Boston University Mechanical Engineering

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Patent lawyers are celebrating BU ENG inventions! ⭐️

🔇🏆Prof. Xin Zhang led a team that created a metamaterial that can block 94% of sound without blocking air flow. This item catches sound and flings it back in the direction it came.

🔮This invention will have major impacts on our future; potential applications range from from quieting jet engines and drone propellers to HVAC systems and hospital equipment.

🌟Who are the inventors? BU Professors Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) and Stephan Anderson (MED, ME). Also, alum and Apple Acoustic Transducer Engineer Reza Ghaffarivardavagh (PhD ’19).🍏

“We have received initial interest from large companies across many industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, energy and healthcare,” explains Zhang.

⭐️This is the second year in a row Xin Zhang was honored at the Boston Patent Law Association’s annual event called ‘Invented Here!.’ Last year, Zhang was recognized for an invention that improves “magnetic resonance imaging”

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🛰 “I build satellites.... well, I’ve built one at this point, but that one satellite has been a huge learning playground! We launched it in September on a NASA rocket,” says .meche PhD candidate Emil Atz.

🌞”My advisor is Professor Brian Walsh (ME, ECE). Specifically, I work on small satellite instrumentation to study Earth's magnetic environment and its interactions with the sun.”

“When I think about my time here at BU, I am most proud of the friends I have made. I also really appreciate the students I’ve mentored. It’s extremely satisfying to watch people succeed.”

🔭Emil is part of the Center for Space Physics Program and expects to graduate in Spring 2022. “I’ve learned two key life lessons: 1. appreciate making progress rather than solely focusing on the final product and 2. Ask for help.”

✨”My career goal is simple. I’m happy now and I want to continue being happy. I hope life after graduation is as good as life before graduation!”

🌟What else can you tell us?
“I got married a few weeks ago! My wife Delaney and I live in Groveland, MA. We have a German Shorthaired Pointer named Pete.” 🎉🐶

⛷”I LOVE skiing. Unfortunately, my body is telling me to stop skiing so hard…”

🛰📸Emil is pictured with the CuPID satellite in picture #2

Join a LIVE webinar on Oct 27, 5-6PM (CEST) on Advanced 3D Micro-fabrication Concepts and Printing Materials. Link to register in bio.

We're thrilled to announce that Alice White, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University will be a speaker at the upcoming digital Partnership Conference.

Join Professor White, along with a lineup of esteemed life science professionals from November 11-12 for the industry event of the year.

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“I break hip bones,” says PhD candidate .

“I mean, I conduct research on the material and mechanical characterization of osteoarthritic femurs in Dr. Elise Morgan’s Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics lab.”

🚀My pie-in-the-sky goal is to be an astronaut and investigate the long-term effects of space on bones. But in the short term, I want to find a job in the biomedical industry.”

Any struggles?
“I overthink everything. It’s good when directed at research but can cause problems elsewhere. I get professional help for my anxiety, surround myself with positive people and remember to act out of faith rather than fear. It helps. I can’t say that I’ve overcome it, but I do try to live a full life!”

“This is going to sound corny, but beyond any research accolade, I am most proud of the people in my life. My friends and family are a priority. I absolutely adore them. They are the kind of people who step into a room and elevate everyone in it.” ⭐️

⚖️”There are a lot of things vying for students’ attention and it’s a hard balance. I remind myself that while I’m trying to juggle everything, some of those balls are rubber and some are glass. It’s okay to let the rubber balls bounce, but don’t drop the glass!”

“There have been plenty of highs and lows over the years, but I am so grateful for the opportunity that grad school affords me to both fail and succeed. It’s been an amazing experience overall!”

🌊Fun fact?🤿
“I’m getting SCUBA certified! Can’t wait for future trips and underwater exploration!”

Joshua Auger is a 5th year .meche PhD and expects to graduate in spring ’22. We are so proud of him!

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“I’m really excited about a project I’m working on with the BU Rocket Propulsion group called Pursuit,” says Miguel Villax. 🚀

“We are designing, testing and manufacturing a rocket. The rocket is 20 feet and 12 inches tall. We are going to test it this Spring. It should reach an altitude up to 30,000 feet.”

started college last year when many classes were remote. “All of us freshmen were in the same boat, so I wasn’t afraid to introduce myself to a random person. I liked my classes and thought it was pretty easy to make friends.”

Fun fact? ⭐️
“I grew up in Lisbon, Portugal. On the weekends, I would go to my family’s farm and help with daily tasks. I loved coming up with new projects for the farm and building them!”

Miguel Villax is a sophomore in the mechanical engineering program with a concentration in aerospace.🪐



Pic 1: Playing football Portugal
Pic 2: Testing the aerodynamics of my rocket in class
Pic 3: Building a self-balancing shelf in EPIC
Pic 4: Plasma demonstration in a rocket science class
Pic 5: Friends! From left to right .huang, ,
Pic 6: Farm in Portugal
Pic 7: Snow in Boston

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Sometimes the best way to learn is by making something, and EPIC is great place to do that!

NEW DIRECTOR 🧰

Anna Thornton is the new EPIC Director. Before coming to BU, she spent two decades traveling the world as a sought-after consultant and engineer. She has helped companies launch products in aerospace, railroads, sports and medical devices!

As a teenager, Thornton got to tinker with tractors and use equipment in her father’s workshop. To this day, Thornton builds furniture in her spare time.

“Not everybody had that exposure,” says Thornton. “I feel very comfortable walking the factory floor, but I get that it can be intimidating for others.”

⚙️USING THE WORKSHOP⚙️

Designs and ideas rarely work on the first try. In .epic, students learn how to debug their designs, work with experts to review their concepts and continue to refine and improve their ideas.

EPIC has 5 highly trained lab supervisors and helpful web tutorials to help get students started.

“The equipment is precise, expensive and very capable,” says Thornton. EPIC’s equipment and manufacturing methods are the same as those used in industry.

📸 1: Anna Thornton
📸 2: EPIC Lab Manager Joe Estano
📸 3: Means board

📚Fun Fact📚
Thornton wrote a book titled "Product Realization: Going from One to a Million" that was published in 2021!

MORE: https://bit.ly/3k6YHQ2

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Sometimes the best way to learn is by making something, and EPIC is great place to do that!

NEW DIRECTOR 🧰

Anna Thornton is the new EPIC Director. Before coming to BU, she spent two decades traveling the world as a sought-after consultant and engineer. She has helped companies launch products in aerospace, railroads, sports and medical devices!

As a teenager, Thornton got to tinker with tractors and use equipment in her father’s workshop. To this day, Thornton builds furniture in her spare time.

“Not everybody had that exposure,” says Thornton. “I feel very comfortable walking the factory floor, but I get that it can be intimidating for others.”

⚙️USING THE WORKSHOP⚙️

Designs and ideas rarely work on the first try. In .epic, students learn how to debug their designs, work with experts to review their concepts and continue to refine and improve their ideas.

EPIC has 5 highly trained lab supervisors and helpful web tutorials to help get students started.

“The equipment is precise, expensive and very capable,” says Thornton. EPIC’s equipment and manufacturing methods are the same as those used in industry.

📸 1: Anna Thornton
📸 2: EPIC Lab Manager Joe Estano
📸 3: Means board

📚Fun Fact📚
Thornton wrote a book titled "Product Realization: Going from One to a Million" that was published in 2021!

MORE: https://bit.ly/3k6YHQ2

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“I was a researcher over the summer in the Morphable Biorobotics Lab,” explains undergrad Anushka Rathi.

“I’m so grateful for the experience and had a lot of fun working at the intersection of biomedical and mechanical engineering. I look forward to continuing in this lab, under the guidance of Prof. Tommaso Ranzani (ME, MSE, BME).

I’m in a professional engineering fraternity on campus called Theta Tau (). I have made a lot of friends through the club and am so thankful for the advice I got from upperclassmen!”

is going into her junior year in the biomedical engineering program, and is “really looking forward to meeting new people in my classes and reconnecting with old friends!

I chose BU because it has a great engineering program and I have the opportunity to do real research as an undergrad. I also love living in the ”

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Juncheng (Andy) Zhang is a senior in the BME program, working in the Growth Factor Mechanobiology Lab with Prof. Michael Albro (ME, MSE, BME) on anything from device development and software programming to cartilage diagnostics and biochemical assays.

As a result of his experience in the lab, .zjc plans to pursue a PhD after graduation.

“Working in this lab has been one of the most important experiences in my life,” says Andy.

“I learned about the beauty and the excitement of real research. Professor Albro is so passionate about his work and it drives me to try my best all the time.”

🗣 Prof. Albro on Andy’s contributions in the lab:
“It has been quite an impressive undertaking for any student, let alone an undergraduate. He deserves much credit for the progress we have made over the course of the last year.”

⭐️ Andy will start his Senior Design project this year and is excited to team up with some of his best friends .kimchi.boy and

📸 1: Andy on campus
📸 2: Andy’s cute cat Mellon

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https://bit.ly/3iwyjOH


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To cure heart disease, Emma Lejeune (ME) uses software and computational methods to develop new medicine and artificial tissue.

The American Heart Association just recognized Lejeune's progress in this area by selecting her as the 2021 Career Development Award recipient!

“We’re developing open-source software for analyzing images and movies of heart cells,” says Lejeune, whose career goal is to lead the field in computational discovery for cardiovascular research.

“It’s a technology that could enable all sorts of other technologies that have real applications and it’s very cool that the is funding that process.”

Research collaborators include, Christopher Chen (BME, MSE), Bill Zhao (ME MS candidate), and Kehan Zhang (PhD alum ’20).

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We are delighted to announce the 2021 Engineers Got Talent Extravaganza, a showcase for our BU engineering community to share their remarkable talents!  All BU engineering students, friends, and faculty are welcome to participate.  

Such events have been held nearly yearly since 2009, always live and on stage, until now.  Last year the pandemic curtailed the planned Spring event!  To get around the pandemic difficulties, this year videos will be displayed around the engineering campus, which should be fun!  

We encourage you to share your talent, whether you be a musician, magician, comic, dancer, poet ... all acts are welcome!  Sign up here!  Please submit a video!  Try to keep your videos to 6 min or less.  If you do not have a video, or cannot readily create one, please contact Dan Cole at [email protected], and we will set up a "socially distant" room where we can record you.

The idea here is to have some fun, show off some skills that others might not realize you have, and to emphasize that creativity and engineering often coexist in each of us, and sometimes in delightful and inspiring ways.   

The videos will be put together and displayed at various times during the day.

Looking forward to hearing from you!!

Actions: To submit your intention to "perform" and provide a video (thanks!), please fill out a few things on the Google form at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6nQPTiyEKWdou5mKOK2sOH7S6kmPWi3nN8G2bOr190LiQ6w/viewform

When your video is ready, please place it on Google Drive and share it with Dan Cole at [email protected]