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College of Engineering Department Profiles
» Aerospace and Mechanical
» Biomedical
» Electrical and Computer
» Manufacturing
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Aerospace and Mechanical
The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) at Boston University
provides students with a strong grounding in fundamental aspects of the discipline while
providing ample exposure to interdisciplinary frontiers in nanotechnology, mechatronic
systems and intelligent machines, and biomedical applications involving ultrasonic
imaging, lithotripsy (therapeutic use of high-energy sound waves), distraction osteogenesis
(programmed bone growth), and robotic surgery. Students learn the foundations and the most advanced technologies in both aerospace and mechanical engineering.
AME faculty members have special interests and expertise in acoustics (waves, vibrations,
and aeroacoustics); fluid mechanics (experimental, theoretical,and CFD); dynamics, control,
and mechatronic systems; micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS); and biomedical
aspects and applications of mechanical engineering.
The department offers degree programs in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering.
Graduates are well prepared to work successfully as practicing engineers in a wide range of
fields, including structures, dynamics, control, thermal and fluid sciences, aeronautics and
astronautics, and propulsion. The department has a long history of sending its graduates on
to leadership roles in industry and government organizations as well as to the world’s
top universities for advanced training.
AME’s mission is to produce graduates who not only possess the technical skills required for immediate entry into industry
or graduate school, but who also continue to educate themselves and who will have the intellectual resources he/she will need
to prosper in a society whose problems require increasingly multidisciplinary solutions.
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Biomedical
Established in 1966, the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Boston University
was the first in the United States to offer a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Today, the program
is one of the largest, with 28 full-time primary and more than 70 affiliated faculty members.
Boston University recently received the prestigious $14 million Leadership Award from the
Whitaker Foundation, which will stimulate significant enhancement in biomedical engineering
over the next few years. The program is one of only three programs in the United States to have
ever received this award.
The BME program at Boston University integrates engineering principles and techniques together with biological and physiological
principles and techniques. BME students explore these methods across a broad spectrum of size scales, from the
molecular and cellular levels to entire systems and organisms. Students learn the physics and forces governing gene through
cell function, how new microscale biosensors and drug delivery systems can affect medical care, how artificial cells and organs
can mimic real ones, and how biological chemical and electrical signals arise and can be sensed or controlled.
Throughout his or her studies, students in biomedical engineering participate in ongoing research programs. Students interested in
gaining industry experience can choose to participate in BME’s Industry Internship Program. The nationally recognized Senior
Design Program culminates with all students presenting the results of their work at an annual conference attended
by representatives from more than 60 biomedical engineering companies.
Whether students are interested in the molecular level or in the behavior of whole organisms, they will find interesting work
at Boston University in which they can participate.
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Electrical and Computer
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University teaches
technologies that have special significance and relevance for the 21st century. Personal
computers, cellular phones, fiber-optic communications and the Internet, medical imaging
systems, digital CDs and DVDs, and laser materials processing systems are a few of the
technologies arising from the disciplines of electrical and computer engineering.
Electrical and computer engineering technologies are critical to the development of virtually
every field of science, technology, and medicine. Electronic instrumentation for measurements;
environmental monitoring of pollution; land use and global warming; automatic control systems
for industry and transportation, data communications for people, corporations, and
governments; and computer modeling for economics, weather, and security are all examples
of how we support broad areas of inquiry and contributions to human knowledge and welfare.
The ECE department offers degree programs in electrical engineering, computer systems, and photonics engineering. It is
multidisciplinary and has strong ties to major campus research centers like the Photonics Center, the Center for Space Physics,
the Center for Computational Science, and the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems.
The electrical and computer department offers students outstanding
academic programs with a balanced mix of the underlying fundamental
sciences and engineering principles and practice, as well
as hands-on laboratory experiences, a team-based undergraduate
design project, and ample opportunities for student involvement
in one of its many excellent research laboratories.
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Manufacturing
The Department of Manufacturing Engineering (MFG) at Boston University is a truly interdisciplinary
enterprise. It was the first manufacturing engineering program in the United
States and remains in the top tier of academic programs in this field. Teaching and research
focus on engineering design, manufacturing processes and materials, and the management
and control of man-made systems.
The program encompasses a broad range of high-technology application domains, such as
microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), telecommunications,
nanoelectronics, fuel cells, green manufacturing, materials, and manufacturing- and
service-system supply chains. MFG offers considerable coursework in the area of
management science, laying the groundwork for careers involving decision-making, logistics,
and management of engineering enterprises.
Manufacturing engineers pioneered the sensor in your car’s air bag, the print head in your
inkjet printer, and the optical switch that routes your phone calls. MFG also works on manufacturing for mini jet engines,
advanced telescopes, artificial inner ears, microprocessors, and green manufacturing.
Manufacturing engineering majors learn how to write on the head of a pin in a micromachining project, control a robot, make
complex 3-D models on a computer, and transfer a design to a high-speed machine tool that will produce the part. Students
engage in a senior capstone project working with an industrial partner to solve an actual manufacturing engineering problem at
their company. This invaluable experience puts graduates in an unusually strong position for employment, with various skills
that are in great demand.
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