, get an interview and ultimately receive an offer for a summer internship,” said Neely.

In the heart of Boston University’s Central Campus, a simple, three-and-a-half-foot-tall, red-andwhite cast-iron mailbox stands unobtrusively on a busy Commonwealth Avenue sidewalk. Perched like a sentry in front of the University Grill, the mailbox awaits not envelopes or packages, but dollar bills and coins—especially pocket change from students who have just grabbed a slice of pizza or a Terrier Burger. The mailbox is the front end of Project Mailbox, a charity launched by Nick Dougherty (CE’12) that seeks to raise awareness and funds for different causes, one coin or bill at a time. Each month, interested BU students nominate and vote for a specific charitable organization to receive all Project Mailbox donations for the following month, alternating between local, national and international causes. President and cofounder—with Kaylee Dombrowski (CFA‘11)— of the project, Dougherty modeled the idea after stories his family Situated on University Grill property, Project Mailbox’s signature red-andwhite mailbox receives cash donations for Engineers Without Borders, among other Charities.

passed down of small towns where neighbors supported struggling families by anonymously leaving cash in their mailboxes. “I started Project Mailbox to give busy undergraduate students like me an easy way to make an impact and give back to the community,” he said. Since its launch in October 2011, the project has raised more than $2,700 for seven different organizations, including Project Habitat (for Brimfield, Massachusetts, tornado relief), the Turkish Red Crescent (earthquake relief) and Bridge Over Troubled Waters (at-risk youth services). In August, Project Mailbox was selected as one of four national finalists for a CLASSY Award (the biggest charitable awards ceremony in the U.S.) in the category of Most Influential College Organization. BU students, faculty and staff—and anyone else, for that matter—may donate to designated Project Mailbox charities either at the physical mailbox or online at www.projectmailbox.org. As the project gains more momentum here, Dougherty envisions rolling it out to other colleges and universities in New England and beyond.

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ver the millennia, inventions to fend off perceived dangers to persons and property have progressed from stone walls and moats to remote-controlled drone aircraft, with each advance incorporating ever-increasing levels of sophistication. In past centuries, societies could coast for years on technologies designed to ward off yesterday’s threats, but since World War I the pace of security-related innovation has accelerated considerably, culminating in a boom of technology development following the September 11 attacks. Keeping citizens and soldiers out of harm’s way in today’s world, where the front line can be anywhere, depends increasingly on advanced technologies designed to counter a diverse range of new and fast-changing threats. Toward that end, researchers at Boston University’s College of Engineering are pursuing more than two dozen projects that could lead to significant improvements in personal and homeland security and enhanced military capabilities. Among other things, their work is expected to produce more robust defenses for

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smartphone users against cyber attacks; faster and more thorough airport screening devices; more energy-efficient soldier technology; and more autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Drawing on collaborations among multiple College departments and divisions, BU colleges and schools, and international alliances with partners in academia, government and industry, this research aims to boost security at home and abroad in five key areas: cyber security; threat detection; soldier technology; robotics; and military medicine. College of Engineering-based innovations in these domains may not only make us safer, but also bring significant improvements to our quality of life in energy, communications, computation and health care.

Cyber Security An estimated 80 percent of the U.S. population accesses the Internet though PCs, smartphones and other networked devices, placing vast amounts of personal and business data at risk for cyber attacks. Intended to gain unauthorized access to password-protected information or degrade or deactivate targeted computer systems through malware, eavesdropping, identify theft and other techniques, these attacks continue to escalate. Research underway at the College of Engineering aimed at containing cyber attacks includes efforts to detect unauthorized manipulation of sensitive information on private data networks, and to devise more robust ways of protecting smartphone data. With the latter goal in mind, three ECE faculty members, Professors Mark Karpovsky and David Starobinski and Associate Professor Ari Trachtenberg, are participating in a project that seeks to identify, understand and mitigate new security risks to smartphones posed by a growing trend to replace their hardwired features with open-source, customizable software programs. Funded by a $3-million grant from the National Science Foundation and based at BU’s Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security, the project is a collaboration among nine faculty in the College of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences, and Metropolitan College; two industrial partners, Deutsche Telekom and Raytheon BBN Technologies; and one academic partner, Warwick University. Working with experts in computer networking, security, algorithms, cryptography and telecommunications, the researchers aim to identify security challenges particular to smartphones, and resolve many of them by leveraging the devices’ unique features, which include sensors, accelerometers, GPS and digital cameras. Their ultimate goal is to develop more effective, software-based strategies to authenticate users and callers, and to design more secure networking protocols and hardware. For example, rather than requesting a smartphone owner’s user name and password, one authentication strategy Trachtenberg and one of his graduate students are investigating would either display a random name on the smartphone’s contact list or one that’s not on the list, and prompt the user to indicate if he or she knows that individual. Alternatively, the phone might pose another question only the owner could answer correctly based on data stored in the phone’s memory. “Because your phone is a microcosm of you, you know details on the phone that a random person wouldn’t know,” says Trachtenberg. “With fewer of its features hardwired, the phone has to be a little suspicious about everyone who is using it, and require you to demonstrate that you really are its proper owner.” Trachtenberg and students in his lab are also exploring biometric forms of smartphone authentication, from data generated by the phone’s accelerometer characterizing the user’s distinctive gait, to a photo of the user’s fingerprint taken by the phone’s camera.

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ECE researchers are developing new software-based strategies to protect smartphone data against cyber attacks.

The security of the smartphone network is also at risk, vulnerable to jamming via radio signal interference. Starobinski and one of his graduate students are designing new wireless network protocols—software that facilitates communication among networked devices—that counter the threat of cyber attack. “We found that many wireless networks are quite vulnerable; they can undergo a 98 percent overall slowdown in performance from an attack that interferes with just 5 percent of network traffic,” says Starobinski. “But by developing network protocol software algorithms that are less predictable than conventional ones, we were able to make network protocols much more resilient. Now a jammer would have to interfere with 30 percent of network traffic to bring performance to low levels.”

Threat Detection Since the September 11 attacks, U.S. airport security has tightened considerably. Passengers can carry only small amounts of liquids— current technology can’t easily distinguish shampoo from something more ominous—and must submit to full body scans or pat-downs. And they still have to haul out their laptops and take off their shoes for a separate screening. But several projects underway at the College of Engineering could lead to faster, more accurate airport screening. One of the College’s most far-reaching undertakings in threat detection research is its ongoing contribution to the Department of Homeland Security’s Project ALERT (Awareness and Localization of Explosive Related Threats), which draws on multidisciplinary experts from 15 academic institutions to improve the nation’s explosives detection capability. Since 2008, Professors David Castañón (the project’s associate director), W. Clem Karl and Venkatesh Saligrama (all ECE, SE) and several ECE PhD students have leveraged their expertise in optimization, machine learning and image science to devise new approaches to airport screening and other explosives detection applications. One strategy Castañón and Karl have advanced for checked-luggage screening machines combines X-rays of multiple wavelengths, rather than the single wavelength that standard machines use. This method, which collects materials’ specific absorption signatures, enables the machines to discriminate more precisely between explosives and materials that pose no safety threat. To provide additional discrimination capability,

the researchers are also producing images of materials’ features based on measuring X-ray diffraction. The resulting technology may, for instance, distinguish between peroxide used to bleach hair and peroxide at a concentration that could pose a threat to an aircraft, all in the same amount of time a conventional X-ray machine requires to inspect a piece of checked luggage. “We’ve developed novel algorithms so you can generate images in real time and make rapid decisions on the order of 2–3 seconds,” says Castañón. “Our algorithms have been shown to be significantly faster and more accurate than competitive algorithms in the literature.” Castañón is also collaborating with Saligrama to develop novel machine learning techniques designed to optimize the capabilities of multi-sensor security systems. The new techniques could be incorporated into an airport passenger screening checkpoint system to reduce manual inspections. For example, if a full-body scanning machine identifies an area on the body that currently requires a pat-down, the checkpoint system would determine whether another sensor could inspect that area to resolve the ambiguity automatically, and activate that sensor instead. “We’re trying to define systems that have three or four sensors that can inspect areas of confusion to collect additional data to resolve ambiguities,” says Castañón. “This requires that we develop algorithms for combining information across very different systems.” In a related effort, Karl is developing signal processing techniques that could enable conveyor-belt X-ray machines that inspect carry-on luggage to produce reconstructed 3-D images from multiple angles, rather than the top-view, 2-D images that they now provide. “Current machines can miss items hidden beneath other items,” says Karl, noting that’s why passengers are asked to remove laptops from bag-

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gage. “So as the bag moves through the machine, we’re going to examine it from a series of different oblique views.” By upgrading carry-on checkpoint imaging, Karl hopes to improve explosives detection accuracy, reduce manual inspections and speed up the security checkpoint line.

Soldier Technology In addition to advancing technologies designed to protect citizens from cybercrime and terrorist attacks, College of Engineering researchers are developing new technologies to enable U.S. soldiers—and their robot surrogates—to perform their missions more efficiently and effectively. Examples include optical fiber lasers to improve naval communication and sensing capabilities; handheld lasers for non-line-of-sight communication in places like urban areas; and biochemical sensors and secure communications devices that integrate optical and electronic components on a chip. The College’s most recent foray into this innovation space is the participation of three faculty members—Associate Professors Enrico Bellotti (ECE, MSE), Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE) and Martin Herbordt (ECE)—in a $15-million, Army-funded project aimed at producing lighter, more energy-efficient electronic weaponry, detection devices, protection technology and communications systems that could sharply reduce the 35 pounds of batteries soldiers now carry to power electronic devices and systems. The BU team—working with researchers from the University of Utah, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and other major academic institutions in the U.S. and Italy—is designing electronic and photonics materials that advance this objective. Bellotti is developing simulation models of light emitters that enable through-the-air optical communication, detectors that can sense objects ema-

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Military Medicine: First Aid From the Battlefront to the Home Front Military medicine is a medical specialty addressing the health risks and conditions of armed service personnel, from roadside bomb-induced traumatic brain injury to infectious disease exposure. At the College of Engineering, several projects are advancing leading-edge medical technologies that could greatly benefit soldiers and citizens alike, including: • Low-cost, robust, portable, accurate photonics devices that can detect the most lethal pathogens at the point of care In collaboration with BU School of Medicine Assistant Professor John Connor, Professor M. Selim Ünlü and Associate Professor Hatice Altug (both ECE, MSE) are refining virus detection platforms they have developed independently. Associate Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE) and Research Assistant Professor Mario Cabodi (BME) are further advancing microfluidics technology they’ve designed to integrate sample preparation in each of the two platforms. The BU researchers will partner with Becton Dickinson, a leading global medical technology company, to transform one of these platforms into a working prototype, and enlist University of Texas Medical Branch Professor Thomas Geisbert, an internationally recognized expert on viral hemorrhagic fever diseases, to test it in his lab in Texas on highly lethal viruses such as Ebola and Marburg. • Noninvasive brain injury diagnostics Working with researchers at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Lecturer Caleb Farny (ME) is developing an unprecedented, ultrasound-based imaging technology for the U.S. Army that could detect

foreign objects that penetrate the skull, or identify the regions of blood pooling or hemorrhaging that result. Ultrasound offers a low-cost, low-power, portable, radiation-free solution that’s easily deployable in the field. • Field-ready tissue engineering techniques One of the biggest problems in tissue engineering is the vascularization—incorporation of structures emulating blood vessels—of engineered tissue. Large structures such as muscle and heart tissue need immediate access to blood vessels or they will die from lack of oxygen and nutrients. Associate Professor Joe Tien (BME) is developing materials with engineered blood vessels already inside. Starting with a gel or polymer, he applies lithographic patterning methods from the integrated circuit industry to carve out microfluidic networks in the materials that mimic the shape and size of real blood vessels. “Our objective is to provide reconstructive surgeons with new tools for forming complex three-dimensional tissues that require immediate perfusion with blood,” says Tien, whose novel biomaterials could be a boon to military and civilian blast victims worldwide. • Bioterror rapid response technology All methods aimed at systematically delivering drugs beneath the skin either require using microneedles or dose very slowly, but Professors Mark Horenstein (ECE) and David Sherr (School of Public Health) are advancing an approach that avoids these drawbacks. “We’re developing a method for transdermal, needle-free drug delivery in which drug-laden

nating radiation frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum and other semiconductor-based materials that could lead to more energy-efficient water purification systems, chemical sensors and other applications. “We’re going to explore how to design electronics materials such as LEDs or lasers to be more efficient light emitters, and how to design detectors for different spectral ranges, such as infrared and ultraviolet, that are better performing, consume less power and require less cooling,” Bellotti explains. “For instance, if you could make an infrared, night-vision detector that doesn’t require cooling, you could reduce a soldier’s load by two kilograms.” Dal Negro is advancing new approaches for designing devices that can turn electromagnetic radiation into electricity. “We’re developing computational methods for the design, from scratch, of novel antennas and antenna materials that convert this radiation—ranging in wavelength from the radio to visible spectrum—into electrical current,” he says. “The harvested energy could either be stored in batteries or power electronic devices.” Ultimately, the researchers aim to use powerful computers to simulate the behavior of new materials from the nanoscale to the soldier scale in order to develop the lighter, more energy-efficient electronic devices and systems the Army seeks. To produce these computationally

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An approximately one square centimeter fibrin “patch” that contains multiple channels for vascularization and drainage developed by Associate Professor Joe Tien (BME).

nanoparticles are forced into the skin using an electrostatic pulse,” says Horenstein, who aims to develop the technique into a portable field instrument that could be used by emergency medical technicians for the painless and rapid inoculation of large populations in the event of a bioterror attack.

intensive simulations, Herbordt is contributing his expertise in highperformance computing.

Robotic Systems From UAVs that give troops a bird’s-eye view of hostile territory to ground-based devices that defuse roadside bombs, robotic technologies promise to sharply reduce the cost, manpower and casualties associated with more hands-on defense missions. But to fulfill that promise, the next generation of military robots will need to become far more autonomous, responding to unexpected developments with agility and accuracy, and without the intensive level of human supervision now required. Toward that end, College of Engineering researchers are developing techniques to program robots to avoid obstacles and detect chemical weapons, mines and other targets of interest with minimal reliance on human input, and designing semi-autonomous UAVs—in some cases, inspired by the flight dynamics of bats, birds and insects—that can adapt quickly to uncertain conditions, sometimes in highly cluttered environments. Aiming to radically reduce the workload for human operators of semiautonomous underwater, ground and aerial vehicles in military and civilian contexts, Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) and Associate Professor

Calin Belta (ME, SE) are developing intelligent single agents—robots, UAVs and other technologies that compute, communicate and control—that can interpret and reason about their environment in changing conditions, as well as networks of multiple agents that can safely and efficiently coordinate their activities with other agents and human operators. Potential applications include persistent surveillance of large swaths of territory for military and homeland security, automated parking and medical monitoring. Their efforts are part of a $7.5-million project funded by the Navy that since 2009 has tasked machine learning and control theory experts from BU, MIT, the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania to engineer more intelligent and autonomous vehicles. Ideally, the technology will enable vehicles to make decisions independent of human interaction except when absolutely necessary—regardless of changes in weather, lighting or other ambient conditions. In the military theater, the ultimate goal is to create teams of persistent surveillance agents to give combat vehicles the edge in detecting and responding to hostile targets. To maximize single-agent autonomy, Belta has developed a computer language that translates an operator’s simple, structured English instructions into machine code that controls the agent’s motion and communication for the duration of a mission, from avoiding certain territory to coordinating specific activities with other selected agents. To verify agent performance, Belta is conducting simple lab experiments that include deploying robotic cars on various missions in a model city complete with plastic towers, makeshift roads with parking spots and computer-controlled traffic lights; and flying small-scale, quadrotor UAVs in a room representing a defined airspace. “We’re applying formal proofs for our control and communications strategies to ensure they always work, regardless of operating conditions,” says Belta.

Meanwhile, Cassandras is developing algorithms that optimize how multiple agents cooperate to solve persistent surveillance problems. He likens the effort to coordinating the movement and communication of multiple PacMan “enemies” tasked to eat up all displayed dots—which collectively mark the region under surveillance—as quickly as possible. Unlike the video game, however, these dots grow bigger the longer they haven’t been visited, and return after they’ve been gobbled up, thus requiring persistent monitoring. Cassandras plans to translate his “dot-eating” algorithms into directions, such as start, stop, wait or turn around, that robots running on Belta’s computer code can follow, and thus survey a defined space. The process has raised challenging questions. “How do these intelligent agents communicate with each other, and how often?” says Cassandras. “We would like to have them communicate as little as possible to preserve both security and battery power.” Whether empowering UAVs to patrol the eastern seaboard, soldiers to detect signs of enemy troop movements at night, airports to provide more effective screening of passengers and luggage, or smartphone users to safeguard personal data, College of Engineering researchers are making strides in packing greater functionality and performance in security technologies while minimizing their size, cost and energy consumption. They may work in labs and offices far from any battlefield, but when it comes to advancing methods and systems to make the world safer, they are truly on the front line.

Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE), right, and ENG students Setting up a laboratory experiment on persistent surveillance with a team of robotic vehicles in an urban setting.

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Bionic Three Mechanical Engineering Alums Help Advance Amazingly Lifelike Prosthetic Leg

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In recent years, injured soldiers, people with diabetes and others with missing or impaired lower limbs have benefited greatly from lighter, stronger artificial limbs that exploit carbon fiber technology to provide increased mobility. But moving about with a carbon fiber prosthetic can be like walking in sand; putting one foot in front of the other takes up to 50 percent more energy than people with natural limbs expend. That’s where a new prosthetic ankle, the BiOM by iWalk, Inc., comes in. Supplying that extra energy through batteries, motors and springs, the 4.5-pound BiOM replicates the action of the foot, Achilles tendon and calf muscles to provide powered plantar flexion, or push-off. Commercially available since September 2011, this breakthrough robotics technology is enabling a growing number of amputees to walk naturally and effortlessly. Among the 60 iWalk employees who are shaping the future of bionic technology at the Bedford, Massachusetts-based startup are three College of Engineering mechanical engineering alumni—Weston Smith (MS’11), Josh Prescott (MS’11) and Chris Park (BS’11). They are making their own mark on iWalk’s effort to rebuild and restore natural motion from the ground up to potentially millions of affected individuals. Witnessing the actual transfer of iWalk’s technology to veterans and active-duty soldiers has been the greatest on-the-job reward for Smith, who started working for the company in October 2010 as a quality engineer. “It was neat to send our first commercial shipment of prosthetic ankles to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and be there to see people walk on them for the first time,” he says. Now working as a manufacturing engineer, Smith improves the manufacturing process and incorporates design improvements into iWalk’s production line. It’s the exact job he set his sights on in 2009, when he served as a lab technician at a medical device company but lacked engineering credentials. Equipped with an undergraduate degree in visual art and past experience as a cabinetmaker and carpenter, he enrolled in the College’s Late Entry Accelerated Program (LEAP), which enables nontraditional students and working professionals to obtain graduate degrees in engineering, as the ticket to his dream job. “I couldn’t find anything else like it in the country,” he recalls. “Having the chance to study engineering after having been on a different path helped me to be really flexible, which is what’s required here. It’s a small enough place that we all do a little bit of everything beyond our core engineering tasks, from writing marketing materials to delivering the product to customers.” Noting iWalk’s appreciation for versatile, team-oriented employees— traits encouraged by the architecture of the company’s main office, which consists of low-rise cubicles from which anyone can see what everyone else is doing—Smith suggested that fellow LEAP student Josh Prescott come for an interview in March 2011. The quality manager hired Prescott on the spot. Currently a research and development engineer, Prescott is advancing a number of robust new iWalk product concepts that could extend the BiOM platform to support other parts of the lower leg. Like Smith, however, he didn’t always have the technical skills needed to innovate at this level. As an undergraduate at Hampshire College, he defined his own major in assistive design, working on new concepts for wheelchairs and other medical devices. While designing products for a few small businesses, he The iWalk BiOM prosthetic ankle is enabling amputees to walk naturally and effortlessly. (Photos courtesy of iWalk.)

Weston Smith (MS’11), Chris Park (BS’11) and Josh Prescott (MS’11) with iWalk’s BiOM prosthetic ankle.

realized that he would need to expand his skill set in order to carry an invention from concept to product, and so enrolled in the LEAP program, where he focused on product design and analysis. “I always had good engineering instincts, but BU gave me the technical skills that I needed to truly design,” says Prescott. “Here, I’ve been able to apply those skills to solve complex real-world problems, such as analyzing data that we get from the prosthetic ankle to quantify how well the product is replicating the functionality of a biological ankle.” Chris Park, who has worked at iWalk as a mechanical engineer since August 2011, also learned about the company from Smith, who had recommended him for a research assistant position while at BU. “Weston used to joke that he was becoming my personal HR Department,” says Park. Today he spends much of his time upgrading designs for BiOM components, with the ultimate goal of making the BiOM more affordable without compromising its effectiveness or durability. Part of this effort involves design for manufacturing—engineering parts so they are easier to machine and thus save time and money—a capability that he honed during long hours spent in the College of Engineering’s machine shop and continues to learn more about on the job. “Working for iWalk has been an incredible educational experience,” says Park. “Everyone I’ve met here is really exceptional.” Perhaps that’s because what drives Smith, Prescott, Park and their co-workers is the opportunity to realize an exceptional vision, championed by iWalk’s founder, Hugh Herr: to create the world’s first prosthetic devices that feel and act like biological limbs, thereby vastly improving users’ mobility and overall quality of life. “I knew that if the job was for a cause I could feel good about, that’s the kind of place I wanted to work for,” adds Park.

They are making their own mark on iWalk’s effort to rebuild and restore natural motion from the ground up to potentially millions of affected individuals.

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Kevin Kit Parker Pinpoints Root Cause of Traumatic Brain Injury

Whether triggered by a collision on a football field in Nebraska or blast waves from an improvised explosive device in Iraq, traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people each year, often resulting in long-term neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease. Until the summer of 2011, scientists maintained that TBI was caused by the puncturing of membranes surrounding nerve cells in the brain, leading to the cells’ eventual breakdown. But Kevin Kit Parker (BME’89) upended the conventional wisdom. Parker, a professor of bioenParker has more than gineering and applied physics at Harvard University, led a research an academic interest team that showed the real mechain TBI. In addition to nism behind TBI is a class of cellbeing a researcher, signaling, cell membrane-crossing he is also a U.S. Army proteins called integrins that, paratrooper who when disrupted by trauma, sets completed two tours off a chain reaction that causes of duty in Afghanithe brain’s neural network to collapse—and, in some cases, blood stan and has seen vessels in the brain to constrict. the effects of TBI on The research, published in leading blast victims. journals that August, could yield new drug therapies that first responders could apply in the immediate aftermath of injury to limit long-term damage. Parker has more than an academic interest in TBI. In addition to being a researcher, he is also a U.S. Army paratrooper who completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan and has seen the effects of TBI on blast victims. Concerned about these soldiers’ future health prospects, Parker began studying TBI at the behest of fellow soldier Colonel Geoffrey Ling, a U.S. Army neurologist specializing in brain trauma who oversees TBI research funding at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). To better understand the mechanisms behind TBI and investigate potential drug treatments at the cellular level, Parker and his Disease Biophysics Group (DBG) used tissue engineering techniques to construct a micro-tissue model of the brain’s vascular system out of human blood vessels and rat nerve cells. They then subjected the model to forces strong enough to mimic blast waves known to cause TBI, but weak enough to prevent the cell membranes from tearing apart. Their “concussion-on-a-chip” experiments, which continue to this day, revealed the same kinds of structural changes in neurons and blood vessel cells as those observed in the brains of TBI victims. “The paradigm for brain injury is that the membrane of the nerve cell gets ripped open and the cell dies,” says Parker. “But the membrane of a neuron is like the skin on a hound dog; it’s floppy and not a good conduit of mechanical energy, so it doesn’t always tear in trauma.” Parker and his colleagues showed that integrin-mediated cell trauma results in the activation of completely normal signaling pathways within a cell. In other words, the cell, or neuron, can survive the blast. “If the cell’s still alive, there’s a treatment opportunity,” he maintains.

Kevin Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Harvard, studying traumatic brain injury. an immunostained image of a cultured brain cell is On the computer screen.

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“Our ultimate goal is to identify drug targets and arm the pharmaceutical industry for the long run with a toolset for TBI drug discovery.” The TBI research is part of a very broad portfolio of projects Parker spearheads. His group’s projects range from creating miniature, 3-D human organs-on-chips to developing biodegradable, protein “nanofabrics” used to treat wounds to probing the protein networks that enable the cuttlefish to camouflage themselves.

Building a Foundation at BU On campus last April to help review a PhD thesis defense, Harvard Professor Parker doesn’t exactly look or sound the part. Measuring in at 6’5”, he sports a beat-up pair of jeans and speaks in a booming Southern drawl, often peppering his remarks with self-deprecating humor like a master storyteller as he describes his path from rural Conyers, Georgia, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. It all began in his junior year of high school, when a red recruitment brochure from Boston University arrived in the mail. Interested in biology and gadgets from an early age and impressed by the reputation of the BME Department, Parker subsequently applied for a place in the College of Engineering’s freshman class. But when he arrived in Boston a year later, he felt lost. “It was a big change to be dropped off at 140 Bay State Road,” Parker recalls. “I had never taken a taxicab before I came up here. Someone at Logan had to take me to the cabstand and show me how to hail a cab.” What’s more, after agonizing over kingdoms and phylums in his introductory biology class, he dropped the course. Over the next four years at BU, however, he began to feel right at home, establishing enduring friendships and a foundation for a multifaceted career as an engineer-educator. “Academics were definitely not one of the highlights of my career,” he declares, describing how he nonetheless made it through four years in the College of Engineering while soaking up the influences of some memorable faculty members, most notably former Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Professor Asim Yildiz, who taught thermodynamics. “Even though I was academically a train wreck, he included me in discussions with graduate students and post-docs, and saw promise in me.” When Yildiz was ill during Parker’s senior year, he would walk to the professor’s house once a week to drink hot tea and work math problems all day long. “He taught me about pursuing science and engineering for the sheer knowledge, not for prestigious awards,” Parker recalls. “I look at his

“It was a big change to be dropped off at 140 Bay State Road,” Parker recalls. “I had never taken a taxicab before I came up here. Someone at Logan had to take me to the cabstand and show me how to hail a cab.”

photograph every once in a while to make sure I am on the right track.” Another BU faculty member who continues to inspire Parker is Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen, who then ran the BME Senior Design Program. “He maintained a standard of excellence in that class that I strive to maintain in the design classes I teach today at Harvard,” says Parker, “and in his role as dean today, he continues to be my professor. He hustles, he gets things done, he’s hands-on and constantly thinking of new ideas.”

The Road to Success Drawing on his experiences at BU, Parker rose to his current position on the Harvard faculty through a combination of impulsiveness, boldness and good timing. After graduating from BU without a plan, he went on a summer road trip with his father that passed through Nashville, Tennessee. While his father idled in the hot car outside Vanderbilt University, Parker stopped in to meet the mechanical engineering department chair, whom he convinced to accept him into the graduate program on a trial basis. He spent the next several years learning everything from the biophysics of hearts to the evaluation of airplane parts—all while completing ROTC training and becoming commissioned as an Army infantry officer. After earning an MS in mechanical engineering in 1993 and a PhD in applied physics in 1998, Parker applied for a post-doctoral fellowship in pathology under vascular biology specialist Don Ingber at Boston Children’s Hospital. When he received a rejection letter, Parker immediately wrote back insisting that Ingber’s group accept him and prepare for his arrival. Within a week he received a call from Ingber’s office asking if he was still available. After working with Ingber for three years and serving as a post-doc in biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Parker successfully applied for a faculty position at Harvard in 2001. Then came September 11. Moved to serve in the Army, he delayed joining the faculty for a year while he completed the first of two tours of duty in Afghanistan. Early in his tenure at Harvard, when Parker received the email message from DARPA suggesting that he investigate traumatic brain injury, he quickly recalled Ingber’s focus on integrin signaling and suspected that it might play a key role in TBI. “I called DARPA back and said, ‘I think I’ve got an angle,’” says Parker. “I then went to Starbucks with an undergraduate student and sketched my hypothesis [about integrin’s role in TBI] on a napkin. It took several years to prove, but we nailed it. I should have bought a lottery ticket on that day.” MEDICS FROM THE U.S. ARMY’S 3RD INFANTRY DIVISioN’S 2ND BATTALION, 69TH ARMOR REGIMENT, PULL A “WOuNDED” SOLDIER TO A HUMVEE AFTER A SIMULATED IMPROVISED-EXPLOSIVE-DEVICE ATTACK AT THE NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER IN FORT IRWIN, CALIFORNIA. BRAIN INJURIES CAUSED BY THESE DEVIcEs ARE INCREASINGLY COMMON AMONG SOLDIERS. PHOTO courtesy of THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

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Four ENG Faculty Members Win NSF CAREER Awards Assistant Professors Lorena Barba (ME), Ayse Coskun (ECE), Ajay Joshi (ECE) and Michael L. Smith (BME) have each received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in recognition of their outstanding research and teaching. The five-year, $400,000–$550,000 award funds high-impact projects that effectively combine research and educational objectives. The NSF recognized Barba, Coskun and Joshi for three independent efforts to stretch the limits of computing, and Smith for innovative research on intercellular communication. “Receiving the CAREER award will give my research program considerable momentum at a time when computational science is rising in the national agenda,” said Barba, who seeks to upgrade a class of scientific computing algorithms to vastly improve their performance on “manycore” systems, in which multiple computer processors operate in parallel. Such high-speed algorithms could advance solutions to critical problems in computational fluid dynamics and computational biology, from understanding climate change to simulating the proteins that are the building blocks of life. “With rapid changes in computer hardware, the algorithms and software used in science need to be reinvented; they need to be parallel like never before,” she observed. “But first, we have to adapt our algorithms to work in massively parallel hardware and learn to compute at extreme scales—one quintillion calculations per second. Our group now has the support of the

NSF to serve this high-priority national goal.” Meanwhile, both Coskun and Joshi will use their CAREER awards to address rising performance and power demands on computer hardware. The need is critical, as today’s inefficient technology imposes steep operational and cooling costs on data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and appears unlikely to meet the high performance demands of nextgeneration embedded systems. Coskun’s goal is to demonstrate that 3-D stacked systems, in which multiple chips are manufactured and vertically connected, will provide major efficiency improvements to the nation’s computing infrastructure, leading to substantial cost and carbon footprint reductions. “Our objective is to create the catalyst techniques required to make 3-D systems effective agents for attaining low-power, high-throughput computing in both embedded systems and HPC/data centers,” she said. Joshi will apply his award to boost the energy efficiency of silicon-photonic manycore systems, which consist of dozens of independent, silicon-based processors operating in parallel and communicating with system memory via photonic links. “This will pave the way for rapid adoption of silicon-photonic networks for processor-memory communication, which will significantly improve the energy efficiency—and, in turn, reduce the operational cost and carbon footprint—of manycore systems widely used today in server farms and data centers,” Joshi explained.

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Smith intends to use his CAREER award to improve our understanding of how cells communicate. While it’s well known that one way cells communicate with one another is by secreting signaling molecules that can control their behavior, cells may also communicate via other cues. To investigate these cues, Smith and members of his lab plan to pull on fibers of the extracellular matrix, a composite glue that surrounds cells and provides mechanical resiliency to tissues. “No one has conclusively demonstrated that tugging on these structures permits cell-to-cell communication,” said Smith. “Elucidating this novel mechanism would have a transformative impact on a number of fields, since cell-to-cell communication is a basic phenomenon critical to numerous aspects of cell biology and physiological processes from tissue development to wound repair.” The NSF CAREER award funding will also enable Barba, Coskun, Joshi and Smith to redouble their efforts to provide innovative educational experiences to College of Engineering students and introduce K–12 students to the excitement of engineering. They have planned key initiatives including the development of leading-edge educational technologies; advanced studies institutes that promote international, interdisciplinary collaboration; new courses; new interactive, hands-on design challenges; and new undergraduate research opportunities. To date, 31 College of Engineering faculty members have received NSF CAREER awards during their service to the College.

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Brower (ECE), Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE), Harold Park (ME) and Anna Swan (ECE, MSE) will participate in a collaborative research and scholarship exchange with the Graphene Research Centre of the National University of Singapore focused on theoretical and experimental research on graphene, a very thin, flexible and transparent nanomaterial that could lead to smaller, cheaper and more energy-efficient circuits and other game-changing technologies.

■ The Optical Society of America (OSA) selected Associate Professor Hatice Altug (ECE, MSE) as the 2012 recipient of its Adolph Lomb Medal, which is presented to early career researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field of optics. She will receive a silver medal, certificate and $3,000 honorarium at an OSA conference this year.

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■ Recognizing her trailblazing efforts in promoting the use of the CUDA parallel computing architecture and graphic processing unit (GPU) computing throughout the Americas, the NVIDIA Corporation named Assistant Professor Lorena Barba (ME) one of four new CUDA Fellows, making her the first female appointee to the invitation-only program since its inception in 2008. Barba also received a seed grant from the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) for research on developing “exascale” software platforms with the potential to boost high-performance computing speeds by a factor of 1,000. ■ The MGHPCC awarded two other seed grants to Assistant Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) and Associate Professor Martin Herbordt (ECE) for research on measuring and improving the energy efficiency of large-scale computing. In related news, Sandia National Laboratories awarded Coskun $83,000 to investigate the design and use of intelligent software management strategies for high-performance computing environments, and Herbordt was selected as general co-chair of the 27th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, to be held May 20-24, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. ■ Professor Soumendra Basu, Associate Professor Srikanth Gopalan, Professor Uday Pal and Assistant Professor Xi Lin (all ME, MSE) have each received a two-year, $132,000 grant from the Department of Energy to develop low-cost solid oxide fuel cell technology for environmentally responsible central power generation from fossil energy resources. Their project aims to demonstrate a 50-percent improvement in the cells’ maximum power density.

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■ SE Division Head/Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) won Technology Development’s Ignition Award for his “Smart Parking” system, designed to help a driver locate and reserve the best parking space in a given urban environment based on the individual’s predetermined selection criteria.

■ The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant to Assistant Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE) for research on Clotho, an open-source platform he developed that presents a set of modular apps for the specification, design and assembly of novel synthetic biological systems. The grant paves the way for Clotho to go from proof-of-concept to viable commercial software. In addition, the Office of Naval Research awarded Densmore $419,220 to purchase flow cytometry machinery to support his synthetic biology research.

■ The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Assistant Professor Ajay Joshi (ECE) about $300,000 to fund his project, “Electro-photonic network-onchip architectures in 1000+ core systems.” Joshi seeks to determine what kind of applications could be run on 1000+ core systems and whether photonics can be utilized to maximize manycore system energy efficiency. ■ Professor W. Clem Karl (ECE, SE) was elected editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the leading journal of image and video processing research. ■ A new research partnership, the Boston University Research Switch and Transport Network (BURST), will bring collaborators from the BU Photonics Center and Ireland’s Intune Networks together to study new optical network architectures and identify how they can be used to combat the challenges of rising Internet usage. Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) was instrumental in bringing this project to BU, which will receive approximately $3 million from Intune for development, operations and hardware. Meanwhile, Sergienko’s Quantum Communication and Measurement

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■ India’s premier industrial research organization, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), named Professor Uday Pal (ME, MSE) as a Distinguished Foreign Scientist (DFS). Pal will spend a month of his fall sabbatical at CSIR facilities in India to improve solid oxide fuel cells, one of the most environmentally clean and versatile means of efficiently converting chemical energy to electrical energy from fossil fuels.

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Xue Han (BME), who uses pulses of light to control brain cells and discern their influence on attention, memory and decision-making, was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Recognizing promising young scientists engaged in leadingedge research, the award provides $240,000 over four years. One of 22 recipients of the award this year, Han was selected from 134 nominations by a panel of 16 top scientists, including two Nobel laureates.

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Student Cluster Challenge (SCC) team received the judges’ highest score at the Supercomputing Convention in Seattle, where student teams were asked to design a computer hardware and software network to demonstrate sustained performance in a series of science and engineering challenges. Coached by Dan Kamalic, manager of research computing in the College of Engineering, the team consisted of Michael Abed (ECE’14), Richard T. Black (ECE’13), Derek J. DaSilva (CS, SMG’12), JohnNicholas Furst (ECE’13), and Dusan and Darko Stosic (both Physics’14).

■ BME PhD students received all three poster session awards at BU’s third annual Translational Research Symposium. Organized by the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the symposium included posters by 52 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across BU focused on clinically relevant biomedical research. BME winners Kyle Allison, Ben Lakin and Kevin McHugh (tied with Charles Dumont, MD, BUSM) received first ($1,000), second ($500) and third ($250) prizes, respectively.

Saudi equestrian team members Prince Abdullah Al Saud (from left), Kamal Bahamdan (ENG’94), Ramzy Al Duhami, and Abdullah Waleed Sharbatly celebrate their bronze medal win in the equestrian show jumping team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics on August 6 in London. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

■ On August 6, Kamal Bahamdan

Boston University Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) (left) poses with Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, Enda Kenny (center), and Jim Lowrie, senior vice president of worldwide sales for Intune Networks.

(ENG’94) won a bronze medal in equestrian team jumping for his native Saudi Arabia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Competing before a crowd of 23,000, the Saudi equestrian team earned its first-ever team jumping medal. Bahamdan is a five-time equestrian Olympian, having previously competed in the 1996 Atlanta games, the 2000 Sydney games, the 2004

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Athens games, and the 2008 Beijing games. He placed fourth in the individual jumping competition on August 8, narrowly missing a chance at a second medal.

■ At the 2012 BU Science and Engineering Day, Yushan Chen (ECE, PhD’14) won the First Prize CISE Award for her poster “LTL Robot Motion Control based on Automata Learning of Environmental Dynamics.” ■ ECE Information Sciences and Systems group PhD student Limor Eger was selected by the Boston University Women’s Guild from over 100 applicants for the annual Guild award, which recognizes and supports “remarkable women embarking on or extending a wide range of careers in scholarship, teaching, and repairing world problems.” In her PhD work, Limor is exploring the role of multi-energy measurements in X-ray tomography for baggage screening in airports. ■ ECE PhD student Schuyler Eldridge (BS’09, PhD’15) received a $70,000 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship for his work on the project “Biologically-Inspired Hardware for Land/Aerial Robots,” which aims to design a new type of computer that can sense, learn and adapt— just like a living brain. Eldridge and his advisor, Assistant Professor Ajay Joshi (ECE), are designing low-power custom chips that implement the neural algorithms in the BU Neuromorphics Lab’s Modular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent, a large-scale software simulation of a biological brain.

■ A team of BU students won the $10,000 grand prize in an Innovative Design Competition sponsored by Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of lightweight, flexible, thin-film photovoltaic modules. The winners—MSE PhD student Ryan Eriksen; MSE MEng students Poornima Muralidhar and Jackson Chang; and School of Management student Cameron Feldman—developed a portable, solar-powered water purification system that integrates seamlessly into a common plastic water bottle.

■ ME graduate student Else Frohlich won the President’s Award, the top prize at BU’s annual Science and Engineering Research

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Symposium, for her research, “The Use of Controlled Surface Topography and Flow-induced Shear Stress to Influence Renal Epithelial Cell Function.”

■ Two members of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission team, which successfully landed the Curiosity rover on the surface of the red planet on August 6, are College of Engineering alumni. Matthew Heverly (MS, ME’05), a mobility systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is Curiosity’s lead driver. Anita Sengupta (Aero’98), a senior systems engineer at JPL, worked on the rover’s landing system. The mission aims to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support microbial life-forms.

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■ The Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) selected PhD student Margo Monroe (BME) as one of 10 finalists for the 2012 CIMIT Prize in Primary HealthCare, which provides initial funding to engineering graduate students across the country to develop innovative technologies aimed at improving health care delivery at the front lines of medicine. The $10,000 finalist award will help Monroe—and lab teammates PhD students Alexander Reddington (ECE) and Jacob Trueb (ME’11) and Joseph Greenspun (BME/EE’12), a Lutchen Fellow—to develop a point-of-care instrument that measures allergy sensitivity in whole blood, blood that has not been modified except for the introduction of an anticoagulant.

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Professor H. Steven Colburn (BME), founder and director of the Boston University Hearing Research Center, is both a leading expert on how the auditory system processes sound and a beloved teacher and mentor to BME students for more than 30 years. In a packed hall at the School of Management on March 22, Colburn traced his evolution as a hearing researcher and educator in the 2012 College of Engineering Distinguished Scholar Lecture, “Information Processing in the Binaural Auditory System.” 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.

■ Second-year PhD student Haiyao (“Cassie”) Huang (ECE), first-year PhD student Alyssa Pierson (ME) and second-year LEAP student Kate Thurmer have received fellowships from the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program, the largest source of private funding for women in science, mathematics and engineering. ■ The program also named Katherine Murphy (EE’13) and Neha Sharma (ME’13) as recipients of CBL Scholar Awards, which support undergraduate summer research projects. ■ ME graduate student Robert Valtierra won the Acoustical Society of America’s 2012 Minority Award, which supports minority students in their pursuit of graduate studies

in acoustics. The award’s $20,000 stipend will enable Valtierra to continue his graduate research on marine mammal location and ultimately earn his PhD at BU.

■ The Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation named BME PhD student Chentian Zhang as a recipient of the 2012 Research Scholar Award (RSA). The $10,000 award recognizes the potential of Zhang’s research to yield new treatments for melanoma, a malignant cancer tumor responsible for the majority of skin cancer deaths. —Mark Dwortzan, Rachel Harrington, Samantha Gordon (COM’12), Sneha Dasgupta (COM’13), and BU Today’s john o’rourke

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Collins and Zaman Receive Prestigious Awards for Innovative Research Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) and Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) have received prestigious research awards associated with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation awarded Collins a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant to encourage his lab’s pursuit of a novel approach to cholera prevention. The program funds promising early-stage projects offering novel solutions to global health problems. The funding will enable Collins’s lab to explore innovative synthetic biology techniques that could be applied to engineer a probiotic yogurt bacterium to detect and kill the cholera bacterium in the human intestine. The probiotic could be supplied as an inexpensive, freeze-dried powder to endemic populations to prevent cholera, an acute, food- or water-borne diarrheal infection leading to more than 100,000 deaths each year. This spring Collins also was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and named one of four winners of the 2012 Sanofi–Institut Pasteur Awards. Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development—a partnership among the Gates Foundation and the governments of the U.S., Norway, the United Kingdom and Canada that aims to improve health outcomes for mothers and newborns around the time of delivery—named Zaman as one of 12 recipients of a two-year, $250,000 innovation seed grant. The grant will enable Zaman’s lab to develop the project PharmaCheck: Counterfeit and Substandard Drug Detector Device for the Developing World. The main objective of the PharmaCheck project is to develop a user-friendly, low-cost device that local health authorities can use to screen for substandard anti-malarials and antibiotics, thereby improving maternal and neonatal health. The need for such a device is particularly acute in the developing world, where the prevalence of malaria and other infectious diseases is high and counterfeit and substandard drugs are commonplace. In addition, the main developer of PharmaCheck, BME graduate student Darash Desai, received one of three prestigious $50,000 research fellowships from the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention.

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New Faculty Professor of Practice Gerald J. Fine (ME), who earlier held the same position at the College from 2003 to 2007, is a seasoned business executive with more than 25 years of experience in technology, sales, marketing and manufacturing. Fine previously served as president and CEO of Schott North America and earned his PhD in geology at the California Institute of Technology. In his new role, he will direct the new Engineering Product Innovation Center and teach courses in product development, manufacturing strategy and technology commercialization. Assistant Professor Jonathan Klamkin (ECE), formerly an Erasmus Mundus visiting professor and Marie Curie fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, and a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, received his PhD in electronic materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2008. His research focuses on photonic integrated circuits for communication and sensing applications. Assistant Professor Michelle Y. Sander (ECE) joined the faculty from the Optics and Quantum Electronics Group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. She graduated from MIT with a PhD in electrical engineering in 2012. Her research interests include the development of compact ultra-short pulse lasers that can be integrated on optical chips for telecommunications and other applications. Promotion to Professor Jerome Mertz (BME) researches biological imaging, specifically the development of optical microscopy techniques. He holds doctorates from Université Paris and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the ENG faculty in 2003. David Starobinski (ECE) studies cyber security, wireless computer networking, the economics of networks, and analyzing communications network performance. An ENG faculty member since 2000, he received his PhD from Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Promotion to Tenured Associate Professor Hatice Altug (ECE, MSE) investigates nanoscale photonic materials and devices. She has received many awards and honors, including a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and a Peter Paul Career Development Professorship. She joined the ENG faculty in 2007. Sean Andersson (ME, SE) seeks to boost the potential of scanning probe microscopy, which uses a physical probe to scan the surface of a specimen. An ENG faculty member since 2006, he is also developing methods for handling the complexity of robots operating in real-world environments.

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Harold Park (ME) specializes in computational nanomechanics and nanomaterials, including graphene, perfect, super-strong, one-atom thick sheets of carbon that scientists believe will replace silicon. Park received an NSF CAREER award in 2007. He joined the ENG faculty in 2010. Tyrone Porter (ME), an ENG faculty member since 2003, hopes his research will push the application of ultrasound technology in new and exciting directions, including testing the growth of cancer and drug delivery through microscopic carriers. Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) heads BU’s Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics, which focuses on the interface of cell biology, systems biology and medicine, including studies of why cancer cells spread. Zaman and his team are also devoted to developing innovative solutions and technologies to improve the quality of medicine in the developing world. He joined the ENG faculty in 2009. Katherine Yanhang Zhang (ME) studies the mechanical behavior of soft biological tissues. Using experimental techniques and advanced computational modeling, her research integrates knowledge of biology with the complex fields of nonlinear solid mechanics and finite element modeling. Her findings could provide important insights into the relationship between microscopic biological processes and the effects of disease on tissue mechanics. An ENG faculty member since 2006, Zhang received an NSF CAREER award in 2010. —Mark Dwortzan and BU Today’s Rich Barlow and Susan Seligson

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On May 14, students and faculty gathered in the Trustees Ballroom for the first-ever Senior Class Luncheon, where Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen announced the ENG student and keynote Commencement speakers and the ENG faculty awards. (Photo by kalman zabarsky.)

Reflections on years of hard work, aspirations to better the world, and a vibrant community spirit predominated at the College of Engineeringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 59th annual Commencement. Held on May 20 at the Track & Tennis Center, the event celebrated the accomplishments of 39 master of engineering, 177 master of science and 289 bachelor of science candidates.

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59th Annual Commencement, continued Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen congratulated graduating seniors for completing “unquestionably the most difficult undergraduate degree program at Boston University” and urged them to continue taking on hard challenges to positively transform society. Undergraduate student speaker Yasmin M. Atefi (ME) stressed how the College’s strong sense of community enabled her and her fellow graduates to meet the many academic and other challenges they faced over the past four years. “You’ve gone through the hard work. You’re about to receive your engineering degree and that puts you in a unique position to make the world we live in a better place,” said Atefi, adding, “Remember, you will not change the world alone; rely on your support networks to pull you through, just as you did in your senior projects.” Recounting the rigors and rewards of the College of Engineering program in between bites of vegetables and dip during a lively reception for students and their guests preceding the Commencement ceremony, graduat-

ing seniors frequently described their past four years and future plans in “we” language indicative of a strong identification with the Engineering Class of 2012 community. “We all worked really hard for this,” said Lisa Cervia (BME), who improved an optical, noninvasive cancer diagnostic device for her senior design project and planned to continue focusing on cancer research as a PhD student at Duke University. “It’s a very good feeling.” Commencement speaker Dr. Norman Augustine, a leading architect of the space program and former CEO of Lockheed Martin, explored how students could build on their undergraduate experience to impact society. “The education each of you has received has prepared you not only to survive in this changing world but also to serve and to shape it,” said Augustine, who received an honorary doctorate at the BU Commencement earlier in the day. Toward that end, he advised graduates to maintain a good reputation, pursue work that motivates them, seize opportunities as they arise, focus on immediate responsibilities, engage in selfless pursuits and lifelong learning, set big goals and take calculated risks.

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The College of Engineering marked the first 20 years of its doctoral programs with a panel discussion and symposium on Saturday, May 19, shortly before the PhD Hooding Ceremony. “Today, we celebrate making it to 20 years,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen, “But we did far more than just make it. Twenty years ago, we were not rank-able by U.S. News & World Report in graduate programs because we had no PhD programs. Five years ago, we were ranked in the 50s. Today, we are at number 38, ahead of schools that have been around five times as long as we have.” Lutchen was joined by Boston University President Robert A. Brown and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Chief Technology Officer Bernadette Johnson in a panel discussion, moderated by former ENG Dean Charles DeLisi, on the challenges and opportunities higher education faces as technology plays an increasingly global role. A symposium on high-impact ENG research, featuring Professors James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE), Thomas Little (ECE, SE), David Bishop (ECE, MSE) (also MSE division head) and Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE), followed. The day concluded with the PhD Hooding Ceremony, where 43 graduates, including nine from the Bioinformatics program, received doctorates. Joseph Casey Crager (EE, PhD’04), Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE) and PhD Hooding speaker Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr. (MS’99, PhD’04), now an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at a luncheon preceding the panel discussion and symposium marking 20 years of College of Engineering PhD programs. (Photo by cydney scott.)

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Mutahar Shamsi (ENG’85, ’89) and Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen at the Boston Red Sox pregame luncheon on June 9. Viktor Vajda (ENG’02, ’04; MET’06), David Lancia, Jr. (ENG’02, ’04) and Brooks Read (ME’81) at the Singh Imagineering Lab alumni reception on May 10.

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Dear Friends, Can you measure the impact your generosity is having on students at the College of Engineering? It is transforming lives by funding experiences for students like these: • STARS fellows like John Glynn (ME’14), whose summer jobs in faculty research labs developing nanodevices for measuring oil well capacity are made possible by you. • Engineers Without Borders like Cassidy Blundell (BME’12), whose work developing affordable, portable diagnostic tools in remote communities will help reduce the incidence of disease. • Technology Innovation Scholars like Oliver Kempf (Aero’12), who works with high school students throughout the U.S., inspiring them to pursue engineering careers. • Members of the Society of Women Engineers like Kayla Kruper (ME’12), who attended the SWE National Conference in Chicago, where she networked, interviewed and landed job offers. • Engineers like Nicholas Luzod (BME’12), who attended the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers National Conference and reported, “The workshops, career fair and company interviews were all invaluable experiences that will greatly assist me in the future.”

I’m sure you feel the satisfaction of knowing how much you are enriching the lives of these and other outstanding, ambitious students. Once again—for the fifth consecutive year—you broke every record in the book: Engineering Annual Fund dollars; Engineering Annual Fund donors; and Annual Fund Leadership donors ($1,000 and up). And graduating seniors: more of you than ever before (59 percent) supported the Annual Fund through your Senior Class Gift. Congratulations for showing us what leadership can mean! The results get even better: total philanthropy—by alumni and parents, corporations and foundations, including major gifts and grants to the College—more than doubled! Some notable examples: • John (ENG’66) and Young Maccarone pledged funding for the Undergraduate Innovation Competition for three years. • David Kiersznowski (ENG’85) and Mark Templeton (ENG’09) both made important gifts to establish the Societal Engineering Fund, to seed new ENG co-curricular strategic initiatives. • The Wallace Coulter Foundation committed $2.5 million to advance breakthroughs in biomedical engineering to improve patient care. • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed funds to support Professor James Collins’s pursuit of a novel approach to detecting and curing cholera using an engineered probiotic bacterium. • David (ENG’69, ENG’72, GSM’74) and Kathleen Hollowell (GRS’71, SED’77) pledged several major gifts to BU, including a Century Challenge Scholarship to the College of Engineering. • An anonymous young alum (ENG’07) pledged a pace-setting gift for the new Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC).

Generosity like yours not only makes a big difference in the lives of undergraduates, but also adds momentum to the College’s rising national stature. In just seven years, ENG’s ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s survey of U.S. engineering graduate programs has jumped 16 places, to #38. Jump onboard! I promise you will enjoy the experience. I hope to see you at our events in the year ahead. My warmest thanks,

Bruce Jordan, Assistant Dean of Development & Alumni Relations

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Anonymous Alumnus n Edward S. W. Boesel (ENG’70) n n Mark R. Templeton (ENG’83, ’09) and Betsy Templeton

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Roger A. Dorf (ENG’70) and Sandra M. Dorf n n David E. Hollowell (ENG’69, ’72, GSM’74) and Kathleen A. Hollowell (GRS’71, SED’77) n n

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Anonymous Alumnus n David F. Kiersznowski (ENG’85) and Demi D. Lloyd n n John A. Maccarone (ENG’66) and Young O. Maccarone n

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Mary S. Abele (CAS’60) and John E. Abele n n Anonymous Parent n n n James F. Bopp n n n Matthew S. Bopp (ENG’08) n n Hanna G. Evans n n Husam H. Nazer (ENG’95) and Nadia M. Khodeir n n Richard D. Reidy (SMG’82) and Minda G. Reidy (SMG’82, GSM’84) n n n Binoy K. Singh (ENG’89) n n

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Gregg E. Adkin (ENG’86) and Kim A. Adkin n n Stormy Attaway (GRS’84, ’88) and Theo de Winter n n n Bettina Briz Himes (ENG’86) and Peter G. Himes n Susann A. Fishman and Richard A. Fishman n n n Janet A. Fraser (ENG’81) and Gregory B. Fraser n n Norman E. Gaut and Madeline S. Gaut n n Joseph P. Healey (ENG’88) n n Brendon J. Howe (ENG’84) and Lynne Wadman-Howe (SED’87) n Dean L. Kamen (Hon.’06) n n Ezra D. Kucharz (ENG’90) and Jennifer M. Kucharz n n Linda S. Lipay n n Andrew J. Marsh (ENG’83) and Heather J. Marsh (CAS’83) n n Eric J. Meltzer (ENG’82) and Brooke Meltzer (CGS’80, MET’82) n n Annika Mickos and Marten Mickos n n n Sanjay Patel (ENG’87) and Falguni S. Patel n n n Philip Taymor and Kathleen Taymor n n n John J. Tegan (ENG’88) n n Francis J. Troise (ENG’87) n n

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Charles E. Bascom (ENG’64) and Christina M. Bascom n n Wayne Cheung (ENG’99) n n Steven D. Girouard (ENG’89) and Cynthia L. Girouard (SAR’89) n n Jon K. Hirschtick and Melissa Hirschtick n

R. Glynn Holt n Ruth A. Hunter (ENG’64, GSM’86) n n Amit Jain (ENG’85, ’88) and Rachana Jain n n n Nicholas J. Lippis (ENG’84, ’89) and Lillian A. Lippis n n n Gayle W. Lutchen (SED’93) and Kenneth R. Lutchen n n n n Carl L. Myers (ENG’65) and Jane S. Myers n n Steve N. Oesterle, MD n Michael D. Poling and Mary J. Poling n n Frederic J. Syrjala (ENG’58, ’60) and Mary E. Syrjala n John Ullo and Patricia Ullo n n Jamshaud Zovein (ENG’95, GSM’99) and Ann C. Zovein (ENG’95, MED’99) n

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Shaheen H. Ali (ENG’89) and Elisabeth A. Mikus n Colleen B. Athans (ENG’89) and Dean G. Athans n n Christopher H. Brousseau (ENG’91) and Mary Lou K. Cronin n n Wesley R. Chedister (ENG’00) n n Peter K. Cocolis (ENG’64) and Lorraine P. Cocolis (SAR’63) n n n Jason P. Colacchio (ENG’90) and Tracy L. Colacchio n n Gregory S. Cordrey (ENG’88) and Stephanie K. Cordrey n George Corey (ENG’85) n Abdulrasul A. Damji (ENG’85, ’90) and Amina A. Damji n David Dean (ENG’73) and Deborah P. Rata n Charles DeLisi and Lynn DeLisi n n n Cary W. Dym (ENG’85) n Tahsin M. Ergin (ENG’81) and Colleen P. Ergin n n Debra Feldman n n Lisa and Shimon Feldman n n n Patrick J. Foley (ENG’91, ’94) and Kerry C. Foley (ENG’91) n n Veronica M. Frankenstein (ENG’83) n Ronald G. Garriques (ENG’86) and Karena Garriques n n John M. Garvey (ENG’86) and Kimberly J. Garvey n n Lisa W. Gill n n n Muckai K. Girish (ENG’94, ’97) and Sandhya R. Girish n n Jeffrey P. Goldberg n Jonathan J. Goldberg n Regina K. Gorski Carolan (ENG’97, ’03) n n Warren M. Grill (ENG’89) and Julia Grill n n Jennifer R. Gruber (ENG’99, ’99) and Ron Sostaric n n Roger A. Hajjar (ENG’88) and Jeannette Hajjar n n Kenneth E. Hancock (ENG’92, ’01) and Hsi-Pin Chen (CAS’89; SPH’91; MED’96, ’96) n n William T. Hathaway (ENG’65) and Joan L. Hathaway n n Mark N. Horenstein and Rose Pappenheimer n n Feroza Hossain and Iftekhar Hossain n n

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Stephen M. Bell (GSM’90) and Jill Bell (MET’93) n Thomas G. Bifano n n Sarah H. Brukilacchio (ENG’89) and Thomas J. Brukilacchio

James J. Byrne (ENG’93) and Sarah M. Byrne (SAR’93) n Stephen M. Campbell (ENG’97) n Marc K. Cannon (ENG’82) n James H. Caplan (ENG’79, GSM’83) and Heather C. Caplan (GSM’94) Matt F. Chisholm (ENG’99) David Cohen and Stacy Cohen n n Susan L. Crockett (ENG’84) and David Crockett n Thyagaraju Damarla (GRS’87, ENG’93) n Hemang D. Dave and Theresa Dave n n Howard C. Ehrlich (ENG’60) and Nina W. Ehrlich Matthew K. Emsley (ENG’00, ’03) and Rachel L. Emsley (ENG’01) n Stephen P. Flosdorf (ENG’84) n John Gillespie (ENG’85, ’87) n Mary Ann Givens (ENG’92) Sui C. Heier (ENG’89) Charles T. Hickson (ENG’88) and Susanne Paullin n Wan L. Ho (ENG’73) and Kan Y. Fung (CAS’74) Ralph Holmberg (ENG’66, ’70) n Jim Huang (ENG’95) and Christene Huang Jennifer L. Jackson (ENG’96) David H. Johnson (ENG’65, ’66) n Ronald H. Johnson (ENG’59) and Mary J. Johnson n William C. Kurtz (ENG’60) n Steven B. Kushnick (ENG’80) and Debra Kushnick n David W. Lacey (ENG’65) n Robert Lacy and Adene B. Lacy n n Justine Laugharn (ENG’83) Kwok S. Lee and Pont Lee n Thomas F. Mahan (ENG’78, ’80) Mark Manton and Yanyun Wang n n Eric Maxwell (ENG’98) n Kevin A. McIntyre n John H. McIver (ENG’81, GRS’90) and Patrice F. McIver (CAS’82) Robert C. McKinstry (ENG’84) and Hilarie B. McKinstry n Kathleen L. McLaughlin (ENG’87) Peter Meaden and Sharon Meaden n n Julie S. Melzak (ENG’87) and Jeffrey M. Melzak (CAS’84) n Pamela L. Metz (ENG’81) n Preston Miller n Luis A. Pagan-Carlo (ENG’85) Christos I. Panidis (ENG’07) n n Jay B. Penafiel (ENG’90) and Elise G. Penafiel Andrew P. Quick (ENG’92, ’95) Sandra L. Rivas-Hall (ENG’81) and William C. Hall n Jeffrey T. Roy (ENG’95) and Whitney J. Roy n David Royce (ENG’65) n Deborah L. Schuh (ENG’88) Brian L. Schulz (ENG’82) n Ushir N. Shah (ENG’98) and Susan R. Shah n n Eric J. Sheppard (ENG’83) and Veronica M. Sheppard n Rohit Shivram (ENG’93) n Dylan P. Steeg (ENG’95) and Mu-En Steeg (CAS’94) n Y. Edwin Tang (ENG’97) Ann L. Tedford (ENG’78) Kenneth C. Tolides (ENG’58) n Michelle F. Tortolani (ENG’82, ’89) n Jason M. Ulberg (ENG’98) n Ashley N. Weigand (ENG’98) and James R. Weigand Thomas G. Westbrook (ENG’91) n

BU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

$250–$499

Alexander Adam (ENG’92, ’95, ’03) and Davina D. Wong (GSM’02) n Marc J. Albanese (ENG’99, ’03) and Rosanne E. Felicello (UNI’99, LAW’02) n Husain Mahmoud Al-Bustan (ENG’89, ’91) Omar Ali (ENG’96) Lawrence J. Aube (ENG’84) and Bernadette M. Aube n Karen T. Bain (ENG’87) and Harold R. Bain n Edward M. Ballanco (ENG’91) and Eileen Ballanco n David J. Brand (ENG’83) and Deborah P. Brand Scott C. Brown (ENG’98) Edward F. Burke (ENG’68) and Donna R. Burke Ignatius D. Calalang (ENG’88, ’99) n Kenneth T. Cheng (ENG’84) Howard T. Chun (ENG’83) n Christopher G. Cimento (ENG’84, GSM’91) n Daniel J. Clancy (ENG’91) Joseph E. Coffey (ENG’72) and Sharon R. Coffey n Richard A. Colby n n James A. Connors (ENG’97) Daniel C. Cullinane (ENG’63) Nirav A. Dagli (ENG’92, ’96) and Juhi G. Dagli (UNI’99) Jeffrey B. Davis (ENG’85) Nicolay W. Del Salto (ENG’90) Alexander C. Demusz (ENG’08) Peter M. Dichiara (ENG’85, LAW’93) n Gregory A. Dierksen (ENG’08, ’11) and Bronwen L. Price (CAS’06) n n Sheila J. Dooley (ENG’91) and Randy Dooley n Lawrence S. Drasner (ENG’89) and Dawn M. Drasner Michael Duchnowski (ENG’91, ’93) and Magda Duchnowska n Kenneth J. Dunn (ENG’67) and Debra L. Dunn n John A. Duval (ENG’89) and Kathleen R. Duval Richard B. Egan (ENG’78) n Schuyler K. Eldridge (ENG’10) n n Jose R. Esquivel (ENG’88) and Cecilia Esquivel n James Y. Fong (ENG’71, ’74) and Margaret Y. Fong n Robert F. Frechette (ENG’93) and Claire K. Frechette (CAS’93) n Richard A. Fuller (ENG’88) and Tiffany Fuller n Patrick Gillooly (ENG’87) and Christin L. Gillooly (SAR’92) Robert J. Goitz (ENG’88) Raymond M. Govotski (ENG’95) Seth P. Harlow and Karen Harlow n Ali Hasan (ENG’09) Tomohiko Hayashi (ENG’02) and Emily A. Waters Hayashi n William Heres (ENG’92, ’97) Donald R. Johnson (ENG’65) and Roberta C. Johnson n Bruce C. Jordan n Faik Kahyaoglu and Aysun Kahyaoglu n n William J. Karlon (ENG’88, ’91) n Michael N. Keefe (ENG’89) and Ana Keefe n Barbara A. Kowack-Murthy (ENG’90) and Kurukundi R. Murthy (ENG’90) n Steven B. Kushnick (ENG’80) and Debra Kushnick n Michael L. Laiman (ENG’86) n

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Anonymous Alumnus n n n Ryan D. Aaron (ENG’95) and Sarah B. Aaron (COM’95) Dan J. Abraham (ENG’95) Kurt A. Abrams n Aneesh Acharya (ENG’10) n Gemma Y. Acheampong n Kurt Adams and Nancy Adams n Michael Adams and Debra Adams n n Oluwatosin E. Adedokun (ENG’12) n Joseph P. Aftring n Tunde M. Agboola (ENG’10) Anthony Agnese (ENG’86) and Ruth Agnese n Ajayi F. Akinkuotu (ENG’76) and Temitope W. Akinkuotu Fahrudin Alagic (ENG’01) and Alma Alagic William T. Alex (ENG’89) n Matthew D. Alfond (ENG’88) and Michele M. Alfond (ENG’87) Mahmood I. Alhusseini (ENG’11) David P. Allen (CAS’85, GRS’87, ENG’90) n

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased Elbert K. Allen (ENG’65) and Meredith H. Allen James D. Alman (ENG’87) n Kholood W. Al Tabash n Shirene Aman-Karim (GSM’89, ENG’89) and Matthew W. Myers Vijay S. Anand (ENG’71) and Sadhna Anand Marjorie Andler-Moisan n n Susan J. Angell (ENG’86) n William F. Anthony (ENG’12) n Lewis S. Applebaum (ENG’56) and Barbara Applebaum n Matthew J. Appleman (ENG’12) n Juan C. Arango (ENG’95) Ronald H. Armstrong (ENG’68) Martin D. Arrick and Linda Arrick n n Rohan Arun (ENG’10) Gregory T. Arzoomanian (ENG’84) n Michael O. Ashenuga (ENG’92) and Elizabeth Vondrak n Elisabeth A. Ashforth (ENG’97, GSM’08) n Amy C. Ashur (ENG’12) n Charles S. Asmar (ENG’55, ’58) and Mary M. Asmar n Yasmin M. Atefi (ENG’12) n Susan Audy-Jreige (ENG’90) Aleksei M. Austin (ENG’07) n Carine Avakian (ENG’82, ’84) and Robert Avakian n Michael W. Axelrod (ENG’82) Sunita Babbar (ENG’89, ’91) Ryan T. Bach n Leslie M. Baggesen (ENG’10) n Norman L. Bailis (ENG’65) and Joyce M. Bailis n Jeffrey Baker and Susan Baker n Jeffrey G. Baker n Craig Balchunas (ENG’69) n Raymond F. Ball (ENG’72) n Jared M. Bancroft (ENG’06) n n Nuno M. Barbosa (ENG’04) n Jeffrey F. Barnes (ENG’64) Jennifer Barragan (ENG’99) Max Barrasso and Anamaria Barrasso n n Christopher Barry and Paula Barry n n Thomas S. Bartkiewicz (ENG’82) and Andrea A. Bartkiewicz n Casey T. Bartlett (ENG’09) n Elizabeth A. Bartlett n Victor L. Bartolome (ENG’07) n Soumendra N. Basu and Alokparna Sarkar-Basu n n Philip P. Beauchamp (GRS’90, ENG’93) and Elizabeth L. Beauchamp n Richard Beauchesne and Patricia Healy n n Andrew B. Beck n John N. Beck (ENG’89) Christian D. Becker (ENG’87) and Laurel Becker n Christopher M. Bedell n Peter H. Belmonte (ENG’10) Thomas D. Belna (ENG’12) n Edward Bender (ENG’81) n Hemant Bendre and Shilpa Bendre n n Bryan H. Benesch (ENG’78) and Nancy S. Goldberg n Christopher R. Benoit (ENG’88) and Debra L. Benoit Kenneth B. Benson (ENG’63) and Janet G. Benson n Stanislav Beran (ENG’69) and Virginia A. Beran n Frederick W. Berenbroick (ENG’87) and Clair J. Berenbroick William Bergersen and Gail Bergersen n David Bernays and Wendy Heiger-Bernays n n n

D. Jonathan Bernays n n David B. Berry (ENG’12) n James Bethune (ENG’64, GSM’74, SED’91) n n n Genevieve M. Betro (ENG’07) n Marko Z. Bezbradica n James E. Bezuk n Amrish K. Bhargava (ENG’87) and Deepika Bhargava Nidhi Bhatia (ENG’00, GRS’01) n Laura J. Bickmeier (ENG’98) and Jeffrey A. Bickmeier n Anastacia M. Bilek (ENG’96) n Kayla P. Binggeli (ENG’12) n Robert Binggeli and Dale E. Binggeli n n William Bintz and Amy Bintz n n Katherine E. Black (ENG’12) n Kim L. Blackwell (ENG’81) and Mont M. Blackwell n Gregory E. Blanchard (ENG’96) n Trygve M. Blix (ENG’61) and Katherine Blix Cassidy H. Blundell (ENG’12) n Jeffrey C. Bogoian (ENG’10) n John J. Bolton (ENG’89) n Mark E. Bonadies (ENG’95) n William Bonnice and Margaret Bonnice n n David E. Borchardt (CGS’80, ENG’83) n Tarik Borogovac (ENG’03, ’03, ’09) n Christina X. Bourgeois (ENG’09) n Timothy P. Bouvier n Jeffrey S. Bowen (ENG’93) Mark R. Bowler and Diana H. Bowler n Leonard W. Boyle (ENG’61) and Kathleen A. Boyle n Thomas P. Boyle and Anita Boyle n n Charles Bragdon and Beth Bragdon n n Kevin Brandenburg and Karen Brandenburg n Patrick J. Brandenburg (ENG’12) n Scott E. Brennan (ENG’86) Harry T. Breul (ENG’55) and Doris H. Breul n Jeffrey Bridges and Kerri Bridges n n Kathryn E. Briggs (ENG’11) Keith M. Briggs (ENG’88, SPH’90) and Ann M. Briggs John C. Broderick (ENG’70, ’77) n Sean P. Broderick (ENG’89) Matthew D. Brooks (ENG’12) n Alfred S. Brothers (ENG’64) n n Kara A. Brotman (ENG’00) Charles A. Brown (ENG’68) n Darryl W. Brown (ENG’78) and Kimberly S. Brown n Nathaniel R. Brown (ENG’90) Paul H. Brown (ENG’81) and Valery L. Brown William W. Brown (ENG’65) Deirdre G. Browne (ENG’03) Mark D. Brownschidle (ENG’92) and Pauline Brownschidle Andrew R. Brughera (ENG’95) n n Laura C. Brutman (ENG’89) and Len B. Brutman n Christopher J. Bryant (ENG’07) Christopher H. Buder (ENG’99) and Heather A. Buder (SMG’98) Saad N. Buisier (ENG’03) and Rita M. Buisier Adam Bulakowski (ENG’99) n Kevin H. Burek (ENG’08) n Daniel J. Burke (ENG’92) and Kelly A. Musick (CAS’92) Joseph W. Burke (ENG’89) and Shari L. Burke Kevin F. Burke and Cynthia A. Burke n n Catherine S. Burns n n Dennis Burns n n Denis C. Bustin and Ana Bustin n n n Harold J. Cadet (ENG’97)

Nicholas Caffentzis (CAS’82) and Laura Caffentzis n n Steven J. Cagnetta (LAW’91) James J. Cahill (ENG’85) and Donna C. Cahill (SMG’85) Jose O. Calderon (ENG’97) n Vito Calefato and Maria Calefato n n Chris Cantelmo n n Ezra B. Caplan (ENG’04) n Howard N. Caplan n n Francis J. Capone (ENG’59) and Diane M. Capone Richard Carande and Kathleen Carande n Mark F. Cardono (ENG’91) and Tracy M. Sioussat n Gerard L. Carges (ENG’83) and Pamela J. Carges (SAR’83) n Barry Carias (ENG’10) n Clair and Pamela Carlson n Lindsay E. Carlson (ENG’11) Sylvia Carlson n James Carpenter and Nancy Carpenter n n Paul A. Carpenter (ENG’11) n Luis G. Carrasquillo and Icelsa Rodriguez n n Daniel Carrozzi (ENG’12) n Frederic D. Carter (ENG’97) n Audrey B. Casavant (ENG’79) David A. Casavant (ENG’85, ’88) and Carole M. Casavant n Nicholas L. Casciani (ENG’10) n John E. Casebolt (ENG’95) n Domenico Casolari (ENG’91) and Laurie A. Casolari (SAR’92) n Steven M. Cassell n n Marco M. Castelli (ENG’82) James R. Cavanaugh (ENG’88) and Lisa Cavanaugh Jose Luis Cayuela Calvo (ENG’12) n Victor Cervantes and Maria Cervantes n n Thomas Chagnon and Cynthia Chagnon n Richard Chalifoux and Julie Chalifoux n n Thomas E. Chamberlain (ENG’61) and Mary A. Chamberlain n Maroun N. Chammas (ENG’84, GSM’86) n Alex Chan (ENG’12) n Brian G. Chan (ENG’10) n Tzoul-Ki A. Chan (ENG’03) William L. Chan (ENG’79, ’85) and Pearl Chan n Min Heng Chang and Lichun Chang n n George W. Chapman n Ashley M. Chassar (ENG’06) n Brant A. Cheikes (ENG’84) n Jinming Chen and Zhiming Pi n n Jong H. Chen (ENG’96) n Patricia L. Chen (ENG’02, ’04) Xudong Chen (ENG’12) n Peter K. Cherry and Brenda M. Cherry n n Theresa Y. Cheung (ENG’10) n Wai-Yin Cheung (ENG’85, ’89) Jerry Chew (ENG’70) Vartan Chiloyan and Vartouhie Chiloyan n n Dan K. Chin (ENG’12) n Edmond W. Chin (ENG’74, GSM’75) and Susan Y. Chin (SED’75) n Virginio Chiodini and Christianne Chiodini n n John C. Chisholm (ENG’12) n Hon-Wai Chu (ENG’88) n Kengyeh K. Chu (ENG’11) Deborah A. Church (ENG’83) and Brian A. Church Steven J. Cicoria (ENG’65) Peter M. Cirak (ENG’01, ’07) and Erika Cirak n Raelynn Clare n Tricia K. Clark (ENG’99) n

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Creating Something New In the past quarter century, Gregg Adkin (EE’86) has gone from helping Intel Corporation engineer its 386 microprocessor to overseeing EMC Corporation’s largest-ever acquisition of a technology company. Adkin, 48, credits the College of Engineering for laying the foundation for him to succeed in a wide range of technology-driven endeavors. “My BU engineering degree gave me a disciplined approach to solving problems, whether applied to an engineering or business challenge, and the ability to collaborate with other people to gather the information needed to meet the challenge,” he says. Several courses with Associate Professor Ted DeWinter (ME) also underscored the importance of developing technology within a broader economic and social context. Applying these lessons from the start of his career, Adkin received the Intel Achievement Award for his engineering work on the 386 microprocessor before moving on to assume sales, marketing and management roles over his next 15 years at Intel. Leveraging his increasingly diverse skill set, he next became a venture capitalist, directing Intel Capital’s strategic investments in early stage companies, and establishing the information technology port-

Robert J. D’Entremont (ENG’62) and Ruth M. D’Entremont n Maria C. De Paolis Kaluza (ENG’10) n Rachel N. Deraney (ENG’12) n Kelly A. Detra (ENG’92) Adam R. Detwiler (ENG’09) Frank J. Devine (ENG’93) Lisa C. De Vine (ENG’87, MET’91) n William F. DeWalt (ENG’51) n Vandana Dhar and Sanjiv Dhar n Ali-Zain Dhukka (ENG’12) n Raymond Diaz (ENG’84) and Virginia C. Diaz n William A. Di Bianca (ENG’03) and Jessica L. Di Bianca n Thomas M. DiCicco (ENG’01) n Gabriel V. DiFilippo (ENG’58) and Mary E. DiFilippo n Ronald DiGiacomo and Rosanne DiGiacomo n Joseph J. DiLorenzo (ENG’84) Russell G. DiMicco (ENG’84) Paul A. DiTullio (ENG’12) n David Domenick and Patricia Domenick n Craig Donahue and Heather Donahue n n Dianne Donahue n John M. Donohue (ENG’89) Christopher Donovan and Mary Hughes n n Weina Dorsky (ENG’03) and Jason Dorsky n

folio at Valley Ventures, a leading southwestern regional venture fund. With EMC since 2010, he has served as a business development manager and was recently named vice president of EMC Ventures, where he manages all investments for the company’s storage business. “I’ve always liked building things, whether products, businesses or startup companies,” says Adkin. “I’ve always enjoyed trying to create something new, from the 386 microprocessor to new technologies to help EMC grow its business.” Fortunately for the College of Engineering, Adkin, a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board since its inception in 2008, has actively applied his technology and business acumen to support the College’s ongoing effort to create new and improved educational and research programs, and to help foster the next generation of engineers and tech startups. Toward that end, he has shared his expertise at on-campus programs such as the BU Technology Entrepreneurship Club’s $15K Business Plan Contest, where he served as a judge and

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Adkin has actively applied his technology and business acumen to support the College’s ongoing effort to create new and improved educational and research programs. speaker, and Engineers in the Real World, where he engaged ENG sophomores in an exploration of how to analyze acquiring a company from a technology and business perspective. Meanwhile, Adkin has contributed generously to the ENG Annual Fund, meeting personally with some of the STARS and SURF students that it supports.

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“I donate to the ENG Annual Fund to enable undergraduates to do what they might not otherwise be able to do, such as participate in summer research programs,” says Adkin, who himself benefited from financial aid while at the College. “It’s an investment that helped me tremendously and that I’m sure will pay off for other students and for society at large.”

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Cecilia Warsawski (ENG’82) and Eli Warsawski n Thomas W. Warzeka (ENG’91) n Mary Anne Wassenberg (ENG’90) n Aeona M. Wasserman (ENG’04) n John F. Waters n n Jeffery Weaver and Pamela Bates n n Patricia R. Weber n n Joel E. Weinberg n Jason A. Weiner (ENG’02) n Daniel W. Weintraub (ENG’11) n Joel R. Weiss (ENG’68) and Jennlea O. Weiss Jeannette L. Wellman (ENG’87) n Joel F. West (ENG’57) and Elizabeth S. West n Christopher Wey (ENG’98) and Valerie Wey Heather B. White (ENG’92) and Darwin White n Jonathan D. White n Susan Whitehurst n n Andrew I. Whiting (ENG’02) n Alexander D. Whitnall (ENG’08) Alexander M. Whittemore (ENG’12) n Kailee J. Widanka (ENG’12) n Kenneth Widanka and Holly Widanka n n Richard J. Widden and Caron Widden n n Dwight Williams (ENG’80) and Rochelle A. Buford-Williams Paul C. Wilmarth (ENG’86) and Sofia K. Wilmarth Dawn J. Wilson (ENG’92) K. Wilson (ENG’91) and Paula H. Jensen n William G. Winnett and Maura Brindley-Winnett n n Robert W. Winnett (ENG’12) n Thomas C. Wojtkowski (LAW’57) and Anne Everest Wojtkowski (ENG’56) n Barbara M. Wojtlowski (ENG’08) Richard D. Wolcott and Christine Wolcott n n Sharon M. Wolfson n Eric R. Womer (ENG’12) n Kevin Wong (ENG’12) n Mary S. Wong (ENG’84, MET’88) and Ronald C. Wong Stella M. Wong n n Sui Kong Wong and Fong Heng Lain n Kenneth S. Woodard (ENG’73) and Eleanor Woodard Sarah C. Wrenn (ENG’07) and John M. Wrenn n John W. Wright n n Barry Q. Wu (ENG’86, ’92) n Diane M. Wurzburger (ENG’88) Angela W. Xie (ENG’12) n Linfeng Xie and Ping Wang n n Diego R. Yanez (ENG’12) n Holson A. Yap (ENG’05, ’06) Martin R. Yates (ENG’08) n Matthew C. Yee (ENG’12) n Stephen Yee and Karen Yee n n Sang S. Yi (ENG’00) n Anthony M. Yitts (ENG’88, ’92) and Lisa J. Yitts (MET ’93, ’95) n Soogon Yoo (ENG’12) n Brian J. Young (ENG’99, MET’05) n Michael S. Young (ENG’85, ’89; MED’91) and Ellen T. Young n n Guo-Xiang Yu (ENG’95) n Jee Y. Yu (ENG’95; MET’00, ’01) Lisa M. Zagura (ENG’08) n Gracemarie F. Zambuto (ENG’90) and Domenic A. Zambuto Diane F. Zanca (ENG’85) n Guylherme T. Zaniratto (ENG’98) n Abdolreza Zehdar and Teresa Zehdar n n Joshua S. Zeisel (ENG’07) n

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Robert N. Zeitlin (ENG’59) and Judith F. Zeitlin Qingtai Zhai (ENG’04, ’07) Xianfeng Zhao (ENG’04) Elbara Ziade (ENG’12) n Gregory A. Zoeller (ENG’12) n Raphael A. Zoeller n n n William R. Zolla (ENG’61) Jeffrey R. Zuccaro (ENG’05) n

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1960 Bill Kurtz, BS, Wilder, Kentucky • Bill is the marketing manager at L-3 Fuzing & Ordnance System Division in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has more than 50 years of engineering and management experience in the fuzing arena (a fuze is an advanced ignition device consisting of mechanical and/or electronic components). At the 55th annual Fuze Conference sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association, Bill received the prestigious Harry Diamond award for “an individual within the United States fuze community for outstanding achievement in the fuze field in recognition of the greatest overall contribution to fuze programs during their lifetime.” tom melvin

Kathleen Pellegrino, BS, Springfield, Massachusetts • Kathleen’s granddaughter, Ariel Jocelyn Pellegrino, graduated this year from the College of Arts & Sciences, exactly 50 years after her own graduation from the College of Engineering (CIT), with Kathleen and her husband Joseph (who has an LLM in taxation from BU School of Law) in attendance. Ariel is the second of their 11 grandchildren. Email Kathleen at kpellegrino@livingstonellc.com.

1968 Edward Kazanjian, BS, Belmont, Massachusetts • Edward is working with other alumni and BU staff and students to resurrect BU’s Masonic Lodge. The Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts planned a Re-Chartering and Installation of Officers Ceremony at Grand Lodge, Boylston Street, Boston, on June 23. Email Edward at eakazanjian@verizon.net.

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1962 Tom Melvin, BS, Stoughton, Massachusetts • Melvin is a twice-published author with his most recent book, Danny’s Tavern: A Collection of Neighborhood Stories 1935–1975, now available at Amazon.com and other major online bookstores. Email him at Melvintom73@gmail.com.

Michael Cahill, BS, Providence, Rhode Island • Michael co-founded CK Environmental in 1994 and led the company to be recognized as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America for 2008 and 2009 by Inc. Magazine. In 2010, he co-founded BCX Energy, with business units focusing on solar energy and air quality. A Registered Professional Engineer, Michael expects to receive an MBA from Bryant University in 2013. He loves being with his family, drumming and kite surfing. Email him at mcahill@bcxenergy.com.

1989 Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, MS, Oviedo, Florida • Yasmin, an attorney and senior executive with over 25 years of experience in law, technology and business, was recognized in February as one of “The 25

Most Influential Hispanics in Central Florida” by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando Visión Magazine editorial board, and in March 2012 with the “Hispanic Women Who Make a Difference” award by La Prensa newspaper, professional category. Now providing legal and strategic business counsel to for-profit and nonprofit companies, Yasmin is a former Space Shuttle mission engineer and founder of an award-winning technology startup.

1996 Jennifer Ware, BS, Ipswich, Massachusetts • Jennifer and her husband David Hough welcomed their second daughter, Stella Carol Hough, who was born in Boston on September 7, 2011. Stella weighed in at 6 lbs., 15 oz., 19.5 inches. She joins older sister Skyler Gabriella Hough, 5, and half-brother Dominic Hough, 15. The Hough family resides in Essex, Massachusetts, and both Jennifer and David work at New England Biolabs, Inc. in Ipswich.

2003 Earl Valencia, BS, Manila, Philippines • Earl moved back to the Philippines and is now the VP of Corporate Development and Innovation for Smart Communications, the country’s largest mobile operator with 65 million subscribers. He also cofounded the IdeaSpace Foundation, a $12.5 million-funded incubator and accelerator for technology startups. Earl would love to connect with old classmates and friends visiting Manila. Email him at earleeboy@yahoo.com.

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Professor William Carey, 1943–2012 Professor William Carey (ME), 69, a leading researcher in the field of underwater acoustics, died Wednesday, July 11, at his home in Old Lyme, Connecticut, after a long illness. A professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department since 1999, Carey’s research centered on the design and performance of underwater acoustic antennae known as arrays, which have been widely used in tracking enemy submarines and exploring the marine environment.

Carey’s recent work focused on the development and demonstration of towed hydrophone arrays used to detect sound in shallow water coastal areas and ports. Overall, his array technology research contributed significantly to array design and calibration, at-sea array measurements and the understanding of how ocean and seabed environmental properties determine array performance. Also a leading expert on ocean ambient noise, Carey conducted extensive studies of noise from breaking waves and the signal-to-noise ratio that towed and other arrays sense in the real ocean environment. In recent years he measured the ambient noise produced by micro-bubbles and bubble clouds resulting from sea surface activity, and helped determine that these clouds can optimally radiate and scatter low-frequency sound. In 2007 the Acoustical Society of America awarded Carey the Pioneer of Underwater Acoustics Silver Medal for his contributions to understanding ocean ambient noise and defining the limits of acoustic array performance in the ocean. At the time, only 16 other individuals had earned this distinction since the medal was introduced in 1959.

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Professor William Carey, continued from previous page “Those who have the privilege of working more closely with Bill soon realize that there is a wealth of wisdom and experience in his flood of words, and a lot of scientific and engineering originality as well,” James Lynch, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, said in introductory remarks for Carey’s award ceremony. “That Bill’s passion, experience, knowledge and insight first gets expressed verbally is a stylistic thing— what is more important is that Bill’s words are usually the prelude to some vigorous action, be it experimental, theoretical, pedagogical, advisory or editorial. Even at this senior stage of his career, Bill still actively goes to sea, works hands-on with electronic and mechanical equipment, develops new mathematical theory and ‘shows the students how it’s done.’” Reacting to the news of Carey’s passing, Boston University Mechanical Engineering Department Chair and Professor Ronald A. Roy, who worked closely with him for over two decades, said, “A dedicated educator and consummate leader, Bill was a completely unique individual who possessed a broad spectrum of knowledge, which he readily applied to a host of important scientific and national security problems related to oceanic engineering and underwater acoustics. He touched many lives over the course of a distinguished career and will be singularly missed by students, friends and colleagues.” Carey was a member of the Cosmos Club and Sigma Xi; a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; recipient of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society’s Dis-

Remembering Austin Brashears College of Engineering junior Austin Brashears was one of three participants in BU’s study abroad program who died in May when a van they were traveling in overturned on its way to a popular New Zealand tourist destination. The 21-year-old Huntington Beach, California, native was studying mechanical engineering and minoring in energy technologies and environmental engineering. He was president of the BU men’s water polo club in the Fall 2011 semester and loved the music of Jack Johnson, Jason Austin Brashears Mraz and John Mayer. In an email sent to College of Engineering faculty, staff and students, Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen described Brashears as a “sensational member” of the ENG community. “He was a student advisor for EK100, a Dean’s Host, and was involved in many other community-enhancing and leadership activities,” Lutchen wrote. “His grades were sensational. Several faculty have individually contacted me to volunteer that Austin was one of the brightest and most enjoyable students they have known . . . [We] lost someone who amplified

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tinguished Technical Achievement, Third Millennium and Distinguished Service awards; and editor emeritus of the Journal of Oceanic Engineering and an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society. Carey was also an adjunct professor of applied mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an adjunct scientist in applied ocean physics and engineering at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carey was born in Boston in 1943 but spent most of his youth in Germany. He attended Catholic University of America, where he received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1965, a master’s degree in physics in 1968 and a doctorate in 1974. After his doctoral work, he worked at the Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1979. Over the next three decades, he worked for a number of different laboratories and agencies, including the Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Underwater Systems Center and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, doing both ocean acoustics research and managerial work. He joined the BU faculty after a two-year stint at MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering. Carey is survived by his wife, Susanne Colten-Carey; his sons, William and Frederick; his stepchildren, Tamara and Bradley; his grandchildren, Krystine, Brianna, Allison, Sean, Hannah, Jed, Quinn, Lael and Emily; and his nieces and nephews, Caitlin, Joseph, Alex, Robbie, Anne and Meredith. Donations may be made in his memory to Amnesty International, 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001.

the very experience and goals we all have at Boston University’s College of Engineering.” “He was a very loving, caring person,” said Rachel DeRaney (ENG’12), who worked with Brashears when he served as an Orientation leader. “He just radiated happiness. He was extremely intelligent—top of his class. He was an amazing role model for his freshmen and transfer students.” —BU Today’s Amy Laskowski

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Deniz Aksoy (ECE PhD student), Turkey John Ullo (ENG Leadership Advisory Board) Robert Broadbent (’90), Quincy, Massachusetts Thomas A. Greeley (’87), Phoenix, Arizona Claudine H. Grier (’85), Los Angeles, California Steven R. Cieluch (’81), Allston, Massachusetts Kenneth A. Lee (’68), Franklin, Tennessee Albert W. Moulton (’66), Newton, Massachusetts John R. Hero (’64), Westborough, Massachusetts Michael F. Skerry (’63), Winnisquam, New Hampshire C. R. Mullen (’60), Clifton Park, New York Wesley R. Leighton (’52), Tipp City, Ohio Rocco A. Armillei (’57), N. Attleboro, Massachusetts

The Engineering Annual Fund— Impacting the Lives of Students Every Day Relying on gifts from alumni and parents, the Engineering Annual Fund (EAF) impacts the educational experience of ENG undergraduates by supporting essential programs and activities that extend beyond what tuition and external research funding can provide. More than 100 undergraduates work alongside faculty and graduate students in research positions each year to create solutions to some of society’s most challenging problems. Gifts of any size to the EAF are immediately used to benefit these undergraduates through the Summer Term Alumni Research Scholars (STARS) and Supplemental Undergraduate Research Funds (SURF) programs.

■ “Through STARS, I stayed in Boston over the summer to research visible light communication, which opened my eyes to what it really means to be an engineer and put much of my classroom knowledge to use. I hope that someday, I might be able to return the favor through the EAF so an overseas student like me will have the same fantastic opportunity.”—Lucy Yan (EE’12)

Lucy Yan (EE’12)

■ “I have received SURF funding for four out of my six semesters at ENG to do clean energy and green manufacturing research. In May, I traveled to Beijing with my advisor to present my work at an international conference.”—Jarrod Milshtein (ME’13; MS, MSE’13) ■ “The funding from STARS allowed me to work on projects that will one day help improve quality of life through point-of-care diagnostics, a tremendous goal that makes me even more grateful to be a part of the process. This handson research experience helped me see beyond the textbooks and formulas of the classroom and further fueled my passion for engineering.”— Courtney Ellenson (BME’15)

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Courtney Ellenson (BME’15)

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Xue Han PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering To better understand and treat brain disorders ranging from attention deficit disorder to Parkinson’s disease, we’ve pioneered several novel techniques that can control the brain’s neural network and identify neurons that go awry in neurological and psychiatric disorders. With a technology we’ve recently developed to control specific brain cells using pulses of light, we can simultaneously monitor and control neuronal activity within the brain. We’re investigating the neural circuit principles—rules of collective neuronal behavior—of neurological and psychiatric diseases, with an ultimate goal of developing therapeutics for brain disorders. This work is greatly enhanced by the interdisciplinary research environment at Boston University. At the moment I am collaborating with colleagues based not only in my home department, biomedical engineering, but also in BU’s School of Medicine, Sargent College, and departments of mechanical engineering, physics, chemistry, psychology and biology.

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