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I We see an extraordinary economic sector growing for the application of big data, cybersecurity and robotics on society.

n this issue, you will read about, among other things, two of the College of Engineering’s most recent and exciting interdisciplinary successes: its rising Materials Science & Engineering program and the Biological Design Center. The Materials program was created as a division rather than a secluded department because the scientific and educational endeavor synthesizes virtually all engineering disciplines in the College—as well as chemistry, physics and dentistry—and the division includes faculty from all these departments. We used a similar rationale when we created our Systems Engineering Division. The Biological Design Center will involve a combination of individuals from engineering, biology, physics and medicine to understand the design principles that impact cell-to-tissue function.

These initiatives did not spring up overnight.

They were envisioned years ago and created with an eye toward society’s challenges that will require interdisciplinary approaches in engineering and science, especially those crossing boundaries with other schools and colleges outside of engineering.

This forward-looking attitude has long been one of the College’s foremost strengths: our approach is to constantly identify educational and research areas critical to the future for our students and faculty to impact, and align our priorities accordingly. So, what do we see for the future?

We see an extraordinary economic sector growing for the application of big data, cybersecurity and robotics on society. These are not independent disciplines that either should reside in an existing department or should be created as a singular new department; they are inherently interdisciplinary with applications to medicine, urban-to-global function, defense, communication and media and— of course—business. Hence, while other institutions are creating educational thrusts secluded in either an existing department or a new independent program, we chose a different route. We announced three new master’s degree specializations, one each in Data Analytics, Cybersecurity and Robotics. None is owned by a department or division and each requires at least four courses of the eight needed for the master’s degree. The requirements to complete these and officially have them acknowledged as part of the degree title are accessible from every one

of our existing master’s programs. Each has a core required course or two, and some restricted electives. So, a graduate from ECE with a specialization in Data Analytics might select electives in Machine Learning, for example, while one in BME might select an elective in Analytics for Medical Informatics. They all were immediately popular.

Several years ago, we also recognized the need to expose our undergraduates to the advanced product design and manufacturing process and taking ideas from concept to product, so we created the 15,000-square-foot Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC). Well over 1,000 students will pass through EPIC each year and we now have added a new, required design/maker course in EPIC for all sophomore engineers, regardless of discipline, in partnership with five major corporations who sit on the EPIC advisory board. This idea of a “maker space” is catching on. At the last meeting of the nation’s engineering deans, a half-dozen were talking about creating such a space. We opened ours—one of the first in the nation—almost two years ago.

In late spring BU broke ground on the Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, where engineers will collaborate with medical researchers and others to understand an array of health issues facing society, such as neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and sensory system disorders. It will also house the Biological Design Center, where researchers will apply synthetic and systems biology as they search for treatments for a variety of diseases from the cellular level to regenerative tissue engineering.

We are widely recognized as one of the hottest engineering schools in the nation. In the last 10 years, no engineering school in the top 50 has risen faster in the rankings—we’re now 37th—and all of our graduate programs rank in the Top 20 among private engineering schools. The amount of competitive external research funding we attract on a per-faculty basis is among the most in the nation, a key measure of the quality of our research programs. The quality of our student body rises every year, as does the proportion of admitted students who elect to enroll, even as we have dramatically reduced the number of applicants we admit.

By any measure, our forward-looking approach is paying off.

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16 Faster, Better, Cheaper and Closer to Home How a national BU research center is transforming cancer care

20 Harnessing the ­Power of Big Data Three alums combine aero & physiology to make a smarter ICU

22 The Right Stuff

Jenny Gruber reaches for the stars

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

Amit Jain ’85, ’88 President and CEO, Prysm Inc.

Sharad Rastogi ’91 Vice President, Marketing, Cisco Systems

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

Dean L. Kamen, Hon.’06 President & Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corp.

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

Ezra D. Kucharz ’90 President, Local Digital Media, CBS Corporation

Binoy K. Singh, MD ’89 Associate Chief of Cardiology, Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore LIJ

Adel Al-Saleh ’87 Group Chief Executive, Northgate Information Solutions Alan Auerbach ’91 CEO, President and Chairman, Puma Biotechnology Inc. Roger A. Dorf ’70 Former Vice President, Wireless Group, Cisco Systems Ronald G. Garriques ’86 CEO and Chairman, Gee Holdings LLC Joseph Healey ’88 Senior Managing Director, HealthCor Management LP Jon Hirschtick Founder & Chairman, OnShape Inc. William I. Huyett Director, McKinsey & Company Inc.

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 Stephen N. Oesterle, MD Senior Vice President—Medicine & Technology, Medtronic Inc. Anton Papp ’90 Vice President, Corporate Development, Teradata Inc.

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

Roger A. Hajjar ’88 Chief Technical Officer, Prysm Inc.

Sanjay Prasad ’86, ’87 Principal, Prasad IP

Bettina Briz Himes ’86 Director, Technology Alliances, GoPro

John Scaramuzzo ’87 Senior Vice President, Scan Disk Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

Francis Tiernan ’70 President, Anritsu Company (Retired)

Richard Fuller ’88 Microlocation Lead, OmniTrail Technologies

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

Timothy Gardner ’00 Founder & CEO, Riffyn Inc.

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

Mark Dwortzan

Gregory Cordrey ’88 Partner, Jeffer Mangles Butler & Mitchell LLP Gregory Courand ’79 President, Founder and Chief Methodologist, Synergia LLC Claudia Arango Dunsby ’92 Vice President, Operations, Hybridge IT Vanessa Feliberti ’93 Partner, General Engineering Manager, Microsoft

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Bioengineers Doug Densmore (from left), Chris Chen, Mo Khalil, and Wilson Wong will work together to pursue ways to regenerate tissue, reprogram bacteria to fight infection and reengineer the body’s immune system to kill tumors.

Biological Design Center Comes to Life FINDING BETTER WAYS TO PRODUCE CLEAN ENERGY, FIGHT INFECTION AND ATTACK CANCER

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magine the state-of-the-art 21st-century life sciences and engineering lab. It would bring together forward-thinking researchers from the hottest fields in bioengineering. These scientists would combine genomic technologies like DNA sequencing and synthesis, 3-D printers and robots to make new molecules, tissues and entire organisms. They would tinker in pursuit of cutting-edge questions like these: How do you guide cells to regenerate and build

new tissue? How do you reprogram bacteria to fight infection—or reengineer the body’s immune system to attack tumors so they disappear? How do you organize the circuitry inside a cell so it sends all the right signals for optimal health?

This is the lab that Christopher Chen (BME), one of the world’s leading experts in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, began dreaming up last year with three ENG faculty members who are young stars in synthetic biology—Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME, Bioinformatics) and Assistant Professors Ahmad (Mo) Khalil (BME) and Wilson W. Wong (BME).

Now this dream is on its way to becoming a reality. Boston University is launching the new Biological Design Center (BioDesign Center), with Chen as director, Khalil as associate director, and Densmore and Wong as fellow core faculty members.

Through advances in genomics and stem cell research, many of the molecular and cellular building blocks of life have been cataloged. A central challenge is to understand, control and reengineer how these component parts fit together to bring about functional biological systems that define life and solve important societal problems, ranging E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 5 B U . E D U / E N G

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from producing clean energy to fighting infection and attacking cancer. That is the fundamental quest that brought Chen, Khalil, Densmore and Wong together and that will drive the new center.

“Unlocking the underlying design logic of biological systems will revolutionize our approach to medicine, energy and the environment,” Chen said, describing their shared vision. “Spanning synthetic biology, cell and tissue assembly and systems biology, the Biological Design Center is positioned to lead this revolution.”

Up until now, he said, fields such as synthetic biology and tissue engineering have arisen as separate disciplines. Synthetic biology involves designing and synthesizing genes, genetic and signaling networks, and genomes to predictably control cellular behavior. Tissue engineering involves trying to manipulate and combine cells and extracellular materials to induce the assembly of tissues.

“This is a unique approach to using engineering principles to understand and exploit biology,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. “Very few people are using bioengineering techniques and methods to help discover fundamental principles that govern how biological systems work, especially on multiple levels, from the gene level up to multiple organs.”

Chen and his core faculty members will begin working together out of their existing labs in nearby buildings along Cummington Mall until they can move the BioDesign Center into laboratory space on several floors at what will be the Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering building. Construction on the 610 Commonwealth Avenue building began late this spring and is expected to be completed within two years. Four to six new researchers—all exceptional innovators, says Chen—will be added to the center’s faculty over the next several years.

To achieve their vision, the BioDesign Center will mix and match researchers from multiple academic fields, undergraduates, graduate students and innovators from industry. Their lab will have no walls. They will create a community, sharing tools, resources and ideas with scientists across the University and beyond. They will invent, discover and experiment.

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College Announces New Master’s Degree Specializations STUDENTS CAN AMPLIFY EXPERTISE IN A HIGH-VALUE CAREER PATH

motivated by emerging economic sectors, the College of Engineering has created new master’s degree specializations designed to meet the demand for highly skilled professionals in the rapidly expanding, high-impact, interdisciplinary fields of data analytics, cybersecurity and robotics.

“The corporate sector has voiced frustration with the shortage of trained engineers in key sectors of the innovation economy,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. “By combining a master’s degree in a foundational engineering discipline with a specialization in a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field, students will be well positioned to meet this need and impact society. This unique combination should greatly enhance the power of their degrees in the marketplace.”

Enormous quantities of data are driving rapid growth in the field of data analytics. The College’s approach to data science emphasizes decisions, algorithms and analytics grounded in engineering application areas.

This specialization is intended to yield graduates who will fulfill a variety of innovation needs for applications in finance, healthcare,

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urban systems, commerce, pharmaceutical and other engineering fields.

The cybersecurity field is expanding exponentially, with career paths growing twice as fast as other information technology jobs.

This specialization will foster security-oriented software skills and enable an understanding of cybersecurity applications in software engineering, embedded systems and networking.

It will also provide a context for cybersecurity threats and mitigation strategies ranging from protecting corporate and government systems to home and building automation accessories and medical devices.

The robotics industry is predicted to grow to $67 billion by 2025, with applications in everything from prosthetics and telemedicine to autonomous vehicles, feedback control systems, brain-machine interfaces and the Internet of Things. Robotics is inherently interdisciplinary, combining elements of electrical, computer, biomedical, systems and mechanical engineering. The specialization will prepare master’s students for careers in research and development, deployment and operation of advanced individual or multicoordinated robotic systems.

Available to all master’s degree candidates, the specializations have been designed to allow students access to every master’s degree program. Those who opt to add one—which is noted in the degree title on their transcript— choose at least four of their eight courses from a list specific to each specialization.

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tie for 37th among the 215 engineering schools surveyed.

“The College of Engineering is now ranked the highest it has ever been, a reflection of our increasing excellence across all of our departments and divisions,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. “Particularly gratifying is the recognition of our biomedical engineering department, ranking in the top 10 alongside departments at MIT, Stanford and Berkeley, which are housed in engineering schools that are ranked one, two and three overall by U.S. News.”

By Joel Brown, BU Today In this year’s U.S. News & World Report national ranking of graduate schools, the College of Engineering’s Biomedical Engineering Department rose 4 spots to the number 9 position among similar graduate Every one of the College’s graduate programs school departments. is now ranked in the Top 20 among private The College of Engineering jumped 3 places overall in the most recent rankings, to a engineering schools.

Technology Innovation Scholars Program Expands Outreach Program, Gets Major Boost From AT&T

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ow in its fourth year, the Technology Innovation Scholars Program (TISP) has sent dozens of Inspiration Ambassadors—specially trained ENG undergrads—to share their experiences and present fun and engaging design challenges to middle- and high-school students, thereby allowing them to see for themselves what engineers do to improve society. To date, TISP Inspiration Ambassadors have reached more than 13,000 K–12 students in 119 schools and in 23 states.

Now the program is reaching out to teachers through professional development workshops and presenting them with ways to make this program a part of their classes, which would greatly increase the program’s power and influence. By teaching the teachers, TISP can ensure that the program’s mission endures in these schools long after their visits end.

Thanks to a $145,000 contribution from AT&T, the program is also developing a twoyear program at the Josiah Quincy Upper School in which Inspiration Ambassadors will oversee monthly classroom and afterschool engineering activities. The program’s impact on high school graduation rates will be documented.

TISP is expanding its outreach with the ultimate goal of creating communities of secondary students, their educators, and trained engineers. The idea, said Associate Dean for Outreach & Diversity Gretchen Fougere, is to pass technical skills, knowledge and passion from current engineering students and professionals to young people who may, in turn, become the next generation of engineers.

In recognition of its commitment to addressing the underrepresentation of engineering in K–12 schools, the College of Engineering was one of 12 partner organizations selected to take part in the first annual 100Kin10 Fellowship Program, a new $8 million fund designed to create a community of problem-solvers to overcome specific obstacles in STEM teaching and learning.

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Inspiration Ambassador Aniekan Inoyo (ME’15, center) works with Dorchester high school students engineering a cell phone business.

Dean Lutchen Commits College to Produce Grand Challenge Engineers dean kenneth r. lutchen was one of 122 deans presenting a letter of commitment to President Barack Obama in April to educate a new generation of engineers expressly equipped to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing society in the 21st century.

Identified through initiatives such as the White House Strategy for American Innovation, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges for Engineering and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, these Grand Challenges include complex yet critical goals such as engineering better medicines, making

solar energy cost-competitive with coal, securing cyberspace and advancing personalized learning tools to deliver better education to more individuals.

Organized by the National Academy of Engineering, the Grand Challenge is supported by 122 signing schools, each of which has pledged to graduate a minimum of 20 students a year who are specially prepared to lead the way in solving such large-scale problems. The Grand Challenge goal is to train more than 20,000 formally recognized “Grand Challenge Engineers” over the next decade through special programs at each institution that integrate a hands-on research or design project connected to the Grand Challenges; real-world, interdisciplinary experiential learning with clients and mentors; entrepreneurship and innovation experience; global and cross-cultural perspectives; and service learning.

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esearchers have long sought to enable collections of living cells to perform desired tasks ranging from decontaminating waterways to growing tissue in the lab, but their efforts have largely relied on trial and error. Now a team of scientists and engineers led

by Boston University is developing a more systematic approach through a deft combination of synthetic biology and micro-robotics. Supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) five-year, $4.5 million Cyber-Physical Systems Program (CPS) Frontier grant, the researchers aim 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.

Drawing on experts in control theory, computer science, synthetic biology, robotics and design automation, the team includes Professor Calin Belta (ME, ECE, SE), the lead principal investigator, and Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME, Bioinformatics) from the BU College of Engineering; University of Pennsylvania Professor Vijay Kumar; and MIT Professor Ron Weiss, who directs the institute’s Synthetic Biology Center; and members of SRI International.

“We came up with the idea of bringing robotics in to control in a smart way the emergence of desired behavior patterns among collections of engineered cells,” said Belta, who will develop algorithms to catalyze such behavior. “Our ultimate goal is to automate the entire process from engineering individual cells to controlling their global behavior, so that any user could submit requests from the desktop.”

If successful, the research could yield new insights in developmental biology, lead to greater standardization and automation in synthetic biology, and enable a diverse set

ECE Undergrads Score Big Wins in National and International Competitions this spring, 151 teams from six continents were admitted into the preliminary round of the ASC 2015 (ASC15) Student Supercomputer Challenge, the world’s largest supercomputer contest, held at Taiyuan University of Technology in Taiyuan City, China. Sixteen teams were accepted into the final round; just one was from a US university.

A group of five Boston University students specializing in supercomputing entered the competition as The Boston Green Team. The students—Winston Chen (CE’16), Nicolas Hinderling (CS‘17), Huy Le (CS’16), Quentin Li (CE‘15) and Scott Woods (CS‘16)—met through a student organization that serves as the Association of Computer Machinery’s local university chapter. BU Professor Martin Herbordt (ECE) and MIT Research Specialist Kurt Keville advised the team.

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of applications, including nanoscale robots that can manipulate objects at the micron (one-millionth of a meter) level and chip-scale technologies that transform stem cells into tissues and organs for human transplantation or drug design.

The team’s first main challenge is to advance a synthetic biology platform that can predictably engineer cells to sense their environment, make decisions, and communicate with neighboring cells. The second challenge is to design micron-scale, mobile robots that can affect cell interaction so that they ultimately bring about a specified global behavior. Finally, the researchers will test how well the micro-­ robots are able to direct the emergent, global behavior of collections of engineered bacterial cells and mammalian cells.

Liver-like tissue formation in humaninduced pluripotent stem cells. The research team’s robotic approach to engineering living cells could lead to technologies that transform human stem cells into tissues and organs for transplantation or drug design.

GrowBox team members Ahmed Alfuwaires (EE), Sasha Rosca (CE), Mark Barrasso (CE), Patrick Crawford (CE) and Jesse Fordyce (EE).

invited to the ASC15 Finals. Teams were given four days to solve six supercomputing application challenges. Ultimately, the top prize went to the Tsinghua University team.

Meanwhile, GrowBox, an ECE senior design team that developed a low-cost, fully automated, mobile app-controlled, hydroponic plant growing box, was named a first-place winner at the fourth annual Intel-Cornell Cup, an undergraduate competition focused on innovative applications of embedded technology. Vying with 21 other finalists from across the country at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Team GrowBox emerged not only with one of seven $2,500 First Place awards but also the competition’s People’s Choice Award of $1,000.

Selected by ECE alumni judges as this year’s best ECE senior design project,

GrowBox uses an iOS app that controls everything a plant needs to grow successfully.

Stackable and suitable for small spaces, each unit senses the pH and other key aspects of a solution of water and nutrients, modifies the solution as needed, adjusts water and lighting, and uses image processing to track stages of plant growth so care can be optimized. The purpose of GrowBox is to minimize the time, space, energy and knowledge required to grow a plant, thus giving more people easy access to fresh, home-grown vegetables.

Another ECE finalist, Team C.A.R.R. (Cyclist Alert Real-time Response), which notifies drivers of potential collisions with approaching cyclists, received one of seven Second Place awards. —Gabriella McNevin contributed to this article.

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Robotic Guitar Player Wins College’s Fourth Imagineering Competition cithara—a robotic device that plays a guitar as well as, or better than, some humans—won the $3,000 first prize at the College of Engineering’s third annual Imagineering Competition.

Held April 17 at Ingalls Engineering Resource Center, the competition drew entries from seven undergraduate engineering students or student teams who applied creativity and entrepreneurial skills to advance technologies aimed at improving quality of life.

Developed in the Singh Imagineering Lab and other on-campus facilities, this year’s projects were designed to do everything from untying your shoelaces to delivering timely information to your bathroom mirror.

Competitors presented their work before a panel of five judges—faculty, administrators and industry professionals—who assessed each project for originality, ingenuity and creativity; quality of design and prototype; functionality; and potential to positively impact society.

To emulate how a human plays guitar, Cithara combines an off-the-shelf guitar (acoustic or electric) with two components powered by Arduino microcontrollers: a slider mechanism that presses frets at designated locations and a robotic arm that strums or plucks selected strings. Named for the Latin word for “guitar,” Cithara converts musical notes—input as tablature, which represents the precise fingering of the instrument within a specified timeframe—into machine instructions that encode the exact coordinates where the slider and arm should be positioned.

The two mechanical engineering juniors who designed the system, Mehmet Akbulut and Evan Lowell, obtained about 80 percent of their materials from the Singh Imagineering Lab (where Akbulut works as a manager), and engineered some parts using a 3-D printer.

“In the future we hope that instead of having to pay for a live artist, you can pur-

Evan Lowell and Mehmet Akbulut (both ME’16) demonstrating their robotic guitar player.

chase this instrument and it will provide longterm, low-cost music,” said Lowell. “It’s also a great educational tool; we hope someone could use it to teach themselves guitar.”

The second prize winner, Osi Van Dessel (ME’17), received $1,500 for his project, a tele-operated mobile robot that maps its surroundings using LIDAR, a technology that bounces pulsed laser light off of targeted objects to determine how far away they are.

Two teams tied for third prize, each receiving $1,000 for their innovations—a home auto-

mation network enabling users to monitor and control multiple household devices, and a smart bathroom mirror displaying weather, traffic and other useful information.

Sponsored by John Maccarone (ENG’66), the competition was designed to reinforce the ideal of creating the Societal Engineer by spotlighting student efforts to engineer new technologies that promise to positively impact society. Imagineering Lab programming is supported by the Kern Family Foundation and alumni contributions to the ENG Annual Fund.

Photonics Center Wins Life Sciences Capital Grant from MA Life Sciences Center

companies. The Photonics Center is a national leader in biophotonics research, which uses light to understand cellular behavior and diagnose and treat diseases.

“We are grateful for the award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center for improvements to the biophotonics facilities at the Business Innovation Center and for their support of innovation and economic development in the state,” said center director Thomas Bifano, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science & engineering, who accepted the award. “The Innovation Center has a track record of success in technology transfer and job creation that has helped retain the pipeline of talented engineering and science graduates in the state. The award will further enhance our reputation as a leader in commercialization of biophotonic technologies.”—sara rimer, bu research

SUPPORTS BIOPHOTONICS STARTUPS

the massachusetts life sciences center (MLSC) has awarded $363,750 to the Boston University Photonics Center for a new incubator for biophotonics startups. MLSC, an investment agency that supports life sciences research and development, announced the award at a March ceremony at Roxbury Community College.

The Photonics Center grant will be used to create laboratory space at its Business Innovation Center for up to four startup

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THESE HEADLINES highlight just a few of the ways that researchers in Boston University’s Division of Materials ­Science & Engineering (MSE) have moved society forward by observing, analyzing and manipulating materials in imaginative ways. Though aided by state-of-the-art ­equipment and top-notch brainpower, this process is really nothing new. As Professor David Bishop (ECE, MSE), head of the MSE Division, sees it, it’s been at the very heart of human progress since time immemorial.

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“OUR WORLD IS FILLED WITH STUFF, and it is a fundamental human activity to create, predict, control and use the matter that we find all around us,” says Bishop. “We’ve moved along a trajectory from the ‘stone age’ to the ‘bronze age,’ ‘iron age’ and now to our present ‘silicon age.’ We are entering the ‘bio age.’

Whether the material is inorganic, organic or biological, human progress is driven by breakthroughs in harnessing and controlling the matter around us. This has been true for the last 10,000 years of human history and is likely to be true for the next 10,000 years as well. In all but a few cases, the great scientific and technical breakthroughs in human history were new insights in developing and using advanced materials.”

Founded in 2008 to achieve such breakthroughs through excellence in materials education, research and innovation, BU’s Materials Science & Engineering Division advances solutions to grand challenges in healthcare, energy and the environment, information systems, security and defense, and other domains. The division’s 83 faculty members come from every academic department in the College of Engineering, as well as from the College of Arts & Sciences and the Goldman School of Dental Medicine. They support both an academic program consisting of four advanced degrees (PhD, MS with or without thesis, and MEng) and an undergraduate minor, and a research portfolio that, according to Bishop, draws $55 million each year in external funding. As a sign of its rising prominence, since 2014 the division has hosted an international workshop, MSE Day, drawing leading materials researchers from all over the world to explore topics ranging from the digital design of materials to nanomaterials in medicine.

“We believe that the division structure is uniquely advantageous for materials research and education, as it strongly encourages interdisciplinary interactions instead of building walls that discourage collaborations that are fundamental to progress in most modern research fields,” says Bishop.

Every day, BU MSE researchers are extending human knowledge and tackling pressing societal problems with innovations that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. Leveraging worldclass research facilities, they’re exploring four main areas: biomaterials; electronic and photonic materials; materials for energy and environment; and nanomaterials. Among other things, they are advancing new and improved technologies in tissue engineering, water purification, clean energy systems and cancer treatment.

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“In all but a few cases, the great scientific and technical breakthroughs in human history were new insights in developing and using advanced materials.”

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Right: A MEMS (micro electro mechanical system) mirror built by researchers at Boston University.

The mirror is used in smart lighting systems that let one paint spaces with both light and data.

Professors Thomas Little (ECE, MSE, SE) and David Bishop are members of an NSF Engineering Research Center that is developing new technologies to revolutionize how we both create and use light in modern living and work spaces.

(Device and photograph by Jessica Morrison)

Biomaterials Pediatric patients born with congenital heart defects typically require multiple corrective surgeries because current vascular tissue patches are made of synthetic or animal-sourced materials that do not grow with the child. Four years ago, while on sabbatical at Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) observed several surgeries on such patients, many of whom had already been through the ordeal more than once.

Moved to come up with a less invasive and long-lasting treatment that uses the patient’s own stem cells, Wong hit upon a potential solution. She began developing a method to engineer sheets of stem cells so they can be stacked to mimic the structure of native blood vessels.

“Tissue engineering typically involves setting up a scaffold and then adding cells to it,” says Wong. “Our approach to growing a cardiac blood vessel is to incorporate multiple, well-aligned scaffolds upon which stem cells are deposited in a controlled manner. Our ultimate goal is to build these blood vessels, layer by layer, like origami.”

Toward that end, Wong has collaborated with Boston Children’s Hospital cardiac surgeon Ram Emani and several postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates (including Barry M. Goldwater Scholar Bauer LeSavage, a BME senior—see p. 27) who have helped characterize the mechanical and biochemical properties of the

stacked stem cell sheets and devised biodegradable scaffolding materials. She is also working with Professor Darrell Kotton (MED), director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, to reprogram other cells in the body to develop into vascular cells to form blood vessels.

Wong and her collaborators completed their first implantation studies of layered cells in mice, demonstrating that the cells are biocompatible and grow with the animal. Their next step, also using mouse models, is to grow the stacked cell sheets into a blood vessel and test the resiliency of the vessel. To achieve that, they’ll need to replicate the inner, middle and outer layers of cells that define a blood vessel.

“We pattern each layer like a microchip, arranging the cells precisely and aligning the layers throughout the structure,” says Wong.

“We were one of the first research groups to pattern single cell sheets and layer them, and are currently using computational modeling to determine the optimal orientation of each sheet.”

Wong estimates that it will take a decade to move through small and large animal studies, preclinical studies and clinical trials. If all goes well, she and Emani envision that upon delivery of a baby born with congenital heart defects, medical personnel will harvest stem cells from the placenta and umbilical cord, grow the tissue into blood vessels over the course of the next four to six weeks, graft it in the heart, and track its progress using ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging.

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JOYCE WONG “The hope is to eliminate the need for further surgery,” says Wong, whose research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association and The Hartwell Foundation.

Wong’s tissue engineering research is part of a diverse biomaterials research agenda at BU that also includes the design of biomolecules and biopolymers, biosensors, laser spectroscopy—all largely aimed at creating innovations in healthcare ranging from lab-on-achip diagnostic devices to drug delivery systems.

Electronic and Photonic Materials Since the early 1900s, ultraviolet light has been used to purify water by killing bacteria on contact, but the technology could use some updating. The mercury vapor lamp, the conventional light source in municipal water treatment facilities for more than 40 years, has a 12

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“Our approach to growing a cardiac blood vessel is to incorporate multiple, wellaligned scaffolds upon which stem cells are deposited in a controlled manner.”

short lifetime (less than 5,000 hours), produces an unstable power output and contributes to toxic waste disposal.

Enter Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE, Physics), who for the past five years has been advancing a much cheaper, more energy-efficient replacement for these lamps that lasts up to 20 times longer: deep ultraviolet LEDs. Co-developed by Moustakas and his PhD student Yitao Liao (ECE’10), and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Army Research Laboratory, today’s leading UV-LED technology exploits a material growth process (also devised by Moustakas) called molecular beam epitaxy that significantly improves the efficiency and power output of UV-LEDs while providing a more durable and environmentally friendly alternative to mercury lamps.

“If we replace mercury UV lamps with our UV-LEDs in the nation’s water treatment plants, it will result in significant cost savings and environmental benefits to municipalities,” says Moustakas. “Furthermore, the use of such sources for water sterilization in underdeveloped counties will result in significant health benefits.”

RayVio, a Silicon Valley-based company spun off from Moustakas’s lab, has developed a thumbnail-sized deep UV-LED that delivers a record 30 watts of power per square centimeter. The single-chip device provides the highest optical power at the lowest cost in the industry. Applications include not only water purification, but also surface and air disinfection in hospitals and other buildings, medical treatment for vitamin D deficiency and psoriasis, and biomedical instrumentation sterilization. The LEDs can even be used to prolong the lifetime of refrigerated produce.

Still bent on advancing the state of the art in UV-LEDs, Moustakas is now collaborating with three PhD students to pursue a dif-

“If we replace mercury UV lamps with our UV-LEDs in the nation’s water treatment plants, it will result in significant cost savings and environmental benefits to municipalities.”

THEODORE MOUSTAKAS

Composition mapping in a scanning transmission electron microscope of a precipitate formed on high temperature exposure at the surface of lanthanum strontium cobalt ferrite, a common cathode material for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), indicating surface instabilities in this materials system.

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ferent approach. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the team is working on a recently patented UV-LED technology that they believe will be 10 times more efficient in converting power to light than current products.

Moustakas’s research in deep UV-LEDs—the latest chapter in his groundbreaking career as pioneer of the blue LED and solid-state lighting revolution—is but one of several projects under way at the Division of Materials Science & Engineering focused on electronic and photonic materials. Other efforts include studies of carbon nanotubes, fiber optic sensors, quantum dots and computational modeling, with applications areas ranging from healthcare to information systems to national defense.

Materials for Energy and Environment Materials will play a large role in producing cleaner and more efficient sources of energy to steer society toward a more sustainable, low-carbon future. MSE researchers are working on energy-­efficient smart lighting, hydrogen generation and storage, self-cleaning solar panels, biofuels, aircraft turbine coatings, fuel cells and green metals manufacturing.

Professor Soumendra Basu (ME, MSE) is pursuing projects addressing the latter three areas that aim to reduce fossil fuel consumption and carbon dioxide pollution. The first, a collaboration with Professor Vinod Sarin (ME, MSE), seeks to develop protective ceramic coatings for gas turbines that enable aircraft engines to operate at higher temperatures without materials degradation, and thereby produce more thrust with lighter engines.

“Increasing the operating temperature by 250 degrees Celsius would boost the engines’ thrust-to-weight ratio by 30 percent, which could save the US $17 billion annually in aircraft fuel costs and eliminate seven million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions,” says Basu.

Currently, molten ceramic powders are sprayed on, which produces significant stresses and cracks, so coatings must be thick enough to compensate for the defects. The coatings Basu and Sarin are advancing use a more reliable method called chemical vapor deposition, which dramatically reduces coating flaws and can shrink coating thicknesses by a factor of 100 without a loss in performance, thereby lowering overall engine weight.

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Commercialization: Taking Biomaterials from Bench to Bedside

Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry) has developed several clinically viable products and co-founded three companies to commercialize them.

“Our pollution-free approach produces solargrade silicon with only pure oxygen as a byproduct.”

MATERIALS RESEARCHERS AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY aim not only to understand the inner workings of existing and new materials, but also to exploit them to improve quality of life.

A case in point is Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry), who for two decades has pursued highly interdisciplinary research to elucidate underlying fundamental chemistry and engineering principles, and applying those principles to develop new materials and devices for clinical applications. Supported by the Grinstaff Group, a lab with more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and funded by the NIH, NSF, The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Advanced Energy Consortium, the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology, and other agencies, he has developed several clinically viable products and co-founded three companies to commercialize them.

The first, Hyperbranch Medical Technology, produces biodegradable surgical sealants that are already widely used by surgeons.

These clinically approved hydrogel adhesives provide effective treatment of lacerations to the cornea, the spine and the dura (the outermost membrane covering the brain and spinal cord).

Grinstaff’s hydrogel not only seals wounds but (unlike sutures) can later be dissolved and gently removed, thereby minimizing pain and damage to injured tissue. The sealant forms a honeycomb-like network of cross-linked chemical bonds that has the consistency of gelatin and sticks like an adhesive, remaining intact for several days. Adding a solution of cysteine methyl ester, a derivative of a natural amino acid, to the hydrogel causes the gel’s cross-linked bonds to break apart and the gel to dissolve within several minutes. Grinstaff is now investigating this biomaterial as a pain-free pediatric burn dressing.

Grinstaff has also advanced two products that have not yet completed clinical trials. One, Affinergy, provides leading-edge assays and research tools aimed at improving scientific and diagnostic outcomes. The other, Acuity Bio, is focused on a drug-delivery material designed to prevent post-surgery recurrence of lung cancer, a common problem. Grinstaff and his collaborators produced flexible, chemotherapy-loaded polymer films that allow the controlled, low-dose, targeted release of the drug over an extended period, increasing the drug’s contact with the tumor while sparing healthy tissue. They have demonstrated their ability to prolong recurrence time after surgical resection of lung tumors in mice.

Using the same polymers, they also developed a highly sensitive nanodevice to detect the presence of cancer in the lung.

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The second research thrust, which Basu is pursuing with Professors Srikanth Gopalan, Uday Pal and Assistant Professor Emily Ryan (all ME, MSE) and Professor Karl Ludwig (Physics) through Department of Energy grants, is aimed at improving the performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) while reducing cost.

SOFC technology is one of the most environmentally benign methods for converting the chemical energy in fossil fuels directly to electrical energy due to its high efficiency and the ability to sequester the carbon dioxide byproduct. But the performance of today’s SOFCs, which operate at high temperatures, tends to degrade over time, resulting in shorter lifetimes than those of conventional power generation systems.

As SOFC power systems approach commercialization with applications ranging from distributed electric power generation to long-haul transportation, extending their lifetimes is becoming critically important.

At the heart of this problem are the electrochemical interfaces between air, fuel, cathodes, anodes and electrolytes, whose structure and composition change over time during high-temperature exposure.

Basu and his colleagues are developing new materials and strategies designed to reduce the long-term degradation and improve the performance of SOFCs. Finally, Basu is working with Pal on a solid oxide membrane (SOM) process to produce solar-grade silicon from sand in an environmentally friendly fashion and at lower cost.

“The current method to manufacture every kilogram of silicon used in photovoltaic systems results in 10 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions and additional chlorine pollution,” says Basu.

“Our pollution-free approach produces solar-grade silicon with only pure oxygen as a byproduct.”

Reducing the environmental impact of energy generation and use is one of the grand challenges facing the human race in the 21st century—and BU researchers are leading the world in many areas of this research.

Nanomaterials Treatment options for solid, cancerous tumors include surgery, which is invasive and often requires a lengthy recovery, and chemotherapy, which damages healthy tissues, can compromise the immune system and produce other debilitating side effects. To improve upon the standard of care, Associate Professor Tyrone Porter (ME, BME, MSE) has developed noninvasive techniques that combine nanotechnology with focused ultrasound to kill localized malignancies rapidly without damaging surrounding cells and

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tissues. Nanoparticles that he’s designed—30 times smaller than red blood cells—can carry chemotherapy directly into tumors for localized drug delivery, or enhance the efficiency of techniques that burn off the tumors.

“Nanomaterials can be used to package and deliver anticancer agents that suffer from poor solubility in blood, are rapidly cleared from circulation or are extremely damaging to healthy tissue and organs,” says Porter. “Thus, nanomaterials are ideally suited for enhancing the efficacy of anticancer agents while protecting the patient from severe adverse effects, ultimately improving the quality of patient care.”

With NIH funding, over the past five years Porter has successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of these nanocarriers in treating kidney cancer in rabbits. The materials he and his team have engineered are novel nanodroplets coated with phospholipids, nontoxic biomolecules that prolong the circulation of the nanodroplets. For cancer treatment, Porter injects the nanodroplets into the bloodstream, which provides access to solid tumors. Once they accumulate in the tumors, Porter’s research collaborator, Nathan McDannold, a radiology research associate at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, uses magnetic resonance-guided ultrasound to vaporize the droplets, producing sufficient heat to rapidly kill the tumor cells.

Porter is also using the nanodroplets to facilitate the delivery of molecules called small interfering RNA (siRNA) across tumor cell membranes to suppress the production of oncogenes, proteins essential to tumor growth and evasion of the immune system.

In addition to exploring noninvasive kidney cancer treatments, Porter is customizing nanoparticles to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to brain cancer tumors. Made of a biodegradable polymer, each spherical nanocarrier shuttles its cargo to targeted sites on brain tumors, where the drugs are slowly released.

“Nanomaterials are ideally suited for enhancing the efficacy of anticancer agents while protecting the patient from severe adverse effects.”

TYRONE PORTER Blood cells and connective proteins on the outer layer of the brain inhibit the flow of foreign substances into the brain, actively regulating what gets across. To enable drug-carrying sub-micron droplets to break through this protective blood-brain barrier temporarily, McDannold applies high-intensity focused ultrasound. As a result, the nanoparticles can diffuse into and remain trapped within

The vaporization of liquid droplets (blue spheres) with ultrasound forms oscillating microbubbles that can temporarily increase the permeability of cell membranes (yellow-tipped bilayer), facilitating the delivery of therapeutic agents (red spirals) to the cell cytoplasm.

brain tumors. Meanwhile, Porter is exploring another pathway to halt brain tumor growth: loading small siRNA into liposomes (lipidcoated nanoparticles) to suppress the production of oncogenes.

In his pursuit of nanomaterials to benefit society, Porter is joined by other MSE Division researchers focused on coatings, composite materials, photo-acoustic microscopy, nanoscale materials and multiscale modeling. Application areas include nanomanufacturing, nanophotonic devices for biosensing and communications, and enhanced materials processing capabilities for opto-electronic applications, advanced engines and power systems.

The Stuff of Greatness Whether focused on biomaterials, electronic and photonic materials, materials for energy and environment, nanomaterials or commercialization, MSE Division researchers are exploiting the stuff around us to improve our quality of life in myriad ways. As Bishop sees it, their work is at the heart of what it means to be a great university.

“We believe that it is nearly impossible to focus on research in areas important to the human race without also working on materials,” he maintains. “And it is hard to think of a world-class university that isn’t also world-class in materials research.”

More information about the MSE Division is available at bu.edu/mse.

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FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER AND CLOSER TO HOME: HOW A NATIONAL BU RESEARCH CENTER IS TRANSFORMING CANCER CARE

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n the 1980s, computing shifted from room-sized mainframes to personal computers that could easily fit on the desktop.

For most users, there was no more need to submit batch jobs to a queue, wait hours for a printout, and then walk down the hall to pick it up—all that could now be done in short order from the comfort of one’s swivel chair. Today, cancer care is undergoing a similar transformation, as researchers advance new technologies designed to shift the action away from large, specialized facilities and toward smaller, local clinics and patients’ homes—and return test results within minutes rather than days. It’s a trend that promises to considerably reduce the costs, complexities and inconveniences of cancer care, make treatment available to more patients in low-resource settings, and achieve better health outcomes for patients in the US and around the world.

Effecting this transformation will require a deft combination of biomedical engineering and clinical expertise, and that’s exactly what the Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care (CFTCC) at Boston University brings to the table. Launched in July 2012 through a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the center identifies, prototypes and provides early clinical assessment of innovative point-of-care technologies designed to treat, screen, diagnose and monitor cancers. One of three institutions within the NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Point-of-Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN), CFTCC is the only POCTRN cancer center and one of the only engineering-focused cancer research centers in the nation.

“In the future, we hope that the kinds of technologies our researchers are developing will become the standard of care.”

and prevention. In the future, we hope that the kinds of technologies our researchers are developing will become the standard of care,” says Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, ME, MSE), who directs the CFTCC. “We’re trying to give inventors—scientists, engineers and clinicians—a springboard to get their technologies to a place where they can become marketable products.”

Accelerating Innovation from Bench to Bedside In its first three years, the center has funded 12 projects, two of which have produced devices that are now being commercialized. Among the center’s most promising new POC technologies are a noninvasive chemotherapy monitoring device, a mobile app that provides cancer patients with easy access to medical information and support, and a screening test for melanoma.

Assistant Professor Darren Roblyer (BME) has used CFTCC funding and prototyping facilities to advance a noninvasive optical device that monitors the effectiveness of chemotherapy at the point of care for breast cancer patients. Wearable by the patient or handheld by a clinician, the tumor-tracking “imaging pad” that Roblyer is developing transmits near-infrared light that penetrates deep inside cancer tissue. Some of the light is absorbed within cancer tumors and some is scattered back to a detector on the pad. Based on the pad’s continuous optical measurements of the absorption and scattering of light within a tumor, a clinician could, in real time, determine rapid changes in the tumor’s structure and metabolism that indicate its resistance to current treatment. A new course of treatment could then be implemented.

Now in production at the Fraunhofer Center and suitable for clinical testing, Roblyer’s device sharply reduces the size, cost and response time of existing chemotherapy monitoring technology, so it can be more easily applied at the point of care.

“This is a technology that used to be the size of a refrigerator just about a decade ago,” says Roblyer, who also received a $4 million grant from the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program through its 2014 Era of Hope Scholar Award to fund instrumentation development and preclinical and clinical studies. “Because we’re using new

CATHERINE KLAPPERICH Largely a virtual center that supports researchers around the country in the development and clinical assessment of emerging point-of-care (POC) technologies and the training of clinicians and other potential stakeholders in their use, CFTCC operates two prototyping facilities on the BU campus. One, located on the fifth floor of the BU Photonics Center, is used for early-stage prototyping; the other, housed at the Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation, produces more advanced prototypes. As they draw upon these prototyping facilities and the Engineering Product Innovation Center to advance technologies from the lab bench to the marketplace, center researchers are guided by the NIH’s ultimate aim of lowering healthcare costs while improving the quality of care.

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The wearable probe that Assistant Professor Roblyer (BME) is developing could enable clinicians to detect when a patient’s tumor is not responding and it’s time to modify treatment.

“This is a technology that used to be the size of a refrigerator just about a decade ago.”

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digital technologies to both synthesize our signal and to measure, we can reduce the size of the device to that of a briefcase and the cost by an order of magnitude.”

Another CFTCC-funded project that’s poised to enter the marketplace is the Personal Health Network, a mobile app that enables cancer patients and their family members to communicate more effectively with care coordination nurses, oncologists and other specialists. Spearheaded by Dr. Katherine Kim, assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California-Davis, in collaboration with Tiatros, a digital health technology company based in San Francisco, the app functions like a confidential social network. Once logged onto that network, patients can interact with health providers through video chat and email, and view their plans of care, appointment schedules and a library of medical and self-management information.

“Support from the center makes possible the optimization of this technology for patients,” says Kim. “We hope to be part of the growing movement that asks how technology can fill the gaps patients experience in the coordination of complex care. Our goal is to bend the cost curve and at the same time improve health.”

University of Texas-Austin Biochemistry Professor Andrew Ellington and BU School of Medicine Professor and Chair of Dermatology Dr. Rhoda Alani are developing an integrated microfluidic platform called the Paratus SDS(R) cartridge that tests for melanoma biomarkers.

Shown here are (A) device design and (B) fabricated device prototype in the open configuration.

University of Texas-Austin Biochemistry Professor Andrew Ellington and BU School of Medicine Professor and Chair of Dermatology Dr. Rhoda Alani used their CFTCC grant to develop an integrated microfluidic platform that tests for cancer biomarkers (it functions like a diagnostic paper test-strip), and a handheld electronic reader that can wirelessly transmit test results. Focusing

initially on detecting the recurrence of melanoma, the researchers designed the platform to detect cancer biomarkers in circulating nucleic acid (CNA), which consists of extracellular genetic material (DNA and RNA) that moves freely in the blood. These information-­ rich molecules could be used to indicate the status of remote tumors, possibly circumventing the need for costly tissue biopsies. Through their novel platform, currently contained within a plastic cartridge, Ellington and Alani aim to transition molecular diagnostic testing to the point-of-care setting.

“The beauty of this is that it’s extremely cheap and easy to use,” says Klapperich. “In three years, it’s gone from Andy and Rhoda meeting through the center to a working device that’s being prototyped by a commercial entity.”

Streamlining Cancer Care The melanoma biomarker test is one of a number of CFTCC projects that may enable a clinician—and, ultimately, the patient—to administer a rapid test and report the results via the Internet. With that goal in mind, Klapperich is currently working on a microfluidic test that screens for HPV (human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer) and returns results within minutes rather than days.

Other projects, including an app Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) is co-developing, aim to boost the number of people in high-risk, low-compliance populations who get screened for colon and other cancers.

One of the greatest potential benefits of POC screening is allowing clinicians and patients to quickly and easily distinguish between nonaggressive cancers and those likely to spread rapidly and cause illness. Using molecular diagnostics to accurately detect cancer biomarkers in body fluids, such tests could do everything from eliminating unnecessary surgery for nonaggressive tumors to replacing the mammogram with a blood test.

“What are the early molecular changes, and how can we detect them most efficiently? Those are the kinds of questions we try to focus on at the center,” says Klapperich. “How can we assist clinicians not just in identifying tumors, but by querying the cancer and quantifying the level of risk to the patient? In the last 10 years, exciting tools have emerged that allow us to quantify biomarkers in blood in new ways.”

Even as researchers develop faster, better and cheaper screening technologies, they must also find ways to sell those disruptive technologies to the clinical community.

To overcome potential resistance to the innovations they’re advancing, CFTCC engineers, clinicians, public health practitioners and technology transfer experts spend considerable time on assessing clinical needs. Their collective goal is to determine what technologies will have the biggest impact on improving the healthcare delivery experience for both physicians and patients.

“When you get a diagnosis of cancer, you’re basically entering a years-long healthcare odyssey where you see an array of different providers, take an insane number of tests and endure uncomfortable procedures,” says Klapperich. “If we can mitigate some of those stress points along the way, that’s really our goal.”

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ometimes all it takes to start a company is looking around the room. Sharing lab space on the third floor of 110 Cummington Mall due to a common interest in robotics and automation, three College of Engineering graduate students—Dimitar Baronov (PhD, Aero’10), Evan Butler (Physics’07; MS, ME’10) and Jesse Lock (PhD, BME’10)— harbored dreams of becoming entrepreneurs. Lock, who is also a physician, had a concept for a new medical technology, but needed the mathematical modeling expertise to translate it into a working prototype. Butler and Baronov sought careers that applied their knowledge of flight control systems, but aimed to do something off the beaten path. As the three labmates got to talking in the fall of 2009, they realized that together they could create a business that united their goals and aspirations.

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BY MARK DWORTZAN he spent a lot of time in intensive care units (ICUs). While he enjoyed serving patients and working with the bedside monitors that tracked their vital signs, he was astounded that none of these machines talked to one another. If they did, he surmised, the data that they produced could be more easily interpreted and acted on by attending physicians, improving health outcomes and possibly saving lives. Years later, as a PhD student in biomedical engineering at Boston University— thanks to a head-start from the ENG Late Entry Accelerated Program (LEAP)—and working physician at Winchester Hospital, Lock had the same reaction while doing rounds in the emergency room.

“It became clear that there was a lot of room for sophisticated mathematical analysis in medicine, and I didn’t know anyone doing this,” he recalls. “When I asked Evan and Dimitar what kind of analysis would be needed to integrate data output from ICU machines, we determined that control systems engineering was the key enabling technology.”

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With several relevant aerospace engineering courses and flight control modeling projects under their belts, Butler and Baronov offered precisely the control engineering savvy needed to get Lock’s concept off the ground.

Butler, who had majored in physics at BU as an undergraduate and nearly qualified for an additional bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, was about to complete his master’s degree in mechanical engineering with a concentration in dynamics and control engineering. As a graduate student he had designed, built and tested surgical tools and robots, and developed an intelligent flight control system for modified F-15 aircraft at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. Baronov was focusing his research on systems and control engineering in Professor John Baillieul’s Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, creating models for optimal cooperative decision-making among human operators and unmanned aerial vehicles.

TO DETERMINE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF OXYGEN TO DELIVER TO A PATIENT, A CLINICIAN MUST AGGREGATE BLOOD PRESSURE, BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION, URINE OUTPUT AND NINE OTHER DATATYPES. THE SOFTWARE DOES THIS AUTOMATICALLY IN REAL TIME.

Etiometry’s software analyzes multiple data streams generated by the instrumentation used for treating and monitoring a typical ICU patient.

These models would ultimately form the basis for Etiometry, a Boston-based startup cofounded by Lock, Butler and Baronov in 2010 to integrate analytics into medical care.

“Before I knew Jesse, I had assumed that the ICU was no less sophisticated than an aircraft,” says Baronov. “I also had no idea that the three of us would become the first to upgrade the ICU by applying principles of avionics to medicine.”

Combining models of human physiology with classic estimation techniques used to predict and correct the flight paths of aerospace vehicles, the team developed software to analyze multiple data streams generated by a typical patient in an ICU, from body temperature to heart rate to blood test results, and display valuable information to aid clinical decision-making. For example, to determine the right amount of oxygen to deliver to a patient, a clinician

must aggregate blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation, urine output and nine other datatypes. The software does this automatically in real time.

Developed in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Etiometry’s decision-­ support platform T3 consists of two software components: an FDA-approved monitor that collects current and historical patient data streams and displays them on a web browser interface (created

by Peter Laussen, MD, former chief of the BCH Critical Care Unit and current chief of Critical Care Medicine at the Toronto hospital, and Melvin C. Almodovar, medical director of the BCH ICU); and the Etiometry Risk Analytics Engine™, which analyzes that data using control systems engineering algorithms and—through a color-coded user interface—indicates early warning signs of deteriorating patient conditions.

“Through Etiometry’s risk analytics technology, we can leverage the power of real-time data and validated predictive analytics to make more accurate assessments and achieve more timely interventions in our patients to avoid complications that ultimately lead to disability or death,” says Almodovar. “The same technology could also be applied to less critically ill or ambulatory patients.”

“Our platform adds value through enhanced decision support, early warning of worsening conditions, and improved medical team communication,” says Butler. “In effect, it enables the implementation of new treatment protocols in the ICU that indicate the best course of action based on the risk measured by the software.”

Over the past year, Etiometry has completed several studies showing how risk assessment analytics improve health outcomes and contain costs in the ICU, netting a “Top Abstract” award at the 2014 Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Conference for one study conducted with its BCH collaborators. The company has also begun collaborating with several top-ranked research hospitals to further develop the platform for clinical deployment, first in neonatal and pediatric patients, and eventually to cover additional treatment categories and adults. The effort will be supported by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, which provided the seed grant that enabled the company’s launch in 2010.

The company has also expanded to 14 employees, including seven ENG alums.

Today, the three cofounders continue to advance the technology as they build the business. Butler, who serves as Etiometry’s CEO, spends most of his time on business strategy; CTO Baronov oversees the Research and Software Development departments and attends to regulatory and intellectual property concerns; and Chief Medical Officer Lock uses his medical expertise and contacts to support software development, business relationships and funding sources while attending to his pediatric practice.

As well-organized, funded and regarded as Etiometry is today, it took a monumental effort and lots of on-the-job learning to go from an idea on the third floor of Building 110 to a full-fledged company in Allston.

“At first we needed to find space, partners, financing and lawyers, and nothing could prepare us for conversations with investors, negotiating contracts, building relationships with technology transfer offices and CIOs, and other tasks needed to start the company,” says Lock. “It’s a good thing we didn’t know what lay ahead of us back then; sometimes not knowing can be a good quality to have as an engineer.”

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“I LIKED THE TEAMWORK AND CAMARADERIE IN MISSION CONTROL, HAVING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS UNDER PRESSURE WHERE THE ANSWERS AREN’T IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK.”

NOT AN OPTION F OVERCOMING LONG ODDS, AERO ALUM REACHES FOR THE STARS rom an early age in her native Omaha, Nebraska, Jenny Gruber (AME’99) divided her time between Earth and space.

By day she loved to go on adventures and explore the terrain around the trailer park where she lived with her parents and three siblings; by night she spent a lot of time looking up at the stars. Her passion for exploration and her enthrallment with the night sky remained separate categories until she turned seven, when her father, a bricklayer with an engineering mindset, took her to see The Right Stuff.

“After that movie, I told my parents I wanted to be an astronaut,” Gruber recalls, noting that the year was 1983, when only one American woman, Sally Ride, had yet made it to space. “My parents would have been well within their rights to say, ‘A, you’re female, and B, we can’t afford to send you to college—are you crazy?’ They said, ‘Okay, you better study hard.’”

She had a good role model in that regard: over the next six years, her mother—cobbling together a scholarship and student loans—would start college at the age of 28 to pursue a degree in education, and land her first teaching job. But with no one in Gruber’s extended family having studied engineering, and no mentors around with an inkling of what it would take to realize her dream, she looked inward. Fueled

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by a passion for math and science, a steady diet of science fiction, and not a few heartfelt prayers, she kept her eyes on the prize all the way through her senior year of high school. When her AP physics teacher introduced her to engineering, she knew she’d found a ticket to ride.

“I applied to MIT and BU,” Gruber says. “I got the small envelope from MIT, and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.” Fortunately, the big envelope included financial aid.

On a strict budget and with several AP courses under her belt, she enrolled in BU’s accelerated BS/MS degree program in aerospace engineering. As she developed expertise in the field, she also sharpened her problem-solving, critical thinking and leadership skills, capabilities that she would have ample opportunity to apply throughout her career. She made Dean’s List every semester and was inducted into engineering honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau, all while coaching BU’s Gymnastics Club.

“Jenny was totally ‘can do,’” says Associate Professor Sheryl Grace (ME). “She believed she could master the concepts and methods in any course, so she applied herself and asked questions until she conquered the material.”

Gruber supplemented her studies with a year as a co-op at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), where she helped develop software

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used to automate maneuver confirmation procedures for flight dynamics officers charged with monitoring the Space Shuttle’s trajectory and performance. Through the co-op program, Gruber gained invaluable experience, a paycheck, and a husband—a fellow co-op student from Georgia Tech.

When Gruber won a Melville scholarship to fund her senior year, a BU administrator urged her to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship. By that December, she became one of 32 students to receive the honor out of more than 1,000 applicants based on academic achievement, strong personal characteristics and physical vigor—qualities also valued by NASA’s Astronaut Candidate program. Funded by the scholarship, she spent the next three years studying ion propulsion (the use of charged particles to accelerate gas through a rocket nozzle) at Oxford University, earning a doctorate in engineering science in 2002. Her thesis, which quantified the effects of erosion within ion engines, was the first study to model this phenomenon.

Gruber returned to NASA as a full-time employee in 2002, where she served as a trajectory analyst. As she helped plan Shuttle missions and coordinated operations between JSC and the US Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, she began training for a position that would take her one step closer to the stars.

In 2004, she got that job—flight dynamics officer, or FDO. Working at a dedicated console in the Mission Control Center and supported by a team of engineers through more than 12 missions, Gruber tracked the spacecraft’s trajectory and engine performance on launch (to ensure that it reached its target orbit), and on reentry (to make sure it breached the atmosphere at the right angle and with sufficient kinetic energy to safely reach its landing site). She also occasionally monitored Shuttle rendezvous and docking maneuvers with the Space Station and other target vehicles, sometimes using the software she had developed as a co-op. While serving on the final Shuttle mission in July 2011, her husband, also a NASA engineer, brought their son to the Mission Control Center for a unique takeyour-child-to-work-day experience.

Gruber has fond memories of her time in the FDO seat.

“I liked the teamwork and camaraderie in Mission Control, having to solve problems under pressure where the answers aren’t in the back of the book, and contributing directly to a mission in real time,” she says. “The rewards of this work were immediate.”

Since the Shuttle program ended, Gruber has managed a mission planning software group and now supervises flight controllers who manage cargo storage and transfer. She helps the group make decisions and communicate more effectively to the flight director, and mentors and certifies new flight controllers.

“I tend to be very direct in my communication and quick with my decision-making, and that’s what was needed in the group,” says Gruber. “Having a strong flight control background, I’m well positioned to help these people to be their best, and in that way, to contribute to something greater than myself.”

The first ENG alum to receive BU’s Young Alumni Award for service to her field and the University, she traces this service orientation—along with her persistence, drive and focus—to her parents, who advocated for civil rights and other social justice causes. “They showed me that if you believe in something, you should put your life on the line for it,” she says.

Gruber may ultimately get the chance to do just that. Her sights set on night sky destinations that range from low-earth orbit to the surface of Mars, she plans to apply for mission specialist in NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Program. Equipped with stellar academic credentials, physically fit (she runs marathons, hikes, lifts weights and plays soccer with her son), and falling within the specified height range, she more than meets the basic requirements.

Perhaps the most apt assessment of Gruber’s spaceflight prospects comes from former BU President and fellow Rhodes Scholar Jon Westling (Hon.’03) in a December 1998 issue of the BU Bridge, where he described her as “extraordinarily focused and able, in an instant, to grasp new ideas. I have no doubt that she will achieve her aspiration and one day reach the stars.”

Gruber (second row, front) in Mission Control with her team of Inventory and Stowage Officers.

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problems in advanced materials, biomedicine and energy.

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

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drugs, preserve biological reagents used in diagnostic tests and provide other in-demand healthcare solutions targeting the specific needs of resource-limited countries.

Since joining the College of Engineering faculty in 2003, Professor Elise Morgan (ME, BME) has worked to advance understanding of the role of the mechanical function of tissues and organs in skeletal health, repair and development, with the ultimate goal of pinpointing causes and treatments for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and poor bone healing.

As director of the Orthopaedic & Developmental Biomechanics Laboratory, Morgan draws on methods from engineering mechanics, materials science, and cell and molecular biology to investigate how mechanical factors contribute to the development, adaptation, failure and regeneration of bone and cartilage. Morgan was recognized as one of 100 Inspiring Women in STEM in the September issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

AIMBE’s mission is to advance public understanding of medical and biological engineering and honor significant achievements in the field.

frequencies) that may ultimately be used for imaging, chemical detection, surveillance and highspeed electronic circuits.

In biomedicine, she has developed a MEMS-based toolset to analyze cellular behavior, yielding knowledge that could improve our understanding of cardiovascular, liver and other diseases, and lead to novel therapies. And in the energy domain, she has developed micro gas chromatography and microfluidic communication systems designed to improve the efficiency and safety of oil and gas extraction.

Zhang is one of only 3,347 Fellows out of 110,835 ASME members. Comprising more

Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE)

than 140,000 members in 151 countries, ASME is a nonprofit membership organization that fosters collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment and skills development across all engineering disciplines to help the global engineering community advance solutions that improve our quality of life.

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he American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has elected two BME faculty members to the AIMBE College of Fellows. Professors Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) and Elise Morgan (ME, BME, MSE) join more than 1,500 outstanding biomedical engineers in academia, industry and government around the world who have distinguished themselves through significant contributions in research, industrial practice and/or education.

Election to the College of Fellows is reserved for the top two percent of the international medical and biological engineering community. The March 16 induction of Zaman and Morgan at AIMBE’s 2015 Annual Event at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, brought the number of BU faculty elected to this prestigious body to 29, placing BU among the top two universities in the country.

A College of Engineering faculty member since 2009 and the College’s only Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor, Zaman engineers new experimental and computational technologies for major healthcare problems in both the developing and developed world, including probing the mechanisms of cancer metastasis. He also develops robust, cheap, portable and user-friendly diagnostics and analysis toolkits to address global health challenges. As director of the Laboratory for Engineering Education & Development (LEED), he works with BU students to advance technologies that detect counterfeit

Holmes, Stepp Receive NSF CAREER Award assistant professors douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) and Cara Stepp (SAR, BME) have received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in recognition of their outstanding research and teaching capabilities. Collectively, they will net more than $1 million over the next five years to pursue high-impact projects that combine research and educational goals.

Holmes will use his NSF CAREER award to study the mechanics of how thin rods move through soft and fragile media such as tissue and granular materials. Knowledge gained from the study could enable the construction of advanced, autonomous structures capable of navigating around obstacles in such media. Thin rods and other active materials that can bend and fold on command are essential to the engineering of smart needles, soft robotic arms and other flexible devices.

Stepp, who has a joint appointment in the departments of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (Sargent College) and

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Biomedical Engineering, will develop new technology that could dramatically increase the independence of severely paralyzed individuals by empowering them to communicate as quickly and reliably as people

with normal speech and motor functioning.

To date, 39 College of Engineering faculty members have received NSF CAREER awards during their service to the College.

Grinstaff Delivers Inaugural Charles DeLisi Lecture

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EXPLORES DESIGN OF BIOMATERIALS FOR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry) presented the inaugural Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture on April 2. The first named endowed lecture in the history of the College of Engineering, the Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes faculty members with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship and outstanding alumni who have invented and mentored transformative technologies that impact our quality of life.

Speaking at the Photonics Center before a packed audience of students, faculty and researchers, Grinstaff described three projects that have produced new biomaterials to improve diagnosis and treatment of major diseases and injuries: a wound sealant; a polymer film that reduces recurrence of lung cancer after surgical resection; and a joint lubricant designed to bring long-lasting pain relief for osteoarthritis patients.

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Twelve ENG faculty members have been promoted.

NEW FACULTY Professor John White (BME) began serving as chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department in May. White was a BME faculty member for 13 years before he joined the University of Utah in 2007 as a professor of bioengineering. During his tenure at the College of Engineering, he served as BME chairman ad interim and as associate chair for undergraduate and graduate studies, and received the ENG Faculty Service Award in 2002.

At the University of Utah, White was the executive director of the Brain Institute, where he used engineering approaches to better understand how information is processed in the brain, and advanced new biomedical devices to treat memory disorders and epilepsy. Supported by more than $50 million in funding from the NIH, NSF and other sources, White has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BES), and served as meeting chair for the BES Fall Meeting in 2014. He is also a co-founder of the startup Utah Dynamics. White received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Recently serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology, Assistant Professor Keith Brown (ME) is exploring new ways of imaging and manipulating nanoscale materials using scanning probes.

He has co-authored 39 peer-reviewed publications and nine patent applications, and received numerous awards in recognition of his research achievements. Brown earned his PhD in applied physics at Harvard University.

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Formerly an assistant professor of computer science & engineering and statistics at Ohio State University, Assistant Professor Brian Kulis (ECE) studies machine learning, statistics, computer vision, data mining and large-scale optimization. Focused on making it easier to analyze large-scale data, his research has garnered three best paper awards at top-tier conferences in machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as an NSF CAREER award.

Kulis obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas.

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tive foundation of the US through entrepreneurship and education. In addition to more than a decade in technical leadership roles at AT&T and Bell Laboratories, he worked as a venture capitalist and was CEO of three startups. He holds more than 100 patents in a wide range of fields, including green energy and consumer products and services. He has taught at Parsons School of Design and lectured at Wharton and Columbia Business Schools, and earned his PhD in physics from Harvard University.

Previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor John Ngo (BME) is developing strategies using electron microscopy to perform high-resolution cellular imaging of specific biomolecules and biomolecular events. He received his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the California Institute of Technology.

Associate Professor of the Practice Orran Krieger (ECE) is the founding director of the Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, where he leads the Massachusetts Open Cloud, a new public cloud project involving the commonwealth, universities and industry.

Prior to joining the BU faculty, he worked on cloud computing efforts at VMware and served as a researcher and manager at IBM. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto.

Formerly a research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Assistant Professor Brian Walsh (ME) is developing space-based tools to study interactions between the solar wind and the nearEarth space environment. He is currently a co-investigator for a large-scale European Space Agency (ESA)-China space mission that will explore the interaction between the Earth’s magnetosphere and the supersonic solar wind. Walsh received his PhD in astronomy from Boston University.

PROMOTIONS Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE), Daniel Segré (Biology, BME, Bioinformatics), Calin Belta (ME, SE), Edward Damiano (BME), Martin Herbordt (ECE), Catherine Klapperich (BME, ME, MSE), Elise Morgan (ME, BME, MSE), Roberto Paiella (ECE, MSE) and Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) were promoted to Professor. Ayse Coskun (ECE), Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME, Bioinformatics) and Vivek Goyal (ECE) were promoted to tenured Associate Professor.

Professor of the Practice Greg Blonder (ME) has spent the past 25 years working to strengthen the technological and competi-

Correction: The article “Three Faculty Members Join ENG Leadership Team” in ENGineer Spring 2015, p. 31, was written by Mark Dwortzan, not Rich Barlow.

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he College of Engineering welcomed seven new faculty members this year.

Experts in a wide range of fields, they are expected to bring innovative ideas to ENG classrooms and research labs.

NEWS BYTES FACULTY Professor Enrico Bellotti’s (ECE, MSE) and PhD students Adam Wichman and Ben Pinkie won the Boston University Technology Development Office Ignition Award, which aims to help launch promising new technologies into the marketplace. The team’s infrared detector prototype could lead to more sensitive IR detectors that operate using less power and at higher temperatures, eliminating the need for certain cooling devices required by today’s IR cameras.

Research Assistant Professor Swapnil Bhatia (ECE) was awarded the first annual Allan Kuchinksy International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation Scholarship by the Bio Design Automation Consortium, which promotes education, research, training and advancement of state-of-the-art technology in synthetic biology and bio-design automation.

In March, Science Nation, the National Science Foundation’s online magazine, featured a video describing the multidisciplinary research of the BU Center for Biophotonic Sensors & Systems, including segments on work

by Professor Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE), director of the BU Photonics Center, and Assistant Professor Xue Han (BME).

In June, Futurity: Research News From Top Universities published a Q&A with Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, ME, MSE) on her innovations in point-of-care diagnostics.

A team led by Research Associate Professor Pablo Ruiz (ME) designed software that pinpoints power grid congestion and redirects power to lesser-used transmission lines. The software could tap a higher percentage of electric power from renewable sources and reduce power generation costs by more than $1 billion annually. Ruiz’s work was highlighted in the June 2015 issue of Popular Science.

Professor Barbara ShinnCunningham (BME) was interviewed on a wide range of topics in the June 1 issue of Current Biology.

STUDENTS & ALUMNI A BME senior design team has developed a credit card-sized, microfluidic chip with molecular diagnostic capabilities that promises to improve diagnosis of gonorrhea in any health setting. In April, the team was awarded second prize out of 79 entries at the 2015 North East Bioengineering Conference senior design competition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Anne Hines (BME’87) and Larry Leszczynski (BME’85) cofounded the Colorado Nepal Alliance (CNA), a nonprofit organization that strives to enhance the lives of people living in rural Nepal through donations of footwear, school construction and school uniforms. Since 2012, their “Shoes for Sherpas” project has distributed over 2,700 pairs of boots and shoes to Nepalis in need.

In response to the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, the organization has shifted all of its fundraising to long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts in the country’s remote Darkha region.

CNA has supplied more than three tons of rice, 100 tents and several tarps to residents, and plans to ship additional rice and lentils and to help rebuild schools this fall. For more information and to donate to the earthquake relief fund, please visit http://ColoradoNepalAlliance.org/ SchoolFund.

Atlas cofounders Michael Kasparian (ECE’12, MS’13) and Peter Li, who created a wearable fitness tracker with 3D body tracking and advanced data analytics, were listed in Forbes’ 2015 “30 Under 30: Consumer Tech.”

In March, U.S. News & World Report published an article presenting Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) as a leader in academia who is at the forefront of a trend in graduate programs to bring student innovations to the marketplace.

Mechanical Engineering Lecturers Enrique Gutierrez-Wing and Peter Zink received Course Innovation awards from the BU Center for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching.

The funding will help upgrade two ME courses, Automation and Manufacturing Methods (ME 345) and Product Design (ME 360), through new equipment purchases and redesign of hands-on projects.

In April, Professor Mark Horenstein (ECE) delivered the Bill Bright Memorial Lecture at Electrostatics 2015, a quadrennial conference organized by the Institute of Physics that brings together leading experts in electrostatics from academia and industry.

Bauer LeSavage (BME’16) careers in science, mathematics and engineering, and cover up to $7,500 for tuition and other educational expenses. LeSavage is the fourth ENG student to receive the award out of 13 BU winners since 1989. In addition, Adrienne Lee (BME’16) received an Honorable Mention designation.

MSE graduate student Meliha Gozde Rainville was one of 100 students chosen to participate in ARPA-E Energy Innovations Summit, an annual conference—held this year in Washington, DC in February—aimed at moving disruptive energy technologies from lab to marketplace. At BU, Rainville is using a variety of X-ray techniques to improve our under-

Meliha Gozde Rainville (MSE) Atlas’ wearable wristband tracks bench press reps. (Photo courtesy of Atlas) BME senior design team members Nelson Boland, Danielle Conneely, Gil Covarrubias, Jr. and Courtney Ellenson

In collaboration with the City of Boston, CISE graduate students Theodora Brisimi (ECE), Yue Zhang (SE), Wuyang Dai (ECE), Setareh Ariafar (SE) and Nicholas Baladis (MIT) have developed a smartphone app called Street Bump that uses the phone’s motion detector and network connections to pinpoint and transmit the location of potholes. Featured in the Boston Globe, the app has detected at least 1,250 sunken manholes that the city has now repaired.

Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsos, a second-year MSE PhD candidate, received a $5,000 grant from the Gerondelis Foundation that will support his ongoing computational studies of point defects in nitride semiconductors with Professor Enrico Bellotti (MSE, ECE).

Bauer LeSavage (BME’16), a Lutchen Fellow pursuing research in tissue engineering, received one of 260 (68 in engineering) Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, which recognize outstanding college sophomores and juniors seeking research

standing of fundamental surface processes during thin film growth, an enabling technology for cheaper, faster and smaller electronic devices, including photovoltaic systems.

Second prize at the Questrom School of Business New Venture Competition went to Barron Roth and Luke Sorenson (both ENG’16) for creating Downtyme, an iOS and Android app that allows users to match their schedules with friends and then make plans.

—Mark Dwortzan, Chelsea Hermond (Questrom’15) (ECE), Amy Laskowski (BU Today) and Gabriella McNevin (ECE), with contributions from Cheryl Stewart (MSE)

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College of Engineering Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen presents candidates during the 2015 Boston University Commencement at Nickerson Field on May 17, 2015.

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he overarching message of speeches delivered at the College of Engineering’s undergraduate and graduate Commencement ceremonies on May 16 was simple: There has never been a better time to be an engineer, because society has never needed these skills more urgently.

In the morning, Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen welcomed 268 graduating seniors and their families by acknowledging student accomplishments.

“The single most important skill in life is the ability to work really hard,” he said. “There isn’t a student in any other college on this campus who has worked as hard as you have to earn your place at today’s Commencement. Now begins the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and move society forward.”

Student speaker Atri Raychowdhury (ECE’15), past Class of 2015 president and this year’s BU IEEE student chapter vice president, echoed Dean Lutchen’s sentiment. “Let us use our education to solve the Grand Challenges of society,” he said. “This truly is our responsibility as Societal Engineers.”

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Commencement speaker Angela M. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT’s Biological Engineering Laboratory and leader of a research team that engineers viruses to grow and assemble materials for energy, electronics and medicine, also called on the graduating engineers to take on society’s Grand Challenges. “Now is the best and most exciting time to be an engineer,” she observed.

“From clean energy and the environment to healthcare, education, food and water, there has never been a time when we have had more opportunities to make an impact.”

Dean Lutchen presented Department Awards for Teaching Excellence to Assistant Professor Ahmad (Mo) Khalil (BME), Lecturer Osama Alshaykh (ECE) and Associate Professor Raymond Nagem (ME), who also received the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award. The Faculty Service Award went to Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE).

First place in the Societal Impact Capstone Awards went to ECE seniors Yicheng Pan, Sihang Zhou, Alexis Weaver, Sinan Eren and Jose Bautista, who designed and built three personalized announcing

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ENG 50th Anniversary Celebration in New York Arjun Rai (EE’02, Questrom’07), Carol Siegel (SE’70) and Palak Patel (CSE’02)

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Featured speaker Professor Edward Damiano (BME), Amit Jain (EE’85’88), Hillary Nierenberg and Binoy K. Singh (BME’89)

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Raymond Byrne (BME/CE’13), Anne Marie Thomasina Weber (BME’12), Alexander Bartosch, Paul Joseph DeGuzman (BME’06) and Zhamilya DeGuzman

Lawrence Tena (BME’88), John Sakellakis (BME’88) and Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen

systems that welcome students with mental and physical disabilities into classrooms. The second place winners—BME seniors Nikolaos Farmakidis, Alexandros Oratis, Syed Shabbar Shirazi, John Subasic and See Wong—assisted a Massachusetts General Hospital physician in determining the most suitable surgical procedure for medium kidney stone removal.

Later in the day, Lutchen presented 68 Master of Science and 60 Master of Engineering degrees and presided over the hooding of 37 PhD students. Farzad Kamalabadi (ECE, MS’94, PhD’01) professor of ECE and Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, exhorted the graduates to combine science and policy work.

“The world faces multiple problems of diminishing resources, which are all intertwined with social and economic stability,” he said. “You are poised to address these vital questions from a fresh, solutions-oriented perspective. But you can’t do it from within the scientific community alone. We need more engineers in Washington, Brussels, and the other policy centers of the world. It is crucial that the engineering leaders of the future play central roles in social policy.”—Jan Smith

Margaret Lundin (SE’73), Traci Kinst (BME’92) and Thomas Kinst (BME’91, ’94)

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ne hundred College of Engineering alumni, partners, parents and friends joined Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City to continue celebrating the College’s first 50 years (other ENG 50th Anniversary celebrations were held earlier in Boston and Palo Alto). For more information on the three events, including photos and videos, visit bu.edu/eng/50th.

Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations Bruce Jordan and Frank Troise (BME’87)

Graduating seniors Zhanna Kaufman (EE) and Mounika Vutukuru (EE, Physics)

Graduating PhD student Elizabeth Canovic (BME) with her son Nuri

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IN MEMORIAM

Arthur Thompson First ENG Dean Put College on Path to Prominence Arthur T. Thompson, the first dean of Boston University College of Engineering, died on May 9 at the age of 96.

Serving with distinction from 1964 to 1974, Thompson laid the foundation for the College’s accreditation, instituted novel degree programs and considerably expanded undergraduate and graduate offerings.

In 1963, Boston University hired Thompson, then a longtime associate dean of engineering at Penn State University, to become dean of the College of Industrial Technology (CIT), which offered three degree programs in technology, aeronautics and management. Reflecting on that time a few months before the College’s 50th anniversary, Thompson noted that “the soil was rich for this little technical school to grow.”

When CIT was officially renamed as the Boston University College of Engineering on February 27, 1964, his primary mission was to transform it into an accredited engineering program. During his deanship, the new Aerospace, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering departments received accreditation. The College also instituted the nation’s first BS degree program in bioengineering and expanded to five BS and three MS programs in five fields.

“Dean Thompson took some major risks and took on the responsibility of starting a small engineering college in the shadow of a very large, world-class college across the river, and did it successfully,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen.

Thompson left the College in 1974, having accomplished the mission he had signed up for a decade earlier. “I felt I had completed my job because the school had taken off, we were accredited and applications were coming in,” he said.

Opening of the College of Engineering Building at 110 Cummington Mall in February 1964. Left to right, Merritt A. Williamson, dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at Penn State, BU President Harold C. Case and BU College of Engineering Dean Arthur T. Thompson. Williamson gave the Convocation Address at the inaugural ceremony of the College.

After serving BU as engineering dean, associate vice president and professor of engineering, Thompson became provost at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He received an arts degree from Colby College, an engineering degree from Penn State, a master’s degree in engineering from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Thompson was predeceased by his wife of 70 years, Virginia (Deringer) Thompson, and is survived by daughters Deborah A. and Harriet T. Thompson of Newton; granddaughter Ashima Scripp and husband Robert Bloomfield of Windham, NH; and great grandson Thatcher Bloomfield.

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Daniel G. Udelson, a retired professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering and research professor of urology, died on March 29.

Udelson, who served as chair of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering from 1981 to 1991, recruited distinguished researchers including Professor John Baillieul (ME, SE), Professor Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE), Adjunct Research Professor Donald Wroblewski (ME), Professor Michael Howe (ME) and the late Charles Speziale. A US Navy veteran of World War II, Udelson earned a PhD at Harvard University and joined the Boston University faculty in the early 1960s.

Udelson is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen (Messina) Udelson, children John Udelson and Christina Knopp, and grandchildren William and Elizabeth Knopp.

Jarl R. Ekstrom (’48), Hollis, NH Peter Romagnoli (’51), Salisbury, MA James A. Bandouveres (’55), Old Orchard Beach, ME Raymond A. Lindholm (’57), Cary, NC Carl P. Rose (’59), Homosassa, FL Sydney E. Schmedes (’60), Staten Island, NY Frederick G. W. Gleitsmann (’61), La Plata, MD Elliott S. Shulman (’62), Sarasota, FL Francis R. DeLuca (’62,‘67), Wareham, MA William D. Krasnow (’64), Newton Highlands, MA Robert E. Votapka (’64), Tyngsboro, MA Charles E. Dearborn, Jr. (’65), Newmarket, NH James M. O’Reilly (’65), Belmont, MA John Kazarosian (’68), Atkinson, NH Richard E. Powers (’70), Rutland, MA George T. Vathally (’70), Haverhill, MA Stephen D. Holland (’78), Winter Park, FL Keith Collins (’91), New Orleans, LA

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PASSINGS

Dear Friends, The College’s 50th anniversary year has just ended, and what a year it was! Alums in New England, northern California and metro New York celebrated by coming out in record numbers, and the smile on every face seemed to say, “This is terrific!”

Your generosity broke records for the eighth consecutive year in annual giving while propelling the ENG Capital Campaign to exceed its ambitious goal.

Records for leadership donors and annual giving dollars and donors fell harder than the February snows, and that’s really saying something!

Leadership donors—those who give $1,000 or more to the ENG Annual Fund or Societal Engineering Fund—increased in number to 157, annual giving was up almost 10 percent and the number of annual giving donors increased by more than 7 percent at a time when the number of annual donors at US colleges has dropped more than 9 percent nationwide.

Meanwhile, by June 30 the College’s Capital Campaign had surpassed $68,800,000, almost 15 percent over our $60,000,000 goal and well ahead of the other major BU schools. And more than $13,000,000 was pledged and given, triple the average year before the Campaign.

Breaking records. Surpassing our Campaign goal.

Bucking the national trend. Setting the pace at BU. Truly the grand slam of generosity!

Support like yours not only makes a huge difference in the lives of our students, but also generates the quantum leap in public visibility the College is enjoying, including the #37 ranking in U.S. News & World Report this spring.

What next? Dean Lutchen and I will be traveling around the US this year to town meetings and consultation dinners, seeking your input and perspective on revisions to the College’s strategic plan. We hope to see you.

The best is yet to come—thanks for jumping aboard and joining us in this great adventure!

PHOTO BY VERNON DOUCETTE

My warmest thanks,

Bruce Jordan, Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations

Honor Roll of Supporters­ $500,000–$999,999 Anonymous ■

$100,000–$249,999

Anonymous ■ ■ David E. Hollowell (ENG’69, ’72, Questrom’74) and Kathleen A. Hollowell (GRS’71, SED’77) ■ ■ Joan Ingalls ■ John Tegan (ENG’88) ■ ■

$50,000–$99,999

Charles DeLisi ■ ■ Roger A. Dorf (ENG’70) and Sandra M. Dorf ■ ■ Jeffrey L. Greenacre ■ ■ Peter J. Levine (ENG’83) ■ Kirk D. Ramey ■ ■ ■

$25,000–$49,999

Anonymous Todd M. Abbrecht and Marci Abbrecht ■ ■ Mary S. Abele (CAS’60) and John E. Abele ■ ■ Edward S. W. Boesel (ENG’70) ■ ■ William D. Felder and Katharine C. Felder ■ ■ ■ Francis A. Harrington (ENG’70, ‘72, ‘77) David F. Kiersznowski (ENG’85) and Demi D. Lloyd ■ ■ Philip Lambert and Stephanie Lambert ■ ■ John A. Maccarone (ENG’66) and Young O. Maccarone ■ ■ S. Rob Pierce ■ ■

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous ■ ■ Adel B. Al-Saleh (ENG’87) and Gladys Al-Saleh ■ Charles R. Cantor ■ Thomas Cronin and Patricia Cronin ■ Professor Ted de Winter ■ ■ ■ Hanna G. Evans ■ Gerald J. Fine and L. Victoria LeFevre ■ Catherine Forrestel ■ ■ Friends of Rocket Propulsion Group ■ ■ Reza M. Ghaffari (ENG’86) and Roudabeh Ghaffari ■ ■ Carlos A. Hakim and Luciana R. Haddad Hakim ■ ■ ■ Adam J. Hess ■ ■ William H. Kleh (LAW’71) and Patricia M. Kleh ■ ■ Nicholas J. Lippis (ENG’84, ‘89) and Lillian A. Lippis ■ ■ ■ Alireza Mazaheri ■ ■ Andrew Moin and Meghan Moin ■ ■ Louis Padulo and Katherine S. Padulo Binoy K. Singh (ENG’89) ■ ■ Mark R. Templeton (ENG’83, ’09) 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 ■ ■ Charles E. Bascom (ENG’64) and Christina M. Bascom ■ ■ Christine M. Bren ■ ■ Bettina Briz Himes (ENG’86) ■ ■ Saad N. Buisier (ENG’03) and Rita M. Buisier ■ ■ Matthew Cissel ■ ■ Peter K. (ENG’64) and Lorraine P. Cocolis (SAR’63) ■ ■ ■ Akiva S. Cohen ■ ■ Barbara M. Cohen ■ ■

Neri M. Cohen ■ ■ Ofer Cohen ■ ■ Sastry M. Dasika and Valli B. Dasika ■ ■ Nicholas R. Doucette (ENG’09) ■ ■ Leonard W. Ely ■ Tony L. Fant and Sheila M. Fant ■ ■ ■ Vanessa C. Feliberti (ENG’93) ■ ■ Priscilla J. Fowler ■ ■ William W. Grigsby and Janace G. Grigsby ■ Jennifer R. Gruber (ENG’99, ‘99) and Ron Sostaric ■ ■ Raymond L. Han (CAS’98) ■ ■ Brendon J. Howe (ENG’84) and Lynne M. Wadman-Howe (SED’87) ■ ■ Patricia E. Hume (MED’01) and Carl Jacobs ■ ■ Uday Dasika and Elizabeth Kahn ■ ■ Dean L. Kamen ■ ■ Kurt Kessler ■ ■ Ezra D. Kucharz (ENG’90) and Jennifer M. Kucharz ■ ■ Chiman F. Lam ■ ■ Jeff Lenchner and Jill Lenchner ■ ■ ■ Sophia Lopez ■ ■ Kevin F. Malone ■ ■ Dr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Maneval (ENG’82) ■ Andrew J. Marsh (ENG’83) and Heather J. Marsh (CAS’83) ■ ■ Theodore D. Moustakas and Elena Moustakas ■ ■ ■ ■ John D. Nachmann (CAS’89) and Catherine Nachmann ■ Justine Osage-Laugharn (ENG’83) and James A. Laugharn ■ ■ Stephen Perlman ■ ■ Glenn J. Riedman (ENG’90) and Jill Riedman ■ Michael L. Salamone (ENG’84) and Pamela E. Salamone ■ ■ ■ John A. Senatore (ENG’73) and Nina M. Senatore ■ Anthony Shick and Kari Shick ■ ■ Richard Sweeney and Maria S. Sweeney ■ ■ Geoffrey M. Tobin and Brei Tobin ■ ■ Francis J. Troise (ENG’87) and Jill Troise ■ ■ William W. Weiss (ENG’83, ‘97) and Maria E. Weiss ■ Todd C. Zion and Karyn Zion ■ ■

$2,500–$4,999

Gregg E. Adkin (ENG’86) and Kimberly A. Adkin ■ ■ ■ Arshad Ashraf (CAS’96, ’96) ■ ■ Stormy Attaway (GRS’84, GRS’88) ■ ■ ■ Christopher H. Brousseau (ENG’91) and Mary Lou K. Cronin ■ ■ Li-Yang Chen ■ ■ Jason P. Colacchio (ENG’90) and Tracy L. Colacchio ■ ■ John DeMatteo and Judith DeMatteo ■ ■ Lawrence F. DePaulis (ENG’99) and Debra D. Depaulis (ENG’99) ■ ■ Shirley R. Ely ■ ■ Patrick J. Foley (ENG’91, ‘94) and Kerry C. Foley (ENG’91) ■ ■ Alireza Hakimi (ENG’82, ‘86) and Nazila Bidabadi (CAS’82, SDM’87) ■ ■ Kenneth E. Hancock (ENG’92, ’01) and Hsi Pin Chen (CAS’89, SPH’91, MED’96, ’96) ■ ■ Larry Leszczynski (ENG’85) and Anne E. Hines (ENG’87) ■ ■ Pei-Jung Huang (MET’14) ■ ■ Ruth A. Hunter (ENG’64, Questrom’86) ■ ■ David H. Klingbiel and Lisa L. Rozich-Klingbiel ■ ■ Kevin J. Knopp (ENG’94) and Christina Knopp (ENG’94) ■ ■

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

Gayle W. Lutchen (SED’93) and Kenneth R. Lutchen ■ ■ ■ ■ Anonymous ■ ■ ■ David W. Maruska (ENG’82) and Dorothy J. Maruska ■ ■ ■ Richard J. Mendes (ENG’86) and Catherine Mendes ■ ■ Philip E. Murphy and Frances A. Murphy ■ ■ Carl L. Myers (ENG’65) and Jane S. Myers ■ ■ Steve N. Oesterle ■ ■ Samuel G. Oliva (CGS’89, Questrom’91, ENG’97) Ron Oser and Donna Y. Oser ■ ■ Taki G. Pantazopoulos (CGS’80, ENG’83) and Elaine V. Pantazopoulos ■ ■ Sanjay Patel (ENG’87) and Falguni S. Patel ■ ■ ■ Sanjay Prasad (ENG’86, ’87) and Suman V. Prasad (Questrom’89) ■ G. Anthony Reina (ENG’93) and Bryn J. Reina (SAR’92) ■ Peter E. Renzi (ENG’85, ’87) and Christine A. Giurdanella-Renzi (ENG’87, ’87, ’89) ■ ■ Yannis Skoufalos and Maria Kalomenidou ■ ■ ■ Philip S. Taymor and Kathleen J. Taymor ■ ■ ■ Christopher A. Viadro and Julianne M. Viadro ■ ■ Robert P. Wotiz (ENG’99, ’05, ’06) ■ ■ Bryan Wong and Yvonne Yeung ■ ■

$1,000–$2,499

Anonymous ■ ■ Anonymous ■ ■ Mr. Husain Mahmoud Al-Bustan (ENG’89, ’91) ■ ■ Shaheen H. Ali (ENG’89) and Elisabeth A. Mikus ■ Jose Almandoz and Gladys J. Echeverria ■ ■ ■ Norma J. Anderson ■ ■ Ryan T. Bach (Questrom’15) ■ Thomas G. Bifano ■ ■ ■ Laura Billetdeaux ■ ■ David J. Bishop ■ ■ Richard Blumenstein ■ ■ Joseph E. Bonnem (ENG’92) and Katherine M. Bonnem ■ David J. Brand (ENG’83) and Deborah P. Brand ■ ■ Jon Burns and Janet Burns ■ ■ David K. Campbell and Claude H. Hobson ■ ■ ■ Regina G. Carolan (ENG’97, ’03) ■ ■ Brant A. Cheikes (ENG’84) and Janine Papesh ■ ■ Daniel J. Clancy (ENG’91) ■ Robert W. Clarke (ENG’90) and Erika E. Clarke (CAS’92) ■ James A. Connors (ENG’97) and June A. Connors ■ George S. Corey (ENG’85) ■ Steven Covert and Diane M. Covert ■ ■ Adam D. Crescenzi (ENG’64) and Linda C. Crescenzi ■ ■ Susan L. Crockett (ENG’84) and David Crockett ■ ■ Chenhuan Cui (ENG’07) ■ Michael Culbert ■ ■ Ella Damiano ■ ■ Philip J. Damiano and Melissa S. Damiano ■ ■ Amy Danesh-Clough ■ ■ Toni M. Daniels (ENG’85, ’86) and Richard N. Hart ■ David Dean (ENG’73) and Deborah P. Rata ■ ■ Sally Dechenne ■ ■ James L. Dehoff and Melissa A. Dehoff ■ ■

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Thomas R. Donahue (CAS’81) and Frances L. Donahue (ENG’82) ■ Claudia A. Dunsby (ENG’92) and Martin B. Dunsby ■ ■ Erik S. Edwards and Susan D. Edwards ■ ■ Solomon R. Eisenberg and Terri B. Eisenberg ■ ■ ■ Tahsin M. Ergin (ENG’81) and Colleen P. Ergin ■ ■ Peter C. Fang (ENG’75) and Josephine T. Fang ■ ■ Brett Farmer ■ ■ Paul M. Faustin (ENG’85, ’88) ■ Edwin J. Fitzpatrick (CGS’70, CAS’72) ■ ■ ■ Stephen P. Foraste (ENG’91, ’94) and Alyssa Duffy Janet A. Fraser (ENG’81) and Gregory B. Fraser ■ ■ Ronald G. Garriques (ENG’86) and Karena Garriques ■ ■ John M. Garvey (ENG’86) and Kimberly J. Garvey ■ ■ Reza K. Gharavi (ENG’87) ■ Lisa W. Gill ■ ■ Steven D. Girouard (ENG’89) and Cynthia L. Keim Girouard (SAR’89) ■ ■ ■ Steven J. Goldman (ENG’91) ■ ■ Rodrigo A. Gonzalez Alonso (ENG’15) ■ John J. Greene ■ ■ Warren M. Grill (ENG’89) and Julia Grill ■ ■ Paul W. Gross (ENG’93, ’98) and Tanya Gross ■ ■ Daniel S. Hagg (ENG’95) and Jennifer Watters ■ ■ 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 ■ ■ Marjorie F. Hsu (ENG’86, Questrom’93) and David R. Buckler ■ ■ Hui Huang (ENG’98) Steven M. Hunter and Jeane C. Hunter ■ ■ William I. Huyett and Lauren M. Huyett ■ Jarl B. Jensen (ENG’94) ■ David H. Johnson (ENG’65, ’66) and Rebecca G. Thompson ■ ■ Bruce C. Jordan ■ ■ Russell Keil and Julie Keil ■ ■ Stacey T. Kern ■ ■ Min Ki M. Kim (ENG’86) and Michelle Kim ■ ■ Tyler D. Kohn (ENG’98) ■ Karen E. Kullas (ENG’77) and Bruce Newcomb ■ ■ David W. Lacey (ENG’65) and Andrea L. Lacey ■ ■ Min-Chang Lee ■ ■ ■ ■ Joshua Levy and Sarah J. Levy ■ ■ Jason R. Light (ENG’02, ’04) and Samantha Nagle-Light ■ ■ Linda S. Lipay ■ Thomas P. Lisowski (ENG’95) ■ ■ Hong Liu ■ ■ Marcie Loftis ■ ■ Willard C. Lomax ■ Howard Look and Melissa D. Anderson ■ ■ Annette Lopez ■ ■ Craig MacKenna and Merikay MacKenna ■ ■ Jeffrey E. Margolis and Marcy D. Margolis ■ ■ ■ Mark A. Margolis and Louise R. Margolis ■ ■ ■ Marguerite P. Matson ■ Andrew D. McCulloch and Deidre A. MacKenna ■ ■ Shaun P. McManimon (ENG’83) ■ ■ Vail K. Miller and Carol V. Miller ■ ■ Jeffrey W. Moore (ENG’89) ■ ■

Matthias F. Moran and Clare A. Moran ■ ■ Kurukundi R. Murthy (ENG’90) and Barbara A. Kowack-Murthy (ENG’90) ■ Maheshkumar S. Navani (ENG’90) and Asharani M. Navani ■ ■ Anastas Nenov and Neviana Nenov ■ ■ Richard A. Ng-Yow (Questrom’85, ’88) and Tamara S. Ng-Yow (ENG’87, Questrom’88) John D. O’Neil (ENG’62) and Mary L. O’Neil ■ ■ Osman Oueida (ENG’01) ■ ■ George S. Ouellette (ENG’81) ■ ■ John Papadopoulos (ENG’60) and Mahi A. Papadopoulos ■ ■ Anton T. Papp (ENG’90) and Susan Papp ■ ■ Devang K. Parikh (ENG’99) ■ ■ Sandip A. Patidar (ENG’90) ■ James S. Paulsen (ENG’69, ’72) and Susan C. Paulsen ■ ■ Jay B. Penafiel (ENG’90) and Elise G. Penafiel ■ Michael P. Platt (ENG’13) ■ ■ Susan Polombo ■ ■ Joel Porten and Emily Porten ■ ■ Andrew P. Quick (ENG’92, ’95) and Tracy M. Quick (SED’93) ■ ■ Sharad Rastogi (ENG’91) ■ ■ Kyle Richard (ENG’86) and Kristin Richard ■ ■ Sandra L. Rivas-Hall (ENG’81) and William C. Hall ■ ■ Alan G. Rottman and Robin Boutin ■ ■ ■ Janice L. Rozich ■ ■ Frank N. Salamone (ENG’94) and Elizabeth S. Salamone ■ ■ Richard Sartini and Diane Sartini ■ ■ George M. Savage (ENG’81) and Nancy K. Savage (COM’80) ■ ■ John A. Scaramuzzo (ENG’87) ■ ■ Yolanda Scaramuzzo ■ ■ Denise M. Schier (ENG’81) and Karl A. Schier ■ ■ Richard C. Scully (Questrom’78, ENG’81) and Deborah L. Cobb (SAR’77) ■ Gregory D. Seiden (ENG’80) and Robin K. Seiden ■ ■ Ushir N. Shah (ENG’98) and Susan R. Shah ■ Sholum Shalumov ■ ■ Monica L. Slegar (ENG’02, Questrom’05) ■ ■ Miltos K. Sugiultzoglu (ENG’89, GRS’91, MED’98) and Eleni Litina, M.D. ■ Benjamin D. Sullivan (ENG’97) ■ ■ James F. Sundquist ■ ■ Frederic J. Syrjala (ENG’58, ’60) and Mary E. Syrjala ■ H. T. Than (ENG’85, LAW’93) and Kim Quyen V. Pham (ENG’91) ■ Francis A. Tiernan (ENG’70) and Barbara H. Tiernan ■ ■ 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 ■ ■ Matthew J. Walker ■ ■ Ashley N. Weigand (ENG’98) and James R. Weigand ■ Joseph M. Winograd (ENG’95, ’97) and April M. Winograd ■ Berl P. Winston (ENG’64) and Alice J. Winston (SED’65) ■ ■ Kim Po Yan and Kwan Lam ■ ■ Janice K. Zika (ENG’84) ■ ■

$500–$999

Mark A. Allen (ENG’87) and Phyllis J. Allen ■ George M. Archer (ENG’05) ■ Nicholas Argento ■ Rohan M. Arun (ENG’10) ■ ■ Karen T. Bain (ENG’87) and Harold R. Bain Joseph M. Basile (ENG’82) ■

Anne Bastion ■ Christopher C. Beale (ENG’92) Jenette M. Begley (ENG’85) and Adrian Begley Paul A. Bierden (ENG’92, ’94) and Sheryl C. Bierden (SAR’95, ’97) ■ Lauren D. Black (ENG’03, ’06) and Carissa L. Bellardine Black (ENG’01, ’03, ’06) John J. Bolton (ENG’89) and Colleen R. Bolton ■ Chatchai Boonyarat (ENG’73) Jeffrey S. Bowen (ENG’93) ■ David Boylan and Sherry Boylan ■ Sarah H. Brukilacchio (ENG’89) and Thomas J. Brukilacchio ■ James J. Byrne (ENG’93) and Sarah M. Byrne (SAR’93) ■ Jerry Campbell and Kellie Campbell ■ Stephen M. Campbell (ENG’97) ■ Frederic D. Carter (ENG’97) ■ Kenneth T. Cheng (ENG’84) ■ Jerry Chew (ENG’70) ■ Lou Chitkushev (ENG’96) and Irena Vodenska (UNI’09) ■ ■ John Collins and Penelope Collins ■ Barry Coughlin ■ Eugene E. Covert Aimee Curley ■ Wei Dai (ENG’99) and Sau Sim Lee ■ THyagaraju Damarla (GRS’87, ENG’93) and Bai K. Damarla ■ Abdulrasul A. Damji (ENG’85, ’90) and Amina A. Damji ■ ■ ■ Jeffrey B. Davis (ENG’85) Matthew DeMike ■ Maria do Carmo Rodrigues ■ Lawrence S. Drasner (ENG’89) and Dawn M. Drasner ■ Richard Ducharme ■ Maria T. Earle (ENG’85) and George W. Earle Keith M. Ericson and Gianna Ericson ■ ■ Julieanne Estes ■ Zachary D. Fieldman (ENG’06) ■ Alison Forrestel ■ Christopher A. Frail (ENG’97) and Melissa Frail (ENG’97) ■ Fred Gallagher and Anne M. Gallagher ■ Joseph Geber ■ Robert J. Goitz (ENG’88) and Stephanie S. Richards Kenneth Gordon and Nancy R. Gordon ■ Robert Granader ■ Alison R. Graves-Calhoun (ENG’91) and W. Byron Calhoun ■ George C. Guerra (ENG’84) ■ William M. Hauser ■ ■ Russell W. Wolf (CAS’97, MET’01) and Tara L. Heath (ENG’96, Questrom’02) ■ Michelle Heemstra ■ Dave D. Hemang and Theresa Dave ■ ■ Nancy J. Heywood ■ Charles T. Hickson (ENG’88) and Susanne Paullin ■ Kent W. Hughes (ENG’79) and Debra S. Hughes ■ Ronald Hunter (ENG’80, Questrom’82) Ronald H. Johnson (ENG’59) and Mary J. Johnson ■ William J. Karlon (ENG’88, ’91) Michael N. Keefe (ENG’89) and Ana C. Keefe ■ Nikesh Kotecha (ENG’99) and Masumi P. Patel (Questrom’99, MET’02) ■ Manuel A. Landa (ENG’66) ■ Robyn Langston ■ Kim Y. Lee (ENG’64) and Jeanne C. Lee (CFA’65) Robert B. Leonard (ENG’84) and Ilene H. Leonard ■ Robert C. Levin (ENG’87, ’88) ■ Sydney R. Lillard (ENG’96) Irina Lokshina ■

Stephen M. Lorusso (ENG’89) and Esther C. Lorusso ■ ■ Robert J. Loycano (ENG’90) Martin I. Lynch (ENG’82) and Kelly Lynch George P. Matisse (ENG’89, Questrom’91) Roger M. McDowell (ENG’69) and Elizabeth A. McDowell Robert C. McKinstry (ENG’84) ■ ■ Murray P. Meador and Susan D. Meador ■ Eric J. Meltzer (ENG’82) and Brooke Meltzer (CGS’80, MET’82) ■ Pamela L. Metz (ENG’81) ■ David S. Miller (ENG’91, ’94) and Barbara Miller ■ Cheryl J. Mills (STH’92) and Carey G. Spain ■ Jonathan R. Mooty (ENG’90) ■ Sean T. Motyl (ENG’97) ■ Richard J. Moyse and Beth A. Zeranski ■ Michael C. Mulhern (ENG’86) and Jennifer Payne Matthew F. Murphy (ENG’85) and Teresa Murphy Helen Nelson ■ Carolann Noble ■ Andrew H. Olney (ENG’90) and Katharine S. Olney (SSW’89) ■ Sean M. Oser and Tamara K. Oser ■ Linda Owen ■ Devan V. Padmanabhan and Suchita Padmanabhan ■ ■ ■ Alexandra N. Perez Perez (CAS’13) ■ ■ Javier J. Perez-Andreu (ENG’80) and Marta J. Perez (Questrom’80) ■ Perfecto F. Quicho and Maria Rita F. Quicho ■ ■ James D. Quinty (ENG’86) and Elizabeth Quinty ■ Agnes Rayome ■ Steven Reller and Missy Reller ■ James H. Ritteman (ENG’75, Questrom’75) Carey S. Roseman (SED’76) and Robert M. Roseman Jeffrey T. Roy (ENG’95) and Whitney J. Roy ■ David C. Royce (ENG’65) ■ Melanie Sabo (ENG’81) Saint Agnes Catholic School Teachers & Students ■ Crystal D. Sayles (ENG’78, CGS’75) Maria Scardera (ENG’84) and Michael P. Scardera ■ Joseph S. Schechter (ENG’78) and Paula Schechter Eric J. Sheppard (ENG’83) and Veronica M. Sheppard ■ Jill Siegerman ■ Greg Slyngstad and Mimi Slyngstad ■ ■ Tracey L. Smith (ENG’88, ’90) John K. Smrstik (ENG’91, Questrom’00) and Carren L. Smrstik (SAR’94, SED’99) Debra Stanek ■ Dylan P. Steeg (ENG’95) and Mu-En Steeg (CAS’94) ■ Ann L. Tedford (ENG’78) ■ Charlotte Teich ■ Michael Thomas ■ Tracy D. Tillett (ENG’90) ■ Richard Tobin and Janet Tobin ■ Kenneth C. Tolides (ENG’58) Michelle F. Tortolani (ENG’82, ’89) ■ THomas C. Tremblay (Questrom’79, ENG’82) and Charity A. Tremblay (Questrom’79) Selim M. Unlu and Nese Lortlar ■ ■ Reed Vance ■ Dinesh Venkatesh (ENG’92, ’98) and Sowmya Manjanatha ■ Thomas G. Westbrook (ENG’91) and Mary D. Gibbs-Westbrook ■ Nathan Wilbert ■ Adam K. Wise and Ann S. Wise ■ ■ Stephen T. Witkowski and Laura Witkowski ■ ■ ■ Kevin Wong (ENG’12) ■

Hasting S. Wong (ENG’67, ’68) and Josephine N. Wong (GRS’68) ■ Sarah L. Wood-Prince ■ Gordon Yen (ENG’90) and Kam Y. Ha ■ Ammar F. Zahran (ENG’93) and Eman K. Bin-Mahfooz Joshua S. Zeisel (ENG’07) ■ Xianfeng Zhao (ENG’04) ■ Jiang Foo and Gengxia Zhu ■ ■

$250–$499

Robert P. Aftring and Margaret O. Sowell ■ ■ ■ Farah A. Alabdulrazzaq (ENG’97) ■ Ate Atema (COM’86, ENG’85) Louise Austin ■ Michael D. Belmarsh (ENG’95, MET’00) ■ Peter H. Belmonte (ENG’10) ■ Christopher Benoit (ENG’88) ■ Barbara Berry ■ Kevin W. Boylan and M. M. Boylan ■ Jeffrey I. Braverman (ENG’61) and Lore Braverman Alfred S. Brothers (ENG’64) and Sandra J. Brothers ■ ■ Laura C. Brutman (ENG’89) and Len B. Brutman ■ Adrienne Buhmann ■ Kevin H. Burek (ENG’08) ■ Thomas E. Chamberlain (ENG’61) and Mary A. Chamberlain Howard T. Chun (ENG’83) ■ Peter M. Cirak (ENG’01, ’07) and Erika N. Cirak Alissa N. Clawson (ENG’99) and Todd M. Friedman Odete Coelho ■ Joseph E. Coffey (ENG’72) and Sharon R. Coffey ■ Margherita Colombo-Pastorelli ■ Karen Coonen ■ Miguel Cortez ■ ■ Veronica Crichton-Rochford (ENG’95) and Ted Rochford Terry Cross ■ Michael J. Cunha (ENG’04, ’06) ■ Anthony Cuomo (ENG’93) and Gina Johnson-Cuomo ■ Nirav A. Dagli (ENG’92, ’96) and Juhi G. Dagli (UNI’99) Nancy A. Daly (LAW’85) and Kevin P. Cavanaugh Ryan Davis ■ Michael DeBonis ■ Frank A. DeLucia (ENG’89) Alexander C. Demusz (ENG’08) ■ Peter M. Dichiara (ENG’85, LAW’93) and Liz DiChiara ■ Thomas M. DiCicco (ENG’01) ■ Allan J. Dolinski and Claudette C. Dolinski ■ ■ Sheila J. Dooley (ENG’91) ■ Paul Droar ■ Michael Duchnowski (ENG’91, ’93) and Magda Duchnowski ■ Jason R. Dunklee (ENG’05) and Deborah L. Dunklee (ENG’87, Questrom’98) Kenneth J. Dunn (ENG’67) and Debra L. Dunn L. Craig Eddington and Carolyn Eddington ■ John G. Edelblut ■ Richard B. Egan (ENG’78) and Jeannie Egan ■ Jay H. Ellowitz (ENG’74) and Jill H. Ellowitz 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) ■ James Y. Fong (ENG’71, ’74) and Margaret Y. Fong ■ Mark R. Ford (ENG’77, ’83) and Priscilla W. Ford

Richard A. Fuller (ENG’88) and Tiffany Fuller ■ Roger D. Beaulieu and Jane P. Gagne ■ Mary A. Garrett (ENG’80) ■ Sean P. Gold (ENG’85, ’88) Raymond M. Govotski (ENG’95) ■ Michelle S. Graves (ENG’78) ■ Katharine M. Harder (ENG’94) William Heres (ENG’92, ’97) Alfred O. Hero (ENG’80, ’77, CAS’76) and Therese M. Hero ■ Ian A. Hardy (ENG’99) and Raegan J. Hicks (MED’05) Shyi-Tai Jan (GRS’91) and I-Ran Ho (ENG’90) ■ ■ Yue-shun E. Ho (ENG’89) ■ Peter H. Hoffman (ENG’74, Questrom’01) and Pam W. Hoffman Thomas E. Hoffmeister (ENG’96) ■ Jody L. Hoppe (ENG’82) ■ Bing Hou (ENG’95) and Gui-Hua Zhang ■ Glenn D. House (ENG’90) and Teresa G. House Michele J. Iacovone (ENG’89, CGS’86) and Lisa Hu (CGS’86, COM’88) ■ Molly Hynes ■ Anthony J. Indelicato (ENG’95) and Bina M. Indelicato Kimberly Jacobsen ■ Juan Francisco Jhong Chung (ENG’10) ■ Bruce D. Jobse (ENG’85) and Daydee C. Jobse (ENG’87) ■ Donald R. Johnson (ENG’65) and Roberta C. Johnson Hyun J. Jung (ENG’93) Keith J. Kalinoski (ENG’97) ■ Paul Karger (ENG’00) Yuriy I. Kaufman and Irina Kaufman ■ ■ Myung-Chan Kim (ENG’99, ’01) ■ Steven B. Kushnick (ENG’80) and Debra Kushnick ■ Boissevain Kwan (ENG’83) ■ Robert Lacy and Adene B. Lacy ■ ■ Michael L. Laiman (ENG’86) ■ Alan A. LaRocque (ENG’72, GRS’79, MED’80) and Kathleen A. LaRocque (CAS’74) ■ Andrew E. Lazar (ENG’89) and Chrisanna K. Lazar ■ Martin Leibold (ENG’89) and Kathleen D. Leibold ■ Fred Liebowitz and Robin Liebowitz ■ ■ Huajun Liu (ENG’98, ’99, ’04) and Zhe Ren ■ Margaret Lundin (ENG’73) ■ Michelle M. Lundquist and Gib L. Lundquist Ray Lundquist and Carol Lundquist ■ Heather N. Macken (ENG’10) ■ Maria Christina C. Magno (ENG’96) Fabio Malangone (ENG’09, ’10) ■ George F. Matthews (ENG’07) Stephen A. McBride (ENG’71, ’72, Questrom’73) and Christine M. McBride Kathleen L. McLaughlin (ENG’87) and Timothy J. Costigan ■ Trigg McLeod ■ Anthony P. Meier ■ Beatriz A. Mendez Lora (ENG’88) Scott E. Meninger (ENG’96) David M. Merer (ENG’86) and Michelle S. Merer Michael Miller ■ Robert A. Molchon (CAS’93) ■ Carlos Moreira (ENG’99, MET’03) ■ ■ Robert A. Morse (ENG’63) ■ Timothy T. Murphy and Renee L. Murphy ■ ■ Robin L. Murray (ENG’90) William E. Neifert (ENG’90, ’92) ■ Charles J. Newfell (ENG’79, ’82) and Christine S. Newfell ■ Elizabeth Oakes ■ Francisco Ortiz and Edith Ortiz ■ ■ Sagar Parvataneni ■

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PETER COCOLIS (ENG’64) unofficially began his career in his early teens, peeling potatoes and onions, waiting tables and reviewing financial transactions at the Park View Restaurant run by his father in Stamford, Connecticut. That’s where he learned to draw on multiple skillsets to deliver for a business and its customers, an ability that would serve him well for five decades in high-impact positions with the US Air Force, Rockwell International and Boeing.

He offered employers a potent combination of engineering and management expertise backed by two highly relevant degrees—a BS in engineering management from Boston University and an MBA from Auburn University—and completing a program for senior executives in national and international security management at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Peter applied his expertise in a wide variety of roles, just as he did at the Park View.

During his 20 years of service with the Air Force, Cocolis flew 120 combat missions in Vietnam, held command and staff positions, and oversaw acquisition of defense systems.

He also worked at the Pentagon, where he served as military advisor to the Secretary of Defense and representative at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva, Switzerland, which led to major cuts in US and Soviet nuclear arsenals.

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“My main contribution to START was a knowledge of strategic systems and how to work with the Pentagon and coordinate with other agencies,” he recalls. “Supporting those talks was a great opportunity to apply the technical, problem-solving, systems thinking, communications and other Societal Engineer skills that I learned at the College of Engineering.”

After retiring from the Air Force in 1984 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Cocolis applied his diverse skillset at Rockwell and Boeing, where he supported the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS) and other aerospace vehicle programs. At Rockwell’s Aerospace and Defense unit (acquired by Boeing in 1996), he served as manager of military programs and director of business development for the company’s North American Aircraft and Rocketdyne Divisions in Washington, DC. At Boeing, he was director of space exploration and marketing and government relations for the ISS, rocketdyne propulsion and space services business units, and director of business development for the company’s missile defense systems business.

Now retired in Chatham, Massachusetts, Cocolis continues to use his engineering and management expertise, but for a different kind of customer. He serves as chair of Chatham’s Planning Board and member of its Energy Committee, and as Chatham board member and treasurer of the Cape Light Compact, an energy services organization operated throughout Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.

Cocolis and his wife Lorraine (SAR’63), whom he met during his ENG years and who now serves on the SAR Dean’s Alumni Leadership Board, also support BU through

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Peter Cocolis (ENG’64) speaking at the ENG 50th Anniversary Gala Banquet in the Trustees Ballroom on September 19, 2014.

generous time commitments and donations.

Cocolis received the College’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni “Service to Alma Mater” award recognizing his service as a member of the BU Alumni Club of Washington, DC, president of the Cape Cod and Islands BU Alumni Network and member of the BU Alumni Council, and his collaborations with the ENG Career Development office. A longtime donor to the ENG Annual Fund and member of BU’s Claflin Society, Cocolis recently chaired the ENG Class of 1964 50th Reunion and Gift Committees.

“The College of Engineering provided me with the tools I needed—from problem-solving and lifelong learning skills to exposure to an intellectually rich and geographically diverse student body—to have a successful career and impact society,” says Cocolis, who relied on financial aid to pay for tuition when he was a student. “So I’m happy to help today’s undergraduates acquire those same tools while relieving some of their financial burden.”

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From Vietnam Skies to Earth’s Orbit, Class of ’64 Alum Aims High

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Denise L. Danielson ■ Anna Danner ■ Jacob E. Dansey ■ Dennis J. D’Antona (ENG’73) and Janet M. D’Antona ■ Marilee Darling ■ George H. Darrell (ENG’74) Michael J. Datta (ENG’05, ’07) Neha H. Dave (ENG’11) Benjamin N. Davies (ENG’65) and Judith N. Davies ■ Stephen S. Davis and Karen S. Davis ■ Latoya S. Davis (ENG’02) Mary A. Davis ■ Kevin S. Davis (ENG’09) Deven S. Dayal (ENG’15) ■ Jean C. De Jesus (CAS’15) ■ Nancy DeAngelis ■ J. Evan Deardorff (ENG’93) ■ Chad DeCamp and Kristen DeCamp ■ David N. DeCaprio ■ Linda S. DeCelle (ENG’81, Questrom’87) and Michael P. Decelle ■ Foster J. DeGiacomo (Questrom’51, ENG’61) and Nancy C. DeGiacomo ■ Lauren DeGrazia ■ Nicolay W. Del Salto (ENG’90) Collin P. Delano (ENG’15) ■ Alex Delany ■ Sean M. DeLeo (ENG’11) ■ Julia L. Delogu (ENG’09) ■ Andre DeNardo (ENG’08) ■ Wenpan Deng (ENG’13) Christine Denny ■ Robert J. D’Entremont (ENG’62) and Ruth M. D’Entremont Peter DeNunzio ■ Tina G. DePiero (ENG’88) and Douglas K. DePiero Deana Derocha ■ Kevan S. Desai (ENG’09) Jordan D. Desautels (ENG’15) Robert L. DesRosiers (ENG’84) and Julieta A. DesRosiers Glenn K. Dewell and Paula K. Dewell ■ Upkar Dhaliwal and Vanit Dhaliwal ■ ■ Ali-Zain Dhukka (ENG’12) ■ Matthew R. Diamond ■ Raymond Diaz (ENG’84) and Virginia C. Diaz ■ Mark J. DiFilippo (ENG’12) Gabriel V. DiFilippo (ENG’58) and Mary E. DiFilippo ■ Joseph J. DiLorenzo (ENG’84) Philip A. DiMartino (COM’09) and Caitlin M. DiMartino (CAS’09) ■ S. Bruce DiMauro (ENG’62) and Justine E. Dimauro Russell G. DiMicco (ENG’84) Luigi DiMonaco and Maria DiMonaco ■ ■ Jill D’India ■ Shaobin Ding (ENG’14) Peter R. Dionela and Cresencia Harriet V. Dionela ■ Simon Dixon ■ Dris Djermoun (ENG’80, GRS’88) and Anita Djermoun (CAS’77) ■ ■ W. J. Dolan (ENG’65) and Carol F. Dolan ■ Anthony I. Domenick (ENG’15) ■ Anthony Donnaruma (ENG’84) ■ Cathy S. Dorsey (ENG’83) Weina F. Dorsky (ENG’03) and Jason M. Dorsky ■ Nick Dougherty (ENG’12) Barbara Dove (Questrom’84, ENG’84) Patty S. Dove ■ Timothy E. Dowling (ENG’82) and Marylynne E. Dowling ■ Benjamin Drazen (ENG’05) ■ Sara Drenner ■ Ping Du (ENG’13) Joseph Duca (ENG’67, ’68) and Nancy J. Duca

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Joseph Duda and Penny O. Duda ■ Adam J. Duda (ENG’15) ■ James A. Duda (ENG’84, MET’11) and Sharon P. Duda Andrew E. Dudek (ENG’03) Paul J. Duffy and Shannon H. Duffy ■ ■ Brian J. Duggan (ENG’15) ■ Andrew P. Dumas (ENG’09, MED’10) ■ Chad M. Dunham and Carlotta S. Dunham ■ Deborah T. Dunklee ■ ■ Bennet R. Dunlap (MET’12) ■ Alexander Dunmire ■ Kristina Dunn-Johnston ■ Michaelina C. Dupnik (ENG’14) Frank H. Durgin and Marianne H. Durgin Wayne W. Duso (ENG’91) Kayla E. Duval (ENG’15) ■ John A. Duval (ENG’89) and Kathleen R. Duval ■ Michael R. Dwyer and Margaret S. Dwyer ■ ■ Laurence S. Dyer (ENG’66) Patrick T. Easter (ENG’87) and Kristin E. Easter (SAR’87) ■ Paul Ebensberger ■ Tim Ebersole and Vicky A. Ebersole ■ Frank Daily and Julianna Ebert ■ Darren M. Edmonds (CAS’96) and Anita M. Edmonds (ENG’97) Robert Efros ■ Jeff B. Egnaczyk (ENG’03, ’03) and Caroline D. Egnaczyk (CAS’03, GRS’07) ■ David Ehrlicher and Maureen O. Ehrlicher ■ Patrick M. Ehrlicher (ENG’12) David S. Einhorn ■ Joshua A. Einstein (ENG’11) ■ Gerald R. Eisler (ENG’72) and Rosemarie Eisler ■ Daniela Eitle ■ Sara Ekhlas ■ Charles C. Eliot (ENG’58) and Nancy G. Eliot ■ Jackson A. Elizondo (ENG’15) ■ Barbara A. Ellis ■ Katherine F. Ellis (ENG’05) ■ Robert G. Elman and Mary S. Elman ■ ■ Scott K. Emch and Sally B. Emch ■ Monica L. Eng (ENG’11) ■ Dennis Enos (ENG’68) ■ Charles R. Enriquez (ENG’92) Egem Eraslan (ENG’14) ■ Christopher R. Erickson (ENG’02) ■ Ryan S. Eriksen (CAS’10) ■ Craig Erlich and Renee Erlich ■ Tyson Erwin ■ Andres Escallon (ENG’81) and Margarita Duque ■ Rachel-Marie L. Esguerra (ENG’14) Gustavo P. Espinosa (ENG’91) Jose R. Esquivel (ENG’88) and Cecilia Esquivel ■ Lauren P. Etter ■ Alfred W. Everest (ENG’59) and Christine A. Everest ■ Elisa Evett ■ Manuel N. Fagundes and Maria F. Fagundes ■ Stephanie Fahrenkrog ■ Jimmy C. Fang (ENG’91) and Angie Fang Yuguang Fang (ENG’97) and Jennifer Y. Lu ■ Hiba Fareed ■ Brian K. Farmer (ENG’97) ■ Matthew A. Farmer (ENG’15) ■ Daniel J. Farnsworth and Deborah M. Farnsworth ■ ■ John J. Farrell (ENG’14, ’14) and Andrea F. Farrell ■ ■ ■ ■ Kevin L. Farren and Donna L. Farren ■ Niloofar Fazlollahi (ENG’07, ’11) ■ John Feldman ■ Debra Feldman ■ David L. Feldman (ENG’66) and Patricia A. Feldman ■

Sarah H. Felix (ENG’00) Derek C. Felschow (ENG’06) ■ Zhiming Feng (GRS’94) and Ningli Lu ■ Janet Fenn ■ George Fenton (ENG’83) and Lisa G. Fenton Travis Ferguson ■ James Ferguson (ENG’61) and Patricia Ferguson Javier A. Fernandez-Longo (ENG’88) ■ David B. Festa (ENG’94) Stephen C. Fetter (ENG’92) Michael G. Field (ENG’95, Questrom’95) and Robin L. Tobin Frank H. Filipowicz (ENG’59) Emmanouela Filippidi (ENG’07) Amy 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) and Mary A. Finnance Earl B. Finney (ENG’94) and Rosalind Finney (ENG’93) Silvia Fiorilla ■ Jeff First and Sandra First ■ R. Keith First and Misty L. First ■ Heike Fischer ■ Andrew M. Fisher (ENG’10, ’15, ’15) ■ ■ Clifford E. Fitch and Mary B. Fitch ■ ■ Joy S. Fitzpatrick ■ ■ Justin Flammia (ENG’06) ■ James P. Flanigon (ENG’09, GRS’09) and Michelene Flanigon ■ James P. Flannery (ENG’08) ■ Elio Florin ■ William F. Flynn (ENG’79) and Danett L. Flynn Reilly J. Flynn and Heather T. Flynn ■ Howard N. Forbes (ENG’81) and Digna M. Forbes (CAS’82) ■ Jennifer A. Ford ■ ■ Bobbie J. Ford ■ Michael A. Fornadel and Tracy Fornadel ■ Eugene P. Forrestel ■ Edith G. Fortado (ENG’85) and John P. Fortado Donald A. Foster (ENG’92) and Carole C. Foster Bryan R. Foster (MED’05) and Sarah P. Foster (ENG’05) Lisa D. Fownes (SON’86) William Fox and Delcy Fox ■ ■ George J. Fraley (ENG’08) Rosemarie Freeman ■ Erika Freeman-Daniels ■ Clark C. Freifeld (ENG’14) ■ Jeff L. Freilich (MET’97) ■ David W. Freitag (ENG’91) and Patricia K. Freitag (CAS’84, SED’91) ■ John F. French (ENG’96) Jeffrey P. Frick and Angelica A. Zachara ■ Ariele Friedman (ENG’15) ■ Amy Fritz ■ Matthew G. Fry ■ Yutao Fu (ENG’08) ■ Linda Furey ■ Michael G. Furlong and JoAnn Furlong ■ Sheila C. Furr (SED’72) and Robert Furr ■ Jeremy C. Gaerlan (ENG’15) ■ 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 ■ Paul D. Gallagher (ENG’13) ■ Donald C. Galley (ENG’77) and Martha J. Galley

Timothy Ganley (ENG’91) David Garcia (ENG’99) ■ Sharon B. Garde (ENG’86) and Cesar A. Garde Najyah A. Garoot (ENG’08, GRS’08) Amanda D. Gaudreau-Balderrama ■ Matthew M. Geary (ENG’81, Questrom’84) and Dawn M. Sinnigen Gregory M. Genecin ■ Douglas R. George (ENG’90) and Annissa Essaibi-George (CAS’96) Keith M. George (ENG’15) ■ Michael D. George and Barbara J. George ■ Namrita A. George (ENG’15) ■ Jeffrey D. Gereige (ENG’11) Jonathan D. Gereige (ENG’03) and Maha Gereige ■ George L. Getchell (ENG’54) and Veronica G. Getchell ■ Munawar Ghumman and Zahida Ghumman ■ ■ Danielle Gianakis ■ Celia N. Gibson (CAS’15) ■ Jeffrey B. Gilbert (ENG’15, ’15) ■ Morgan B. Giles (ENG’12) Tate M. Gill ■ David L. Gillette and Ashley L. Gillette ■ Edward A. Gillette and Mary R. Gillette ■ Stephen E. Gillette and R. Elizabeth Gillette ■ Peter D. Girouard (ENG’12, ’12) Michele E. Gleitsmann ■ Frederick G. Gleitsmann (ENG’61) ■ ■ Christopher D. Glenn (ENG’04, Questrom’12, ’12) Aubri Godmar ■ Richard A. Goetz and Joann D. Cassidy ■ Larry Goldberg (ENG’86) and Diane Goldberg (CAS’84) Matthew L. Goldsmith (CAS’94) Robert Goldstein ■ Juan M. Gomez (ENG’90, ’92) ■ Joann Gomez Martinez ■ ■ Daniel G. Goncalves (CAS’05, SED’10) ■ Joel I. Goodman (ENG’89) and Gay E. Goodman ■ Paul N. Goransson (ENG’81) and Helen Goransson ■ Gregg S. Gordon (Questrom’96) Richard G. Gould (CGS’85, ENG’90) and Diana Stilwell ■ Amanda C. Grafilo (ENG’15) ■ Benjamin D. Graham ■ Carl I. Graham (ENG’87) Douglas W. Graham (ENG’86) and Janine Grauvogl-Graham Michael Grassia ■ Daniel J. Grasso (ENG’12, ’14) Michael J. Greaney (SED’98) and Katherine J. Greaney (ENG’00) Salvatore Greco (ENG’68) and Janet A. Greco Michael J. Green (ENG’09) and Stephanie L. Teale Charles J. Green (ENG’79) and Kerin L. Green ■ Daniel P. Greenberg (ENG’01) Mark A. Greene and Marta L. Greene ■ ■ William W. Greenlee ■ Cybele Grier Sarah E. Griesse-Nascimento (ENG’12) Susan M. Griffin (COM’85) Yauheni Grigortsevich (ENG’10) ■ Kevin R. Grode and Mary R. Grode ■ ■ Frederick K. Groll (ENG’82) and Claire C. Groll (SAR’84) ■ Albert O. Grunow (ENG’61) and Deanne D. Grunow Nairu Guan (SAR’15) ■ Tianrong Guan ■ Young Guang ■ Jennifer L. Guion (ENG’15) ■ Bill Gunlocke ■ Ege Gurocak (ENG’11) Alexandre G. Gutierrez ■

Berke E. Guzelsu (ENG’14) ■ ■ Nejat Guzelsu ■ Spencer R. Haas Wilrogtric B. Hackett (ENG’00) and Qinjia Hackett (ENG’99) ■ Isabela S. Haghighi (ENG’15) ■ Deborah L. Hagood ■ Dongwoo Hahn (ENG’06) ■ Tracy N. Hakala ■ Joseph E. Hale (ENG’83) and Lori B. Hale ■ Thomas R. Hall (ENG’12) Roswell G. Hall (ENG’72) and Gretchen O. Hall ■ Audra Halprin ■ Chien-Jih Han and Patricia Sing ■ ■ Bradley Handelman ■ Nancy L. Harmon ■ Robert C. Harrington (ENG’00) ■ David A. Harris (ENG’15) ■ Timothy Harris and Cynthia Harris ■ Rhonda E. Harrison-Tang (ENG’98, ‘04; GRS’04) and Yixin H. Tang Lance D. Harry (ENG’94) and Amy B. Harry Jeanne Hartman ■ William J. Hartwell and Maria L. Hartwell ■ ■ Michael J. Harvey (ENG’07) ■ ■ Danielle Harvey ■ Richard T. Harvey and Roberta M. Harvey ■ Terence Hatfield (ENG’11) ■ ■ Arthur R. Hathaway (ENG’59) and Marilyn D. Hathaway ■ Andrew S. Hawkins and Paige A. Hawkins ■ P. Andrew Hayes (ENG’87) and Kathleen M. Hayes ■ Xiang He (ENG’11) ■ Daniel J. Healey Amy Hebbard ■ Brian Heidelberger ■ David J. Bernays and Wendy J. Heiger-Bernays ■ ■ Richard L. Heilman (ENG’72) and Carole A. Heilman (CAS’72) ■ Jason E. Heine (ENG’96) Holly Henderson ■ Dionne D. Henry (ENG’90) and Ena M. Henry Alexander R. Hentschel (CAS’15) ■ Martin C. Herbordt and Ellen B. Herbordt ■ ■ David I. Herman (ENG’70) and Lori M. Herman (GRS’78) ■ Arcadio Hernandez Butler (ENG’96) Alexander T. Heubeck (ENG’15) ■ Andrea L. Heyda (ENG’95) Elizabeth W. Heywood ■ James V. Hickey (ENG’57) and Jean C. Hickey ■ Ryan M. Hill (ENG’07, ‘10) ■ Meredith Hillman ■ Vernon S. Hiroe and Gwen H. Hiroe ■ ■ Minh Hoang and Nhuy Hoang ■ ■ Ian A. Hobbs and Nancy K. Hobbs ■ Stuart Hochwert and Barbara B. Hochwert Mark F. Hodge (ENG’99, Questrom’99) ■ Samuel M. Hoffman (ENG’12) ■ Spencer J. Hogan (ENG’98) ■ Lawrence L. Hoh (ENG’88) and Susan P. Hoh (ENG’88) ■ Conor C. Holland (ENG’14) Ralph Holmberg (ENG’66, ‘70) and Carolyn Murphy ■ Bryan D. Holmes and Christine R. Holmes ■ ■ Carly Holstein (ENG’08) and Tyler Holstein ■ Tong Hong and Bich-Nga Hong ■ ■ James D. Hooberman ■ Susan Hopkins Catherine F. Horan (ENG’85, ‘92) and Thomas A. Horan Paula Horn ■ Chantelle Horton ■ Laura Houston ■

Peter T. Houston (ENG’58) and Ann B. Houston ■ Alexandra M. Howton (ENG’14) Shuran Huang (ENG’15) ■ C. Arthur Hughes (ENG’62) and Pearline E. Hughes ■ M. Laurette Hughes (CAS’81) and Christopher Donovan ■ Sara Hultberg ■ Vanessa S. Hummel (ENG’83) and Dana C. Hummel ■ Chang J. Hur (ENG’92) ■ Joseph Hurwitz (ENG’69, CFA’58) and Sandra F. Hurwitz (SAR’59) ■ Faheem H. Hussain (ENG’91, MED’95) and Ambreen Hussain ■ Barbara Hyatt ■ Hany N. Ibrahim (ENG’93) Massnoon Ifaz (ENG’11) Elizabeth L. Ihle ■ Michael Ilardi ■ Ryoshin L. Imai (ENG’90, ‘91, ‘93) and Yoko Imai ■ Shelly Imler ■ Antonio T. Infante and Victoria Infante ■ ■ Eddie Ing and Jill Ing ■ Paul Inman and Delores Inman ■ Aniekan M. Inoyo (ENG’15) ■ Stephen W. Into (Questrom’97) ■ Anastasios S. Ioannidis (ENG’87) and Margarita Zega ■ Shahram Irajpour (ENG’03, Questrom’03) Gerard D. Irmer (CGS’63, ENG’64) and Lois J. Irmer ■ Michael Irvin ■ Scott K. Isabelle (ENG’88, ‘95) and Karen H. Isabelle Joseph S. Iskandar (ENG’13) Motomi Isogai ■ Raeef E. Istfan (ENG’12) Brandon D. Itkowitz (ENG’99, ‘08) ■ Anna Jablonka (ENG’94) and Rafal M. Jablonka Joseph C. Jacobs (ENG‘51, ’60) ■ Micah A. Jacobs (ENG’99) and Beth Jacobs ■ Jerold L. Jaeger (ENG’93) and Robin Jaeger Raymond L. Jalette (ENG’71, MET’74) and Shaolin Pan ■ ■ ■ Albert James (ENG’85, Questrom’95) ■ Cary G. James (ENG’10) ■ Richard S. Jamieson (ENG’62) and Jeanine M. Jamieson ■ ■ Jaclyn N. Jarvis ■ Robert Jefferies ■ Adam M. Jendrisak (ENG’11) ■ Richard E. Jenness (ENG’63) and Roberta L. Jenness Chen-Wen Jiang (ENG’74) and Sutai Jiang Gina M. Jimenez (ENG’15) ■ Rubing Jin (ENG’14) Di Jin and Zhen Wu ■ ■ Yuan Jing (ENG’02, ‘05) ■ Jeffrey Joan ■ Elizabeth Joelson ■ Alfred S. Johnson (ENG’64) and Rafaele M. Johnson Brandon T. Johnson (ENG’04) ■ Keith Johnson ■ Scott Johnson ■ Aleksander J. Jonca (ENG’10) Carole Jordan ■ Susan A. Jreige (ENG’90) and George A. Jreige ■ ■ ■ James H. Judd (ENG’88) Frank Juhn (ENG’06) Akash S. Kadakia (ENG’15) ■ Gary Kaftan (ENG’60) and Frizelle S. Kaftan ■ Steffen K. Kaldor (ENG’96) and Lu Ann S. Kaldor Lauren N. Kalfin (ENG’14) Daniel R. Kallman (ENG’94) ■

Pankaj Kamal (ENG’80) ■ Melissa S. Kampmann ■ Khaled T. Kanaan (ENG’85) ■ Ita C. Kane (ENG’12) ■ Sunjin Kang (Questrom’15) ■ Ashvin Kannan (ENG’92, ‘97) and Madhuri Ramamathan ■ Jonah A. Kaplan ■ Yiannis G. Karavas (ENG’15) ■ John D. Kariouk (ENG’84) and Kathryn H. Kariouk Nick A. Karnazes and Toni P. Karnazes ■ ■ Syng Karrobi ■ ■ Harry A. Kasparian and Elaine R. Kasparian ■ Walter S. Katuschenko (ENG’60) and Jacquelynn S. Katuschenko ■ Michael J. Kaufman (CAS’87) and Jenifer M. Kaufman (ENG’90) ■ Zhanna Kaufman (ENG’15) ■ Yevgeniy Kaushanskiy ■ Edward A. Kazanjian (ENG’68) and Mary A. Kazanjian Michael P. Kazenel (ENG’80) and Susan P. Caplan ■ Mohammed A. Kazim (ENG’04) Thomas Keegan (ENG’94) and Beth Keegan ■ Robert E. Kelley (ENG’58) and Rita M. Kelley ■ Paul D. Kelly and Laura D. Kelly ■ James H. Kelly (ENG’81) Thomas F. Kelly (ENG’89) Martin W. Kempa (ENG’89) ■ Ricardo L. Kenny (ENG’83) ■ Traci M. Kent (ENG’14) Liakot A. Khan and Mosammat R. Parvin ■ Abhimanyu Kharbanda ■ Haram Kim ■ Junho Kim (ENG’15) ■ Peter K. Kim (ENG’91) Sooyoung K. Kim (ENG’06) ■ Michael I. Kim (ENG’12) Amanda J. Kirchner (ENG’04) ■ Jeffrey P. Kittredge (ENG’15) ■ Lawrence Klein and Susanne Klein ■ ■ Kristen B. Klein (ENG’99) ■ Nancy Kleinfeldt ■ Joshua C. Kline (ENG’09, ‘12, ‘14) and Amy C. Kline (ENG’12) Gary C. Kline (ENG’84, ’87) and Lauri Kline ■ H. Jeffrey Klingbiel and Arlene J. Klingbiel ■ Jonathan W. Knapp (CAS’14) Ethan C. Knight Stephen L. Knollmeyer and Ellen M. Knollmeyer ■ Robert P. Knudsen (ENG’86) and Janet Mills-Knudsen Michael Koan (ENG’09) ■ Cathy Koch ■ Paul B. Kocincki (ENG’66) Jason D. Kolb (ENG‘92, ’97) Benjamin Z. Kooy (ENG’06) Michelle Kormon ■ Georgi Korobanov (ENG’06) ■ Matthew S. Kramer (ENG’13) ■ Roy A. Kraus and Nancy E. Kraus ■ ■ Scott R. Kreamer (ENG’01) and Jennifer L. Kreamer (ENG’00) ■ Thea E. Kreinik (ENG’87) Geoff Kretchmer ■ Evelyn Kreutzer ■ Matthew D. Krill (ENG’08) Lisa Krommes ■ Ivy H. Kuan (GRS’78, ENG’80) and Miles Nan Marilyn Kubic ■ James W. Kugler (ENG’15) Subi Kulla and Olimpiada Kulla ■ ■ Niklas Kunkel (ENG’15) ■ Cathy M. Kurata (ENG’06) ■ Nicholas Kurkjy (ENG’10) ■ Jayson H. Kurrle (ENG’07) ■ William Kurtz (ENG’60) and Ruth Kurtz ■ Andrew P. Kurtzig and Sara M. Kurtzig ■

Phani V. Kuruganti (ENG’15) ■ Dennis S. Kuvalanka and Kathleen D. Kuvalanka ■ Abena N. Kwakyi (ENG’11) Simon C. Kwok (ENG’07, ’08) and Judy Y. Kwok (SAR’07, SPH’08, MED’13) Richard T. La Brecque (SED’59, ‘71) ■ ■ Stuart La Kind and Carole La Kind ■ Margaret H. LaBrecque (ENG’86) and Jeff Einarson Rebecca M. LaCroix (ENG’13) ■ Laura Lagomarsino ■ Lauren Lake (ENG’86) ■ Rajan Lakhia and Tanya Lakhia ■ Meadow E. Lakin ■ Lester D. Lakin and Kimberly A. Lakin ■ Steven LaKind ■ Richard W. Lally and Regina M. Lally ■ ■ ■ Francine Lalooses (ENG’02, ‘03) ■ Stephen P. Lalooses (ENG’99) ■ Joelean Lambrecht ■ Brek Lancaster ■ Ross D. Lancaster (ENG’97) Li Lang (ENG’01) ■ David J. Languedoc (ENG’87) and Catherine L. Languedoc ■ Jesadang Laohaprasit (ENG’97) ■ Stephanie Lapham ■ ■ Juan J. Lara Mendoza (ENG’15, Questrom’15) Jennifer Larbi (ENG’15) ■ Travis L. Larsen (ENG’03) ■ Cesar I. Lastra (ENG’08) Barbara S. Lavin (ENG’84) and Michael L. Lavin James D. Layman and Christine M. Layman ■ Lesley R. Layman ■ Gabriel Lazcorreta ■ Michael K. Le ■ Kara Le Fort (ENG’15) ■ Ian A. Leatherman (ENG’11) ■ Beverly Lee ■ Megan G. Lee (ENG’12) ■ Su Kyung Lee (ENG’09) Zheng X. Lee (ENG’84) Denise Lee ■ Chak H. Wong and Monica Lee ■ ■ Yuk Lee ■ ■ Kristen L. Lee (ENG’11) ■ Gaylor Lefranc ■ Keng Lei (ENG’11, ‘14) ■ Melody Lenhart ■ Peter E. Lenk (ENG’78) and Jean N. Lenk ■ Thomas A. Lentz (ENG’83) and Cynthia A. Lentz ■ Edward J. Leonard (ENG’00, ‘05) and Dana C. Leonard Daniel J. Leonardis (ENG’04) ■ Charay Lerdsudwichai and Saipin Lerdsudwichai ■ ■ Max J. Lerman (ENG’12) Harold E. Lerner (ENG’83) and Selma N. Lerner Christopher S. Lesoine ■ Shayna Levine ■ Donald M. Lewis and Jacqueline S. Lewis ■ ■ Ann Lewis ■ Edward Leyton ■ Er Li (ENG’13) ■ Minxing Li (ENG’15) ■ Shaohua Li (ENG’11) ■ Wenjie Li (ENG’06) ■ Binbin Li (ENG’10, ‘11) ■ Jeffrey P. Li (ENG’09, GRS’09) ■ Chao-Yu Liang (ENG’86) and Hsiu-Ling Liang Ho Kai To and Joanne Liang ■ ■ George D. Liberopoulos (ENG’83, ‘93) and Noreen Liberopoulos ■ Marcy Lichterman ■ Allan Lieb ■ Yu-An Lien (ENG’14, ‘14) ■ Sue Life ■ Chan Heng Lim ■ Matthew G. Lima (ENG’15) ■

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Matthew J. Marone (ENG’90, Questrom’03, ‘03) Dennis J. Marquis (ENG’15) ■ Michael Marrone ■ Robert Marsh ■ Sarah E. Marshall ■ ■ Judy H. Marshall ■ Meredith E. Marshall (ENG’87) and Yolanda B. Marshall ■ Cazes Martin ■ Daniel J. Martin (ENG’08) ■ Harold M. Martin (ENG’82) James Martin (ENG’98) Peter F. Martin (ENG’70) and Irene Y. Martin Kyle T. Martin (ENG’07) ■ Justin M. Martin (ENG’09) ■ ■ David Martinez ■ Beatrice Marturano ■ Jeffrey A. Marx (ENG’01) ■ Gregory J. Mascoli (ENG’88) and Maria D. Mascoli (CAS’88) ■ Ruth A. Mason and William J. Mason ■ ■ Steven I. Master (CAS’00) and Michelle M. Master (ENG’98) Dominic M. Mastrone (ENG’84) and Laurie A. Mastrone ■ Dominic M. Mastrone (ENG’84) and Laurie A. Mastrone Peter F. Masucci (ENG’70) and Kathy E. Masucci (CAS’71) ■ Christopher Mathews ■ Robert H. Mathews (ENG’65) and Kathleen M. Mathews ■ Nat J. Collins (ENG’91, ‘91) and Misako A. Matsuoka (ENG’90) Suzanne Mattox ■ Vincent J. Mauro (ENG’80) and Michele Mauro Kenneth R. Maxwell (ENG’66) and Donna C. Maxwell Ronald S. Maxwell (ENG’78) ■ Terra D. May ■ Sandra R. Mayer (SON’71) ■ Marsha Mays-Bernard ■ Peter F. Mazeika and Shirley E. Anderson ■ Michael H. Palumbo (COM’95) and Cristina M. Mazzoni Palumbo (ENG’95, MED’99) ■ Kevin M. McAllister and Ellen M. McAllister ■ ■ Michael McCaleb ■ Conor R. Mccarron (ENG’14) ■ Lawrence N. McCarthy (ENG’69) Greg McCarthy (ENG’06) Steven J. McCarthy (ENG’85) and Miriam McCarthy Rita McConnell ■ Donna J. McCormack ■ ■ Michael J. McCullough (ENG’03) and Lindsey McCullough ■ Francis P. McDermott (ENG’62) ■ Alison W. McDonough ■ Connor C. McEwen (ENG’14) Kristy A. McFadden ■ Alycia A. McGoldrick (ENG’86, ’94) and Michael F. McGoldrick Asher McGuffin Loretta C. McHugh (ENG’00) and Evan McHugh ■ John H. McIver (ENG’81, GRS’90) ■ Seth A. McKeen (ENG’10) ■ John L. McKeon (Questrom’15) ■ John J. McLaughlin (ENG’92) and Anna Hundt Jody E. McLean (ENG’04, SPH’08) ■ Joseph P. McMahon (ENG’13) ■ Neil P. McManus (ENG’59) and Judith A. McManus ■ Lexyne L. McNealy Jackson (ENG’02) ■ Mary B. McQuillen ■ Tyler McVety ■ Ron Meckler ■ Armando Medeiros (ENG’85)

Nancy J. Medeiros (ENG’89) Geoffrey Y. Mei ■ Walther T. Meier (ENG’88, MET’04) John W. Meinig (ENG’65) and Mary M. Meinig Philip J. Melchiorre (ENG’84) ■ Alexandrea S. Mellen (ENG’15) ■ Diane Mellow ■ Jeffrey M. Melzak (CAS’84) and Julie S. Melzak (ENG’87) ■ Isaac Mendal (ENG’80) and Suzanne C. Mendal ■ ■ Lingmin Meng (ENG’01) Yan Meng (ENG’07, GRS’07) ■ Janine R. Mereb (GRS’84, ENG’84) James R. Merson and Anne L. Merson ■ Luke D. Mertins (ENG’15) ■ Thomas G. Metzinger and Melody F. Metzinger ■ Brett J. Meyer (ENG’10) ■ Jakub M. Michna (ENG’03) Eric K. Millard (ENG’07) ■ Dawn A. Miller ■ Maria Miller ■ Robert D. Miller (ENG’00) Kai A. Miller (CAS’15) ■ James G. Miller (ENG’84) ■ Jacob I. Miller (ENG’08) ■ Arthur R. Milley (ENG’60) and Constance H. Milley ■ Regan N. Mills (ENG’99) and Isabelle B. Mills Nancy H. Millstrom (ENG’89) and Karl Millstrom Aladin Milutinovic (ENG’06) Luis A. Beltran Acosta and Yomaira Miranda Leon ■ Mohd A. Asif and Tahseen Mirza ■ ■ John N. Mitropoulos (ENG‘56, ’59) and Venetia S. Mitropoulos ■ ■ Andy Mo (ENG’14) Henry E. Moeller (ENG’86) and Karen K. Moeller Jack Moffat and Camille Moffat ■ William K. Moik (ENG’14) Jacob S. Moisan (ENG’13) Carmine Moliterno ■ Stephanie Mollo ■ Maxine R. Mondshine ■ Andrea Monteith ■ Ina Montez ■ Marc J. Montrieux (Questrom’80) John A. Moore (ENG’15) ■ ■ Bethany M. Moore (ENG’15) ■ Derek Moore ■ Garrett M. Moore (ENG’15) John Moore and Barbara Moore ■ John Erik Moore (ENG’89, ‘92) and Deborah J. Moore (ENG’89) Peter M. Moore and Lorraine O. Moore ■ ■ Paul F. Moore ■ ■ Amarilis Moran ■ ■ Barbara Moran ■ Michael M. Moreira (ENG’11) Yosuke Mori (ENG’87) and Chiharu Mori Riley E. Morien ■ Alicia G. Morin ■ Fred Morrison (ENG’62) and Barbara M. Morrison (CAS’64) ■ John Morrissey (ENG’88) and Deborah Z. Morrissey Ronald P. Morrissey (ENG’92, ‘01) Paul Moscarelli ■ Demetri T. Moustakas (ENG’98) and Kathleen Moustakas ■ Leah Moynihan King F. Mui (ENG’15) ■ Mitra A. Mujica-Margolis (CGS’95, ENG’99) and Michael A. Margolis ■ Tanvir A. Muktadir (ENG’11) Elizabeth Mullis ■ Christine S. Mulvey (ENG’11) ■ Miles Munson ■ Arthur L. Murphy (ENG’65) ■

Brendon F. Murphy (ENG’98) ■ John M. Murphy (ENG’02) ■ Kevin M. Murphy (ENG’05) ■ Nancy Murphy ■ Timothy D. Murray (ENG’84) and Susan H. Murray William J. Murray (ENG’81) and Denise R. Murray ■ Jaclyn L. Muterspaugh ■ Michael M. Nadeau and Sylvie M. Nadeau ■ ■ Bipinmohan D. Nair (ENG’13) Paul A. Nalepa (ENG’97) and Monika E. Nalepa (ENG’98) ■ Brian Nam (ENG’15) ■ Vijaya Nand and Anita Nand ■ Bernard P. Naughton (ENG’62) ■ David T. Neely (ENG’93) ■ Dylan J. Neidorff (ENG’09, MET’12) ■ James A. Nelson (Questrom’15) ■ Luke E. Nelson (ENG’88) Tammra C. Nelson-Marsh (ENG’84) Peter A. Nenov ■ Varouj S. Nersesian (ENG’70, ‘73) and Ingrid W. Nersesian (SED’70, ‘81) ■ Janelle R. Nesvold (ENG’10) Gilberto Neves and Vania Machado ■ Minh-Thuy T. Nguyen (ENG’15) ■ Thuy T. Nguyen ■ Tai H. Nguyen (ENG’13) Kenneth K. Nguyen (ENG’89) ■ Benjamin H. Nichols (ENG’14) ■ Philip Nicol ■ Jacob P. Noordzij and Corinne E. Noordzij ■ ■ ■ Michael A. Norman (ENG’15) ■ Ronald J. Norman (MET’87) Michael J. Norris (ENG’07) ■ Bryan E. Norwood and Ashley E. Norwood ■ Alyssa Novak ■ Carol W. Nung (ENG’93, MET’00) Cameron A. Nurse ■ Tina V. Oatsvall ■ Christie Obenauer ■ Burt D. Ochs (ENG’83) and Cindy M. Ochs Malik Odeh ■ Kathleen Ogilvie ■ David Ojalvo (ENG’86) and Genie Ojalvo Stephen O’Keefe (ENG’93) Adetoyin A. Olaoye (ENG’02) Isabella Olivares Kyle F. Oliver (ENG’97) John Y. Oliver (ENG’98) Pamela A. Oliver (ENG’84) and Mark R. Whittaker ■ John C. Olson (ENG’14) Craig S. Olson (ENG’90) and Dayna L. Olson ■ Jeff Omens ■ Theodore L. O’Neal ■ David M. Onestak and Judy L. Onestak ■ Joseph L. Orofino (ENG’15) ■ Nelson E. Ortega and Fernanda T. Ortega ■ Francisco A. Ortiz ■ Johan S. Ospina-Buitrago ■ Susan M. O’Sullivan (ENG’03) Lauren M. Ouellette (ENG’09, ‘11) Nicole M. Ouellette (ENG’15) ■ Oliver D. Ousterhout (ENG’07) Umur Ozal (ENG’96) ■ Brittany N. Pack ■ Kim Paffenroth and Marlis Paffenroth ■ ■ Juliet A. Page (ENG’86) and Gregory S. Page Robert W. Paglierani (ENG’66) and Susan D. Paglierani ■ Richard L. Paine (ENG’88, Questrom’95) Uday Pal and Sanjukta Pal ■ Michael Paley (ENG’95) and Janice S. Paley (CGS’90, COM’92) ■ Jennifer Palmer ■ Tami Palmer ■ Laura Y. Pan (ENG’89) and Victor T. Pan

Yili Pan (ENG’10) ■ Xing Panyanouvong (ENG’07) ■ George T. Papadopoulos (ENG’01) and Ashley A. Papadopoulos (CGS’99, SED’01) Gerassimos Papathanassiou (ENG’95) Michael D. Paquette (ENG’84) and Mary T. Paquette ■ ■ Albert L. Park (ENG’01, ‘02) ■ Joon B. Park (ENG’67) and Hyonsook Y. Park ■ Eileen Parsons ■ James W. Parsons (ENG’15) ■ ■ Ioannis Paschalidis and Georgia Mourtzinou ■ ■ Christina J. Pasdo (ENG’91) and Michael Pasdo Joseph H. Passarelli (ENG’88) Raja H. Patel ■ Felicia A. Patel (ENG’14) 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 ■ Diane Pazzaglia ■ Edward R. Pecce (ENG’57) and Lois G. Pecce ■ Brian E. Pecon (ENG‘57, ’65) Margaret A. Pecon ■ Kylie J. Pedersen (ENG’13) ■ Paul O. Pederson (ENG’90) and Martha C. Pederson Kenneth L. Peirce (ENG’85, ‘90) Jason Peltz ■ Chris Penrose ■ Anthony Perez ■ Scott H. Parmenter (ENG’01, ‘04) and Danielle Perfit (GRS’03) David Perreault (ENG’89) Emily L. Pescatore Patrick E. Peters and Judy A. Peters ■ ■ Robert C. Peterson (ENG’57) John Peterson and Victoria Peterson ■ ■ Jacqueline M. Petit (ENG’83) and Alan N. Petit Thomas S. Pettit and Mary R. Pettit ■ Wayne Pettiti and Donna Pettiti ■ Han T. Phan (ENG’90) Thomas E. Phelps (ENG’94, Questrom’99) ■ Rick D. Philbin and Sharon L. Papp ■ Douglas E. Phillips (ENG’66) and Joyce A. Phillips Zachary A. Phillips (ENG’09) ■ Amisha Pierce ■ Karl W. Pilz (ENG’00) and Heather R. Pilz ■ Errol W. Pinkney (ENG’02, ‘04) Neftali Pinto and Nora Lara ■ ■ Anthony C. Pippo (ENG’67) and Joyce P. Pippo ■ Anthony N. Pirri (ENG’64) and Catherine H. Pirri ■ Rhonda Pisano ■ Cynthia Pischdotchian (ENG’87) ■ ■ Cameron A. Pizzo Kevin Pleiss (ENG’92) and Carolyn E. Pleiss Joanne Pocock ■ Tracy E. Pogal-Sussman (ENG’05, ‘07) ■ Edward A. Pohl (ENG’84) and Letitia M. Pohl ■ Dennis R. Poitras and Mary A. Poitras ■ ■ Luke Poitras (ENG’15) ■ Michael J. Poling (ENG’13) ■ Matthew D. Pollack (ENG’14) William S. Powers and Catherine Powers ■ Claus Pramer (ENG’88) and Patricia M. Pramer (CAS’90) ■ Bruce G. Pratt (ENG’69) and Maureen S. Pratt ■ Luke J. Preisner (ENG’00) M. Gail Preslar Abigail Pringle ■

Frank J. Prisco (ENG’00) Cheryl L. Pritchard (ENG’86) ■ Benjamin W. Pritz (ENG’14) Michael J. Pulliam (ENG’83) and Jacquett Pulliam Ram Puranam and Kasturi Puranam ■ ■ Ishaan Puranam (ENG’15) ■ Joanna Pyun (ENG’10) Zenan Qi (ENG’15, ‘12) ■ Ruohui Qiao (ENG’14) ■ Da Qu (ENG’12) ■ Stephen B. Qually (ENG’72, Questrom’73) and Linda A. Qually (SED’70) ■ Robert Raitt ■ Kristopher J. Rambish (ENG’03) ■ Carlos V. Ramirez and Donna J. Brister ■ ■ Thomas M. Ransegnola (ENG’15) ■ Alexandra Raskin ■ Steven A. Ratner (ENG’15) ■ Gerardo J. Ravago and Marialourdes C. Ravago ■ Sharon H. Ravid (SPH’07) and Michael Ravid ■ ■ Christopher J. Reaney (ENG’87) and Susan K. Reaney ■ Herbert P. Redman (ENG’63) and Joan E. Redman ■ ■ James L. Reed (CGS’85, ENG’88) Josefina Regula ■ Roberto Reif (ENG’08) and Kathy B. Reif (LAW’09) ■ John Reilly ■ Deborah Reissman ■ Donald C. Reny (ENG’88) and Jennifer R. Reny ■ ■ Dorie A. Resnik (ENG’92) ■ Sandra D. Reulet (ENG’86) Jake Reynolds and Robin Reynolds ■ Linda A. Reynolds (ENG’89) ■ Michele Reynolds ■ Donald L. Rhyne ■ Teresa Ribeiro ■ Connor A. Richmond (ENG’15) ■ Daniel W. Riddle ■ James P. Ridge (Questrom’15) ■ Sheri Ridnouer ■ Charles A. Riffle ■ Rhetta D. Riggs ■ Wlliam J. Riggs ■ Gary M. Riley and Evelyn O. Alpas-Riley ■ ■ Adam S. Riley (ENG’07) Deborah M. Rimel ■ Helena K. Ring (CAS’77) and Steven L. Ring Anthony J. Rivera (ENG’89) and Pamela M. Rivera (CAS’89) Frank Rivett ■ Beth P. Robert (ENG’89, ‘04, Questrom’04) Michael Robichaud (ENG’11) ■ Catherine Rocco (Questrom’90) Cody L. Rodgers (ENG’15) ■ James Rodrigues and Kimberly Rodrigues ■ Peter C. Rodrigues (SAR’14) Cristobal Rodriguez and Susie Rodriguez ■ ■ Ivan M. Rodriguez (ENG’01) Jorge L. Rodriguez (ENG’98, MET’04) ■ Robert G. Rogers (CAS’00) and Lisa W. Rogers (ENG’00) Joseph K. Rollin (ENG’05) Carlo J. Romano (ENG’58, ’62) and Arlene L. Romano ■ Steven A. Romero and Molly E. Romero ■ ■ Lisa A. Rooker (ENG’13) ■ Robert H. Ropp (Questrom’74, ’80, ENG’79) and Alexia L. Jacobs ■ Alexandru S. Rosca (ENG’15) ■ Ellen S. Rose ■ ■ Chimene Ross ■ Giovannibattista Rossi (ENG’02, GRS’05) ■ John Roth and Alicia Portugal-Roth ■ ■ Michael A. Rothman (ENG’64) Theresa M. Rousseau (ENG’88) and Matthew L. Rousseau Gordon D. Rowe (ENG’02, Questrom’07, ’07)

John Rowe ■ Geoffrey Rowland (ENG’05, ’05) and Erin Rowland (CAS’05) Andrew M. Roy (ENG’87) ■ Vladimir Rozanovich (ENG’96) Robert S. Rubery (ENG’63) Gary S. Rudman (ENG’88) and Robin Rudman Jennifer L. Rue ■ Bradley G. Rufleth (ENG’04) and Lindsey M. Cimochowski (MET’13) ■ Hayden J. Ruiz ■ Lawrence Rumbika (ENG’95) ■ ■ Michael P. Runci (ENG’68, ’74, Questrom’74) and Janet L. Runci Edward A. Runci (CAS’69) Morgan F. Rushing (ENG’10) Jesse L. Rusk (ENG’04, ’15, Questrom’15) Derek M. Russell (ENG’88) and Elizabeth G. Russell Robert F. Sabia (ENG’87) and Kathy Sabia Jared C. Saffie (ENG’10) ■ Brad Safford (ENG’94) ■ Muhammed T. Saif and Shahneela Chowdhury ■ Musa Saket (ENG’96) Zack Salceda and Lauren Doell ■ Edgardo S. Salcedo (ENG’00) ■ A. Reza Salehi (ENG’88, Questrom’04) Moe Salem ■ Jeffrey Santer (ENG’00) and Carole Santer Mark Santora and Ling C. Santora ■ ■ David Saperstein ■ Robert J. Saphirstein (ENG’11, ’13) ■ Justine Saputra ■ Anthony J. Sarro (ENG’81) and Maria Sarro Vikram M. Sathyendra (ENG’03) ■ Bradley W. Sauln (ENG’14) Steven G. Saunders (ENG’89) and Susan Saunders Emily A. Savelli (ENG’02) ■ Ralph Sayad (ENG’13) David A. Scaduto (ENG’09) Paul H. Scannell (ENG’59) T. W. Schafer and Kathleen A. Schafer ■ Marc Schechter ■ Perry M. Schein (ENG’12) ■ Hans Melotte and Katrien Schellekens ■ ■ William J. Schineller (ENG’89) Melissa J. Schladt (ENG’91) and Greg Schladt Thomas G. Schlatter (ENG’94) and Tania A. Schlatter (CFA’90) ■ Boyd Schleicher and Kathleen Schleicher ■ Amy Schlussel ■ Geert Schmid-Schoenbein and Renate Schmid-Schoenbein ■ Rosemarie Schmidt ■ Austen P. Schmidt (ENG’14) Eric C. Schmitt (ENG’11) ■ Vicki Schmitt-D’Andrea (SED’88) and Rudiger Schmitt ■ Bertram J. Schmitz (ENG’62) and Lizabeth M. Schmitz ■ David M. Schneeweis (ENG’84) Robert E. Schneider (ENG’79) ■ Lisa Robinson Schoeller (ENG’82, Questrom’98) ■ Christiaan W. Schoemakers (ENG’11) Matthew T. Schoen (ENG’10) ■ John W. Schoen (COM’77) and Rita E. Horan ■ Mary M. Schoenheider (ENG’88) Ryan P. Schoeplein (ENG’15) ■ Jonathan B. Scholl (ENG’85) and Teresa Scholl ■ Kenneth P. Scholz (ENG’86) ■ Philip M. Schrager and Tamara L. Schrager ■ Joseph B. Schroeder (ENG’13) ■ Tammy Schroll ■ Joseph Schulenberg ■ Daniel Schulman Michael L. Schumann (ENG’06) ■ Riccardo Scionti and Veronica M. Scionti ■ ■

David Scott ■ Stephanie R. Sczylvian Mills (ENG’07) Nicole E. Seaman (ENG’13) ■ Adil M. Seddiq (ENG’02) ■ Juan See (ENG’07) ■ Albert R. Seeley (ENG’85, MET’95) and Lauren M. Seeley ■ Darin Segal ■ Carlos A. Segura (ENG’14) ■ Rajendranath R. Selagamsetty (ENG’14) ■ Thomas J. Chapasko and Kathleen A. Sell ■ Matthew N. Seminerio (ENG’08) ■ Rachel L. Seraspe (ENG’04) ■ Winston Serquina and Marlene Serquina ■ ■ Trisha N. Serquina (ENG’15) ■ Brian M. Shaeffer Gregory L. Shafer ■ Daniel Shaffer (CAS’14, ENG’14) Amit N. Shah (ENG’96) and Pooja Gupta ■ Dhaval Vipulkumar Shah (ENG’15) ■ Nihar Shah (ENG’05) ■ Shivem B. Shah (ENG’15) ■ Pooja D. Shah (ENG’14) Ronak R. Shah (ENG’99) and Angela Shah ■ Sandra D. Shanaberger (ENG’82) and William T. Warner ■ Saurabh Sharma (ENG’15) ■ Jennifer Shaw ■ John H. Sheffield (ENG’91) ■ Rahul Shekher (ENG’05) Eric Shellman ■ Andrew Shelofsky and Alison Shelofsky ■ ■ Hua Sheng (ENG’13) Ananth Shenoy (ENG’01) Shivani Sheopory ■ Eugene Sherizen ■ Marci Sherman ■ Evi K. Shiakolas ■ Panayiotis S. Shiakolas and Susan W. Shiakolas ■ Dustin T. Shigaki (ENG’15) ■ Syed Shabbar R. Shirazi (ENG’15) ■ Gordon A. Shogren (ENG’59) and Frances K. Shogren ■ Koreen J. Shoham (ENG’14) ■ Kenneth L. Showalter and Sue E. Showalter ■ Richard L. Showalter and Sharon A. Showalter ■ Ethan F. Robbins (ENG’04) and Emily A. Shugarman (SED’03) John J. Shynk (ENG’79) and Tokie L. Shynk (SON’79) ■ Joshua A. Siegel (ENG’11) Brandon S. Siegenfeld (Questrom’15) ■ Milton R. Sigelmann (ENG’92) ■ Mohinder S. Sikka (ENG’97) Elena B. Simoncini (ENG’10) Christopher R. Simons (ENG’15) ■ Hannah E. Simpson (ENG’08) Chi-Kai V. Sin (ENG’88, CAS’88) Amrik Singh and Baljinder Kaur ■ ■ Amit Singh (ENG’01) and Rashmi Singh Paul Singleton and Patricia Nakao ■ ■ Amy T. Singleton (ENG’15) ■ Justin O. Sipiceanu (ENG’90) ■ Yaser M. Siraj-Eddin (ENG’05, ’06) Elie A. Sirotta (ENG’01, Questrom’08) and Stacey L. Sirotta (SAR’01, ’03, ’08) ■ ■ Megan Skeffington ■ Brad Slaight ■ Howard W. Slater and Margaret M. Slater ■ Katherine L. Slyngstad (ENG’15) ■ Theodore J. Smigelski (ENG’14) Blake W. Smith (ENG’85, ’86) and Karen B. Smith Carissa Smith ■ Dante J. Smith (ENG’12) Fred B. Smith and Patricia M. Smith ■ Kimberly Smith ■ Lizette M. Smith ■ John F. Smith (ENG’63) ■

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Nicole N. Snurkowski (ENG’01) and Mark Snurkowski ■ Michael A. Snyder (ENG’14) Noam Geri and Tamar Sofer-Geri ■ Scott B. Solomon (ENG’91) Sheldon A. Solow (ENG’06) Mohamed Soltan ■ Yong I. Song ■ Karen Sophiea ■ Michelle Sorensen ■ Elizabeth Soto (ENG’91) ■ Megan E. Spangler (ENG’95) ■ Roger Sparks and Karen Sparks ■ Richard H. Spicer (LAW’90) and Pamela C. Spicer Marcia Spiess ■ Katherine E. Spignese (ENG’85) ■ Raymond A. St. Pierre (ENG’52, ’58, ’62) Anthony K. Stapler ■ ■ Joseph T. Stasiak and Elizabeth A. Stasiak ■ ■ Suzanne E. Stasiak ■ Jaime Steele ■ Kathleen Steele ■ Laura M. Stefanski ■ ■ Martin Steffen ■ ■ Bessie G. Steinberg (ENG’14) Bonnie Steinbock ■ Nicholas W. Steinke (ENG’00) and Diane K. Steinke ■ Jane D. Stepak (ENG’78, CAS’78) ■ Tamara Stephen (ENG’92) ■ Alvin Gabriel Stern (ENG’07, ’07, ’09) and Anna K. Stern Christina A. Stevens (ENG’14) Gregory R. Stollstorff (ENG’80) Jeffrey D. Stout (ENG’04) ■ Paul S. Strati (ENG’52) Harold Stucker and Heidi A. Stucker ■ Gabriella R. Stueber (ENG’14) Roger C. Stuhlmuller and Carmen G. Stuhlmuller ■ Timothy F. Styslinger (ENG’90, ’92) ■ Clement C. Su (ENG’15) ■ Xiaofeng Su (ENG’15) ■ Pranita Sujan ■ Vinaya B. Sujan (ENG’96, MET’00) Todd M. Sukolsky (ENG’13) ■ Lawrence M. Sullivan (ENG’64) and Charlotte D. Sullivan Lori L. Sulmasy ■ Fengzhou Sun (ENG’15) ■ Richard Swain ■ Priya Swamy (ENG’96) and Prithvi Sankar ■ Anna K. Swan (GRS’94) and Jim Kaufman ■ ■ Edith M. Swartz ■ Gary T. Sweed (ENG’96) and Christine M. Sweed (MET’91) ■ Patrick J. Sweeney (ENG’85) and Sherri C. Sweeney Charles M. Sweet (ENG’91) and Julia P. Sweet ■ Natalie A. Swenson (ENG’11) ■ Joyce Swoyer ■ John Szczypien (ENG’66) and Diane Szczypien ■ Duncan Sze-Tu and Mary Sze-Tu ■ ■ Peter F. Szymanski (ENG’00) Gerardo J. Talavera (ENG’12) Richard J. Tamura and Lori I. Tamura ■ Chinh Tan (ENG’86, ’88) and Yue Zhang Lu Quan Tan (ENG’14) Dongjie Tang (ENG’15) ■ Adrian C. Tanner (ENG’15) ■ Darrell J. Tanno (ENG’80) and Deborah Tanno (Qestrom’81) ■ Justin Tapper ■ Krenar Tasimi (ENG’06) ■ Kevin A. Taube and Carlotta V. Taube ■ ■ Stuart P. Tauber and Jacquelyn S. Tauber ■ Raymond S. Taylor (ENG’08) ■ Makio J. Tazawa (ENG’06)

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Emilio A. Teran (ENG’15) Alla Terentieva (ENG’01) and Alexei Terentiev ■ Gabriel M. Terrenzio (ENG’56, ’57) and Maria A. Terrenzio ■ John Teweles and Kim Teweles ■ Tansukh M. Thanki (ENG’71) and Hema T. Thanki Jeray A. Thelwell (ENG’15) ■ Charles Thomas (ENG’04, ’03) and Jennifer W. Thomas Rebecca L. Thompson (ENG’15) ■ Herbert D. Thompson (ENG’66) and Barbara B. Thompson ■ Ragna S. Thorarinsdottir (ENG’13) ■ Augustus P. Thorkildsen (ENG’15) ■ Brian E. Newman (CAS’95, CAS’99) and Lisa D. Tilley-Newman (ENG’98) ■ Ike C. Tingos (ENG’91, ’94) and Artemis Tingos Flemming Tinker (ENG’99) ■ Bruce P. Tis (ENG’95) and Marjorie R. Tis ■ ■ Tszhang To (ENG’13, ’08) ■ Christopher Tofield ■ Daniel Tokar (ENG’62, ’64, Questrom’64) and Taffy J. Pettit Daniel J. Tollin (ENG’95) Sarah Tomai ■ Robert M. Tona (ENG’13) ■ Richard W. Tong (ENG’06) ■ Alfredo L. Torrejon (ENG’80) ■ Courtney E. Torres ■ Paul J. Toste (ENG’84) and Patricia A. Toste Heather T. Towey (ENG’14) Heather J. Tracey (ENG’91) ■ Michael J. Trank (ENG’86) and Ana Monica Raposo James E. Tranoris (CGS’82, CAS’84) ■ Lisa A. Tranoris (SAR’83) ■ Jon T. Tremmel (ENG’73) and Donna Z. Tremmel Lee Trepeck ■ Micaela A. Trexler Alyssa R. Trigger (ENG’10) ■ Robert L. Trottier (ENG’88) and Robyn M. Trottier ■ Aleksey Trubitsyn (ENG’08) ■ Paul A. Trunfio (ENG’89) and Kristen M. Prescott (CAS’90) ■ ■ Shun-Hao Tsai (ENG’07) ■ Wei Lun W. Tsang (ENG’12, ’13) Kadin Tseng (ENG’74) ■ ■ Kevin R. Tseng (ENG’91) ■ Michele C. Tudor (ENG’80, ’81) and Timothy R. Tudor Gregory J. Tuffy ■ James C. Tuffy and Kathleen D. Tuffy ■ Jillian N. Tullo (ENG’13) ■ Gerald F. Tully (ENG’61) ■ James J. Tuohy (ENG’03) Lorraine Turissini ■ Denise N. Turner ■ Lukasz Turolski (ENG’07) Kerry Twibell (ENG’00) John F. Twomey (ENG’79) and Jean A. Sculati ■ ■ Tuula M. Tyry ■ Marc C. Ubaldino (ENG’95) and Jennifer C. Ubaldino (SSW’03, SED’03) Linda A. Uko (ENG’05) ■ Robin R. Urban ■ Michael A. Valerio (ENG’80) and Elizabeth B. Valerio (CAS’80) ■ Douglas D. Valiente (Questrom’15) ■ Alex P. Van Dijk (ENG’87) and Karen Van Dijk Paul R. Vance and Susan Vance ■ Guy Vandevoordt and Mady F. Vandevoordt ■ ■ William A. Vangos (ENG’15) ■ Joel H. Vargas (COM’90) and Felicia Vargas ■

Ariel Velagoshti (ENG’13) ■ Peter Velikin (ENG’99) Paul Venables and Annette Venables ■ Douglas R. Ventura (ENG’84) and Leslie R. Ventura (CAS’84) ■ Glenda A. Ventura (ENG’90) and Vicente A. Ventura ■ Joan Vicente ■ Paul R. Viens (ENG’97) and Katheryn P. Viens ■ Brad S. Vigran and Monika A. Vigran ■ David P. Villari (ENG’15) ■ Boris T. Virnik (ENG’12) ■ Rhonda Viveney ■ Richard L. Voltz and Betty J. Voltz ■ ■ Mounika Vutukuru (ENG’15, CAS’15) ■ James H. Wade ■ Timothy S. Wadlow (ENG’97) and Erin F. Largay Andrew A. Wagner (ENG’94) and Priya T. Wagner Gregory J. Wagner (ENG’96) and Lisa D. Wilsbacher ■ Lewis K. Waldman ■ Jan Walkosz and Anna Walkosz ■ ■ Lisa Wall (ENG’81) ■ John D. Walsh (ENG’58) and Geraldine F. Walsh ■ Justin M. Walsh ■ Lea R. Walsh ■ Gary F. Walsh (ENG’11, ’13) Richard H. Walzer (ENG’95) Wendy Wan (ENG’89) ■ Richard Wang (ENG’07) ■ Ruoyang Wang (ENG’15) ■ Yunxiang Wang and Yingchun Chen ■ Hao Wang (ENG’14) Patrick J. Ward (ENG’05) Laura Warner ■ David A. Warner (ENG’60) and Philippa Warner ■ Penny Warren ■ Mary Anne Wassenberg (ENG’90) ■ Alexis C. Weaver (ENG’15) ■ Christine Weaver ■ Jennifer Weaver ■ Jeffery B. Weaver and Pamela Bates ■ Norman S. Weinberg (ENG’64) and Sandra H. Weinberg Jason A. Weiner (ENG’02) ■ Carolyn M. Weiser ■ Steven Weiss and Roni Weiss ■ ■ Andrew Z. Weiss (ENG’13) ■ Elizabeth Weiss ■ Marsha Weiss ■ Susan K. Welch ■ Cheri West ■ Joel F. West (ENG’57) and Elizabeth S. West ■ Rogelio Careaga and Rebecca Westwood ■ Francis C. Wheatley (ENG’15) ■ Brian J. Wherry (ENG’98) ■ Alice E. White ■ Heather B. White (ENG’92) and Darwin White Larry Whitehouse ■ Andrew I. Whiting (ENG’02) Ann-Kathrin Wiegel ■ Tully A. Williams and Rebecca L. Williams ■ ■ Lee A. Williams ■ Stephen C. Williams (ENG’11) ■ Paul C. Wilmarth (ENG’86) and Karin S. Wilmarth Gregory J. Wagner (ENG’96) and Lisa D. Wilsbacher ■ Benjamin Wilson ■ Edward L. Wingfield (ENG’61) and J. Patricia Wingfield David Wit ■ Timothy S. Wolfe (ENG’11) Jay S. Duskin and Karen B. Wolff ■ ■

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EAF contributions have enabled Engineers Without Borders to make several trips to the rural community of Naluja, Zambia, where they have worked to improve the community’s quality of life by:

• Developing a filtration system that ensures safe drinking water;

• Increasing awareness and use of safe hygiene/ sanitation behaviors to reduce risk of disease; and

• Designing, testing and implementing a cell phone signal amplification system to expedite diagnosis of HIV in young infants.

These projects promote local capacity to improve health, social and economic well-being in the community of Naluja, population approximately 10,000.

Your gift to the Engineering Annual Fund allows Engineers Without Borders to continue to send undergraduates overseas for projects like the ones described here. Please ensure that our Engineering students can continue to gain this invaluable experience.

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Christopher Chen PHD, HARVARD-MIT HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM MD, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING My group works at the interface of engineering and biology to understand how mechanical forces, structural organization of tissues, and cell function affect each other in health, aging, disease and regeneration. These links help determine how multicellular organisms organize during development, adapt to physical stresses around them and devolve during disease. Our goal is to investigate, understand and ultimately control these processes, to build biomimetic tissues in the laboratory as experimental models, to limit scarring and fibrosis, and

to direct tissue remodeling and regeneration.

We are particularly interested in the cardiovascular system, where the structure and function of heart muscle and artery walls are strongly impacted by mechanical forces and growth of new capillary beds to feed starving tissues is guided by structural and mechanical cues.

Boston University provides the perfect setting for our highly interdisciplinary research program, which combines expertise in synthetic chemistry, materials science, engineering mechanics, micro- and nanofabrication, additive manufacturing, synthetic biology, stem cell biology and biomedical sciences. From the president and deans to departments and individual investigators, we have found the community to be energized, welcoming and focused on enabling people to maximize their scientific impact.

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

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