News and Highlights

Kelsey Pieper, mechanical engineering major and President of BU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders, has been selected as the Region II winner of the Student Initiative Award by the Association of Council Members and College Trustees of SUNY.  This award was in recognition of Kelsey’s Nature Preserve stair system project.

Maureen Gundlach, BSME 2006, recently presented a talk (sponsored by BU’s ASME and SAE student chapters) on behalf of Continental AG, a tire manufacturing company located in Germany.   Maureen recently completed a two-year program, Conti Explore, Tire R&D Talent Initiative, where she was a member of a multicultural, high-performance team, working on state-of-the-art technological projects and also dealing with current business issues.

Howard Wang, Associate Professor, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) two-year grant ($199,971) for a Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) project entitled “NUE: Nanotechnology for Manufacturing Flexible Electronics”.

Guangwen Zhou, Assistant Professor, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) three-year grant ($250,461) for a project entitled “Probing Nanoscale Oxidation Mechanism of Metals Under Applied Stress”.

Roy McGrann received the 2007-2008 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

New faculty member, Peter Huang, will join the Department in August. Dr. Huang obtained his PhD from Brown University and specializes in the thermalfluids area of mechanical engineering.

ME undergraduate student Brenno Veranda was named "America East Swimmer of the Meet" at the AE Championships. Also, three ME undergraduate students, Craig Coon, Kelsey Pieper and Brenno Veranda were inducted into the student athlete honor society (Chi-Epsilon) during the Spring semester.