Did You Know?
Hatice Altug • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers • Adolph Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America • Popular Science Magazine Brilliant 10 Award • IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award
STUDENTS
MSE Faculty are highly successful and internationally recognized researchers. Here are just a few of the awards and honors received in 2011–12:
PROGRAM GROWTH
60
Established in 2008
50
Academic Degrees PhD, MS, MEng
40
Students in Fall 2012 Doctoral: 27 Masters: 2 MEng: 15 LEAP: 6 BS/MS: 1
30 20
Degrees Granted since 2008 Doctoral: 7 Masters: 11 MEng: 3* * The MEng was first offered in Fall 2011.
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2008–2009
James Collins • Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences • 2011 World Technology Award for Biotechnology • The Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Exploration Grant Luca Dal Negro • Optical Society of America Prize
AT A GLANCE
2009–2010
2010–2011
2011–2012
Fall 2012
ACADEMIC YEAR
Ph.D.
MS
MEng
LEAP
BS/MS
$30,000,000 $40,000,000
Mark Grinstaff • Stevenson Biomaterials Lecturer, Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, Syracuse University Ramesh Jasti • Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee Malay Mazumder •IEEE Fellow Theodore Moustakas •MBE Innovator Award, North America Ophelia K.C. Tsui •Fellow of the American Physical Society Muhammad Zaman • Invited Participant, Inaugural US National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine ArabAmerican Frontiers on Medicine, Science and Engineering, Kuwait • International Fellow, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology • Member, Technical Committee, UN Economic Commission for Africa Xin Zhang • Invitee, National Academy of Engineering EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
$35,000,000 Did You Know? $30,000,000
New Funding
BU Division of Materials Science & $25,000,000 Engineering ranks in the Top 20 in $20,000,000 Research Expenditures per Faculty Member ($633,610) by the U.S. $15,000,000 News & World Report.
Continuing Funding Total Funding
$10,000,000 $5,000,000
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2008–2009
2009–2010
2010–2011
2011–2012
Alumni: 21 Faculty Participating Faculty: 34 Affiliated Faculty: 38 Research Laboratories Advanced Materials Process Control Laboratory Biomedical Materials Research Laboratory Biomimetics Materials Engineering Laboratory Cell And Tissue Mechanics Laboratory Collins Laboratory Computational Electronics Laboratory Femtospec Laboratory Green Manufacturing Laboratory High-Temperature Chemical And Electrochemical Processing Of Materials Laboratory High Temperature Oxidation Laboratory Microscopy Laboratory Laboratory Of Integrated Nanophotonics & Biosensing Systems (LINBS) Materials X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory Matrix Mechanotransduction Laboratory Multifunctional Materials Spectroscopy Laboratory Nanoscale Energy-Fluids Transport Laboratory Nanoscale Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Nanostructured Fibers And Nonlinear Optics Laboratory Novel Materials Laboratory Optical Characterization & Nanophotonics Laboratory (OCN) Orthopaedic & Developmental Biomechanics Laboratory Powder Metallurgy & X-Ray Laboratory Precision Engineering Research Laboratory (PERL) Solid State Research Laboratory Surface Modification Laboratory Tsui Laboratory Ultrafast Nanostructure Optics (UNO) Laboratory Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Laboratory Research Centers BioMolecular Engineering Research Center Center for Nanoscience & Nanobiotechnology Center for Space Physics Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation Neuromuscular Research Center Photonics Center Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center
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