ENGineer Fall 2016

FALL 2016

INS I DE STEM OUTREACH GROWS ­ MR. CLEAN

CONCEPT TO CONCRETE.

NAVIGATING INNOVATION’S TORTUOUS PATH TO THE MARKETPLACE.

message from the dean

Partners in Innovation

We need to maximize the likelihood that our most creative faculty can engage with industryfunded research.

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his issue of Engineer focuses on several examples of potential innovations derived from faculty research here at Boston University. In recent years, a number of major companies have foregone large research operations of their own and moved to academic centers like Boston, where they hoped to take advantage of the innovation ecosystem spawned by major research universities. But now that they have arrived, many are asking themselves, “Now what?”

They find themselves at an unexpected crossroads where the missions of businesses and universities differ.

Both want to partner and accelerate the process that turns ideas into products that benefit society, but the path forward will depend on whether they can resolve the conflict of missions. I think they can.

The standing expectation is that universities do basic-to-applied research solely for the purpose of creating new knowledge, and that industry can take that knowledge and use it to create products that can benefit society. I think a better model would be to create partnerships that give companies an avenue to explore and test the feasibility of their ideas for profitable new products, while allowing universities and faculty to reap fair compensation when that process is successful.

By definition, universities attract, retain and pay leading scholars in their fields. Many companies moved into academic centers in the hope of partnering with this rich intellectual capital to assess high-risk concepts and ideas via university research or research partnerships, or by simply mining the potential of ideas and products from the research occurring in university laboratories. This makes perfect sense in principle, but, in practice, how can this be operationalized so that both institutions win?

In exchange for funding research, industry hoped that they would own any intellectual property that might result. But that will not work for universities and faculty, who typically own patent rights that result from their innovations and license them to companies for a fee. Also, faculty feel some ownership over their ideas.

While corporate funding might support a particular “discovery” research project, the universities still must pay faculty and build and maintain an expensive research

infrastructure, costs that far exceed this kind of research funding. This conflict has stymied partnership, but it can be resolved.

If universities are willing to take less on the front end and industry is willing to fairly compensate universities for the intellectual property it uses that might emerge from research it funds on the back end, a solution can be found. In a research effort, several patentable discoveries might be made, but very few will be of interest to a company looking to make a product. However, occasionally, with substantial additional expertise and industry investment, one of those patents will make a highly successful product possible. In my model, universities would be willing to forgo licensing on those patents that do not produce a product, or produce one of minimal value. But, when a highly successful product results, the company would share a meaningful percentage of the profits with the university and researcher. The company only pays for ideas that pay off, and the universities and faculty still fulfill their scholarly mission while getting fairly compensated for particularly impactful innovations.

To be sure, there are implementation issues that would need to be straightened out. Often, unless it is a drug, many patents from different researchers and institutions are involved in a final product and any revenue would need to be distributed equitably. There would also need to be a way to ensure transparency and honesty so everyone would be clear as to which patents were involved in the creation of a particular product. But, commercializing innovation is an inherently interdisciplinary process and there is certainly room in my model for financial and legal experts.

I know that in our College of Engineering, and in other universities, there is rising faculty interest in pursuing industry research partnerships. Moreover, usually the faculty interest is scholarly and not because they see an opportunity for a product and wealth from that product.

We need to maximize the likelihood that our most creative faculty can engage with industry-funded research.

Companies are moving their facilities to academic centers for a reason. There should be ample common ground to build the kind of partnerships that benefit everyone and help move society forward.

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BY DEAN KENNETH R. LUTCHEN

CONTENTS • FALL 2016 FEATURES

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CONCEPT TO CONCRETE: HOW INNOVATORS SURVIVE TECH’S VALLEY OF DEATH.

16 Hands-on makes all the difference.

ENG brings engineering to schools to bring students to engineering.

22 The STEM Advocate

ENG alumna goes to Washington.

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DEPARTMENTS

Cover: Thomas Bifano’s idea for a deformable mirror (top) translated into a product (bottom) used in a number of different optical devices today.

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Faculty News

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Alumni News

HIGHLIGHTS

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Dean Lutchen on NSF Panel

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U.S. News & World Report Rankings

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engineering leadership advisory board John E. Abele Founder & Director, Boston Scientific

Joseph Healey ’88 Senior Managing Director, HealthCor Management LP

Anton Papp ’90 Vice President, Corporate Development, Teradata Inc.

Gregg Adkin ’86 Managing Director, EMC Ventures, EMC Corporation

Jon Hirschtick Founder & Chairman, OnShape Inc.

Sharad Rastogi ’91 Vice President, Marketing, Cisco Systems

Adel Al-Saleh ’87 Group Chief Executive, Northgate Information Solutions

William I. Huyett Director, McKinsey & Company Inc.

George M. Savage ’81 Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Proteus Digital Health

Alan Auerbach ’91 CEO, President and Chairman, Puma Biotechnology Inc. Nizar Dalloul ’83, GRS’87 Chairman and CEO, Comium Group Roger A. Dorf ’70 Former Vice President, Wireless Group, Cisco Systems Brian Dunkin, MD’85 Medical Director, Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education Joseph Frassica, MED’88 Chief Medical & Innovation Officer, Phillips Healthcare Ronald G. Garriques ’86 CEO and Chairman, Gee Holdings LLC

Amit Jain ’85, ’88 President and CEO, Prysm Inc. Dean L. Kamen, Hon.’06 President & Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corp.

Ezra D. Kucharz ’90 President, Local Digital Media, CBS Corporation Peter Levine ’83 General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz Nick Lippis ’84, ’89 President, Lippis Enterprises Inc. Rao Mulpuri ’92, ’96 CEO, View, Inc. Girish Navani ’91 CEO, eClinicalWorks

Binoy K. Singh, MD’89 Associate Chief of Cardiology, Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore LIJ John Tegan ’88 President and CEO, Communication Technology Services LLC Bill Weiss ’83, ’97 Vice President & General Manager, General Dynamics-C4 Systems Emeritus Board Members Richard D. Reidy, Questrom’82 Former President and CEO, Progress Software Corp.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology & Public Policy; Former Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University

eng west coast alumni leadership council Sanjay Prasad ’86, ’87 Principal, Prasad IP

Christopher Brousseau ’91 Global Commercial Director, Accenture Inc.— Spend Management Services

Kent W. Hughes ’79 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Verizon

Gregory Cordrey ’88 Partner, Jeffer Mangles Butler & Mitchell LLP

Michele Iacovone CGS’86, ’89 Vice President, Chief Architect, Intuit Inc.

Claudia Arango Dunsby ’92 Vice President, Operations, Hybridge IT

Tyler Kohn ’98 Founder/CTO, RichRelevance Inc.

Gregory Seiden ’80 Vice President, Applications Integration, Oracle Corp.

Vanessa Feliberti ’93 Partner, General Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Yitao Liao ’10, ’11 Chief Technology Officer, RayVio Corporation

Dylan P. Steeg ’95 Director of Business Development, Skytree Inc.

Richard Fuller ’88 Microlocation Lead, OmniTrail Technologies

Martin Lynch ’82 Executive Vice President, Operations, Xicato Inc.

Francis Tiernan ’70 President, Anritsu Company (Retired)

Timothy Gardner ’00 Founder & CEO, Riffyn Inc.

Daniel C. Maneval ’82 Vice President, Pharmacology & Safety Assessment, Halozyme Therapeutics

Joseph Winograd ’95, ’97 Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Verance Corp

Sandip Patidar, MD’90 Managing Partner, Titanium Capital Partners

Jamshaud Zovein ’95, Questrom’99 Chief Operating Officer, Algert Coldiron Investors

Richard Lally

Michael Seele

Gretchen Fougere

Sara Cody

Roger A. Hajjar ’88 Chief Technical Officer, Prysm Inc. Bettina Briz Himes ’86 Director, Technology Alliances, GoPro

associate dean for administration associate dean for outreach & diversity Kenneth R. Lutchen

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Groundbreaking Development in Treating Burn Wounds

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The Bright Future of Single-Photon Detection Technology

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President Robert A. Brown and Tsinghua University President Qiu Yong after signing the agreement creating a dual degree program between the schools.

A Chinese Partnership for ENG

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TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY ENGINEERS WILL EARN MASTER’S DEGREES AT BU

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eginning in fall 2017, some of China’s best and brightest engineers will come to BU to complete their education.

Under a new dual degree program, graduates from Beijing’s Tsinghua University, one of China’s top universities, will be able to get a master’s degree in systems engineering at the College of Engineering. Dean Kenneth Lutchen says the arrangement will benefit both schools, whose engineering faculties already collaborate on research.

Under the agreement signed by President Robert A. Brown and Tsinghua President Qiu Yong on May 6, students who have earned a

bachelor of engineering degree at Tsinghua can earn a master of science in systems engineering here. The so-called “4+x program” requires Tsinghua graduates to do two semesters of coursework at BU, followed by a practicum that could be completed at Tsinghua.

“The engineering 4+x program is a historical milestone in the longstanding partnership between Boston University and Tsinghua University,” says Qiu. “As the first dual degree program between our two universities, it has brought our cooperation to a whole new level and paved the way for our future joint endeavors in both education and research.”

The students are chosen by Tsinghua through a rigorous vetting process. Under the program, designed by the Tsinghua department of automation and BU’s Division of Systems Engineering, 5 to 10 students will come to BU per year initially, with more expected in the future.

“This is an opportunity for us to create a partnership with another high-quality institution, in which we are getting excellent students to come participate in our community and to have the added advantage of a dual branding of two world-class universities on their degree,” says Lutchen. “We are convinced they will advance the reputation of Boston University internationally.”—joel brown E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 6 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen

dean kenneth r. lutchen has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Engineering, a panel of a dozen leaders from academia and industry that provides advice and recommendations on support for research, education and related activities to the agency’s Directorate for Engineering.

“The NSF Engineering Advisory Committee provides a variety of perspectives and advice concerning research, education, innovation and related activities in all fields supported by the NSF Engineering Directorate,” said Grace Wang, NSF acting assistant director for Engineering.

“We welcome Dean Lutchen’s contributions to the important work of this committee.”

This team of external experts reviews the directorate’s program management and performance, and then offers advice on the impact of policies, programs and activities in the engineering field. As a member, Lutchen will have a voice in determining how NSF—one of the largest sources of engineering research funding—prioritizes investment areas.

The committee advises the Directorate of Engineering on how best to promote quality undergraduate and graduate education in engineering and how the directorate’s mission, programs and goals can best serve the community. It also weighs in on important issues in institutional administration and policy, among other areas.

“I am honored to be part of this important committee that plays such a large role in supporting the nation’s engineering education and research,” said Lutchen. “I look forward to contributing the perspectives I’ve gained as a dean, an educator and a researcher to the committee.” —michael g. seele 4

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Belta Is Inaugural Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow professor calin belta (me, se ) has been named the inaugural holder of the Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.

Made possible by a gift from John Tegan (MFG ’88), the award provides important support for Belta’s research.

Belta is director of the new Robotics Laboratory behind the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), and of the Hybrid and Networked Systems Group. His wideranging research interests include dynamics and control, robotics and systems biology. In announcing Belta’s selection, Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen noted his deep list of accomplishments and honors, which include two associate editorships and Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator and National Science Foundation CAREER awards, among others. Recently, Belta and Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE) won a $4.5 million Cyber-Physical Systems Program Frontier grant, which they aim to use to engineer bacterial or mammalian cells to exhibit specified behaviors, and direct a fleet of micro-robots to corral the engineered cells into working together to perform desired tasks.

“Dr. Belta was recommended by an ENG faculty selection committee for the Tegan Family Fellowship from a slate of extraordinary nominees,” Lutchen said. In addition to his research success, Calin has also played a key role in transforming the way the College teaches the required Linear Algebra course to all our freshmen students.”

Lutchen thanked Tegan for the gift, a permanently endowed fund that will support the research of tenured mid-career or senior faculty who show outstanding performance and impact in research, teaching and service to the College and the engineering profession. Each Fellow will have a term of up to five years.

“We are extremely grateful to John for creating the Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, which will support a succession of outstanding faculty in perpetuity,” he said. “This gift helps advance the College

among the ranks of the nation’s leading engineering schools.”

Tegan is CEO of Marlboro, Massachusettsbased Communication Technology Services, the leading design, engineering and installation firm for distributed antenna systems. The company’s networks are installed in more than 5,000 hospitals, hotels, colleges, stadiums, theme parks, government buildings, airports and other venues around the country. Tegan is a longtime member of the Dean’s Leadership Advisory Board and a past recipient of the College’s Distinguished Alumni Award. His long history of leadership and generosity includes an ENG scholarship, providing significant support to the Technology Innovation Scholars Program, and dedicating EPIC’s Lorraine A. Tegan Design Studio last year in honor of his mother.

“It is my hope that the Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship will enhance the College of Engineering's mission to create Societal Engineers. I believe that supporting pioneering research by outstanding faculty like Professor Belta is an essential pathway to that goal,” Tegan said.

“I am honored that my ENG colleagues chose me as the inaugural holder of the Tegan Fellowship,” Belta said. “This is important to me, as it emphasizes the growing importance of robotics and controls research here at BU.” —michael g. seele

Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE) and John Tegan (MFG ’88)

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Dean Lutchen Appointed to NSF Engineering Advisory Panel

Cells Build Bridges to Heal Damaged Tissue CHEN LEADS STUDY THAT POINTS TO A PROMISING NEW DIRECTION RESEARCHERS COULD TAKE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WOUND HEALING

The images showed the fibroblast cells closing the gap and healing the tissue without any signs of scarring.

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he world can be a dangerous place. With more than 41 million visits to US emergency departments due to trauma each year, it is crucial to study the process of wound healing and how medical intervention might facilitate it. A study led by Professor Christopher Chen (BME) and published in Nature Communications points to a promising new direction researchers could take to better understand wound healing.

“Healing wounds requires the human body to fill 3D spaces, so we reasoned that healing of wounded 3D microtissues would more closely resemble wound healing in the human body,” says Chen. “This finding has the potential to become the new standard to study wound healing in vitro.”

First, the research team bioengineered a unique cell culture system in which 3D microtissues are formed from wound-repairing cells called fibroblasts embedded in a matrix of collagen fibers, similar to how they exist in the human body. Next, Selman Sakar from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and Jeroen Eyckmans, senior postdoctoral associate in Chen’s Tissue Microfabrication Lab, leading authors of this study, cut tiny holes in the microtissues and captured time-lapse videos of the reaction under a microscope. The images showed the fibroblast cells closing the gap and healing the tissue without any signs of scarring.

The process of healing observed in these microtissues was surprisingly different from healing previously observed in cells cultured on traditional 2D surfaces.

Digging deeper, they looked at what might be happening with another scaffolding molecule called fibronectin, which plays

Wound in 3D microtissue

a large role in wound healing. They found that the fibroblast cells were dismantling fibronectin present in microtissue and towing it in to the wound, using it to build a bridge to connect to the opposite side of the gap.

The fibroblast cells flocked to the bridge and began producing their own fibronectin, filling in the wound until the defect returned to its three-dimensional form, completely restoring the wounded tissue.

“What was most surprising was that the cells didn’t just move in to close up the hole; they remodeled the entire matrix, modifying

their environment to close the gap,” Eyckmans says. “This provides a new approach to studying wound healing and standardizing this practice in research could lead to many important insights in this field.”

While this technology would not be directly incorporated into patient care, future work could be done to develop this model into a research tool to explore a variety of issues and questions, from scar formation to how the process could impact the speed of wound healing to the role various stresses play in the healing process. —sara cody

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U.S. News & World Report: Highest-Ever Ranking for College of Engineering

From Cells to Circuits TRANSFORMING LIVING CELLS INTO COMPUTERS

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hether it’s artificial skin that mimics squid camouflage or an artificial leaf that produces solar energy, it’s a common trend in engineering to take a page out of biology to inspire design and function. However, an interdisciplinary team of BU/ MIT researchers has flipped this idea, instead using computer engineering to inspire biology in a study recently published in Science.

“When you think about it, cells are kind of computers themselves. They have to communicate with other cells and make decisions based on their environment,” says Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME), who oversaw the BU research team.

“By turning them into circuits, we’ve figured out a way to make cells that respond the way we want them to respond. What we are looking at with this study is how to describe those circuits using a programming language and to transform that programming language into DNA that carries out that function.”

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Interdisciplinary research has helped the College of Engineering secure ample outside funding and a personal best in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Lutchen attributes this latest success to several strengths across both the College and the University, starting with a commitment

Designed by Associate Professor Douglas Densmore’s research team, CELLO is software that encodes logical operations and biosensors right into the DNA of E. coli bacteria.

Working with a programming language commonly used to design computer chips, ECE graduate student Prashant Vaidyanathan created design software that encodes logical operations and biosensors right into the DNA of Escherichia coli bacteria. Sensors can detect environmental conditions while logic gates allow the circuits to make decisions based on this information. These engineered cells then act as mini processing elements, enabling the large-scale production of biomaterials or helping detect hazardous conditions in the environment.

“Here at BU we used our strength in computer-aided design for biology to actually design the software and MIT produced the DNA and embedded it into the bacterial DNA,” Densmore explains. “Our collaboration is a result of sharing the same vision of standardizing synthetic biology to make it more accessible and efficient.” Historically, building logic circuits in cells was both time-consuming and unreliable, so obtaining fast, correct results is

game changing for research scientists, who get new DNA sequences to test as soon as they hit the “run” button. This novel approach of using a common programming language opens up the technology, giving anyone the ability to program a sequence and generate a strand of DNA immediately.

According to Densmore, this study is an important first step in laying the foundation for future research on transforming cells into circuits, with the potential for global impact in healthcare, ecology, agriculture and beyond.

Possible applications include bacteria that can be swallowed to aid in digesting lactose or bacteria that can live on plant roots and produce insecticide when sensing the plant is under attack.

Former postdoctoral researcher Bryan Der facilitated this partnership between BU and MIT. —sara cody

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The College of Engineering has earned its highest-ever ranking from U.S. News & World Report, placing 35th among its peer American schools in the magazine’s latest rankings of graduate programs. It’s a twoslot advance from last year and a long jump from a decade ago, when the school placed 52nd, says Dean Kenneth Lutchen.

The College’s biomedical engineering graduate program ranked ninth nationally.

The ratings of 194 engineering schools were based, among other factors, on peer assessments, student selectivity, studentfaculty ratios, the number of doctoral degrees granted and research funding.

to interdisciplinary research: “Recruiting complementary faculty in areas such as photonics, information and cyber-physical systems, the intersection of engineering and biology, advanced materials, and nanotechnology” has garnered “tremendous extramural funding success among our faculty.”

In recent years, the College also boosted research and educational partnerships with industry, using assessments of the College’s programs by these partners to improve them.

Meanwhile, Lutchen says, the ENG faculty has excelled at securing funding with “scholarship in their field, and in how that scholarship eventually impacts societal challenges.”

Dean Lutchen notes that over the past decade, ENG’s rankings have marked “the largest single improvement of any engineering school in the country” among those that made the top 52 in 2006, adding that will have a realworld effect and “attract ever-higher quality in our faculty and PhD students.” —rich barlow

Easing the Pain GRINSTAFF DEVELOPS BREAKTHROUGH HYDROGEL BURN DRESSING

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he searing pain associated with burn injuries is due to the multitude of pain receptors and nerves that traverse the skin layers. Treating burn wounds often requires mechanical and surgical intervention that causes the patient further pain and suffering.

A collaborative team of chemists and biomedical engineers from the Grinstaff lab at BU and doctors from the Nazarian lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard Medical School have developed a novel hydrogel burn dressing that may ease the pain that burn patients experience.

“It is of significant importance to introduce an alternative to currently available dressings that possesses the capability to be dissolved on demand, allowing for a more facile and less traumatic treatment process, especially for pediatric patients,” says Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE).

“Changing the dressing requires cutting away soiled dressing and mechanical debridement to keep the wound area clean,

Unfurling on Command DOUGLAS HOLMES EXPLORES THE SCIENCE OF SWELLING

thunder murmurs and lightning pulses across the night sky, illuminating the formidable outline of a forest of baobab trees, an ancient species found in Africa. British naturalist David Attenborough narrates in a soothing voice as the flowers of the baobab begin to blossom and fill with water, unfurling the delicate tissue in less than a minute as the water guides its new shape. This clip from BBC’s Planet Earth inspired Assistant Professor Douglas Holmes (ME), who runs the Mechanics of Slender Structures (MOSS) research group, to pursue an experiment that was recently featured on the cover of Soft Matter.

“I was curious if the dramatic shape change causing the flowers to open was caused by

The novel hydrogel can conform to the burn wound, accommodate movement and be dissolved on demand with an aqueous solution. Image provided by Grinstaff lab

which further aggravates the sensitive wound area.”

The hydrogel dressing is composed of two components: a dendron and a crosslinker, polymers that bind together when mixed to form the hydrogel. The composition of the hydrogel allows it to conform to irregular shapes of a wound and its mechanical characteristics accommodate movement, all the while protecting against bacterial infection.

It also absorbs wound fluid and maintains a high level of humidity at the wound site to encourage wound healing. Importantly, the dendritic hydrogel burn dressing can be dissolved on demand with an aqueous solution.

Every year, more than 300,000 people die from fire-related burn injuries and millions

swelling, so I wanted to see if I could re-create that in a laboratory setting,” Holmes says.

Holmes devised a simple experiment where he took two thin sheets of rubber, hung them from a rod and lowered them into a bath of fluid until their tips were submerged.

Initially, the sheets pulled together, but as the liquid permeated the structure, the swelling caused the ends to curl up and peel away from each other in an outward motion, similar to the movement of the baobab blossoms. By understanding the physics of how and why this phenomenon, known as elastocapillary swelling, happens, Holmes can apply his engineering perspective to figure out a way to develop materials from thin structures that are able to change shape on command, which has a host of potential applications.

“By incorporating fluid in the structure to begin with, we could control the swelling to make the material change shape, like the baobab flower,” Holmes explains. “Imagine a

suffer from burn-related disabilities. Treating burn wounds is an extensive and painful process that typically involves numerous dressing changes, often on a daily basis. None of the currently used dressings can be removed painlessly or on-demand.

“Our goal is to have this medical device in the clinic in two years, where we will focus on tailoring the on-demand dissolution of the hydrogel that would allow for potentially painless burn dressing change, which would be a breakthrough in second-degree burn wound care,” says Grinstaff. “The next steps in the translation of this technology to the patient involve establishing good manufacturing practices of the medical device and pursuing safety studies.”

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Holmes’ study was featured on the cover of Soft Matter.

smart needle that can be injected into something, and using this concept, you can tell it to bend back and forth while navigating towards a certain target.”

Holmes sees potential application in industry, where companies that manufacture soft materials would benefit from the knowledge of how to account for environmental factors like humidity that could cause swelling that would put stress on the manufactured materials. Going forward, he will continue to explore how to get that object to bend, and how different surroundings and stimuli affect it.—sara cody E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 6 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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ZAMAN DEVELOPS MAP TO EXPLORE PATHWAYS TO CANCER

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umors sometimes feel different from regular cells, which is why doctors suggest performing self-exams to detect the presence of a lump in a breast or prostate.

After noticing a gap in the knowledge exploring the unique mechanical properties of tumors such as hardness, one BU research team developed a computational model as a roadmap to help predict the effects of tumor mechanics on cells in a new study featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal.

“When we think of how cancer cells behave in various environments, it’s often associated with mechanical properties of the tumor, because tumors respond and behave differently compared to normal cells,” says Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME). “With better tools, we are starting to investigate what exactly is going on and what exactly is it about these different mechanical properties that causes tumors to be aggressive and invasive and how we can handle that in terms of treatment.”

YAP/TAZ is one set of protein molecules that form a signaling pathway to activate cell growth, proliferation and programmed death. Since studying the effects of YAP/ TAZ in cancer is relatively uncharted territory, Zaman’s team sought to provide a fundamental guide to facilitate future exploration.

In the laboratory, his team identified signaling molecules to monitor the response of cells as their environment changed, essentially converting mechanical senses to biochemical signals within the cell. The cells were embedded in an extracellular matrix that was induced to stiffen, and the team observed the changes that occurred with YAP/TAZ activity inside the cell. They found that stiffening the matrix directly affects YAP/TAZ activity, which in turn promotes cancer progression.

Using this information, Zaman and his team developed an algorithm that allowed them to plug in this baseline data to make predictions on YAP/TAZ activity in response to the changing environment. They were able to verify the accuracy of their computational model by making predictions and performing the experiment in tandem to corroborate their calculations in a system of checks and balances. Using this model going forward, researchers can predict what lies ahead with the effect of YAP/ TAZ on cancerous growth and metastasis,

Intel-Cornell Competition three bu teams—more than any other participating university—earned top marks in the final round of the fifth annual Intel-Cornell Cup Competition, a college-level design contest that aims to empower inventors of the newest innovative applications of embedded technology.

E-FIRE, an ECE senior design project team, came in third. Team Moove, also a team of ECE seniors, and Breakerbot, a multidisciplinary team of ECE and ME students sponsored by Consolidated Edison, received honorable mention. E-FIRE, or Energetic Field Instrument using Radiated Electrons, took home the $1,500 cash prize for their entry, an instrument to measure high-energy electrons in space.

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Zaman’s research, “A Computational Model of YAP/ TAZ Mechanosensing,” was featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal.

particularly in changing physical environments and in response to drug treatment.

“I think that this is just the beginning,” says Zaman. “In this study, we tried to focus on the first of many questions that will hopefully open up the path toward fully understanding what is going on with this complicated, important set of pathways that are connecting extracellular properties with particularly adverse reactions from cancer cells.” —sara cody

Team E-FIRE consists of graduated senior electrical engineer majors (from left) Derek Kenyon, John Marcao, Junhao Hua (Neil), Casey Pelkowsky and Nathaniel Michener.

Assistant Professor Brian Walsh (ME), the team designed a device that can measure electric fields in near-Earth space aboard a nanosatellite.

Initially, six BU teams advanced to the semifinal round and competed against 31 other teams from around the country. Five BU teams featuring senior design projects competed with 24 other teams in the final round.

“This is a major national competition and personally I think our teams’ performances reflect highly on the College,” says Associate Professor of Practice Alan Pisano (ECE), a faculty advisor for the competition. “We had five very interesting projects in the finals, more than any other school, which seek to tackle nationally relevant issues that will benefit society.” —sara cody

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Off the Beaten Path

A Point of Light VIVEK GOYAL CREATES IMAGES FROM SINGLE PHOTONS

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IMAGES PROVIDED BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VIVEK GOYAL AND FEIHU XU. GRAPHIC BY SARA CODY

hen you take a photo on a cloudy day with your average digital camera, the sensor detects trillions of photons, the elementary particles of light that strike different parts of the sensor in different quantities to form an image. The standard four-by-six-inch photo is 1,200-by-1,800 pixels. Anyone who has attempted to take a photo at night or at a concert knows how difficult it can be to render a clear image in low light. In a recent study published in Nature Communications titled “Photon-Efficient Imaging with a Single-Photon Camera,” a BU researcher has figured out a way to render an image while also measuring distances to the scene using about one photon per pixel.

Associate Professor Goyal (ECE) collaborated with researchers at MIT and Politecnico di Milano to combine new image formation algorithms with the use of a single-photon camera to produce images from about one photon per pixel. The single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) camera consisted of an array of 1,024 light-detecting elements, allowing the camera to make multiple measurements

Both the uninformative background light and laser light reflected back to the SPAD camera, which recorded the raw photon data with each pulse of the laser. simultaneously to enable quicker, more efficient data acquisition.

The experimental setup used infrared laser pulses to illuminate the scene the research team wanted to capture, which was also illuminated by an ordinary incandescent lightbulb to accurately reproduce the condition of having a strong competing light source that could be present in a longer-range scenario. Both the uninformative background light and laser light reflected back

1. The scene, taken with a normal digital camera.

2. The raw data captured by the SPAD camera, about one photon per pixel as a point cloud. The significant background light and the coarse timing resolution of the SPAD camera are apparent.

3. The image formation algorithm produced this image.

to the SPAD camera, which recorded the raw photon data with each pulse of the laser. A computer algorithm analyzed the raw data and used it to form an image of the scene.

The result is a reconstructed image, cobbled together from single particles of light per pixel.

“We are trying to make low-light imaging systems more practical by combining SPAD camera hardware with novel statistical algorithms,” says Dongeek Shin, the lead author of the publication and a PhD student of Goyal at MIT. “Achieving this quality of imaging with very few detected photons while using a SPAD camera had never been done before, so it’s a new accomplishment in having both extreme photon efficiency and fast, parallel acquisition with an array.”

Though single-photon detection technology may not be common in

consumer products anytime soon, Goyal thinks this opens exciting possibilities in long-range remote sensing, particularly in mapping and military applications, as well as applications such as self-driving cars where speed of acquisition is critical. Goyal and his collaborators plan to continue improving their methods, with a number of future studies in the works to address issues that came up during experimentation, such as reducing the amount of “noise,” or grainy visual distortion.

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rofessor Catherine Klapperich’s (BME, ME, MSE) first job out of graduate school was with a Silicon Valley startup company during the biotechnology boom in 2000.

She became familiar with the process of turning a promising invention into a marketable product, but decided that wasn’t the path for her and soon changed careers. Years later, when her BU lab came up with an innovation that could advance health care for women, she knew how she could leverage it to make an impact where it was needed most.

“When I made the switch back into academia, it was always in the back of my mind that it’s really hard and complicated to start a company, and I never saw myself doing it,” she says. “Yet, here I am today, starting my own company. My students were the ones who initially recognized the potential value it had and after considering all our options, we decided this route would be the best way to get traction.

So I jumped in.”

Klapperich’s company, Jane Diagnostics (Jane Dx), was incorporated in July 2016. Like many faculty members who develop an innovative technology in their research and want to make it available to people via commercialization, Klapperich is keeping one foot in academia while stepping into the world of business and entrepreneurship, and she has a long road ahead to make her vision a reality. Even researchers with some past exposure to the business world may experience unfamiliar territory when they attempt to commercialize their work. However, BU faculty members do not have to brave the wilds of the unknown alone—there are resources that can provide support and fill in the knowledge gaps for those who want to make the journey.

“The path to commercialization is different for everyone, and it’s not always linear. The last step for one person may be the first step for someone else,” says Mike Pratt, interim director of the Technology Development office, one of many resources available to BU faculty to help them navigate the commercialization process. “Your path will reflect what your vision is, what your passion is and where you are starting from. It’s a dynamic environment because you are aiming at a moving target, and you have to strategize and reassess and strategize again. That’s where we can help.”

The path to commercialization leads through what is known in business as the “Valley of Death,” a zone fraught with legal, bureaucratic and logistical twists and turns that threaten to snuff out an emerging company. In order to cross the Valley of Death, an entre-

preneur needs more than just an idea, as any gaps in knowledge or business acumen can turn into chasms and swallow ideas—even good ones—whole. Klapperich’s journey is just beginning, but many ENG faculty members have already set out to make their way through the Valley of Death, using University resources to guide them.

STRIKING A BALANCE Starlight travels through millions of years in the void of space in a straight line, but once it hits the Earth’s atmosphere in the last few milliseconds of its journey, the change in temperature causes the light to bend. That’s why stars twinkle, and also why images viewed through Earth-based telescopes tend to be blurry. In the health care field, fluid—such as that which fills the eyeball—presents a similar issue for imaging devices. Professor Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE) made it through the Valley of Death with the successful commercial venture he started in 2000, Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), which aims to provide a clear solution through a system of deformable mirrors that effectively act as eyeglasses to correct the visual distortion fluids cause.

“The idea is, we produce deformable mirrors to use in microscopes, telescopes and retinal imaging systems,” Bifano explains.

“Before reaching a focusing lens, light from a distant source forms a planar wave front unless it gets distorted, for example, by passing through the turbulent atmosphere above the telescope or by passing through a misshapen cornea before reaching the eye’s lens. The deformable mirror can be used to compensate for those distortions in an optical system. After compensating with the deformable mirror, all the rays line up again, giving you a nice, sharp, focused image.”

Bifano and his colleagues thought they could apply microelectromechanical systems technology to manufacture smaller, more reliable and more effective deformable mirrors. BMC’s deformable mirrors use microscopic actuators that can change the mirror’s shape. The system is packaged as a compact attachment the size of a small dinner plate for use in high-powered imaging devices.

The Gemini Planet Imager in Chile—which helped the Gemini South telescope capture the first images of exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars in far-reaching solar systems—used a BMC deformable mirror made up of 4,000 actuators. BMC has also integrated its deformable mirror into an adaptive optics ophthalmoscope that is now at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where doctors use the technology to develop a deeper understanding of diabetic retinopathy. In the future, Bifano hopes to expand BMC’s adaptive optic technology to identify and address imaging issues with microscopes.

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DAMIANO ATTRIBUTES MUCH OF THE SUCCESS HE HAS ENJOYED THUS FAR TO THE GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT HE HAS RECEIVED FROM THE BU COMMUNITY.

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graduate students hold many of the company’s leadership positions.

He maintains that commercialization should not be a research institution’s ultimate goal, but stresses the importance of providing guidance through the treacherous Valley of Death for those who do wish to take that path.

“Engineering is aimed directly at solving problems, rather than simply understanding them, and this tends to translate well to commercialization,” he says. “For those who do see the value of translating their innovation to a company, I think it is wonderful that the University provides resources to make the complex and nuanced process easier.”

FULFILLING A PERSONAL MISSION When Professor Edward Damiano’s son David was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) at 11 months old, Damiano knew danger would always lurk close by. For T1D patients and their families, the burden of care is enormous. Blood sugar levels must constantly be monitored, accounting for physical activity and food, and even one miscalculated dose of insulin can have catastrophic consequences.

“My wife and I were looking at the technologies available at the time to manage blood sugar in such a tiny person, because this was a rare diagnosis at such a young age,” Damiano says. “We quickly realized the tools for managing blood sugar levels were subpar for people of all ages managing T1D. Since I don’t have a background in molecular biology, I didn’t see myself contributing to the development of a biological cure; however, I thought I could lend my skills as an engineer to build a device that would improve and simplify diabetes management and would serve as a bridge to a cure.”

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Bifano is chief technology officer at BMC, which allows him to pursue the interesting academic challenges the technology poses while remaining involved at the corporate level. For Bifano, and any faculty member who wishes to commercialize research, the Technology Development office is an indispensable resource that helps figure out a balance between academic, research and corporate goals.

The office supports the technology transfer process, guiding the inventor on developing and implementing a tailor-made commercialization strategy. Whether it’s helping to file patents, performing market analysis or connecting inventors to venture capitalists, the office will steer faculty members through the complexities of commercializing an idea, no matter where they are in the process.

“As an entrepreneurial academic engineer, you live at the intersection of invention and innovation,” Bifano says. “For example, if you are researching something for the company and something interesting and unexpected happens, the academic in you will want to follow it down the rabbit hole to see where it takes you, whereas the entrepreneur will want to continue to forge a path toward translating that discovery into something of use to society. It can be challenging to strike a balance.”

In addition to contending with opposing instincts, avoiding conflict of interest can also present unique challenges. BMC was at the point in its development where the next step was to move into a physical space. Because Bifano was transitioning into administrative roles as a department chair and director of the Photonics Center, he decided to move the company off campus to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

Bifano still works closely with Pratt and the Technology Development office to license technology from BU faculty, and former

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Damiano’s solution was to develop a medical device, the iLet, to act as a bionic pancreas to regulate blood sugar in the body. The wearable device constantly monitors blood sugar levels every five minutes, even during sleep. The device calculates the levels of hormones needed (whether insulin to lower sugar levels or glucagon to raise them), provides the required dosage and maintains normal levels more reliably than even the most fastidious and attentive of patients. With more than 1.25 million Americans poised to benefit from this tool, the response from the T1D community has been overwhelmingly positive, which has played a crucial role in Damiano and his company surviving the Valley of Death.

Initially, Damiano expected to license his technology to medical device companies. But seeing how vulnerable the technology would be at the mercy of corporations and their stakeholders, he quickly realized that in order to make his vision a reality, he would have to build it himself. He established a company, Beta Bionics, as a public-benefit corporation, a relatively new entity in the United States. This allowed Beta Bionics to establish its public mission—developing the technology to serve the T1D community—as its first priority. Public-benefit corporations are more protected from lawsuits against company leadership for putting their public mission above return on investment for stakeholders, and since they are considered for-profit companies in the government’s eyes, they have more options for soliciting funds compared to a nonprofit organization.

Since Damiano had no plans to sell his company, which is the traditional way to appeal to potential investors, he approached them with the opportunity to form strategic partnerships instead.

Damiano and his colleagues, Ed and Serafina Raskin (who are

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attorneys and parents of a 10-year-old boy with T1D), worked with the Technology Development office to secure a lucrative partnership with Eli Lilly for $5 million in just 60 days.

“At the end of the day, if you distill everything we are trying to accomplish down to a single objective, it would be to make broadly available a technology that makes a great drug better,” says Damiano. “Current tools for delivering insulin and making insulin dosing decisions— pumps, syringes, insulin regimens—are simply not refined enough for most people with T1D to meet therapeutic targets. The iLet, on the other hand, automates blood sugar control and improves insulin delivery in everyone, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic status—it levels the playing field for achieving good clinical outcomes.

Pharmaceutical companies and insurance providers understand this and know that our success is in their best interest.”

Mobilizing both the T1D and BU communities has also played an integral role in securing funding during crucial points along Damiano’s journey through the Valley of Death. The College set up a donation link, where members of the T1D community with whom he had spoken at a variety of diabetes conferences and networking events over the years were able to make tax-deductible donations directly to his research laboratory, which raised about $2.5 million in donations during the 24-month period from the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2015. And with the recent passing of regulation crowdfunding, the T1D community had the opportunity this past summer to invest directly in the company itself.

Though the iLet has the potential to help millions of people, Damiano’s goal has always been to get the device into his son David’s hands by the time he goes to college. After finishing up clinical trials and navigating the regulatory process for FDA approval, David

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should get the device around the time he enters his sophomore year in college, in 2018. As the Valley of Death’s exit gets closer, Damiano attributes much of the success he has enjoyed thus far to the guidance and support he has received from the BU community since he joined BU as an associate professor 12 years ago.

“The whole project has been a grand experiment, and the University, at so many levels, has been instrumental in supporting us. I can’t imagine another university that would have been better able to see this through,” he says.

EVALUATING COMMUNITY NEEDS VS. COMMERCIAL IMPACT Synthetic biology is an emerging field that applies engineering principles to create, modify or improve the function of biological organisms. Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE) is at the forefront of this game-changing field that has enormous medical, energy, materials and ecological potential, and finds himself in the midst of the Valley of Death as two seemingly competing interests pull him into an unknown future.

Densmore’s research group, the Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research (CIDAR), produces software tools and automation processes for synthetic biology. CIDAR breaks down biological designs into their basic components (DNA) to measure and categorize them. This information is fed into computer software Densmore’s group develops, which allows them to predict how various combinations of those components will react when

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safety, facilities, and even catering and conference space, which can make a huge difference when young companies are trying to make an impression and attract investors and customers.

While approximately one-third of the companies that have come through the center have been affiliated with BU, like Beta Bionics, Lattice Automation and RayVio (see story on page 20), outside companies are also considered as long as there’s a tie-in to support the academic mission of the BU community.

“In addition to growing companies, we want to grow students, so we want the companies in the Innovation Center to provide opportunities whenever possible, and that usually averages out to about 30 internship positions for undergraduates per year,” Dudley explains. “Last year alone, out of the 31 internships, 11 led to full-time employment for recent grads. Former interns are also able to more easily transition into industry positions due to their experience, so it’s very beneficial.”

Students aren’t the only ones who benefit from the center—companies are also selected on whether or not they share a research interest with faculty at BU, which increases the potential for collaboration.

“While we don’t force collaboration, we know that the chances are greater if there are overlapping research interests between the companies in the Innovation Center and the faculty here at BU,” Dudley says.

“Collaboration is encouraged because it leads to increased sponsored research, either through applying for government grants for joint projects or by sponsorship from the corporations themselves.”

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BUSINESS INNOVATION CENTER SUPPORTS STARTUPS When you step off the elevator on the sixth floor of the Photonics Center, the first thing you see is a brightly colored wall with glass tiles emblazoned by purple light, touting some of the most innovative companies in the Boston area. Here, the 15,000-square-foot Business Innovation Center hums with the energy of 11 fledgling startup companies—a mix between internal BU ventures and spinoffs from leading academic institutions and corporations—that are working hard to establish themselves until they can set off on their own.

“We do encourage turnover and when we are vetting companies we stress that they should plan to stay no more than three years.

This encourages growth, expands the BU network and opens up resources for a new set of companies,” says Assistant Director of Technical Programs Thomas Dudley. “We want as many companies as possible to be able to take advantage of the resources we provide and to create new opportunities for our faculty and students as well.”

Since it was established in the late nineties, the Business Innovation Center has hosted more than 50 companies, which have created more than 1,000 jobs and raised more than $500 million in capital, according to Dudley. Startup businesses can apply to rent space in the center, which leases both private and shared office space and wet and optical laboratory space, and have the option of renting more specialized equipment used in the center’s core labs (most of the companies are photonics-focused). The center also offers access to BU resources such as environmental health and

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automatically put together. This eliminates the current trial-anderror process for synthetic biology. CIDAR has produced numerous software tools so far that support research in this field.

“When other academics publish, oftentimes they use software in service of the publication. But for us, our software is the point of the publication,” Densmore explains. “Unlike my colleagues who publish and are done, we have all this software that is left over. And journals archive papers, they don’t host software.”

This issue led to Densmore’s first venture, a nonprofit called the Nona Research Foundation, in 2013. Nona is an open-source software foundation that can host software from any synthetic biology laboratory in the world and was created to increase access in the design and to promote the use of open-source software and tools in the fields of synthetic biology and bio-design automation. The opensource format allows other researchers to find and take what they need easily and free of charge.

“Nona takes the software that CIDAR develops and curates it to make it more accessible for others to find,” Densmore says. “We needed an organization to host it and a community of people to vet the software for distribution. Some software can, and honestly should, evolve over time, but for the software that other people find important immediately, it needed a place to stay after students graduate and publications are released and that’s why we established Nona.”

The open-source format promoted accessibility to Densmore’s software tools so well that soon companies began to approach him because they wanted to use his software tools in industry, with a few modifications. And this brought on a new set of challenges.

“There were businesses that wanted us to make tweaks and changes to the software we produced in order to fit their needs and specifications, and since the software was open-source, it was harder to get them to compensate us for our time,” Densmore says. “So we started a second company, Lattice Automation, in 2013, which is a for-profit corporation housed in the Business Innovation Center that starts with academic software from my group or Nona and creates commercially viable software while working with businesses to personalize it for their needs.”

For Densmore, it made sense to create dedicated resources to provide enough support to his separate ventures in a way that allowed him to focus on his true passions: teaching and research.

Though his companies differ in priority, the ultimate vision for both is similar: ubiquity in a niche field, whether it’s Nona fostering a sense of community and serving as a valuable resource for researchers, or Lattice providing the right software tools for businesses that want to engineer a living system. Navigating not one but two pathways through the Valley of Death while maintaining balance with academic and research responsibilities would be near impossible for Densmore without the support and resources BU offers.

“I don’t have a formal background in biology or business, but here I am doing both and my strength is to approach it with an engineering mind-set,” he says. “Every business venture is different but it’s important to have a mentor to provide guidance through the complex process and when you have a moving target like a relatively new field where people might not know what they need until they actually have it in hand, it can be challenging. That’s why the resources that BU provides, like the Technology Development office, have been important with forming the companies in a way that allows me to maintain balance with my academic obligations, which is the entire reason I am here.”

INNOVATING GLOBAL HEALTH For those like Klapperich, who is just starting the journey through the Valley of Death, the risks and the unknown can be daunting.

But the social and global health implications the technology offers are too important to her to leave unexplored. JaneDx centers on a portable, disposable device her lab developed to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases (STIs). Currently, patients must go to a doctor, get diagnosed and receive a course of antibiotic treatment for common STIs like gonorrhea and chlamydia. The diagnostic tool that Klapperich developed could streamline this process, reduce the financial burden and even remove the need to visit the doctor’s office altogether. The test could be especially important for women who face financial and child care challenges.

“This sort of paradigm shift has been done before,” Klapperich says.

“You used to have to seek treatment for yeast infections under the care of a doctor, but they developed an over-the-counter way of treating them as long as you matched with symptoms on a checklist. And pharmacists in many countries have the ability to prescribe antibiotics, but they need an appropriate diagnosis first to be able to do that.”

Using microfluidic and paperfluidic technology, Klapperich has spent 13 years developing a prototype device to diagnose STIs that works in a similar fashion as a home pregnancy test. The device is a strip of plastic that safeguards a paper substrate. The patient follows instructions to prepare a sample of body fluid, and, like a home pregnancy test, the diagnosis is indicated by the appearance of one or two lines. The test detects DNA, so it can let a provider know if antibiotic resistance is a problem.

“Our initial goal is to make the device simple enough so that a minimally trained health care worker can use it with the goal of eventually streamlining the process enough so that a patient could buy a test and use it in the comfort of her own home,” Klapperich explains.

The next step to commercialize Jane Dx is conducting a preclinical trial in India as a pilot, where health care workers at a clinic will collect a sample, using half with Klapperich’s device and the other half with the current method of testing as a control. Klapperich will use this data to build the next prototype and raise funds to conduct a formal clinical study.

As the College’s associate dean for Research and Technology Development, Klapperich is a liaison between faculty and the Technology Development office and helps guide colleagues through the process of technology transfer. Embarking upon her own commercialization journey has provided an entirely new perspective on the process that will allow her to better advocate for other faculty members who wish to commercialize their work.

“Technology transfer is a nuanced and complex process and when we made the decision to move forward, we had to change dayto-day operations in my own laboratory,” she says. “We had to make sure that we provided the proper disclosures around the science and intellectual property and take care to avoid conflicts of interest. It can be tricky to navigate.”

Even with the Valley of Death and all of its regulatory twists and turns looming ominously, the reason to commercialize the technology is relatively simple for Klapperich: if we don’t do it, no one else will.

“Even if we fail, we get our ideas out into the world and into people’s imaginations, which makes them think about problems differently,” she says. “I feel like if we at least go out there and try, we can effect some change.”

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t’s a warm spring morning at the Josiah Quincy Upper School in downtown Boston, and the two dozen ninthgraders entering Mr. Warner’s classroom reluctantly remove their earbuds and set down their iced coffees. Their faces seem to say: Light waves? What could be interesting about light waves?

But then the 10 College of Engineering undergraduate “Inspiration Ambassadors” scattered around the room introduce the teens to their own 9-volt batteries, circuit boards, LEDs and voltmeters. Working in pairs, the Quincy School students must connect their LEDs to batteries, measure the voltages that create blue, red, green, and orange light and match that to the longest and shortest wavelengths. From that, they will see firsthand Planck’s Law, which says energy and wavelength are inversely proportionate. Suddenly the room is full of cheers, groans and urgent questions.

It’s a small step toward ENG’s strategic goal “to broaden and build the pipeline from K–12 schools into engineering,” says Gretchen Fougere, ENG associate dean for outreach and diversity. “It’s important that we not let talent go to waste in underrepresented groups such as women and minorities. We need everybody who’s capable and interested in becoming an engineer to be ready and able to do that.” >

Carlo Quicho (ENG’18) (left) with Josiah Quincy Upper School student Ada Tsang, 14, as they work on an experiment using voltmeters and LEDs.

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by Fougere in 2011, sends ENG undergrads into classrooms as Inspiration Ambassadors to get middle and high school students excited about science and to open their minds to the field as a possible career.

Many, as at the Quincy School, are African American or Hispanic, and girls make up roughly half the students.

“All of the kids get super-excited because they don’t realize the potential they have,” says Inspiration Ambassador Alyssa Liem (ENG’16), who studies mechanical engineering. “When they have the ability to do something creative, to make their own code or make their own design, they see: I can do this. That’s the best thing we can provide for them—the confidence.”

Fougere has so far overseen several TISP outreach programs.

One, which reached 3,000 students this year alone, sends ENG undergrads back to their high schools or middle schools all around the country during the midyear break to spread the engineering gospel. In another they mentor the FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) robotics teams at various Boston area schools. The mission of the nonprofit FIRST, founded by Dean Kamen (Hon.’06), is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders. Partner organizations, including AT&T, NASA, Accenture, Ametek and the Ingalls Foundation, help fund the TISP program and have also hired numerous engineers from among the Ambassadors.

In the Quincy School program, funded by a $145,000 grant from AT&T, the ENG undergraduates work with two classes over two years, testing and debriefing students at the end of each year to quantify the program’s effect. The overarching plan is to spread BU’s TISP model to universities and colleges around the country.

Among the engineering challenges put to the Quincy students in the first year were assembling and testing their own fuel cells, building wind turbines to generate energy and communicating by fiber optics. “I didn’t know any of this stuff beforehand,” says ninth grader Evan Chen. “Now I know a little more about engineering, what they’re doing.”

The Quincy students enjoy projects like making a wind turbine most, because they’re actually building something, says Liem.

Working with their hands is a lot more exciting than hearing someone lecture. “It became a competition of how much voltage they could get from their wind turbine, redesigning and redesigning until they finally got what satisfied them,” she says.

“Sometimes time runs out and they’re still trying to redesign and begging for just one more try,” says Russell Thompson (ENG’16).

“That’s fun.”

It also does a lot for the Inspiration Ambassadors, who are well aware that their chosen field skews white and male.

“I’ve always wanted to increase the diversity in engineering, because I don’t feel like we have a lot of minorities or a lot of women,” says biomedical engineering major Lidia De Barros (ENG’17), who is originally from Cape Verde. “I felt like this would give me an opportunity to reach the actual demographic of Boston, not just those who have an opportunity to come to BU, and reach out to everyone at once.”

Half of the ENG students applying to the TISP program are female and a quarter of them are from underrepresented minority groups, and these rates are two to three times higher than the ENG student population. About 100 undergraduates apply for the program each year, twice as many as Fougere can take.

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De Barros and others say the program also helps them develop leadership skills that will be useful after they graduate, from coordinating a diverse group to learning to communicate science concepts at a level that anyone can understand—something that could be useful later in dealing with business clients. “Engineers need to be able not only to create stuff, but to understand what it means to society,” Fougere says.

TISP may be even more meaningful for students like Thompson, who is in the five-year STEM Educator-Engineer Program (STEEP), a partnership between ENG and the School of Education. STEEP students earn a bachelor’s in an engineering discipline and a master’s in teaching, equipping them to teach the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) in middle schools and high schools across the country.

The success of TISP is exemplified by Rahat Khan (ENG’17), whose first connection with the program was as a 10th-grader at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Roxbury, when TISP students began mentoring his FIRST robotics team.

“It sort of gives you a sense of connection that you don’t necessarily get with a teacher,” says Khan, who even then knew he wanted to study engineering. “In high school, you might have a notion of what mechanical engineering might be, but it’s not the same as you envision it to be. Talking with the ENG students helped me understand what each of the engineering fields actually is.”

Now Khan is studying mechanical engineering at ENG on a BU Community Service Award scholarship and is a TISP Inspiration Ambassador. He has returned to speak to middle-schoolers at the O’Bryant School over winter break and is leading four other ambassadors in mentoring FIRST robotics students at the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School in Hyde Park for a second year.

“It feels very rewarding when you see that the students are finally getting results and understanding what they’re doing,” he says. “It’s even more rewarding when some of them show interest in engineering. And even if they don’t, it feels like an accomplishment.”

THE OVERARCHING PLAN IS TO SPREAD BU’S TISP MODEL TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AROUND THE COUNTRY.

Josiah Quincy Upper School students and Gretchen Fougere, ENG associate dean for outreach and diversity, who says ENG’s goal is “to broaden and build the pipeline from K–12 schools into engineering.”

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Using an idea that evolved into reality during his time as an ENG graduate student, Yitao Liao (ECE, PhD’11) is fighting against infection with his company, RayVio Corp.

“Simply put, RayVio is an advanced health and hygiene company that offers innovative ultraviolet UV LED technology that can be used to clean the environment and reduce the risk of people coming into contact with harmful germs,” Liao explains. “Com-

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pared to traditional sanitation methods, with our technology you don’t have to deal with harmful chemicals or energy-intensive processes, like boiling, to kill germs. It can be easily integrated into everyday applications, so it would be easy to set up, comprehensive and efficient.”

RayVio uses a proprietary UV LED technology packaged in a device that resembles a computer chip and can be integrated into a variety of consumer and industrial products. For example, RayVio’s first consumer product will be a baby bottle sterilizer, to be introduced in late fall 2016 on Indiegogo’s crowdfunding site. The compact sterilizer disinfects baby bottles and nipples at the touch of a button, protecting infants from harmful germs and making sterilization easier for their busy parents. Other consumer appli-

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cations for UV LED technology could integrate it into a kitchen faucet that works in tandem with a water filter; instead of simply removing large particles, the faucet attachment could actively kill the germs in tap water, making it clean and safe to drink. This has huge implications for developing countries, where access to clean water is limited.

The UV LED technology essentially has limitless applications into new and existing systems for surface, air and water purification.

For example, a basic lightbulb modified with a UV LED attachment could sterilize a hospital room or waiting area. Integrating the technology into certain public transportation applications could purify air and disinfect surfaces in planes, trains and buses.

“Our goal is to deliver UV light in the form of an LED light source in a convenient format to areas and applications where people need it most,” Liao says. “By removing the need for caustic materials like bleach or mercury in the disinfection process, we are poised to create social impact while reducing the stress we put on the environment from using toxic chemicals.”

IN ADDITION TO POTENTIAL MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, LIAO’S INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY IS POISED TO AFFECT WATER, SURFACE AND AIR DISINFECTION IN MANY OTHER ENVIRONMENTS.

The idea for RayVio was born at BU through Liao’s work as a graduate student working under Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE). Liao grew the company in the Business Innovation Center (see story on page 14) using BU resources such as the Technology Development office to develop and commercialize his technology.

“I have been privileged to mentor many students throughout my career, but Yitao stands out for his creativity and persistence in pursuing his work,” Moustakas says. “He could have had a steady, solid job at a big company, but he gave that up to build his own right here at BU. He has worked hard to solve a complex problem and I have no doubt that the story of his dogged persistence and commitment to social impact will inspire many in the BU engineering community.”

Pursuing entrepreneurship with social impact has long been the end goal for Liao. Growing up in Deyang, a town outside the city of Chengdu, China, he started high school at the beginning of the dot-com boom and was immediately inspired by pioneering internet entrepreneurs. Even at a young age, he understood that technology has the potential to improve people’s lives, and he wanted to create something himself that had wide-ranging social impact.

“Back then, it took three entire days just to download a single mp3 song file. I saw a need for improved performance and discov-

ered that the US and Japan were using fiber optic communication to do this, so I became interested in that,” says Liao. “Because of my interest in telecommunication and fiber optics, I decided to major in photonics at an engineering-focused university in Chengdu.”

After his first year, Liao lobbied the university for a position in a photonics research laboratory, which was unheard of for undergraduate students. Since the laboratory collaborated with a large, US-based fiber optic company, he quickly realized the vast amount of resources available here that weren’t available in China at the time, and he decided to pursue a master’s degree in the US. When he learned about the Photonics Center at BU, he knew it would be the right fit.

“In addition to the photonics program being one of the strongest in the country, I was attracted to the entrepreneurial mind-set of their mission, not only to support student research but also to support commercializing it,” Liao says. “I even wrote my personal statement about wanting to start a company in the Business Innovation Center.”

Working with Moustakas and co-advised by Professor Roberto Paiella (ECE), Liao’s first project involved creating a semiconductor material and process for an optical switching device, but he soon concluded it was not aligned with market needs at the time.

“I was considering continuing my PhD but it was clear this project wasn’t going to fit with what I wanted to accomplish,” he recalls. “I decided taking a break and doing an internship would be a good opportunity to do my research in a new industry before making the jump to a full PhD program in that area.”

Liao accepted an internship with an MIT company creating high-powered, visible luminous devices suitable for projection that could be used in televisions and projectors, which was enough to convince him of LEDs’ commercial potential. Moustakas, a pioneer in the LEDs field, was the perfect mentor for him.

Liao returned to pursue his PhD research at BU, where he received a grant from the US Army to develop UV LEDs, leading to the birth of RayVio. Not only were Liao and Moustakas able to develop the breakthrough technology, but the device that could be commercialized as well.

With the help of the Technology Development office at BU, Liao filed the appropriate patents and intellectual property licenses to protect his idea, connected with venture capitalists to get his fledgling company off the ground, and drafted his initial business plan. A year after he graduated, RayVio was incorporated as a company.

Today, RayVio is based in Hayward, California, and recently expanded to offices in Beijing and Taiwan. The company boasts a broad portfolio of customers (though Liao can’t specify them due to confidentiality agreements) in the health, hygiene and disinfection fields who are integrating the technology into industry and consumer products and generating revenue. As he works to expand his company’s global presence and fuel its success, Liao’s sights are still set on leaving the world a better place than he found it through his work with his company.

“From my time at BU to the present day, I try to live the life of a Societal Engineer,” he says. “Whether you end up in academia or industry or a field outside of engineering, your engineering training has given you a methodical mind-set to solve problems, which can apply to many different industries. No matter what you choose to do, your engineering mind-set can be applied to positively impact society.”

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The “Compensating Losses to the Environment from Automobiles with Noxious Undisclosed Pollution,” or CLEAN-UP Act, would establish federal penalties for automakers who fraudulently evade emissions laws. The act, now working its way through the legislative process, would not only penalize offenders, but would use the fines to fund clean-air initiatives like electric vehicle fueling stations, retrofitting school buses 22

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to reduce emissions and improving air quality in low-income communities.

“This was exciting for me because it was reactive and I had the opportunity to experience the legislative process from start to finish,” Paczkowski says. “We were responding to a timely event and I worked with a variety of stakeholders to draft up the bill and I even got to drop it on the floor of the Senate the day we introduced it. My technical background allowed me to understand how the defeat devices worked and that knowledge was extremely useful when I worked on the bill with my fellow staffers.”

Paczkowski’s experience came via a fellowship—sponsored by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America and the United States Geological Survey—that puts scientists and engineers on staff in congressional offices to serve as a resource for science, technology, engineering and math

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(STEM)-focused policy making. Paczkowski’s portfolio during the fellowship, which concluded in September, included energy, the environment, climate and STEM research and education in Massachusetts. She helped Markey prepare for congressional hearings and Capitol Hill events. She also met with constituents who represent these areas, from renewable energy companies to scientists, to listen to their concerns and suggestions and to learn about their work. Her strong connection to Massachusetts through her time at BU made her feel at home in Markey’s office.

“Karen’s engineering and science background and passion to make the world a better place have helped her make valuable contributions to my work in the Senate,” Markey says. “She has gained hands-on experience in the legislative process by helping me fight for a clean energy future, hold high-emitting automobile makers accountable and defend the value of basic science research and STEM education.”

THE FELLOWSHIP PUTS SCIENTISTS ON STAFF IN CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES TO SERVE AS A RESOURCE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH (STEM)FOCUSED POLICY MAKING. Technical proclivity runs in Paczkowski’s family. She grew up outside of Albany, New York with her father and older brother, both engineers, and her mother, a financial analyst. Some of her earliest memories include practicing simple differential equations with her brother when she was in elementary school. In high school, she took every math and science class she could. Drawn to BU’s urban campus, she settled on pursuing her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering with a concentration on energy and fluids.

“The thing that led me to government policy is the same thing that led me to engineering in the first place: the desire to use my skills to help society,” she explains. “I’ve always been very technical and I wanted to find a way to apply those skills to make people’s lives better.”

According to Paczkowski, one of the most important skills she learned as an undergraduate was the ability to work well in groups, which she used frequently in her fellowship, particularly when forming coalitions to leverage collective action to address a variety of policy concerns. She also worked closely with the Career Development office to gain real-life work experience in an internship with a computational fluid mechanics company, an experience that made her realize the importance of STEM workforce development, particularly among women and minorities. “When I look back, everything I loved about BU stemmed from how connected the College is to industries in the area, which is a testament to how wonderful the Career Development office is as a resource for students,” she says.

“I had the opportunity to run my own project from start to finish, which was invaluable real-world experience.”

While working toward a PhD in geophysics at Yale University, Paczkowski participated in her first Science, Engineering and Technology Congressional Visits Day, which brings scientists, engineers, researchers, educators and technology executives to Washington to raise visibility and support for STEM. This experience opened her eyes to the important role that federal funding plays in supporting STEM-based research, education and industry, and made her realize that she could serve as a bridge to connect policy makers to the field.

It also led her to pursue the fellowship.

“I discovered that my STEM background could be used to help tackle national challenges by using science to develop better policy,” she says. “Breaking down complex problems into solvable pieces is a concept that is so engrained in the engineering field and is a skill that I have appreciated being able to apply to make a difference working in government policy.”

Scientific advisors play a vital role in developing informed government policy. Patti Curtis, director of the Boston Museum of Science’s Washington office, worked extensively with Paczkowski to develop an amendment for the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, which sets national policy and goals for STEM research and education. Their amendment seeks to direct support from the National Science Foundation toward large-scale, informal science education programs, which are often responsible for inspiring many young children to pursue career paths in STEM. According to Curtis, Paczkowski played an instrumental role in drafting the amendment.

“Most of the people who work on the Hill don’t have a technical background, so the expertise Karen brings is very valuable to have,” says Curtis. “It’s wonderful when congressional offices bring in STEM experts to work on policy in the field because they know what it takes from firsthand experience. They understand the challenges and they know how important informal education is because it’s often a crucial first step to attracting people to the STEM workforce.”

Working for the government can be challenging. In addition to the strong technical skills needed to understand complex issues, strong communication skills are necessary. Whether it’s consulting with other experts on drafting bills or garnering support from other congressional staffers, communication—such as encouraging colleagues to look at the big picture—plays a vital part in the legislative process.

“It can be challenging to convince people to take the longer view on these topics and to keep in mind that change tends to happen incrementally,” Paczkowski notes. “It’s important to remember that small movements still move the dial and those smaller efforts add up to large improvements.”

Having wrapped up her work in Markey’s office, Paczkowski has begun the AAAS Executive Branch Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, serving at the NSF. She is going back to her scientific roots to study cyber-physical systems, working with smart devices connected through the Internet of Things. Connecting devices to each other via the Internet can be applied to developing smarter cars, smarter electric grids, smarter medical devices and more.

“The driving force motivating my career choices has always been leveraging my skills to help people and exploring how I can best serve society,” she says. “Government policy was a natural fit for me because it allows me to combine my technical background with interacting with people in a way that lets me feel connected and that I am truly making a difference.”

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lmost 30 years in business left engineer Gerald Fine troubled as he spied the horizon of his profession. Too many young colleagues were good with a computer keyboard, but all thumbs when it came to something you’d expect to be as instinctive as breathing for engineers: working with equipment. New technologies, coming fast as Ferraris in the discipline, flummoxed them.

After joining the College of Engineering faculty in 2012, Fine, director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), designed ENG’s first new course in 40 years that’s mandatory for all students, with the goal of getting students’ hands dirty, as it were. The course has won him

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this year’s Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.

Required of all sophomores, Introduction to Engineering Design employs what Fine calls “hybrid learning.” Students watch online videos before coming to class, and in class they practice what they’ve learned from the videos, working with state-of-the-art technology: WiFi and Bluetooth radios, fiber optics, open-sourced microprocessors, and more.

They use this technology to reverse-engineer (dismantle and examine) actual engineering products. They also build prototype products to address real problems given them by engineering companies.

Fine, a professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, says the award is a great honor, but points out that the course was a collaborative effort: several colleagues made vital suggestions, and its basic structure was suggested by Solomon Eisenberg, ENG’s senior associate dean for academic programs and a professor of biomedical engineering and of electrical and computer engineering.

Moreover, says Fine, “we couldn’t teach the course without EPIC.” In addition to the center’s technology and space, “the real key is the staff . . . and the student workers there. We serve in excess of 700 students per semester there now, including 200-plus” taking his Gitner-winning course.

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During close to 30 years in business, Gerald Fine was surprised that young engineers were uncomfortable with new technologies.

Required of all sophomores, Introduction to Engineering Design employs what Fine calls “hybrid learning.”

In his letter nominating Fine for the award, Dean Kenneth Lutchen wrote, “For the first time in our college history, all undergraduates join together in multidisciplinary teams for real-world engineering design problems. They practice conceptual design, modeling, and com-

munication skills that are essential to modern engineering practice.

They interact with real clients from real industries, and make working prototypes of their design solutions using state-of the-art machine shop facilities, 3-D printing, integrated electronics, and sophisticated microprocessor controls.

“The experience reinforces and extends for our undergraduates the core meaning of what it is to be a Societal Engineer, by giving them experience in how ideas are converted into real product design that society can benefit from.”

Fine’s industry contacts come from years in leadership jobs at technology companies such as Schott and Corning. He is also the chairman of fiber optics company Emcore. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a PhD from the California Institute of Technology.

The Gitner Award is conferred by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching & Learning. The winner receives $10,000 by developing, using, or adapting technology in ways that enhance BU’s undergraduate learning. —rich barlow

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n April 14, Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, BME, MSE) presented the second annual Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture. The first named endowed lecture in College of Engineering history, the Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes faculty members who have extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship and outstanding alumni who have invented and mentored transformative technologies that impact our quality of life. Ünlü peppered his presentation with video and audio messages from past students and mentors who have contributed to his work, chronicled his career path from graduate school to present day and discussed his current research in optical sensing and developing new bioimaging tech-

nologies that address the obstacles that currently plague the field of diagnostics.

“When you are trying to look at pathogens, the most distinguishing thing is to look at its genome, but obstacles like logistics and cost are prohibitive and drive scientists to find more compact and affordable ways that have the same functionality,” he said. “Single-particle detection has been the physicist’s dream of addressing these issues, so that’s what we set out to explore.” Ünlü has spearheaded a technological development in biomarker analysis called digital detection. The approach counts single molecules—providing resolution and sensitivity beyond the capability of ensemble measurements—and has the potential of making the most advanced molecular diagnostic tools broadly accessible at low cost.

“Optical interference is a very powerful sensing technique,” Ünlü explained. “With this biological imaging technology, we can detect single particles if they are large enough on the nanoscale, such as viruses, and see them directly. If they are proteins or DNA molecules, we have to label them with a small, metallic nanoparticle to see them.” Ünlü and his team will continue to refine the technology for commercialization, including applying some of these findings to produce microarray chips that provide calibration and quality control in industry. Specifically, his research group will explore applications for the technology in such areas as real-time DNA detection, rare mutations, and—most recently—in a project to characterize viruses that target cancer cells. —sara cody E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 6 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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Daniel Segrè, an ENG and CAS professor, and PhD candidate Allyson Byrd (ENG’19) were at the White House for the launch of the National Microbiome Initiative. “It’s a very exciting time,” says Segrè. “Now everybody is interested in the microbiome.”

Funding for the initiative will come from the US Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture, as well as from nonfederal organizations, among them the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“There are many different angles to look at microbes, many people in different fields who don’t even know each other, but are doing highly related work,” says Segrè, who uses computer modeling to study the behavior of microbial communities. He says that BU has unique strengths in mathematical modeling, physics, environmental biology and biomedical engineering that can be brought to bear on understanding how microbes behave individually and on a global scale.

“The initiative has been very energizing and exciting,” Segrè says. “I love the idea of people from different departments making new connections. That’s how you get the most interesting science.”

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ight now, armies of microbes are wiggling, slithering and swimming through your gut, over your tongue and across your skin. Your microbes can do things that are essential, like making vitamin K, or dysfunctional, like increasing your risk of obesity. The full set of microbes associated with a particular habitat is called a microbiome, and almost every habitat on earth—including your body—has one.

Rivers have their own microbiomes, as do fish, oceans, patches of soil and even the earth’s atmosphere.

In recent years, scientists and the public have come to appreciate these complicated communities of minute microbes, which may offer clues to curing diabetes and clearing oil spills and understanding a wide range of occurrences, from climate change to the origin of life.

On May 13, 2016, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy took steps to recognize these tiny fellow-travelers by launching the National Microbiome Initiative. Several federal agencies will provide scientists with $120 million in new research funding through the initiative, which also will receive $400 million in new funding from nonfederal groups, such as industry, academia and private foundations.

A group of interdisciplinary scientists at the forefront of microbiome research attended the BU has unique strengths in mathematical modeling, launch event, including Boston University’s physics, environmental Daniel Segrè, a College biology and biomedical of Engineering professor engineering. of bioinformatics and of biomedical engineering and a College of Arts & Sciences professor of biology, and Allyson Byrd (ENG’19), a PhD candidate in bioinformatics, who studies the human microbiome at the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute, as part of the BU-NIH graduate partnership program.

“What’s happening here is really pushing all the boundaries. I’ve never seen something so ready to go,” said Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), during introductory remarks to scientists and policy makers at the White House event announcing the launch. Slaughter, a microbiologist by training, said that gaining a better understanding of the microbial world is critical for confronting issues like food safety and antibiotic resistance. “It’s going to be like splitting the atom when you get all this done,” she said.

During the event, Obama administration officials announced steps to address questions that span multiple microbiomes—like, what is a healthy microbiome? Why are some microbial communities resistant to change while others are vulnerable? Funding will target the need for better technology and more computing power to model microbial communities, and ultimately, tools to fix dysfunctional microbiomes and protect healthy ones.

Zhang Receives Technical Achievement Award RECOGNIZED BY IEEE SENSORS COUNCIL FOR MEMS RESEARCH

Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE)

Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE) has received the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award (advanced career) for her “distinguished contributions to the field of micro/nanoelectromechanical systems, addressing a wide range of important problems in advanced materials, biophotonics and energy.”

The council fosters community among engineers who work with sensors through publications, conferences and technical committees that allow members to share knowledge and exchange ideas. Zhang will attend the award presentation at the IEEE Sensors 2016 conference in Orlando, Florida, in November.

The award honors a member of the council who has made outstanding contributions to the field of sensors, evidenced by publications and patents. Zhang has published more than 130 journal articles and has been recognized for excellence in research and education.

In the area of advanced materials, Zhang has applied MEMS techniques to develop metamaterials, arrays of engineered structures that act like artificial atoms and exhibit unusual properties such as negative refractive indices and cloaking. She has focused on creating metamaterials in the terahertz range (wavelengths between optical and microwave frequencies) that may ultimately be used for imaging, chemical detection, surveillance and high-speed electronic circuits.

In biomedicine, Zhang has developed a MEMS-based toolset that uses a unique sensing approach to analyze cellular behavior, yielding knowledge that could improve our understanding of cardiovascular, liver and other diseases and potentially lead to novel therapies. In the energy domain, Zhang has explored microfluidic applications in the mid-IR range and developed micro gas chromatography and microfluidic communication systems designed to improve the efficiency and safety of oil and gas extraction. —sara cody

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Assistant Professor James Bird (ME) has received the Office of Naval Research 2016 Young Investigator Program award for his research, “Bubbling Underwater to Breakup Biofilms and Lift Early Settlers (BUBBLES).” Bird also received the ENG Early Career Excellence Award, which celebrates the recent, significant, high-impact research achievements of exemplary tenure-track faculty members who are within 10 years of receiving their PhD.

Associate Professor Harold Park (ME) won the International Association for Computational Mechanics’ John Argyris Award for Young Scientists. Sponsored

by Elsevier and named in honor of Professor John Argyris, a Greek

mathematician who is credited with developing the Finite Element Method, the award is given every two years in recognition of outstanding accomplishments, particularly published papers by researchers aged 40 or younger.

Assistant Professor Darren Roblyer (BME) has been awarded a St. Baldrick’s Research Grant totaling $100,000. A volunteer-powered and donor-centered charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, St. Baldrick’s Foundation provides grants to support research that aims to find cures and better treatments for pediatric cancers. With this funding, Roblyer’s team plans to develop imaging technologies that use near-infrared light to track the molecular and metabolic response of tumors during chemotherapy.

STUDENTS & ALUMNI Carissa Bellardine Black (BME’01, MS’03, PhD’06), Director of Venture Capital at Medtronic, has been named a 2016 Medtech Boston 40 Under 40 Health Care Innovator, which recognizes commitment to changing the current health care system for the better.

Roger Hajjar (EE’88), founder and CTO of Prysm, won the 2016 Adele De Berri Pioneers of AV Award, given annually to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the science of audiovisual experiences. Hajjar was honored for his Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology, a novel display platform that leverages single-wavelength lasers to excite a phosphor screen and create images.

A team of ECE entrepreneurs won first place in the BUzz Lab Student Venture Competition at the Tech, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll event sponsored by the BU Technology Development office.

Their project, THOR, aims to address the significant cost of human labor in agriculture by employing an autonomous drone to provide valuable data collection and analysis. The team beat 14 other finalists in a public online vote to net the $1,500 cash prize.

Team THOR members (L to R) Junkai He (EE’16), Yiyang Wu (EE’16), Emily Ubik (EE’16), Daniel Vasilyonok (EE’16) and Barron Roth (CE’16)

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Dean Kenneth Lutchen addresses the Class of 2016 while keynote speaker Ernest Moniz (Hon.’16) sits to the left of the podium.

On May 14, sunshine from the warm, cloudless day permeated the air of excitement inside BU’s Track & Tennis Center, where faculty, staff, family and friends gathered to celebrate the graduation of 350 undergraduate students from the College of Engineering at the College’s 63rd Commencement ceremony.

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ean Kenneth Lutchen began by acknowledging the challenges students faced and overcame in order to arrive at the present day, noting that while engineering is the toughest course of study at BU, “the ‘hard’ is what makes it great, and you made it.”

Lutchen also recognized the important role that family and friends played in supporting graduates, noting that Commencement is a celebration years in the making.

“From your first steps, to learning that you were admitted into this great institution, you have been celebrating achievements and important milestones for the past 22 years,” he said. “Today you will celebrate the best investment you could have made by walking across this stage.”

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Commencement Ceremonies Celebrate the Class of 2016

Student speaker Alexander James O’Donovan (BME’15) spoke of his personal experience being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, which drove him to pursue a career in biomedical engineering. He ultimately landed his dream job working in Professor Edward Damiano’s (BME) laboratory developing the bionic pancreas. From the beginning, O’Donovan identified closely with the College’s vision of creating the Societal Engineer, which helped him carve out a path for his success.

“I came here because I wanted to change the world and [the College] wanted to create people to change the world,” he said. “We now have what we need to leave our footprint on the world—the only question now is how big the footprint will be.”

United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (Hon.’16) then took the stage to deliver his keynote address. After a lighthearted moment— he explained that he’d worn his beaver-print tie because beavers are “nature’s engineer”—he stressed the importance of how engineers help move society forward by describing the four pillars of engineering: to solve problems; to think broadly in order to find novel solutions; to be civic-minded; and to think globally in order to have a lasting impact on the world. Echoing O’Donovan’s sentiments about the Societal Engineer, he noted how BU’s vision brings these pillars together.

“As an engineer, you have both an obligation and an opportunity to improve the lives of the underserved in this country and across the world,” Moniz told the students. “It is the highest form of diplomacy.”

Moniz—who received an honorary Doctor of Laws at Universitywide Commencement the next day—also noted that the newest generation of engineers must pick up the mantle to continue tackling some of society’s greatest challenges, from political unrest to climate change,

by harnessing the education and skills they acquired during their time at BU. “I personally believe that the engineering profession is one that is associated with social progress,” said Moniz. “No matter what you decide to do with your engineering degree, your ‘science-based approach with a system-wide view’ to solve problems will present new opportunities for solutions.”

Lutchen presented Department Awards for Teaching Excellence to Professor Hamid Nawab (ECE), Associate Professor of Practice William Hauser (ME) and Assistant Professor Ahmad Khalil (BME), who also received the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award. The Faculty Service Award went to Professor Irving Bigio (BME).

Later in the afternoon, Dean Lutchen presented 200 master’s degrees and presided over the hooding of 48 PhD students at the Fitness & Recreation Center.

Alfred O. Hero (EE’80), R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and co-director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science, gave the graduate convocation keynote address. A BU alum, he told the crowd that he recalled sitting in the same place 36 years ago at his own commencement ceremony. He encouraged graduates never to succumb to challenges, to defend their work and to remain humble and kind throughout their future careers.

“Engineering has given you the skills to organize and navigate through complex data and use it to solve problems,” Hero said. “In my experience, the two most prominent characteristics of successful engineers are the pursuit of unconventional ideas and the perseverance to get it done.” —sara cody

CLASS NOTES Joseph Hale,

1983 Lake Elmo, MN

Joseph was recently appointed director of the University of Minnesota Medical Devices Center Innovation Fellows Program, a full-immersion educational and product development program for creating medical devices. A member of the first fellow’s team from 2008 to 2009, in 2014 he became associate director and recently fulfilled the role of interim fellows director.

Christopher Benoit,

1988 Triangle, VA

Retired from the army, Christopher continues to support the army logistics community as a contract analyst and project leader. His oldest son is in the army and finishing his accounting degree; his youngest just graduated from high school and will attend Virginia Commonwealth University. In his spare time, he enjoys playing softball and riding motorcycles with his wife.

Leila Ben Gacem, 1991 Tunis, Tunisia Leila opened a guesthouse in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Located in the heart of a United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization–designated heritage site, Dar Ben Gacem is surrounded by historical monuments and artisan workshops.

David Miller, Framingham, MA After more than four years with Tilera/EZChip, in January 2016 David (’91,’94) joined Analog Devices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Engineering Advisory Board at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Leandros Zeppos, Berlin, Germany Leandros is CEO at viin GmbH (viin.co), which provides 3D laser scanning services and software development of scanning portals.

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Salwa Rafee Gladwyne, PA

1995 Salwa is leading a program with IBM

focused on cloud adoption, application innovation and migration and PMaaS platform.

Alfredo Leone,

1996 Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Alfredo (EE’96,’97) is the cofounder and partner of Nexus Global Partners, a boutique cross-border advisory firm focused on international expansion of technology companies, where he manages strategic development and is responsible for ICT-related projects, particularly in North and Latin America. He is also an executive member of the board of directors for LINGOS, a nonprofit organization that works with other nonprofits on learning solutions and initiatives using technology. On May 27 he welcomed his first son, Lorenzo de Oliveira Leone.

Nopadol Termallpark,

1996 Bangkok, Thailand

Nopadol recently began working for an air charter operator based out of Bangkok.

Georgi Korobanov,

2006 Washington, DC

Georgi is currently working as a patent examiner at the United States Patent Office.

Sanchit Bhatia, New Delhi, India Sanchit has been working on a chain of short-stay surgery hospitals in New Delhi. After four years growing his family-run Bhatia Global Hospital and creating a replicable business model for expansion, he’s headed to Duke University to pursue a master’s degree in health sector management.

2011

Ege Gurocak, Istanbul, Turkey Ege earned a master’s degree from IE Business School while living in Madrid, Spain. He is relocating to Istanbul, Turkey, where he will begin a new position working for Eli Lilly as a brand manager.

2011

Samantha MacDougal and Michael Moriera, Chelmsford, MA Samantha (ENG’11,’15) and Michael were married on August 6, 2016.

2011

Timothy Wolfe, Albuquerque, NM Timothy commissioned into the air force and was recently promoted to captain. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and recently published his first journal papers in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

2011

Wei (Allen) Chang, Duluth, GA

2012 Allen co-founded Vertera Spine, a medical

device company based in Atlanta. His process of creating a novel porous biomaterial, PEEK Scoria, mimics bone and can be used for implants in humans. Vertera’s first product, Cohore™ , a cervical fusion interbody device, has been FDA-cleared and implanted. Allen continues to lead efforts to develop lumbar products and future pipeline projects. He was named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list for manufacturing in 2016.

Ian Peezick,

2013 Chicago, IL

After working for Accenture in Boston, Ian relocated to Chicago, where he works for Solstice Mobile as a user experience researcher. In 2015 he completed his first marathon.

Ariele Friedman,

2015 Brookline, MA

Since graduating, Ariele has worked for an electrochemical company expanding their medical device division.

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IN MEMORIAM

Carlo J. De Luca Professor Emeritus Carlo J. De Luca (BME, ECE), who played a leading role in the College of Engineering’s early development as a research institution, died on July 20 at age 72.

De Luca joined the faculty in 1984, having previously served at MIT, Harvard Medical School and Queens College (where he earned his doctorate). He held appointments as research professor of neurology at the School of Medicine and professor of physical therapy at Sargent College and also served as dean ad interim of the College of Engineering from 1986 to 1989.

In a message to faculty, Dean Kenneth Lutchen cited De Luca’s impact on the College’s early efforts to establish a research portfolio.

“Carlo was the director of the Neuromuscular Research Center and was probably the first real research star faculty member recruited to the College of Engineering. His reputation helped attract some of our leading faculty thereafter,” he said. “Our standards of excellence as a research college perhaps started with Carlo.”

De Luca was known for introducing engineering principles to the field of electromyography, a diagnostic procedure that records electrical activity in muscle tissue. In 1993 he founded Delsys Inc., a company that produces wearable sensors for movement technology, and served as president and CEO until his death.

“Carlo De Luca was a world-leading innovator in using engineering methods to study human motor function. Many of the textbook findings in this research area were due to Carlo’s efforts,” says Professor and Chair John White (BME). “He was a critical early hire in building the research reputation of the BU College of Engineering.”

De Luca was a Founding Fellow of two Bioengineering societies (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Society) and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Biomedical Engineering Society.

He served one term on the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health and two terms as president of the International Society of Electrophysiological Physiology. De Luca was also the founder and president of the Neuromuscular Research Foundation.

He received the 2012 Borelli Award from the American Society of Biomechanics, the 2006 Tibbetts Award from the Small Business

Professor Emeritus Carlo J. De Luca (BME, ECE)

Technology Council of the USA and the 1999 Isabelle and Leonard H. Goldenson Technology Award from the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation among other honors and achievements.

Funeral services were held on July 25. Expressions of sympathy can be made by donating in Carlo De Luca’s memory to the Rebecca Miksad MD, MPH Discretionary Fund at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

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Ralph N. Hammond, Jr. (‘49), Torrington, CT

Robert E. Kelley (’58), Middleton, MA

Allen P. Tucker (‘66)

Rocco J. Conte (‘52), Peabody, MA

Donald C. Conradi (‘59), Vero Beach, FL

Paul B. Meckowski (‘71), Taunton, MA

Richard M. Fiorillo (‘56), Gainesville, GA

Haroutioun B. Antonian (‘62), Auburn, MA

Mark R. Templeton (’83,’09), Los Altos, CA

Gabriel M. Terrenzio (‘56,’57)

Hovhanes Agop Sarkis (‘62), Southborough, MA

Christopher Leigh Radcliff (‘85), Castine, ME

Paul E. G. Mansfield (‘57), Watertown, MA

David E. Van Allen (‘63), Oak Bluffs, MA

Paul F. O’Reilly (’95), Braintree, MA

Arthur F. Hassett (‘58), Westford, MA

David W. Lacey (‘65), Alexandria, VA

BU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED SWAY

PASSINGS

Thank You for a Record-Setting Year The generosity of alumni and friends made 2015–16 a record-setting year—the ninth consecutive one—for the College of Engineering.

The Capital Campaign surpassed its goal of $60 million and added almost $7.7 million in new gifts. The campaign, which lives under the umbrella of the University-wide fundraising initiative Campaign for Boston University, funds College programs and initiatives like the Technology Innovation Scholars Program (TISP), which gives students the chance to share their passion for engineering with younger generations with the goal of inspiring them to become Societal Engineers.

Alumni and friends also surpassed Annual Fund giving records, with $762,000 donated last year. The Annual Fund supports a number of important programs and initiatives that help students become Societal Engineers, including many outside-the-classroom opportunities where students gain practical and research experience. One example is the successful Summer Term Alumni Research Scholars (STARS) program, which provides housing to students working in faculty labs over the summer.

TISP, STARS and many other programs and initiatives that benefit from the Capital Campaign and Annual Fund create unique experiences for students not only to learn but to make an impact both inside and outside the classroom. The College and our students are grateful for your generosity.

Following is the Honor Roll of donors who contributed their support in the 2015–16 year. Visit bu.edu/eng/alumni to make your gift and ensure your name is included on the 2016–17 Honor Roll.

Honor Roll of Supporters­ $250,000–$499,999

Philip E. Murphy and Frances A. Murphy ■

$100,000–$249,999

Anonymous ■ Kenneth E. Hancock (ENG’92, ’01) and Hsi Pin Chen (MED’96, ’96, CAS’89, SPH’91) ■ Joseph P. Healey (ENG’88) David E. Hollowell (ENG’69, ’72, Questrom’74) and Kathleen A. Hollowell (GRS’71, SED’77) ■ John Tegan (ENG’88) ■

$50,000–$99,999

Anonymous Bertrom Ballard and Belle Ballard ■ Roger A. Dorf (ENG’70) and Sandra M. Dorf David F. Kiersznowski (ENG’85) and Demi D. Lloyd ■ ■ Peter J. Levine (ENG’83) ■

$25,000–$49,999

Mary S. Abele (CAS’60) and John E. Abele ■ Adel B. Al-Saleh (ENG’87) and Gladys Al-Saleh Haleh Azar and Ali Shajii ■ ■ Edward S. W. Boesel (ENG’70) ■ William D. Felder and Katharine C. Felder ■ ■ Jeffrey L. Greenacre ■ Linda S. Lipay ■ ■ John A. Maccarone (ENG’66) and Young O. Maccarone ■ Theresa A. Madden ■ S. Rob Colby Pierce ■ Binoy K. Singh (ENG’89) ■

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous ■ ■ Charles R. Cantor ■ ■ Wayne Cheung (ENG’99) Peter K. (ENG’64) and Lorraine P. Cocolis (SAR’63) ■ ■ ■ Professor Ted de Winter ■ ■ ■ Lawrence F. DePaulis (ENG’99) and Debra D. DePaulis (ENG’99) ■ Hanna G. Evans Gerald J. Fine and L. Victoria LeFevre ■ Reza M. Ghaffari (ENG’86) and Roudabeh Ghaffari ■ Raymond L. Han (CAS’98) ■ Francis A. Harrington (ENG’70, ’72, ’77) Bettina Briz-Himes (ENG’86) and Peter G. Himes ■ Christine S. Hunter (MED’80, CAS’80) ■ ■ Nicholas J. Lippis (ENG’84, ’89) and Lillian A. Lippis ■ ■ ■ Dr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Maneval (ENG’82) ■ John D. Nachmann (CAS’89) and Catherine Nachmann ■ Girish M. Navani (ENG’91) and Radhi G. Navani ■ Michael L. Salamone (ENG’84) and Pamela E. Salamone ■ ■ Simon L. Strong (ENG’79, Questrom’91) and Sarah A. Strong Miltos K. Sugiultzoglu (ENG’89, GRS’91, MED’98) and Eleni Litina ■ Mark R. Templeton (ENG’11) and Betsy Templeton ■ ■ Gordon M. Walsh ■ Gordon R. Walsh (ENG’67, ’68, Questrom’71) and Irene S. Walsh ■

$5,000–$9,999

Jonathan J. Ahnen and Jill D. Ahnen ■ James Amend ■ Patrick Armstrong ■ ■ Charles E. Bascom (ENG’64) and Christina M. Bascom ■ Greg Boyce ■ Saad N. Buisier (ENG’03) and Rita M. Buisier ■ Alice Chee ■ ■ Barbara M. Cohen ■ Claudia A. Dunsby (ENG’92) and Martin B. Dunsby ■ Tony L. Fant and Sheila M. Fant ■ ■ Vanessa C. Feliberti (ENG’93) ■ Janet A. Fraser (ENG’81) and Gregory B. Fraser ■ Jennifer R. Gruber (ENG’99, ’99) and Ron Sostaric ■ ■ Alfred O. Hero (ENG’77, ’80, CAS’76) and Therese M. Hero ■ Brendon J. Howe (ENG’84) and Lynne M. Wadman-Howe (SED’87) ■ Bob Hunt and Jacki Hunt ■ ■ Kurt Kessler ■ Ezra D. Kucharz (ENG’90) and Jennifer M. Kucharz ■ Martin I. Lynch (ENG’82) and Kelly Lynch ■ ■ Kevin F. Malone and Sue Malone ■ Andrew J. Marsh (ENG’83) and Heather J. Marsh (CAS’83) ■ ■ David W. McCormick (ENG’61) ■ Eric J. Meltzer (ENG’82) and Brooke Meltzer (MET’82, CGS’80) ■ Richard J. Mendes (ENG’86) and Catherine Mendes ■ ■ Andrew Moin and Meghan Moin ■ Theodore D. Moustakas and Elena Moustakas ■ ■ ■ William E. Neifert (ENG’90, ’92) ■ Justine Osage-Laugharn (ENG’83) and James A. Laugharn ■ Sanjay Patel (ENG’87) and Falguni S. Patel ■ ■ ■ Glenn J. Riedman (ENG’90) and Jill Riedman ■ Vladimir Rozanovich (ENG’96) ■ Francis J. Troise (ENG’87) and Jill Troise ■ William W. Weiss (ENG’83, ’97) and Maria E. Weiss Timothy A. Whicker and Bonnita K. Whicker ■ ■

$2,500–$4,999

Gregg E. Adkin (ENG’86) and Kimberly A. Adkin ■ ■ Arshad Ashraf (CAS’96, ENG’96) and Tasneem Mayet (CAS’95) ■ Professor Stormy Attaway (GRS’84, ’88) ■ ■ Christopher H. Brousseau (ENG’91) and Mary Lou K. Cronin ■ ■ Jason P. Colacchio (ENG’90) and Tracy L. Colacchio ■ James A. Connors (ENG’97) and June A. Connors ■ Martin J. DeMatteo and Judith DeMatteo ■ Nicholas R. Doucette (ENG’09) ■ Patrick J. Foley (ENG’91, ’94) and Kerry C. Foley (ENG’91) ■ ■ William W. Grigsby and Janace G. Grigsby ■ Alireza Hakimi (ENG’82, ’86) and Nazila Bidabadi (SDM’87, CAS’82) ■ Lisa Hansen ■ ■

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Loyalty Society Member | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 6 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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Larry Leszczynski (ENG’85) and Anne E. Hines (ENG’87) ■ ■ Marjorie F. Hsu (ENG’86, Questrom’93) and David R. Buckler ■ Ruth A. Hunter (ENG’64, Questrom’86) ■ ■ Nikesh Kotecha (ENG’99) and Masumi P. Patel (Questrom’99, MET’02) ■ Gayle W. Lutchen (SED’93) and Kenneth R. Lutchen ■ ■ ■ ■ Matthias F. Moran and Clare A. Moran ■ ■ Carl L. Myers (ENG’65) and Jane S. Myers ■ Stephen N. Oesterle ■ Samuel G. Oliva (CGS’89, Questrom’91, ENG’97) Donald C. Reny (ENG’88) and Jennifer R. Reny ■ ■ Christopher H. Rothko and Lori L. Cohen ■ ■ George M. Savage (ENG’81) and Nancy K. Savage (COM’80) ■ Frederic J. Syrjala (ENG’60, ’58) and Mary E. Syrjala ■ Geoffrey M. Tobin and Brei Tobin ■ Bryan Wong and Yvonne Yeung ■ ■ Joyce F. Wood ■ ■ Robert P. Wotiz (ENG’99, ’05, ’06) ■

$1,000–$2,499

Anonymous ■ Darren Aklestad ■ ■ Mr. Husain Mahmoud Al-Bustan (ENG’89, ’91) ■ Norma J. Anderson ■ Colleen B. Athans (ENG’89) and Dean G. Athans Ansel F. Beacham and Margaret Beacham ■ ■ David J. Bishop ■ Alan L. Rothman (MED’83, ’83, CAS’83) and Lori B. Bornstein (ENG’88) ■ Andre L. Botelho (ENG’03, ’08, ’12) and Sayaka Koseki (CAS’07, Questrom’11, SPH’11) ■ David J. Brand (ENG’83) and Deborah P. Brand ■ Colin Butterfield (ENG’95) and Renata T. Zaniratto (CGS’00, Questrom’02) ■ David K. Campbell and Claude E. Hobson ■ ■ Regina G. Carolan (ENG’97, ’03) ■ Brant A. Cheikes (ENG’84) and Janine Papesh ■ George Cimochowski ■ ■ Robert W. Clarke (ENG’90) and Erika E. Clarke (CAS’92) ■ Richard C. Scully (ENG’81, Questrom’78) and Deborah L. Cobb (SAR’77) Abdulrasul A. Damji (ENG’85, ’90) and Amina Damji ■ ■ ■ Uday Dasika and Elizabeth Kahn ■ Hemang D. Dave and Theresa Dave ■ ■ Jeffrey B. Davis (ENG’85) ■ David Dean (ENG’73) and Deborah P. Rata ■ ■ Scott Denko and Anne Denko ■ ■ Thomas R. Donahue (CAS’81) and Frances L. Donahue (ENG’82) ■ Michael Duckworth and Kara Duckworth ■ Howard C. Ehrlich (ENG’60) and Nina W. Ehrlich ■ Solomon R. Eisenberg and Terri B. Eisenberg ■ ■ ■ Tahsin M. Ergin (ENG’81) and Colleen P. Ergin ■ Julieanne Estes ■ Peter C. Fang (ENG’75) and Josephine T. Fang Paul M. Faustin (ENG’85, ’88) and Myriam Faustin ■ Edwin J. Fitzpatrick (CGS’70, CAS’72) ■ ■

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Christopher A. Frail (ENG’97) and Melissa Frail (ENG’97) ■ Timothy Ganley (ENG’91) ■ Ronald G. Garriques (ENG’86) and Karena Garriques ■ John M. Garvey (ENG’86) and Kimberly J. Garvey ■ Dirk Gastaldo and Maryann Gastaldo ■ ■ Lisa W. Gill ■ ■ Steven J. Goldman (ENG’91) ■ ■ Warren M. Grill (ENG’89) and Julia Grill ■ George C. Guerra (ENG’84) ■ Roger A. Hajjar (ENG’88) and Jeannette Hajjar ■ Suzanne Harris ■ William T. Hathaway (ENG’65) and Joan L. Hathaway ■ Bader M. Hawary (ENG’01, ’02) ■ Robert H. Howland (ENG’82) and Michele H. Howland ■ Kent W. Hughes (ENG’79) and Debra S. Hughes ■ William I. Huyett and Lauren M. Huyett ■ Jarl B. Jensen (ENG’94) ■ David H. Johnson (ENG’65, ’66) and Rebecca G. Thompson ■ Stacey T. Kern ■ Min Ki M. Kim (ENG’86) and Michelle Kim ■ Lawrence Klein and Susanne Klein ■ ■ David H. Klingbiel and Lisa L. Rozich-Klingbiel ■ Tyler D. Kohn (ENG’98) ■ Karen E. Kullas (ENG’77) and Bruce Newcomb ■ Andrea L. Lacey ■ David W. Lacey (ENG’65) ■ Manuel A. Landa (ENG’66) Min-Chang Lee ■ ■ ■ ■ Joshua Levy and Sarah J. Levy ■ Thomas P. Lisowski (ENG’95) ■ Sophia Lopez ■ James E. Luck (ENG’93, CAS’94) Mark A. Margolis and Weezie Margolis ■ ■ Marguerite P. Matson Shaun P. McManimon (ENG’83) ■ Pamela L. Metz (ENG’81) Kenneth Mitchell ■ Caren Mulcunry ■ ■ Jacobus C. Muller ■ ■ Rao P. Mulpuri (ENG’96, ’92) and Rohini D. Mulpuri ■ Maheshkumar S. Navani (ENG’90) and Asharani M. Navani Anastas Nenov and Neviana Nenov ■ Richard A. Ng-Yow (Questrom’88, ‘85) and Tamara S. Ng-Yow (ENG’87, Questrom’88) Jill Nolte ■ ■ Chinonso C. Okparanta (ENG’93) ■ John D. O’Neil (ENG’62) and Mary L. O’Neil ■ Osman M. Oueida (ENG’01) ■ George S. Ouellette (ENG’81) ■ Umur Ozal (ENG’96) ■ Devan V. Padmanabhan and Suchita Padmanabhan ■ ■ Susan Palombo ■ John Papadopoulos (ENG’60) and Mahi A. Papadopoulos ■ Anton T. Papp (ENG’90) and Susan Papp ■ ■ Sandip A. Patidar (ENG’90) ■ James S. Paulsen (ENG’69, ’72) and Susan C. Paulsen ■ Marc Perlman and Jane Perlman ■ ■ ■ Claus Pramer (ENG’88) and Patricia M. Machado (CAS’90) ■ ■ Andrew P. Quick (ENG’92, ’95) and Tracy M. Quick (SED’93) ■

Sharad Rastogi (ENG’91) ■ Sandra L. Rivas-Hall (ENG’81) and William C. Hall ■ Frank N. Salamone (ENG’94) and Elizabeth S. Salamone ■ ■ Richard Sartini and Diane Sartini ■ John A. Scaramuzzo (ENG’87) Denise M. Schier (ENG’81) and Karl A. Schier ■ Lorri Schulte ■ ■ Gregory D. Seiden (ENG’80) and Robin K. Seiden ■ Nimis S. Sheth (ENG’87, Questrom’87) and Geeta S. Thorat Monica L. Slegar (ENG’02, Questrom’05) ■ Michael Sommer ■ ■ Patrick D. Spearman (ENG’96) and Jane Oldfield-Spearman (SSW’92) ■ Robert R. Spitaels and Ann T. Spitaels ■ Dylan P. Steeg (ENG’95) and Mu-En Steeg (CAS’94) ■ Francis A. Tiernan (ENG’70) and Barbara H. Tiernan ■ Richard Tobin and Janet Tobin ■ Michelle F. Tortolani (ENG’82, ’89) ■ Carol Tripp ■ Mark A. Tubinis (ENG’81) and Martha Tubinis ■ Daniel A. Tyszka (ENG’94) and Gloria L. Sherman-Tyszka (Questrom’89) ■ Henry T. Ubik and Sally E. Tuma ■ ■ James Wedding ■ ■ Ashley N. Weigand (ENG’98) and James R. Weigand ■ Richard B. Welch (Questrom’11) and Anne Welch ■ Norman L. Whitley (ENG’75) Berl P. Winston (ENG’64) and Alice J. Winston (SED’65) ■ ■ Chi-Hua P. Wu (ENG’93) ■ Ainslie Wyllie ■ Xianfeng Zhao (ENG’04) and Yanyan Wang ■ Janice K. Zika (ENG’84) ■

$500–$999

John C. Ackermann and Mary F. Ackermann ■ Alexander Adam (ENG’92, ’95, ’03) and Davina D. Wong (Questrom’02) George M. Archer (ENG’05) Anthony Barksdale ■ Kelsey Barr ■ Joseph M. Basile (ENG’82) Roger D. Beaulieu and Jane P. Gagne ■ Michael D. Belmarsh (ENG’95, MET’00) ■ James D. Bethune (ENG’64, Questrom’74, SED’91) ■ ■ Paul A. Bierden (ENG’92, ’94) and Sheryl C. Bierden (SAR’97, ’95) Samuel A. Black (ENG’16) ■ Thomas Black and JoAnn Black ■ Dave Blanchard and Danielle Blanchard Frederick N. Blount (ENG’66) and Judith A. Blount ■ Sarah H. Brukilacchio (ENG’89) and Thomas J. Brukilacchio Robert Buckley and Sara Buckley Anastasia Bukhman ■ James J. Byrne (ENG’93) and Sarah M. Byrne (SAR’93) James J. Cahill (ENG’85) and Donna C. Cahill (Questrom’85) Charlene E. Cain (SON’68) and Michael P. Cain Ignatius D. Calalang (ENG’88, ’99) Stephen M. Campbell (ENG’97)

Frederic D. Carter (ENG’97) Jerald Chamberlain and Juliette Chamberlain Wesley R. Chedister (ENG’00) ■ Kenneth T. Cheng (ENG’84) Jerry Chew (ENG’70) Matt F. Chisholm (ENG’99) Lubomir T. Chitkushev (ENG’96) and Irena Vodenska (UNI’09) ■ Daniel J. Clancy (ENG’91) Gregory S. Cordrey (ENG’88) and Stephanie K. Cordrey ■ Susan L. Crockett (ENG’84) and David Crockett Wei Dai (ENG’99) and Sau Sim Lee Thyagaraju Damarla (GRS’87, ENG’93) and Bai K. Damarla ■ Catherine Davis ■ Alexander C. Demusz (ENG’08) Jordan D. Desautels (ENG’15) ■ David Desmond and Lisa Desmond ■ Sheila J. Dooley (ENG’91) Lawrence S. Drasner (ENG’89) and Dawn M. Drasner Peter D. Eisenberg ■ Brett Farmer Jiang Foo and Gengxia Zhu ■ Christy Forrester ■ Mary A. Garrett (ENG’80) Joseph R. Geber and Jean M. Geber Joshua Genser and Elaina Genser David Gober ■ Sean P. Gold (ENG’85, ’88) Alison Graves-Calhoun (ENG’91) and W. Byron Calhoun ■ Kevin Groeper ■ Dongwoo Hahn (ENG’06) Ronald J. Halaby (ENG’62) William M. Hauser ■ John Hemenway (ENG’95) Peter C. Hofstetter (ENG’66) and Mary M. Hofstetter Qun Sun and Hangchun Hu ■ Ronald Hunter (ENG’80, Questrom’82) Molly Hynes Brian A. Johnson (ENG’85) and Wanda A. Crawford Donald R. Johnson (ENG’65) and Roberta C. Johnson Ronald H. Johnson (ENG’59) and Mary J. Johnson Bruce C. Jordan ■ Michael N. Keefe (ENG’89) and Ana C. Keefe Thomas D. Keegan (ENG’94) and Beth A. Keegan ■ Stephen T. Keith (ENG’66) Arnold Kumar Steven B. Kushnick (ENG’80) and Debra Kushnick D. Martin Leibold (ENG’89) and Kathleen D. Leibold Theresa Lemmerman ■ Robert B. Leonard (ENG’84) and Ilene H. Leonard Robert C. Levin (ENG’87, ’88) Fred Liebowitz and Robin Liebowitz ■ Gib L. Lundquist and Michelle M. Lundquist Thomas F. Mahan (ENG’78, ’80) Conor R. McCarron (ENG’14, ’16) ■ Jeffrey M. Melzak (CAS’84) and Julie S. Melzak (ENG’87) Scott E. Meninger (ENG’96) David M. Merer (ENG’86) and Michelle S. Merer Kriss Miller Jeffrey W. Moore (ENG’89) Jonathan R. Mooty (ENG’90) Alfred E. Muccini (ENG’62) ■

Matthew F. Murphy (ENG’85) and Teresa Weathersby-Murphy John M. Murren Ellie Nickeson ■ Pamela A. Oliver (ENG’84) and Mark R. Whittaker Erik V. Orient ■ Francisco Ortiz and Edith Ortiz ■ Luis A. Pagan-Carlo (ENG’85) Devang K. Parikh (ENG’99) Ajan B. Patel (ENG’06) Jay B. Penafiel (ENG’90) and Elise G. Penafiel Jud Perkins ■ Marianna Pisano ■ Angela Pitter-Wright (ENG’86, MET’93) and Richard E. Wright ■ Edward A. Pohl (ENG’84) and Letitia M. Pohl ■ Carlo P. Quicho (ENG’18) ■ James D. Quinty (ENG’86) and Elizabeth Quinty Agnes Rayome Peter E. Renzi (ENG’85, ’87) and Christine A. Giurdanella-Renzi (ENG’87, ’87, ’89) ■ Eric Riddleberger ■ Jeffrey T. Roy (ENG’95) and Whitney J. Roy David Royce (ENG’65) Crystal D. Sayles (ENG’78, CGS’75) Maria Scardera (ENG’84) and Michael P. Scardera Dana F. Schuh (Questrom’85) and Deborah L. Schuh (ENG’88) Susan Shaheen ■ Rez Sherifi ■ John J. Shynk (ENG’79) and Tokie L. Shynk (SON’79) Greg Slyngstad and Mimi Slyngstad ■ Allyson Snik ■ James M. Stewart (ENG’64) Paul Tartaglia and Gina Tartaglia Ann L. Tedford (ENG’78) Tracy D. Tillett (ENG’90) Kenneth C. Tolides (ENG’58) Jason M. Ulberg (ENG’98) and Jaime Ulberg (Questrom’98) Dinesh Venkatesh (ENG’92, ’98) and Sowmya Manjanatha Richard Z. White ■ Adam K. Wise and Ann S. Wise ■ John D. Wolff (ENG’99) and Kimberly M. Wolff (Questrom’99) Frederick J. Yannessa and Joan S. Yannessa ■ Siavash Yazdanfar (ENG’96) Cheng Y. Yeo ■ Joshua S. Zeisel (ENG’07)

$250–$499

Farah A. Alabdulrazzaq (ENG’97) and Talal Alfozan ■ Talal H. Alfakhri (ENG’18) ■ Omar Ali (ENG’96) Matthew Annese and Donna Annese ■ Terry F. Anthony (ENG’86) and Chyanna Mull-Anthony (MET’86) Lauren Beigel ■ Peter H. Belmonte (ENG’10, BUA’06) Neil D. Beneck (SPH’94) and Marie-Helene Saint-Hilaire ■ ■ Christopher Benoit (ENG’88) ■ Thomas G. Bifano ■ Mitchell Bleznak and Michele Bleznak ■ Laura R. Bolte ■ Joseph E. Bonnem (ENG’92) and Katherine M. Bonnem David Boylan and Sherry Boylan Daniel Boyle ■ ■ Suzanne M. Brogger

Alfred S. Brothers (ENG’64) and Sandra J. Brothers ■ ■ Keith P. Buday (MET’85) and Teresa H. Buday (ENG’86) ■ Kevin H. Burek (ENG’08) Bruce A. Burns James H. Caplan (Questrom’83, ENG’79) and Heather C. Caplan (Questrom’94) Francis J. Capone (ENG’59) and Diane M. Capone Kun Hu (GRS’05) and Jing Chen (ENG’04) Wenyuan Chen (ENG’04) David Chi (ENG’95) and Michelle van Voorhies (LAW’95) Susan Cleaver (Questrom’92) ■ ■ ■ Joseph E. Coffey (ENG’72) and Sharon R. Coffey Kira L. Cole (COM’14) ■ Anthony B. Sabidussi and Alfonsina Comune ■ ■ Anthony Cuomo (ENG’93) and Gina Johnson-Cuomo Kenneth A. Curtiss and Marcela S. Curtiss ■ Michael DeBonis Raymond Diaz (ENG’84) and Virginia C. Diaz Peter M. Dichiara (ENG’85, LAW’93) and Liz Dichiara Allan J. Dolinski and Claudette C. Dolinski ■ Paul Droar Michael Duchnowski (ENG’91, ’93) and Magda Duchnowski Jason R. Dunklee (ENG’05) and Deborah L. Dunklee (ENG’87, Questrom’98) Patrick T. Easter (ENG’87) and Kristin E. Easter (SAR’87) ■ Michael R. Empey (ENG’95) Yuguang Fang (ENG’97) and Jennifer Y. Lu Anthony V. Ferraro (ENG’90) and Kelly A. Ferraro (CAS’90, GRS’93) Johanna T. Fifi (ENG’96, MED’00) and Rachel Ventura Sharon Kaiser Fincher (ENG’82) and Thomas G. Fincher Earl B. Finney (ENG’94) and Rosalind Finney (ENG’93) R. Keith First and Misty L. First Friends of Bionic Pancreas ■ Juan M. Gomez (ENG’90, ’92) ■ Richard G. Gould (ENG’90, CGS’85) and Diana Stilwell Raymond M. Govotski (ENG’95) Berke E. Guzelsu (ENG’14, ’15, Questrom’18) ■ Nejat Guzelsu and Isil Guzelsu ■ Roswell G. Hall (ENG’72) and Gretchen O. Hall Anne E. Hasson (ENG’88) Julie Hatfield ■ Tomohiko Hayashi (ENG’02) and Emily A. Waters Hayashi Charles T. Hickson (ENG’88) and Susanne Paullin Ryan M. Hill (ENG’07, ’10) Yue-shun E. Ho (ENG’89) Peter H. Hoffman (ENG’74, Questrom’01) and Pam W. Hoffman Jody L. Hoppe (ENG’82) Bing Hou (ENG’95) and Gui-Hua Zhang ■ Daniel T. Huynh (ENG’08) Gerard D. Irmer (ENG’64, CGS’63) and Lois J. Irmer Micah A. Jacobs (ENG’99) and Beth Jacobs Hyun J. Jung (ENG’93) Keith J. Kalinoski (ENG’97) William J. Karlon (ENG’88, ’91) Michael J. Kaufman (CAS’87) and Jenifer M. Kaufman (ENG’90) ■ Georgi Korobanov (ENG’06) ■ Andrew P. Kurtzig and Sara M. Kurtzig

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Tina G. DePiero (ENG’88) and Douglas K. DePiero ■ Kevan S. Desai (ENG’09) Ali-Zain Dhukka (ENG’12) Thomas M. DiCicco (ENG’01) Zoe E. Dickert (CAS’16, ENG’16) Gabriel V. DiFilippo (ENG’58) and Mary E. DiFilippo Mark J. DiFilippo (ENG’12) Joshua I. Dill (ENG’11) ■ Russell G. DiMicco (ENG’84) Luigi DiMonaco and Maria DiMonaco ■ Pierre Divenyi Aditya Dixit (ENG’16) W. J. Dolan (ENG’65) and Carol F. Dolan Curtis P. Doll and Donna D. Doll ■ Anthony Donnaruma (ENG’84) Maria A. Doreste De Coll ■ ■ Cathy S. Dorsey (ENG’83) Weina F. Dorsky (ENG’03) and Jason M. Dorsky Donovan P. Dowers (ENG’16, CAS’16) Timothy E. Dowling (ENG’82) and Marylynne E. Dowling Brian C. Downey (ENG’94) and Shauna B. Downey Robert D. Draper (ENG’16) Krista Driver ■ Kristin Drummelsmith ■ Julie Drzewiecki ■ Ping Du (ENG’13) Joseph Duca (ENG’67, ’68) and Nancy J. Duca Andrew E. Dudek (ENG’03) Carlton J. Duffett (ENG’16) Meredith A. Duffy (ENG’11) Marie M. Dunnington Michaelina C. Dupnik (ENG’14) ■ Timothy M. Durkin (ENG’09) Wayne W. Duso (ENG’91) John A. Duval (ENG’89) and Kathleen R. Duval ■ Maria T. Earle (ENG’85) and George W. Earle Mary A. Economy (ENG’19) Theodore J. Economy ■ ■ Alejandro J. Eguren (ENG’16) Gabriel S. Eichler (ENG’08, ’05, GRS’05, ’08) ■ Paul Eid ■ Heidi Eikenhorst ■ Joshua A. Einstein (ENG’11) Gerald R. Eisler (ENG’72) and Rosemarie Eisler Sara Ekhlas (ENG’16) Yassine El Yousfi (ENG’16) John Eldridge ■ Kelly Eldridge ■ Charles C. Eliot (ENG’58) and Nancy G. Eliot Andria M. Ellis (ENG’16) ■ Jay H. Ellowitz (ENG’74) and Jill H. Ellowitz Robert G. Elman and Mary S. Elman ■ Antonio J. Encarnacao and Katherine A. Encarnacao ■ Monica L. Eng (ENG’11) Dennis Enos (ENG’68) Egem Eraslan (ENG’14) Elijah T. Ercolino (ENG’10) ■ David G. Erickson (ENG’93) and Melissa J. Erickson (CAS’92, SED’94) ■ Gustavo P. Espinosa (ENG’91) Alexandria B. Espinoza-Manuel (ENG’16) Charles U. Evans (ENG’16) Sera Evcimen (ENG’18) Andrea Eveslage ■ Meagan Faas Dereck C. Fagundes (ENG’16) ■ Manuel N. Fagundes and Maria F. Fagundes ■ Matthew D. Falcone (ENG’19)

Veronica A. Faller (ENG’13, MED’17) Qun Fan (ENG’95) Hiba Fareed (Questrom’16, ENG’16) Nikolaos Farmakidis (ENG’15, ’17) Brian K. Farmer (ENG’97) Matthew A. Farmer (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Jacqueline M. Farnsworth (ENG’17) Caleb H. Farny (ENG’04, ’07) and Natalie G. Farny ■ John J. Farrell (ENG’14, ’14) and Andrea F. Farrell ■ ■ Jaggen Farwell (CAS’03) Stephen J. Fasano (ENG’06) David L. Feldman (ENG’66) and Patricia A. Feldman Derek C. Felschow (ENG’06) Haihua Feng (ENG’99, ’02) ■ Zhangzhengrong Feng (ENG’16) Janet Fenn James Ferguson (ENG’61) and Patricia Ferguson Allison A. Ferlito ■ Felipe S. Fernandes (ENG’02) Maria A. Ferreira-Cesar (ENG’14) Jose O. Ferreyra ■ ■ Jacob T. Ferriero (ENG’17) Alice M. Feuerstein ■ Hossein Vahedi and Mary Ann T. Figoni ■ ■ Joseph Filko ■ Christine Fillette Shiller Fils Aime and Marie Myrtha M. Fils Aime ■ Yevgeniy Finegold (ENG’04, MET’10) Jonathan Finkle (ENG’85) and Judith S. Finkle Paul J. Finklestein (ENG’79) and Lisa Finklestein ■ Colin Finn and Stephanie Finn Dennis M. Finnance (ENG’65) Carter First Andrew M. Fisher (ENG’10, ’16, ’16) Mary E. Fisher Justin Flammia (ENG’06) James P. Flanigon (ENG’09, GRS’09) and Michelene Flanigon Margritha Fliegauf Casey N. Flynn (ENG’17) Elena G. Flynn (CAS’17, ENG’17) Miklos Fogarasi and Ildiko E. Toth ■ ■ James Y. Fong (ENG’71, ’74) and Margaret Y. Fong Jennifer K. Fong (ENG’17) Man K. Fong (ENG’90) Stephen P. Foraste (ENG’91, ’94) and Alyssa Duffy Howard N. Forbes (ENG’81) and Digna M. Forbes (CAS’82) Mark R. Ford (ENG’77, ’83) and Priscilla W. Ford Lee A. Fortier (ENG’91) and Bethany J. Fortier Donald A. Foster (ENG’92) and Carole C. Foster Maurice H. Foster (ENG’53) and Nan J. Foster Liam A. Fox (ENG’16) Maryellen Fox ■ William A. Fox and Delores Z. Fox ■ Mario E. Frare (ENG’16) John A. Frassica (ENG’66) and Rosalie M. Frassica Darryl O. Freeman (ENG’87, ’88) Clark C. Freifeld (ENG’14) ■ David W. Freitag (ENG’91) and Patricia K. Freitag (CAS’84, SED’91) John F. French (ENG’96) Richard L. Freyman Jeffrey P. Frick and Angelica A. Zachara ■ Victoria A. Frick (ENG’17)

Stephen P. Fricke (ENG’91) and Amy L. Brenner-Fricke (COM’89) Helaine R. Friedlander (SED’75) ■ Friends of Hridaybasi Singh ■ Pei-Chuan Fu (ENG’16) ■ Peter L. Fuller (ENG’96) Richard A. Fuller (ENG’88) and Tiffany Fuller Michael G. Furlong and JoAnn Furlong ■ Sheila C. Furr (SED’72) and Robert Furr Roger J. Gagnon (ENG’68) and Christine C. Gagnon Pawel Gajkowski (ENG’02) Terence J. Galasso (ENG’13) Christine A. Galica (Questrom’79) and Michael A. Galica ■ Peter D. Galvin (ENG’12) Heather N. Gamble (CAS’16, ENG’17) Zachary W. Ganger (ENG’16) Rijish Ganguly (ENG’18) Ralph G. Ganick (MED’67, CAS’67) and Lois B. Ganick ■ ■ Christine Ganon ■ Laura E. Garcia ■ ■ Sharon B. Garde (ENG’86) and Cesar A. Garde Timothy S. Gardner (ENG’00) and Wendy C. Gardner (CGS’95, SAR’97) Elodie Garel ■ Luca Gasperini ■ Brian M. Gaudet (ENG’17) Matthew M. Geary (ENG’81, Questrom’84) and Dawn M. Sinnigen Jennifer Gehling ■ ■ Brian M. Gelblat (ENG’17) John R. Gendi (ENG’16) ■ Gregory M. Genecin (ENG’16) Paul M. Gennaro (ENG’16) Douglas R. George (ENG’90) and Annissa Essaibi-George (CAS’96) Keith M. George (ENG’15) Jeffrey D. Gereige (ENG’11) Noam Geri and Tamar Sofer-Geri Keny A. German (ENG’16) George L. Getchell (ENG’54) and Veronica G. Getchell Reza K. Gharavi (ENG’87) Shmyle Ghumman (ENG’18) Aubrey D. Giasson (ENG’16) ■ Tate M. Gill (ENG’18) Irving S. Giller (ENG’07) Katherine L. Girouard (ENG’17) Peter D. Girouard (ENG’12, ’12) Vicki Glembocki ■ Larry Goldberg (ENG’86) and Diane Goldberg (CAS’84) Richard A. Goldenberg (ENG’88) and Janet Z. Goldenberg Matthew L. Goldsmith (CAS’94) Daniel G. Goncalves (CAS’05, SED’10) ■ Miguel Angel Goni Rodrigo (ENG’19) Stephen P. Gonzales and Catherine B. Gonzales ■ ■ Jeremy J. Gonzalez (ENG’16) Kumarapuram A. Gopalakrishnan (ENG’12) Michael W. Gor (ENG’79, ’80) Gregg S. Gordon (Questrom’96) Daniel Q. Gorelick (ENG’16) ■ Jacob Goroshko (ENG’19) Peter L. Goulakos (ENG’16) Amanda C. Grafilo (ENG’15) Carl I. Graham (ENG’87) Douglas W. Graham (ENG’86) and Janine Grauvogl-Graham K. David Graham and Julie S. Graham ■ Daniel J. Grasso (ENG’12, ’14, ’17) Michael J. Greaney (SED’98) and Katherine J. Greaney (ENG’00)

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Loyalty Society Member | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 6 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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HONOR ROLL

JENNY GRUBER (AME’99) has always had her eyes on the stars—growing up in a Nebraska trailer park, they fascinated her and she dreamed of a life studying them. Today she works for NASA, where she assesses space station flight controllers and is the lead for inventory and stowage officers, managing the daily tracking and inventory for US cargo on the International Space Station. For Gruber, working for NASA is a dream made possible by her experience at BU. And now she wants to pay it forward to future generations of students.

“I feel very strongly about Boston University and the College of Engineering in particular, because they gave me an opportunity when no one else would,” she says. “When I was far from home, the community made me feel welcome and the professors made me feel like if I was willing to work hard, they would be willing to work hard with me. BU gave me so much and now I want to give back.”

Upon her acceptance to BU, Gruber decided to pursue the accelerated BS/MS degree program in aerospace engineering.

In addition to maintaining her spot on the Dean’s List every semester, she got involved in extracurricular activities such as the

Brian R. Greco (ENG’16) Charles J. Green (ENG’79) and Kerin L. Green Michael J. Green (ENG’09) and Stephanie L. Teale Dan Greer ■ James W. Gribbons and Joanne M. Gribbons Susan M. Griffin (COM’85) Jason D. Grissino (ENG’16) Delores Groeper ■ Frederick K. Groll (ENG’82) and Claire C. Groll (SAR’84) ■ Matti D. Groll (ENG’17) Albert O. Grunow (ENG’61) and Deanne D. Grunow Xiaofei Guan (ENG’13) Young Guang (ENG’16, ’16) Shoshannah Guerrero Louisa J. Guise (ENG’83, ’87) and James R. Guise Michael H. Gurr (ENG’13) ■ Algimantas R. Gustaitis (ENG’59) and Mary D. Gustaitis George A. Gutierrez and Maria G. Gutierrez ■ Micheal A. Gutman (ENG’17) Janet L. Gyger (ENG’87) Spencer R. Haas (ENG’17, Questrom’17) Ronald A. Haberkorn (ENG’89) and Phoebe M. Haberkorn (COM’78) Akram A. Habibi (ENG’16) ■

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engineering honor societies and gymnastics, and she also participated in undergraduate summer research opportunities. Her educational experience culminated in her senior year, when she was one of 32 students selected from a national pool of 1,000 for a Rhodes scholarship. She spent the next three years working on her doctoral thesis on ion propulsion at Oxford University, graduating in 2002.

Gruber has been a regular participant in philanthropy to support the College, ramping up her efforts as she became more established in her career. She was invited to join the BU Alumni Council in recognition of her career success and support of her alma mater. For

Donald J. Habinc (ENG’68) Natasha A. Hagen (ENG’12) Isabela S. Haghighi (ENG’15) Yimer Wolle and Abebech Kassa Hailemairam ■ Karen Haire ■ Joseph E. Hale (ENG’83) and Lori B. Hale Olivia R. Hale (ENG’16) Thomas R. Hall (ENG’12) Chien-Jih Han and Patricia S. Han ■ Jinzhi Han (ENG’19) Kristen Hanahan ■ Aslam T. Handy (ENG’90) and Joyce E. Hatch Michael T. Hanna (ENG’17, CGS’14) Nael Hannan (ENG’94) and Eima Malik Wayne V. Hardacker (ENG’69) and Patricia A. Hardacker Sasikanth Harpanahalli and Vardhani S. Harpanahalli ■ ■ Robert C. Harrington (ENG’00) Esen D. Harris (ENG’18) Julian I. Hart (ENG’12) Ashley L. Hartman (ENG’17) William Hartman Cory W. Haselmayer (ENG’13) Mohammad F. Hashem (ENG’19) Terence Hatfield (ENG’11) ■ Arthur R. Hathaway (ENG’59) and Marilyn D. Hathaway

BU Giving Day last April, she matched $25 to each Engineering Annual Fund donation, which resulted in a 36 percent increase from the previous year and the most successful Giving Day ever. Gruber also matched donations from the ENG senior class as part of the Class Gift Program that helped generate gifts from 58 percent of undergraduates, a record level of program participants. Her efforts helped the College surpass our annual goal, with more than $762,000 raised this year for the Annual Fund, which supports many extracurricular opportunities for ENG students like the BU Rocket Team and the Summer Term Alumni Research Scholars program.

“I think I can speak for many alumni when I say we took advantage of some kind of opportunity that was supported by the Annual Fund,” says Gruber. “It’s important for students to gain experience outside of the classroom and I am happy to be able to support that.”

Gruber has fond memories of BU, crediting her time at the College with allowing her to establish a strong foundation for her career.

“I am so thankful for everything that BU did to support me, and I think that once we graduate, alumni should continue to contribute to the students of the future,” she says. “I like to see our society continue to advance, so it’s important for me to invest my time and my money in young people.”

Thomas Hawkins ■ Michael K. Hayman ■ ■ Junkai He (ENG’16) Wenbo He (ENG’15, ’16, ’16) Edwin P. Heaney (ENG’86) and Carol A. Heaney Richard L. Heilman (ENG’72) and Carole A. Heilman (CAS’72) Emily R. Heislein (ENG’16) Joanne Helhowski (ENG’78) and Joseph T. Schmidt ■ Holly Henderson Gabriella K. Henkels (ENG’17) Martin C. Herbordt and Ellen B. Herbordt ■ ■ ■ Sandra L. Herforth (ENG’99, MET’99) ■ David I. Herman (ENG’70) and Lori M. Herman (GRS’78) Arcadio Hernandez Butler (ENG’96) Olivia A. Herrera (ENG’13) Ronald Herzog ■ ■ James V. Hickey (ENG’57) and Jean C. Hickey Caeleigh J. Higgins (ENG’17) Alexander M. Hille (ENG’16) ■ Michael A. Hirsch (ENG’16, ’16) ■ Andrew Hoang (ENG’18) John T. Hoang and Tri T. Pham ■ Loc T. Hoang (ENG’92) and Trang Nguyen ■ Ian A. Hobbs and Nancy K. Hobbs ■

Ramon R. Hoch and Jung U. Hoch ■ ■ Mark F. Hodge (ENG’99, Questrom’99) Burt Hoffman and Laura L. Tyndall ■ ■ Samuel M. Hoffman (ENG’12) Spencer J. Hogan (ENG’98) Lawrence L. Hoh (ENG’88) and Susan P. Hoh (ENG’88) Ralph Holmberg (ENG’66, ’70) and Carolyn Murphy Bryan D. Holmes and Christine R. Holmes ■ Carly Holstein (ENG’08) and Tyler Holstein Kim Holtan ■ Brandon L. Hong (ENG’11) Justin S. Hong (CAS’16, ENG’16) Tong Hong and Bich-Nga Hong ■ Phil Hooper ■ Catherine F. Horan (ENG’85, ’92) and Thomas A. Horan Michael W. Hoskins (ENG’06) Peter T. Houston (ENG’58) and Ann B. Houston Alexandra M. Howton (ENG’14) Alex M. Hruska (ENG’16) Peter F. Hryniewicz (ENG’86) and Mary M. Hryniewicz Yihao Hu (ENG’18) Warren T. Huffman (ENG’10) C. Arthur Hughes (ENG’62) and Pearline E. Hughes

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Paying It Forward

M. Laurette Hughes (CAS’81) and Christopher Donovan Erin L. Hulverson (ENG’14) ■ Vanessa S. Hummel (ENG’83) and Dana C. Hummel Carolyn A. Hunter Ken Hunter and Colleen Hunter Joseph Hurwitz (ENG’69, CFA’58) and Sandra F. Hurwitz (SAR’59) Faheem H. Hussain (MED’95, ENG’91) and Ambreen Hussain Nabeel H. Hussain (ENG’16, CGS’13) Tanvir Hussain and Aysha Hussain ■ Laurence J. Hyman (LAW’76) Sharon L. Hyzy (ENG’06) Robert J. Iacovone (ENG’69) and Carolyn M. Iacovone Hany N. Ibrahim (ENG’93) Ryoshin L. Imai (ENG’90, ’91, ’93) and Yoko Imai Antonio T. Infante and Victoria Infante ■ Jason M. Ingram (ENG’14) Paul L. Inman and Delores E. Inman Marco A. Inzunza (ENG’16) Anastasios S. Ioannidis (ENG’87) and Margarita Zega Scott K. Isabelle (ENG’88, ’95) and Karen H. Isabelle Michael Isaza (ENG’16) Michael Isman ■ Raeef E. Istfan (ENG’12, ’19, ’19) Brandon D. Itkowitz (ENG’99, ’08) Anna Jablonka (ENG’94) and Rafal M. Jablonka Brian S. Jackson (ENG’91) and Cathy T. Jackson Jonathan T. Jackson and Shwuhuey Jackson ■ Joseph C. Jacobs (ENG’60, ’51) Robert H. Ropp (Questrom’74, ’80, ENG’79) and Alexia L. Jacobs Jerold L. Jaeger (ENG’93) and Robin Jaeger Ashish Jain (ENG’06) Rishi S. Jain (ENG’17) Raymond L. Jalette (ENG’71, MET’74) and Shaolin Pan ■ ■ Cary G. James (ENG’10) Richard S. Jamieson (ENG’62) and Jeanine M. Jamieson ■ Ryan R. Jamieson (ENG’18) Gregory J. Janese (ENG’16) Alan A. Jankowski (ENG’18) Maria Janney ■ William Jarman ■ Vianney C. Jayasinha (ENG’09) and Ashley A. Jayasinha (COM’06, ENG’10) Thomas Jenkins and Linda Jenkins ■ Richard E. Jenness (ENG’63) and Roberta L. Jenness Juan Francisco Jhong Chung (ENG’10) Chen-Wen Jiang (ENG’74) and Sutai Jiang David Jiang (ENG’16) Bryan A. Jimenez (ENG’16) Di Jin and Zhen Wu ■ Shuiyu Lu and Hongfang Jin ■ Yuan Jing (ENG’02, ’05) Alfred S. Johnson (ENG’64) and Rafaele M. Johnson Eric Johnson ■ George M. Johnson (ENG’16) ■ Keith Johnson Matthew B. Johnson (ENG’12) and Jacqueline A. Johnson (CAS’12) Michael G. Johnson ■ Scott Johnson Aleksander J. Jonca (ENG’10) Thomas C. Joncas (ENG’16) Christopher A. Jones (ENG’16) ■

Heath Jones Sarah Jones ■ Tomas Jordan (ENG’16) Theresa M. Juengst (ENG’87) Frank Juhn (ENG’06) Sunny Jundt ■ Gary Kaftan (ENG’60) and Frizelle S. Kaftan Zoran A. Kahric (ENG’01) Steffen K. Kaldor (ENG’96) and Lu Ann S. Kaldor Lauren N. Kalfin (ENG’14) Daniel R. Kallman (ENG’94) Jenny S. Kam (ENG’16) Alan Kan Khaled T. Kanaan (ENG’85) Ita C. Kane (ENG’12) Daniel J. Kang (ENG’09) Ashvin Kannan (ENG’97, ’92) and Madhuri Ramamathan Madhuri Ramanathan (ENG’94) and Ashvin Kannan (ENG’97, ’92) ■ John D. Kariouk (ENG’84) and Kathryn H. Kariouk Suryanarayana Karri and Rama J. Karri ■ ■ Kavon M. Karrobi (ENG’14, ’19, ’19) Vinay K. Kartha (ENG’13, ’20) Mark A. Kasari and Sweta G. Kasari ■ Elaine R. Kasparian ■ Kevin A. Kasper (CAS’17, ENG’17) Walter S. Katuschenko (ENG’60) and Jacquelynn S. Katuschenko Marjorie Katz (Questrom’73, MET’83) and Aaron Z. Snyder Katsutoshi Kawakami (ENG’13) Edward A. Kazanjian (ENG’68) and Mary A. Kazanjian Michael P. Kazenel (ENG’80) and Susan P. Caplan Siddhartha Kc (ENG’17) Sean D. Kearns (ENG’94) and Julia R. Kearns Jedidiah C. Keenan (ENG’16) ■ Laura M. Kegelmeyer (ENG’86, ’88) Maura Kelly ■ James J. Kennedy (ENG’16) ■ Elizabeth R. Kenny (ENG’17) Ricardo L. Kenny (ENG’83) Traci M. Kent (ENG’14) Sharon Kiel Kenneth Kilborn (CGS’79, ENG’88) and Debora C. Kilborn Sharon Kilduff (ENG’91) and Jeffrey L. Higginson Brian W. Kim and Yong-Kyu Kim ■ Daniel Kim (ENG’16) Dong Hyun Kim (ENG’18) Kyu T. Kim (ENG’95) and Angelique N. Kim (SAR’96, ’98) Michael I. Kim (ENG’12) Myung-Chan Kim (ENG’99, ’01) Charles H. Kimball (ENG’66) and Judith G. Kimball (SAR’68) ■ Connor A. King (ENG’16) Rachel Kinoshi (ENG’16) Kathryn E. Kirk (Questrom’05) Julie Kiss ■ Yonatan Y. Klausner (ENG’18) ■ Kristen B. Klein (ENG’99) Gary C. Kline (ENG’84, ’87) and Lauri Kline Joshua C. Kline (ENG’09, ’12, ’14) and Amy C. Kline (ENG’12) Ethan C. Knight (ENG’16) Michael Koan (ENG’09) Gordon V. Koch and Sol M. Koch ■ Sandra L. Kochen ■ Paul B. Kocincki (ENG’66) Douglas E. Kolb (ENG’87) and Nancy A. Kolb (CAS’90)

Melody Koo (ENG’16) Benjamin Z. Kooy (ENG’06) Baraa N. Koshak (ENG’18) Radoslaw Kosior (ENG’95) and Sherley Saint Juste Atsuko Koyama ■ ■ Matthew S. Kramer (ENG’13) ■ Roy A. Kraus and Nancy E. Kraus ■ Thea E. Kreinik (ENG’87) Vinay K. Krishnan (ENG’17) James Kroupa and Beth Kroupa ■ ■ Kayla R. Kruper (ENG’12) Ivy H. Kuan (GRS’78, ENG’80) and Miles Nan Peter T. Kuchler (ENG’92) Subi Kulla and Olimpiada Kulla ■ Srilalitha Kumaresan (ENG’13, ’15) Niklas Kunkel (ENG’15) Jason A. Kuperschmid and Maresa E. Kuperschmid ■ Daniel B. Kupratis and Maureen B. Kupratis ■ Cathy M. Kurata (ENG’06) Jayson H. Kurrle (ENG’07) William C. Kurtz (ENG’60) and Ruth M. Kurtz Abena N. Kwakyi (ENG’11) Alyssa Kyllo Martin Kyllo Richard T. La Brecque (SED’59, ’71) ■ Alana M. LaBelle (ENG’00) Rebecca M. LaCroix (ENG’13) Christopher J. Laffey (ENG’16, SAR’16) Benjamin A. Lakin (ENG’15, ’15) Richard W. Lally (ENG’17) and Regina M. Lally ■ ■ ■ Francine Lalooses (ENG’02, ’03) Stephen P. Lalooses (ENG’99) Ross D. Lancaster (ENG’97) Raphael J. Landaverde (ENG’12, ’14) Li Lang (ENG’01) David J. Languedoc (ENG’87) and Catherine L. Languedoc Jesadang Laohaprasit (ENG’97) Aaron J. Lapena (ENG’16) ■ Stephanie Lapham ■ Jennifer Larbi (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Aaron J. Larocque (ENG’11) ■ Stacia E. Larsen (ENG’03) Travis L. Larsen (ENG’03) Barbara S. Lavin (ENG’84) and Michael L. Lavin Joel A. Lavoie (ENG’18) Tiffany O. Law (ENG’16) Judy Lazarus ■ Melinda T. Le (ENG’16) Ian A. Leatherman (ENG’11) Adrienne W. Lee (ENG’16) Cheryl C. Lee (ENG’16) Denise Lee Dong-Hoon Lee (ENG’95, ’04) Jinsung Lee (ENG’96) and Hoon Lee Kristen L. Lee (ENG’11) Patrick Lee (ENG’16) ■ Zheng X. Lee (ENG’84) Rachel Lehman ■ Jianren Lei and Kelly H. Lei ■ Keng Lei (ENG’11, ’14) Yvon Lemieux Peter E. Lenk (ENG’78) and Jean N. Lenk Austin J. Lent (ENG’17) Thomas A. Lentz (ENG’83) and Cynthia A. Lentz Daniel J. Leonardis (ENG’04) Charay Lerdsudwichai and Saipin Lerdsudwichai ■ Max J. Lerman (ENG’12) Harold E. Lerner (ENG’83) and Selma B. Lerner Bauer L. Lesavage (ENG’16) ■

Victoria C. Lessard (SED’89) and Dennis P. Lessard Alexander D. Leung (MED’16, ENG’11) Michael LeVangie and Pollyanna S. Cooper-LeVangie ■ Peter Levis ■ Er Li (ENG’13) Jeffrey P. Li (ENG’09, GRS’09) Kuiliang Li (ENG’19) Quentin Li (ENG’15) Shaohua Li (ENG’11) Chao-Yu Liang (ENG’86) and Hsiu-Ling Liang Ho Kai To and Joanne Liang ■ Tony Liang (ENG’16) Joshua L. Liebowitz (ENG’16) ■ Alyssa T. Liem (ENG’16) Jennifer Liles ■ Earl S. Lin (ENG’16) ■ Hsin-Chiao Lin (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Lin Lin Wei and Jinyun Lin Wei ■ Gloria Linden (ENG’99) and Jonas Linden David B. Lindquist (ENG’82) and Therese Lindquist Charles A. Lissandrello (ENG’09, ’12, ’15) ■ Esther M. Liste Nachilly (ENG’84) and Keith J. Nachilly ■ Bradley Lister and Debora Lister ■ Bin Wu and Di Liu ■ Jingjiang Liu (CAS’16, ENG’16) Sean G. Liu (ENG’15) Victor Liu (ENG’10) ■ Wenyu Liu (ENG’17) Yong Liu (ENG’02) and Jinou Xie Ronald T. Locke (ENG’12) David W. Loehle and Diane M. Loehle ■ Eric D. Loehle (ENG’18) Alison M. Lofstrom ■ ■ Peter M. Lombardozzi (ENG’09) ■ Christopher M. Lomenzo (ENG’14) Robert W. Loreaux and Jody M. Loreaux ■ ■ Thomas W. Loui (ENG’14, Questrom’16) Albert Lovelace Evan R. Lowell (ENG’16) Peter Scanlon and Kathleen Lowney ■ Thomas M. Lozanoski (ENG’16) Tom Lozanoski and Valentina Lozanoski ■ Jeannie J. Lu (ENG’95, ’96, MET’00) Li Y. Lu ■ Minying M. Lu (CAS’16, ENG’16) Yisi Lu (ENG’16) Albertino Luis and Josephina Luis ■ Prashant Luitel (ENG’14) ■ Igor Lukes and Alison M. Lukes ■ ■ Robert E. Lukhard and Melinda Lukhard ■ Max Lum ■ Margaret Lundin (ENG’73) Nicholas Lyford (ENG’08) Barbara F. Lynch (ENG’82) and Greg Sprunger Elizabeth Lyng ■ Courtney L. Lyons (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Terri Lyskawa ■ Shih-In Ma ■ Lawrence E. Mabius and Kathy L. Mabius ■ Eric Macaulay Ian C. MacDonald (ENG’12) Heather N. Macken (ENG’10) Harrison J. Macris (ENG’09, MET’11) Maria Christina C. Magno (ENG’96) Henry A. Magnuson (ENG’78) and Ann M. Magnuson Kenneth S. Maguire (ENG’68) Gopi N. Maguluri (ENG’04) Anthony S. Maita (ENG’16) ■ Salvatore Maita and Maria Maita ■ Agnes D. Malaret-Collazo (ENG’87) and Ernesto C. Batista

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Loyalty Society Member | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 6 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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Jean B. Malenfant (ENG’60) and Jeanne R. Malenfant Jason H. Maley (ENG’09) Charles R. Manning (ENG’12) ■ Andrea J. Mannix ■ Edward Mannix and Donna M. Mannix ■ Edward S. Mansfield (ENG’64, ’68) and Dolores L. Mansfield Michel Maraney ■ Mark J. Marano and Judith A. Marano ■ Andrew M. Marcaccio (ENG’16) Pier Marchese ■ Jonathan A. Margolis (ENG’18) Dan G. Margulies ■ Haley L. Marks (ENG’11) Alouise Marschel ■ Meredith E. Marshall (ENG’87) and Yolanda B. Marshall Justin M. Martin (ENG’09, Questrom’16) ■ ■ ■ Kyle T. Martin (ENG’07) Peter F. Martin (ENG’70) and Irene Y. Martin Elizabeth A. Martinsen (ENG’88) and Robert J. Martinsen ■ Jeffrey A. Marx (ENG’01) Donald A. Massett (ENG’84) Steven I. Master (CAS’00) and Michelle M. Master (ENG’98) Peter F. Masucci (ENG’70) and Kathy E. Masucci (CAS’71) Michael Matatia (ENG’82) and Susan D. Matatia R. H. Mathews (ENG’65) and Kathleen M. Mathews Jocelyn Maurer Vincent J. Mauro (ENG’80) and Michele Mauro Kenneth R. Maxwell (ENG’66) and Donna C. Maxwell Ronald S. Maxwell (ENG’78) and Starr J. Maxwell John A. Mazza (ENG’16) Vivian Mazza ■ Linda Mazzacone Vition Mbrica (CAS’16) ■ Maggie McAdams ■ Jeffrey L. McAulay (ENG’05) Stephen A. McBride (ENG’71, ’72, Questrom’73) and Christine M. McBride Greg McCarthy (ENG’06) ■ Kevin R. McCarthy and Luanne S. McCarthy ■ Judy McClaskey ■ Robert D. McCormick ■ ■ Lester McCoy (ENG’06, ’11) ■ Ryan W. McCue (ENG’04) ■ Michael J. McCullough (ENG’03) and Lindsey McCullough Francis P. McDermott (ENG’62) Alycia A. McGoldrick (ENG’86, ’94) and Michael F. McGoldrick Robert W. McGowan (ENG’63) Asher McGuffin (ENG’18, ’18, BUA’09) Loretta C. McHugh (ENG’00) and Evan McHugh Sean McHugh and Carmen McHugh ■ ■ John H. McIver (GRS’90, ENG’81) Seth A. McKeen (ENG’10) Amy McKinnon ■ John J. McLaughlin (ENG’92) and Anna Hundt Jody E. McLean (ENG’04, SPH’08) Janet L. Mcloughlin (SAR’97, ’00, ENG’96) Joseph P. McMahon (ENG’13) Neil P. McManus (ENG’59) and Judith A. McManus Elise McMullin ■

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Michael P. McNally (ENG’16) Patrick J. McNally and Maria T. McNally ■ ■ Ryan C. McNaughton (ENG’16) ■ Lexyne L. McNealy Jackson (ENG’02) Doris McQuaid (ENG’84) Alice D. McWade ■ ■ Nancy J. Medeiros (ENG’89) W. Thomas Meier (ENG’88, MET’04) John W. Meinig (ENG’65) and Mary M. Meinig Philip J. Melchiorre (ENG’84) Matthew P. Melleby (ENG’16) John Memme and Pauline Memme ■ Kenneth R. Mendes and Marline M. Mendes ■ ■ De Tan and Jie W. Meng ■ Lingmin Meng (ENG’01) and Chenhao Yuan Yan Meng (ENG’07, GRS’07) Christopher P. Mercogliano (ENG’98) Steven G. Meschwitz (ENG’85) Brett J. Meyer (ENG’10) Christos Michas (ENG’20, ’20) Nathaniel R. Michener (ENG’16) Sam Middleton ■ Uri Mikhli (ENG’95) and Karina Mikhli David S. Miller (ENG’91, ’94) and Barbara Miller Jacob I. Miller (ENG’08) James G. Miller (ENG’84) Kathryn Miller ■ Arthur R. Milley (ENG’60) and Constance H. Milley Cheryl J. Mills (STH’92) and Carey G. Spain Regan N. Mills (ENG’99) and Isabelle B. Mills Kristina K. Mistry (ENG’95) and Nicholas N. Mistry Kyle Mitchell ■ John N. Mitropoulos (ENG’59, ’56) and Venetia S. Mitropoulos ■ Andy Mo (ENG’14) ■ Boshan Mo (ENG’16) Henry E. Moeller (ENG’86) and Karen K. Moeller Ashkan Mojdehi (LAW’06) Md Saiful Arefin Mojumder (ENG’20) Timothy Mon (ENG’14) Judith Monteith ■ Deepshikha Moolchandani (ENG’16) Aaron W. Moore (LAW’97, ENG’92) and Shelley M. Moore (Questrom’96, CAS’92) Garrett M. Moore (ENG’15) John Erik Moore (ENG’89, ’92) and Deborah J. Moore (ENG’89) John Moore and Barbara Moore ■ Paul F. Moore ■ Cristian M. Morales (ENG’16) Juan C. Morales Torrico (ENG’15) ■ Mark S. Moreira (ENG’84) and Gina M. Moreira Rachel Morgan ■ Yosuke Mori (ENG’87) and Chiharu Mori Riley E. Morien (ENG’17) Michael V. Morrill and Judith A. Morrill ■ ■ Fred Morrison (ENG’62) and Barbara M. Morrison (CAS’64) M. S. Morrison and Sarojini Morrison ■ Nicholas A. Morrison (ENG’16) John Morrissey (ENG’88) and Deborah Z. Morrissey Ronald P. Morrissey (ENG’92, ENG’01) Ari J. Morse (ENG’14) ■ Maximillian M. Morse (ENG’11) Sean J. Moser (ENG’10) Rafael Moshe ■ Ernest M. Moy and Barbara A. Bartman ■ ■ Michaela L. Moynihan (ENG’18) Rong Mu (ENG’16)

Zhi Heng Mu and Mei C. Mu ■ Bonnie Mueller ■ Ryan M. Mullen (ENG’10) Emma A. Mulligan (ENG’18) Kai A. Munechika (ENG’19) Michael S. Munoz (ENG’16) Miles Munson John M. Murphy (ENG’02) Kevin M. Murphy (ENG’05) Michele Murphy Richard B. Murray ■ Sarah K. Murray (ENG’10) ■ Timothy D. Murray (ENG’84) and Susan H. Murray William J. Murray (ENG’81) and Denise R. Murray Julian Murtagh-Lux (ENG’19) Johanna Mustacchi ■ Huntley B. Myrie (ENG’95) and Carolyn R. Collins-Myrie (ENG’94, ’00) Michael M. Nadeau and Sylvie M. Nadeau ■ Gail A. Nagle (ENG’84) and Richard J. Nagle Deeplata Nand (ENG’16) Theodore E. Natoli (ENG’07) Anila Ndreu ■ ■ Maria Corina C. Negron Pardo (ENG’16) ■ Tammra C. Nelson-Marsh (ENG’84) Peter A. Nenov Brian E. Newman (CAS’95, ’99) and Lisa D. Tilley-Newman (ENG’98) J. R. Newman ■ Brandon L. Ng (ENG’18) Patrick Ng (ENG’88) Carolyn M. Nguyen (CAS’17, ENG’17) John M. Tran and Maria T. Nguyen ■ ■ Kenneth K. Nguyen (ENG’89) Nam V. Nguyen and Hoa T. Tran ■ ■ Re-Hao Ni (ENG’15) ■ Walter C. Nicolson (ENG’64, DGE’51) and Thelma L. Nicolson Jacob L. Nikolajczyk (ENG’18) Amrita S. Nishtala (ENG’16) Jacob P. Noordzij and Corinne E. Noordzij ■ Maarten Noordzij (ENG’19) Michael A. Norman (ENG’15) Brian K. Norton (ENG’13) Jordan L. Nustad (ENG’19) Walter P. Obrochta (ENG’18) Matthew J. O’Connor (ENG’16, SAR’16, ’17) Alexander J. O’Donovan (ENG’16) Ryan A. O’Flaherty (ENG’16) Isabella Olivares (ENG’17) Craig S. Olson (ENG’90) and Dayna L. Olson David A. Oluwadara (ENG’17) John D. Orr (ENG’11) Charina E. Ortega (ENG’16) ■ Isabela A. Osorio Moran (ENG’18, Questrom’18) Rodrigo Ospina (ENG’19) Susan M. O’Sullivan (ENG’03) Dave E. Oswill (ENG’89) and Lynn M. Oswill (ENG’89) Mercedes Otero ■ Jiesen Ou (ENG’16, Questrom’16, CAS’16) William P. Ouellette and Louise M. Ouellette ■ Oliver D. Ousterhout (ENG’07) Shaleen R. Oza (ENG’16) Catherine Oztekin Daniel Package ■ Darshan K. Padmanabhan (ENG’18) Linda Page ■ Robert W. Paglierani (ENG’66) and Susan D. Paglierani Richard L. Paine (Questrom’95, ENG’88) Constante J. Palad (ENG’19) Sushrut A. Palatkar (ENG’16) ■

Michael Paley (ENG’95) and Janice S. Paley (CGS’90, COM’92) Sean T. Palmieri (ENG’16) ■ Michael H. Palumbo (COM’95) and Cristina M. Palumbo (ENG’95, MED’99) R. Todd Palumbo (ENG’85) Laura Y. Pan (ENG’89) and Victor T. Pan Yili Pan (ENG’10) Zixuan Pan (ENG’15) Sanjana Pannem (ENG’16) ■ Xing Panyanouvong (ENG’07) George T. Papadopoulos (ENG’01) and Ashley A. Papadopoulos (CGS’99, SED’01) John C. Pappas (ENG’67) and Leonora C. Pappas Michael D. Paquette (ENG’84) and Mary T. Paquette ■ Edward M. Pardi (ENG’85) and Kathleen R. Pardi Joon B. Park (ENG’67) and Hyonsook Y. Park Christina J. Pasdo (ENG’91) and Michael Pasdo Robert A. Pasquale (ENG’67) Joseph H. Passarelli (ENG’88) Isabella Passaro Montero (ENG’16) ■ Felicia A. Patel (ENG’14) Raja H. Patel (ENG’16, CGS’13) Abha Patil (ENG’16) Alexander S. Patow (ENG’15) ■ ■ John H. Paul (CAS’90) and Chrysanthea K. Paul (ENG’90) Kirsten H. Paulson (ENG’82) and Mark A. Paulson Leonard H. Pauze (ENG’57) and Joan C. Pauze Brian E. Pecon (ENG’65, ENG’57) Paul O. Pederson (ENG’90) and Martha C. Pederson Mike Pedro and Laura E. Pedro ■ Katherine L. Pegors (ENG’10) Casey A. Pelkowsky (ENG’16) Ana C. Pelucarte (ENG’11) Javier J. Perez-Andreu (ENG’80) and Marta J. Perez (Questrom’80) ■ Jeanne M. Perkins ■ David Perreault (ENG’89) Gary Petersen ■ Marissa R. Petersile (ENG’15) ■ John Peterson and Victoria Peterson ■ Nicholas J. Peterson (ENG’16) Robert C. Peterson (ENG’57) Martin J. Petherbridge and Donna T. Petherbridge ■ Douglas E. Phillips (ENG’66) and Joyce A. Phillips Paulina Phu (ENG’16) Gregory E. Pica (ENG’16) ■ Nathaniel S. Picard (ENG’03) James Pikover ■ Patricia Pikura (ENG’17) Karl W. Pilz (ENG’00) and Heather R. Pilz Carlos Henrique Pinto Coutinho (ENG’15, ’17) Samantha Y. Pipe (ENG’16) ■ Anthony C. Pippo (ENG’67) and Joyce P. Pippo Anthony N. Pirri (ENG’64) and Catherine H. Pirri Cynthia Pischdotchian (ENG’87) ■ Cameron A. Pizzo (ENG’17) Herbert S. Plovnick (MED’71, CAS’67) and Kathleen R. Plovnick (ENG’89, CAS’68) Tracy E. Pogal-Sussman (ENG’05, ’07) Samuel R. Polio (ENG’14, ’09, ’12) Elizabeth Polnerow ■ John J. Post (ENG’64) and Judith S. Post Roger A. Poulin (ENG’69) and Lynn Schwarz (SON’69)

Amy Powell ■ Bruce G. Pratt (ENG’69) and Maureen S. Pratt David Price ■ Megan F. Priem (ENG’17) Frank J. Prisco (ENG’00) Cheryl L. Pritchard (ENG’86) Benjamin W. Pritz (ENG’14) Marc A. Pujolras (ENG’18) Joanna Pyun (ENG’10) Li Qi (MET’03) ■ Zenan Qi (ENG’15, ’12) Jing Qian (ENG’14) Juncheng Qian (ENG’19) Kang Yuan (ENG’13) and Xiangying Qian Ruohui Qiao (ENG’14) Stephen B. Qually (ENG’72, Questrom’73) and Linda A. Qually (SED’70) Marta Sofia Querido Mota (ENG’16) Sameer Qureshi (ENG’17) Matthew Rady ■ ■ Savitha Raghunath (ENG’07) and Harish Ramamurthy Ankur S. Ramani (ENG’08) Franca Rambali ■ Matthew V. Ramirez (ENG’17) Vivian C. Ramirez (ENG’16) ■ Freddie Ramos and Yvette S. Ramos ■ ■ Alexandra Raskin Boris Raskin (ENG’07) and Kayley Wolf ■ Brian Rater ■ Erica M. Ratti (ENG’16, Questrom’16) Gerardo C. Ravago (ENG’13, ’16) Priank Ravichandar (ENG’16) ■ Ethan Ravid ■ Sharon H. Ravid (SPH’07) and Michael Ravid ■ Amit Raybardhan (ENG’05) Jason L. Raymond (ENG’99, ’02) ■ Sarah M. Raymond (ENG’04, Questrom’13) Andrei Razov (Questrom’12) Heather Read Christopher J. Reaney (ENG’87) and Susan K. Reaney Herbert P. Redman (ENG’63) and Joan E. Redman ■ Roberto Reif (ENG’08) and Kathy B. Reif (LAW’09) Christine R. Reinders (ENG’08) Alejandro Restrepo (ENG’02) and Melina R. Restrepo Sandra D. Reulet (ENG’86) Jennifer Reynolds ■ Joo Sub Rhee (ENG’06) Chase D. Richard (ENG’17) Susan L. Richardson ■ Adam S. Riley (ENG’07) Christopher R. Ring (ENG’95) and Jessica E. Ring (CAS’97) Kimberly Ring ■ Nathan Ringham ■ Corey M. Ringhisen (ENG’01) Allen J. Riss (ENG’84) and Sheryle Riss Anthony J. Rivera (ENG’89) and Pamela M. Rivera (CAS’89) Wesley Rivera-Calva (ENG’18) Beth P. Robert (ENG’89, ’04, Questrom’04) Margaret L. Robertson (COM’77, CGS’75) Patricia Robertson Michael Robichaud (ENG’11) Richard D. Robinson (CAS’16, ENG’16) Lisa Robinson Schoeller (ENG’82, Questrom’98) David A. Rodriguez (ENG’05) ■ Nigel Rodriguez (ENG’16) ■ Robert G. Rogers (CAS’00) and Lisa W. Rogers (ENG’00) Joseph K. Rollin (ENG’05)

Delosanta Roman ■ ■ Steven A. Romero and Molly E. Romero ■ Lisa A. Rooker (ENG’13) Daniel R. Roque (ENG’05, ’04) Ellen S. Rose ■ Onti G. Rosen ■ Samuel Rosenshein (ENG’16, Questrom’16) Barron L. Roth (ENG’17) John Roth and Alicia Portugal-Roth ■ Michael C. Rothko (ENG’18) Michael A. Rothman (ENG’64) Elin Roverud ■ The Estate of Marion S. Rowan Geoffrey Rowland (ENG’05, ’05) and Erin Rowland (CAS’05) Sheela D. Rowles (ENG’85, ’89) Paul E. Roy (ENG’06) Rebecca S. Rucks (ENG’16) ■ Gary S. Rudman (ENG’88) and Robin Rudman Bradley G. Rufleth (ENG’04) and Lindsey M. Cimochowski (MET’13) Michael P. Runci (ENG’68, ’74, Questrom’74) and Janet L. Runci Morgan F. Rushing (ENG’10) Derek M. Russell (ENG’88) and Elizabeth G. Russell Aidan J. Ryan (ENG’19) Kathleen V. Ryan (ENG’17) Mark Ryan ■ Timothy L. Sack (ENG’09) Avanish Sahai (ENG’89) Shrinjoy S. Sahoo (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Maya L. Saint Germain (ENG’16) ■ Sunami Sajjanam Morrison (ENG’16) ■ Abdu A. Salah (ENG’90, ’92) and Cathy Zouval Salah (ENG’89, ’92) ■ Eduardo R. Salazar (ENG’18) Hugo D. Salazar (ENG’83) and Mariaelena Salazar Laura M. Salinas (ENG’18) Sandra Salinas ■ Marwan A. Sallam (ENG’19) Carla A. Sananez (ENG’16) ■ Jesse Sanchez ■ Neil J. Sanghrajka (ENG’17) Jeffrey Santer (ENG’00) and Carole Santer Savan S. Santoki (ENG’16) Mark Santora and Ling C. Santora ■ Christopher J. Sanzo (ENG’87) and Roberta Groch (CAS’87) Zachery E. Sarkis (CGS’13, ENG’16) Bradley W. Sauln (ENG’14) Steven G. Saunders (ENG’89) and Susan Saunders Kimberly Saving-Sherman ■ Paul H. Scannell (ENG’59) Perry M. Schein (ENG’12) Andre G. Schettino (ENG’16, CAS’16) Peter R. Schimitsch (ENG’10) Thomas G. Schlatter (ENG’94) and Tania A. Schlatter (CFA’90) Boyd Schleicher and Kathleen Schleicher Austen P. Schmidt (ENG’14) Eric V. Schmidt (ENG’15) Eric C. Schmitt (ENG’11) Bertram J. Schmitz (ENG’62) David M. Schneeweis (ENG’84) Robert E. Schneider (ENG’79) Lisa R. Robinson Schoeller (ENG’82, Questrom’98) and Richard J. Schoeller Christiaan W. Schoemakers (ENG’11) Michael D. Schuller (ENG’16) James Schulman (ENG’18) Frank J. Schwamborn (CAS’16, ENG’16) Daniel C. Schwartz (ENG’16) ■ Michael A. Sciortino (CAS’16, COM’16) ■

Stephan J. Sciortino and Kathleen A. Sciortino ■ Elizabeth Scott ■ Matthew S. Scott (ENG’13, MET’18) Stephanie R. Sczylvian Mills (ENG’07) Nicole E. Seaman (ENG’13) Albert R. Seeley (MET’95, ENG’85) and Lauren M. Seeley Rajendranath R. Selagamsetty (ENG’14) ■ Matthew N. Seminerio (ENG’08) Susan Sessions ■ Aahan S. Sethi (ENG’15) Andrew Seto and Van Seto ■ ■ Susan Settineri Patrick J. Sexton (ENG’04, ’07) and Rebecca M. Sexton (MET’05) Senem Sezgi (ENG’13) Masoud Shafa and Manijeh Shafa ■ Nirmit K. Shah (ENG’16) Pooja D. Shah (ENG’14) Ronak R. Shah (ENG’99) and Angela Shah Ushir N. Shah (ENG’98) Parsa Shahidi (ENG’19) Needa M. Shaikh (ENG’19) Michael S. Shanler (ENG’97) and Amy R. Shanler (CAS’96, COM’96, ’04) Sahil Sharma (ENG’18) Saurabh Sharma (ENG’15) ■ Steven Sharp and Gretchen L. Sharp ■ Yousef Shayefar (ENG’77) Connor B. Sheehan (ENG’17) Andrew Shelofsky and Alison Shelofsky ■ Joshua S. Shelofsky (ENG’16) Andy H. Shen (CAS’16, ENG’16) Ananth Shenoy (ENG’01) and Raksha Shenoy Dean Shi (CAS’16, ENG’16) Julia Shi (ENG’16) Panayiotis S. Shiakolas and Susan E. Shiakolas ■ Dustin T. Shigaki (ENG’15, ’17) Richard J. Shimizu and Miwako Shimizu ■ Ryan D. Shimizu (ENG’19) Gordon A. Shogren (ENG’59) and Frances K. Shogren Koreen J. Shoham (ENG’14) ■ Pamela Shwartz ■ Joshua A. Siegel (ENG’11) Milton R. Sigelmann (ENG’92) Duncan J. Silver (ENG’16) ■ Kara A. Silver (ENG’12) ■ Matthew Silvis and Christine Silvis Satyajit S. Simhadri (ENG’19) Elena B. Simoncini (ENG’10) Brittany A. Simone (ENG’09) Christopher R. Simons (ENG’15) ■ Amit Singh (ENG’01) and Rashmi Singh Archana S. Singh Pratik Singh (ENG’16) Rakesh K. Singh and Vibha Rajat ■ ■ Shailendra Singh and Sandhya Singh ■ Vasu Singh and Shallesh K. Singh ■ Mira Sinha Justin O. Sipiceanu (ENG’90) Abdulaziz M. Siraj (ENG’16) ■ Elly A. Sirotta (ENG’01, Questrom’08) and Stacey L. Sirotta (SAR’01, ’03, ’08) ■ Matthew A. Siwkiewicz (ENG’16) David T. Skodje (ENG’14) Thomas S. Slinker (ENG’81) Jeremy Slonaker Theodore J. Smigelski (ENG’14) ■ Bradley H. Smith and Jane M. Smith ■ ■ John F. Smith (ENG’63) Kevin P. Smith (ENG’15) ■ ■ Leland H. Smith (ENG’98, MET’16) ■ Richard E. Smith (ENG’76) and Lesley A. Atwood (MED’81, CAS’81)

Andrew J. Smolenski (UNI’09, Questrom’09) and Anna A. Smolenski (ENG’09) Nicole N. Snurkowski (ENG’01) and Mark Snurkowski Michael A. Snyder (ENG’14) ■ Donald M. Soisson and Edwina Q. Soisson ■ Scott B. Solomon (ENG’91) Sheldon A. Solow (ENG’06) Mohamed Soltan Amir Soltanianzadeh (ENG’16) Richard P. Soriano (ENG’16) James H. Soutar (ENG’64) and Marcia O. Soutar Tarik P. Soydan (ENG’82, ’85) and Anne P. Sullivan-Soydan (SAR’87, ’99) Konstantino Sparakis (CAS’16, ENG’16) Rachel Sparkes ■ Joshua L. Spaulding (ENG’08) Vadim Y. Spektor (ENG’95, MED’00) and Nataliya Levina (CAS’94, GRS’94) Kathleen L. Spicher Katherine E. Spignese (ENG’85) John Spinelli (ENG’17, CAS’17) David Sprehn ■ Raymond A. St. Pierre (ENG’62, ’52, ’58) Michael W. Stahl (ENG’00) ■ Anthony K. Stapler ■ Joseph T. Stasiak and Elizabeth A. Stasiak ■ Alexandra N. Staskus (ENG’16) ■ Joseph W. Steele (ENG’91) and April D. Steele (COM’90, CGS’88) Laura M. Stefanski ■ Nicholas W. Steinke (ENG’00) and Diane K. Steinke Jane D. Stepak (ENG’78, CAS’78) Tamara Stephen (ENG’92) ■ Jeffrey Sterling and Colleen Sterling ■ Lindsay E. Sterling (ENG’16) Emily A. Stern (ENG’16) Richard M. Stern Mark Stesney (ENG’91) ■ Matt P. Stevens (ENG’05) Susan I. Stevens (ENG’89) and Paul W. Stevens ■ Joyce Stiffler ■ Gary P. Stolack (ENG’01, ’04) Norman Stolack (ENG’62) ■ Gregory R. Stollstorff (ENG’80) Paul S. Strati (ENG’52) John F. Studley (ENG’65) and Grayce E. Studley Gabriella R. Stueber (ENG’14) Timothy F. Styslinger (ENG’90, ’92) Michael J. Sugar (ENG’06) Vinaya B. Sujan (ENG’96, MET’00) Todd M. Sukolsky (ENG’13) Lori L. Sulmasy ■ Larry Sun (ENG’16) ■ Yingjie Sun (ENG’13) Gaurav M. Suthar (ENG’16) Priya Swamy (ENG’96) and Prithvi Sankar Anna K. Swan (GRS’94) and Jim Kaufman ■ Margaret R. Swanson (ENG’16) Patrick J. Sweeney (ENG’85) and Sherri C. Sweeney Charles M. Sweet (ENG’91) and Julia P. Sweet Natalie A. Swenson (ENG’11) Pamela D. Sylvor (CAS’85) ■ John Szczypien (ENG’66) and Diane Szczypien Gerardo J. Talavera (ENG’12) Erin Tallon ■ Sucheta N. Tamragouri (ENG’18) Brian Tan (ENG’16) Adrian C. Tanner (ENG’15) Darrell J. Tanno (ENG’80) and Deborah Tanno (Questrom’81)

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Aldo L. Tarigo and Adrienne I. Terrass ■ Stefano J. Tasso (ENG’13) Raymond S. Taylor (ENG’08) Eric P. Taylor-Schmidt and Ann M. Taylor-Schmidt Emilio A. Teran (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Tansukh M. Thanki (ENG’71) and Hema T. Thanki Robert J. Theer and Sharon L. Theer ■ Claire E. Thomas (ENG’16, SAR’16, SPH’16) ■ Terry Thomas (ENG’04) Herbert D. Thompson (ENG’66) and Barbara B. Thompson Richard Tia (ENG’13) Kevin T. Till (MET’96, ENG’87) Ike C. Tingos (ENG’91, ’94) and Artemis Tingos Gabriella Tiragallo ■ Bruce P. Tis (ENG’95) and Marjorie R. Tis Bianca A. Tlapanco (ENG’16) Tszhang To (ENG’13, ’08) Daniel Tokar (ENG’62, ’64, Questrom’64) and Taffy J. Pettit Dale A. Tollman (ENG’18) Mary Tomilo ■ Richard W. Tong (ENG’06) Garo R. Toomajanian (ENG’85) and Marc Harpin Alfredo L. Torrejon (ENG’80) Adam J. Tortolanni (ENG’16) ■ Katherine M. Tosto ■ Randolph B. Tow (ENG’66) and Susan P. Tow Heather T. Towey (ENG’14) Ian K. Towill (ENG’15) ■ Heather J. Tracey (ENG’91) Lori Trachtenberg ■ Constantine Trahiotis and Margaret G. Trahiotis Anthony Tran (ENG’17) ■ Michael J. Trank (ENG’86) and Ana Monica Raposo Peter J. Tranoris (ENG’16) Troy Trboyevich Micaela A. Trexler (ENG’16) Robert L. Trottier (ENG’88) and Robyn M. Trottier Matthew E. Trupiano (ENG’16, Questrom’16) Kevin R. Tseng (ENG’91) Michele C. Tudor (ENG’80, ’81) and Timothy R. Tudor Jillian N. Tullo (ENG’13) Nicole M. Tunick (ENG’16) Lukasz Turolski (ENG’07) Kerry Twibell (ENG’00) Okechukwu U. Ugochukwu (ENG’96) Serhat Unluatli Isioma C. Utomi (ENG’07) Mina E. Vahedi (SED’14, ’11) ■ Michael A. Valerio (ENG’80) and Elizabeth B. Valerio (CAS’80) ■ Vineet K. Vallam (ENG’16) ■ Robert D. Valtierra (ENG’10, ’13) Hester H. Van Der Laan (CAS’17, ENG’17) Eileen Van Fleet ■ Melissa Van Orman ■ Reed Vance Greg T. Vandekerk (ENG’95) and Hollybeth G. Hakes (CAS’95) Guy Vandevoordt and Mady F. Vandevoordt ■ Peter Vermeulen and Martine Vanhove ■ ■ Peter Velikin (ENG’99) Alexander D. Vendetto (ENG’17, SAR’16) Glenda A. Ventura (ENG’90) and Vicente A. Ventura Anthony M. Verleysen (ENG’16) Henry L. Viarengo (ENG’73, ’79) and Gail M. Viarengo ■

Zachary D. Vickerson (ENG’16) Natalia M. Vieira (ENG’12) Paul R. Viens (ENG’97) and Katheryn P. Viens (GRS’16) ■ Giacomino Viglianti ■ Elisa L. Villa ■ David P. Villari (ENG’15) H-Soba Vincent (ENG’15, ’16) Charles Viola and Victoria Viola ■ John M. Viola (ENG’16) Frank M. Viteri and Helena Viteri ■ Duc H. Vo (ENG’93) Anna Volkoff ■ Richard L. Voltz and Betty J. Voltz ■ Zachary D. Voltz (ENG’13) Gui Von Zuben (ENG’13) Gregory J. Wagner (ENG’96) and Lisa D. Wilsbacher Maciej J. Walkosz (ENG’16) Lisa Wall (ENG’81) Michael K. Walls (ENG’08) ■ Edmund J. Walsh (ENG’83, ’83) and Jane M. Walsh Gary F. Walsh (ENG’11, ’13) Kerry F. Walsh and Darlene L. Walsh ■ Richard Walters and Melissa Walters ■ Wendy Wan (ENG’89) Benjamin M. Wang (ENG’16) ■ ■ Cindy Z. Wang (CAS’16, ENG’16) ■ Jui-Tai Wang (ENG’85, ’86) and Kai-Luan H. Lam (Questrom’85) ■ Richard Wang (ENG’07) Ruohan Wang (ENG’15, Questrom’16) Ruoyang Wang (ENG’15) Yigang Wang (ENG’16) Yuanpei Wang (ENG’19) Michael S. Ward (ENG’17) Patrick J. Ward (ENG’05) David A. Warner (ENG’60) and Philippa Warner Mary Anne Wassenberg (ENG’90) Anne Marie T. Weber (ENG’12) ■ Jia Wei (ENG’14) Norman S. Weinberg (ENG’64) and Sandra H. Weinberg Jason A. Weiner (ENG’02) Matthew L. Weinreich (ENG’16) Nathan S. Weiss (ENG’16) Steven C. Weiss and Roni S. Weiss ■ John E. Welch (ENG’84) Sarah E. Welch (ENG’15) Conrad E. Weledji (ENG’84, ’84) Cheri West Eileen West ■ Joel F. West (ENG’57) and Elizabeth S. West Michael T. Wexler (ENG’13) Brian J. Wherry (ENG’98) Barrett Whitman (ENG’56) and Joyce H. Whitman Alexander M. Whittemore (ENG’12) Zachary K. Wilkerson (ENG’19) Edward Williams and Michelle Williams ■ Roger D. Williams (ENG’68) Tully A. Williams and Rebecca L. Williams ■ Zainub V. Williams and Bobbili V. Williams ■ Patrick M. Williamson (ENG’16) Patrick Williamson and Joan Williamson ■ David P. Wilsey (ENG’83) and Naomi Y. Wilsey Joyce M. Wilt (ENG’86) and Michael J. Wilt Edward L. Wingfield (ENG’61) and J. Patricia Wingfield Allison C. Winter (ENG’19) ■ Jack R. Wisnosky (ENG’18, CAS’18) Dominika E. Witczak (ENG’16, Questrom’16) Andres E. Witzke (ENG’17) Alec C. Wong (ENG’16)

Alex D. Wong (ENG’16) ■ Edward C. Wong (ENG’61, ’69) and Katherine Wong Jimmy Wong (Questrom’13) Mary M. Wong (ENG’04, GRS’04) ■ Mary S. Wong (ENG’84, MET’88) and Ronald C. Wong Ngai Tung Alysha W. Wong (ENG’18) Zachary Y. Woo (ENG’18) Kevin R. Wooldridge and Darlene M. Wooldridge ■ Jerry Workman and Patti Workman Sharon Wortzel Sarah C. Wrenn (ENG’07) and John M. Wrenn John W. Wright ■ Barry Q. Wu (ENG’86, ’92) Candong Wu (ENG’95) and Jinjin Gu I-Hsien Wu (ENG’05) Sally Wu (ENG’18) Xingyu Wu (ENG’16) ■ Bilayiding Xiakeba (ENG’16) Angela W. Xie (ENG’12) Gang Xie (ENG’99, ’99) ■ Xinyu Xing (ENG’00) Jing Xu (ENG’16) John H. Xu (ENG’97) and Ling Xiao Kuangzhong Xu (ENG’14) Scott Yamashita (ENG’93, ’96) Xuri Yan (ENG’11) Guang Yang (ENG’16) ■ Tianyu Yang (ENG’15) Won Jae B. Yang (ENG’16) Holson Yap (ENG’05, ’06) Martin R. Yates (ENG’08) Michelle G. Ye (ENG’17) Noha K. Yehia (ENG’19) Allen Yen (ENG’13) ■ Chao Yang Yen and Chiung-Yao L. Yen ■ Jessica R. Yen (ENG’10) Patrick H. Yen (ENG’08) Poling Yeung (ENG’14) Jamie Yieh (ENG’96) Alice Yih (CAS’18, ENG’18) Anthony M. Yitts (ENG’88, ’92) and Lisa J. Yitts (MET’95, ’93) Joseph R. Young (ENG’95) Kelly E. Young (ENG’00) and Corey J. Young Pamela M. Young (ENG’94, ’98, LAW’11, ’14) Dennis T. Your (ENG’17) Angela C. Yu (ENG’19) Gary G. Yu (ENG’95) and Hui Chen Jeeyuen Yu (ENG’95, MET’00, ’01) and Michelle L. Yu Rachel L. Yu (ENG’12) Alberto N. Zacarias (ENG’89, ’90) ■ Ameen A. Zahid (ENG’17) Diane F. Zanca (ENG’85) Guylherme T. Zaniratto (ENG’98) ■ Royce Zeinar and Alice Zeinar ■ Robert N. Zeitlin (ENG’59) and Judith F. Zeitlin Matthew D. Zettergren (ENG’09, ’06) and Kimberly A. Paci (CGS’95, CAS’97) ■ Qingtai Zhai (ENG’04, ’07) Chentian Zhang (ENG’16, ’16) He Zhang (ENG’15) Madeline Z. Zhang (ENG’17) Philip Zhang (ENG’16) Qian Zhang (ENG’99) Ting Zhang (ENG’17) Yuting Zhang (ENG’16, ’16) ■ ■ Boheng Zhao (ENG’16) Yudan Zhao ■ Yi Zhu (ENG’16) Yifan Zhu (ENG’14) ■

Peter J. Ziamandanis and Maria D. Ziamandanis ■ Kimberly Zingale Peter A. Zink (ENG’10) ■ Joshua J. Zins (CAS’17, ENG’17) Shuchi S. Zinzuwadia (ENG’16) ■ Mohammed Zishanuzzaman (ENG’16) Edith A. Zive ■ Joseph N. Zoino (ENG’17) Aleks L. Zosuls (ENG’01) ■ Barbara L. Zsigalov ■ Jeffrey R. Zuccaro (ENG’05) and Rebecca K. Zuccaro (COM’05) Jeffrey Zurita (ENG’16) Steven H. Zysman (ENG’85)

FOUNDATIONS $500,000–$999,999

Wallace H. Coulter Foundation

$250,000–$499,999

Anonymous Medical Foundation The Frederick Banting Foundation, Inc. Instituto Nanoscienze del CNR S. D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation

$100,000–$249,999

American Cancer Society AT&T Foundation The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. Communication Technology Services LLC Grand Marquis Charitable Trust Howard Hughes Medical Institute Institut Merieux Thomas J. Long Foundation The W. Bradford Ingalls Charitable Foundation Trust

$50,000–$99,999

American Chemical Society American Diabetes Association American Heart Association Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy, Inc. Dorf Revocable Trust Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund General Motors Global Research & Development Madden Charities Massachusetts General Hospital (American Diabetes Assoc.)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Weatherford International) Nenter & Co., Inc. Osram Sylvania Inc. PATH (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) The Pew Charitable Trusts Pfizer Inc. Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Weatherford International

$25,000–$49,999

The Appleby Foundation The Argosy Foundation Barr Foundation Baxter Healthcare Corp Inc. Brian and Joelle Kelly Family Foundation Conservation Law Foundation (Barr Foundation) DENSO Corporation eM-Tech Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Greenacre Realty Services, LLC Indian River Community Foundation Invuity Inc. Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Passport Systems Inc.

■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Loyalty Society Member | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased 40

BU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

PCC Technology Group PTC, Inc. Raytheon Company Samsung Electronics (US) Schwab Charitable Fund

$10,000–$24,999

Alcatel-Lucent AMETEK Foundation Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Charles R. Cantor Trust The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation Dermasensor, Inc. Francis A. Harrington Jr. Revocable Trust Honig Vineyard & Winery Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Inc. Network For Good Peterbilt Motors Company Sally Langdon Barefoot Foundation Scientific Solutions, Inc. Silicon Lightwave Services, LLC Vanguard Charitable The Walter Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

American Endowment Foundation Children With Diabetes Foundation Cold Spring Construction CO The Elizabeth Bascom Charitable Lead UniTrust GE Aviation Google, Inc. The Leonard Wheeler Ely III Trust Mass Eye and Ear (Michael J. Fox Foundation) Michael J. Fox Foundation Spacex Whitney Place

$2,500–$4,999

The New York Community Trust Sesco Lighting

$1,000–$2,499

American Rhinologic Society Cavium Dhindsa Ventures Inc. Frances A. Murphy Trust General Electric Company The George Savage and Nancy Savage Living Trust Gina Anderson Trust Global Satellite Engineering, Inc. H.T. Than Law Group Lisa W. Gill Trust Mass Eye and Ear (American Rhinologic Society) Roney-Fitzpatrick Foundation University of Rhode Island

$500–$999

Aldrich & Assoc. of Ormond Beach, Inc. Fraclac Realty Corp.

Kent W. Hughes & Debra S. Hughes Trust Silicon Valley Community Foundation United Way of Bergen County

$250–$499

Francis A. Harrington Jr. Revocable Trust Greater Milwaukee Foundation The Layman Family Foundation Maine Parents and Providers of Diabetics Twin Focus Capital Partners LLC

$1–$249

Beaverdam Ventures Crockett and Associates Ernesto Collazo Batista MD, PSC

Fallsgrove Endodontics Global Impact Jon Tremmel and Associates LLC LD&B Insurance Agency The Lending Firm, LLC LifeHouse Recovery Connection Mashed LLC R. H. Mathews Trust Robert H. Mathews Trust Microsoft Corporation Russell G. Dimicco Living Trust Sandy Beach Rentals, Inc. Seattle Seahawks Sensata Technologies, Inc. Shenandoah Bicycle Company Torti Flanagan PC United Way of Greater Attleboro/ Taunton Inc. The William T. Warner 2006 Rev. Trust

MATCHING GIFTS

AbbVie, Inc. Aetna Inc. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Alliance Data Analog Devices Inc. BAE Systems Bank of America, N.A. Barclays Capital Barclays Capital, Inc. C.R. Bard The Boeing Company Con Edison, Inc. Fidelity Investments General Electric Company General Electric Credit Corp.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt IBM Intel Corporation Johnson & Johnson Medtronic, Inc. Microsoft Corporation Motorola, Inc. Northrop Grumman Corporation Nuveen Investments, LLC Pfizer, Inc. Pitney Bowes Inc. Raytheon Company Truist United Technologies United Technologies Corporation Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. Verizon Communications

ARTHUR T. THOMPSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND Dear Alumni and Friends, As many of you already know, the College of Engineering’s pioneering dean, Arthur T. Thompson, passed away last year. Much of the reputation for excellence and distinction the College enjoys today is the direct result of what Art accomplished from 1964 to 1974, during which time he created bachelor’s programs in manufacturing engineering, systems engineering and biomedical engineering—all among the first of their kind in the country—and achieved accreditation for them. He also established bachelor’s programs in mechanical and aerospace engineering and computer engineering, oversaw the creation of our first master’s level programs and championed the return of ROTC to campus. His vision, which echoes Dean Lutchen’s vision of today’s Societal Engineer, was to graduate engineers with “the capacity for responsible and effective action as members of our society.”

You probably share my memory of Art as not only a remarkable and highly effective leader, but also a great man. Extremely engaged with students and always accessible, he took a personal interest in our success. I consider him to be one of my earliest mentors, and have him to thank for getting me started in my career.

To honor Art and to continue his legacy, my wife Kathy and I are establishing the Arthur T. Thompson Century Challenge Scholarship at the College of Engineering. This permanent scholarship will support a never-ending chain of bright, ambitious young undergraduates who need assistance in meeting the cost of their education. The Century Challenge is the University’s promise to double the Thompson Scholar’s award every year for 100 years. Kathy and I have committed to match every dollar given to the Century Challenge Scholarship to a maximum of $100,000. So, with Kathy and I matching what you give and BU doubling the scholarship award, the impact of your generosity will be multiplied fourfold.

We will also match your pledge to the Thompson Century Challenge Scholarship Fund as well as your one-time gift. If you would like to extend your generosity by taking three or even five years to make payments, please visit: bu.edu/eng/alumni/thompson.

Warm thanks,

David E. Hollowell (ENG’69,’72, Questrom’74) Kathleen A. Hollowell (GRS’71, SED’77)

Ayse K. Coskun PHD, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

The theme of my research is to improve efficiency of computing, meaning we want our computers to do more work using less energy. The benefit of improving computing efficiency has both widespread and individual impact. Looking at small-scale systems such as mobile phones, we aim to improve properties like battery life, which will improve everyday user experience. On a larger scale, improving the efficiency of data centers will impact the carbon footprint of our overall energy consumption.

Since I joined the computer engineering program at BU, we have recruited accomplished faculty, we have a much larger body of graduate and undergraduate students and we have rapidly growing research centers such as the Center for Information & Systems Engineering and the Cloud Computing Initiative. It’s a completely different landscape from when I arrived and being a part of that growth initiative has been truly exciting for me. One of my favorite aspects of BU is the collaborative setting. There is a lot of encouragement to go beyond your immediate circle and perform interdisciplinary research in emerging areas, and my research group has benefited tremendously from this environment.

To Tolearn learnmore, more,visit visitwww.bu.edu bu.edu/eng./eng.

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