MSE Faculty are highly successful and internationally recognized researchers. Here is a selection of awards and honors received in 2012–13: David Bishop • LGS/Alcatel-Lucent Internship Program James Collins • Massachusetts Academy of Sciences Fellow • National Academy of Inventors Charter Fellow • Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Fellow • Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award
Ramesh Jasti • NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Malay Mazumder • IEEE Fellow
At a Glance
Boston is one of the most vibrant cities in America, an international hub for technology, industry and academia, and a sophisticated metropolitan area with many opportunities for enrichment and recreation. Boston is the ideal location for advanced engineering study to impact health care, technology, biotech, telecommunications, energy and more.
Established in 2008
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Project
Linda Doerrer • Fulbright Scholar Mark Grinstaff • National Academy of Inventors Charter Fellow
Boston
Elise Morgan • Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Theodore Moustakas • National Academy of Inventors Charter Fellow Uday Pal • Distinguished Foreign Scientist Award from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India Joyce Wong • Invited Workshop Participant, National Science Foundation • Board of Directors, Biomedical Engineering Society Muhammad Zaman • Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge for Development Award • Wyss Institute- IEEE EMBS Translational Research Award Finalist • Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
“Our goal in this project is to understand the physics of interactions going on at the interface between the cathode surface and the gas phase in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). This understanding is important to engineer the cathode material for improved performance and long-term durability in commercial SOFCs. My role in the research team is to study the chemistry and structure of the cathode surface using different characterization tools such as surface sensitive x-ray diffraction techniques at the synchrotron, scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy.”
— Yang Yu (MSE PhD Student)
ALUMNI “My job is to find new materials for next generation batteries. I use first principles computational modeling to search for materials that have useful properties for solid-state batteries.”
Academic Degrees PhD, MS, MEng Students in Fall 2013* Doctoral: 23 MEng: 20 LEAP: 7 Minor: 1 *expected Degrees Granted since 2008 Doctoral: 13 Masters: 26 MEng: 10* Minors: 3* * The MEng and Minor were first offered in Fall 2011.
Career Placement Graduates from Boston University’s MSE program are well-trained to make an impact in careers of constant innovation in emerging areas like nanomaterials and biomaterials, electronics, biotechnology, energy and plastics industries. Recent graduates have found success with pioneering corporations and in influential positions in academia: • Intel
• Motorola
• 3M
• Corning
• MIT
• Lockheed-Martin
• Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation
Alumni: 52 Faculty Appointed Faculty: 38 Affiliated Faculty: 44 MSE Research Labs Advanced Materials Process Control Lab Applied Electromagnetics Biomimetics Materials Engineering Lab Cell And Tissue Mechanics Lab Coker Group Collins Lab Computational Electronics Lab Computational Energy Lab Doerrer Group Femtospec Lab Green Manufacturing Lab High-Temperature Chemical and Electrochemical Processing of Materials Lab High Temperature Oxidation Lab Integrated Photonics Lab Interfacial Fluid Dynamics Lab Lab for Engineering Education & Development Lab for Diagnostics and Global Healthcare Technologies
Lab For Microsystems Technology Lab of Integrated Nanophotonics & Biosensing Systems Materials Theory Group Materials X-Ray Diffraction Lab Matrix Mechanotransduction Lab Microscopy Lab Multifunctional Materials Spectroscopy Lab Multiscale Tissue Biomechanics Lab Nano Heat Transfer Lab Nanomedicine and Medical Acoustics Lab Nanoscale Energy-Fluids Transport Lab Nanoscale Mechanical Engineering Lab Nanostructured Fibers And Nonlinear Optics Lab Novel Materials Lab Optical Characterization & Nanophotonics Lab Orthopaedic & Developmental Biomechanics Lab Physical Acoustics Labs Powder Metallurgy & X-Ray Lab Precision Engineering Research Lab Semiconductor Photonics Research Lab Solid State Research Lab Surface Modification Lab The Tien Group Tsui Lab Ultrafast Nanostructure Optics Lab Vibrations Lab Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Lab 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
— Lincoln Miara (MSE PhD, 2013) Senior Research Engineer, Samsung Electronics Research Lab, SAIT-America Cambridge Lab “I am developing quantum mechanical models for organic semiconductors. The models will be used to advance the Materials Genome Initiative, building a database of millions of chemical structures and their calculated properties. Researchers across the world will be able to mine the database for materials that may fit their particular needs, such as for organic solar panels, displays, sensors, etc.”
— Andre L. Botelho (MSE PhD, 2013) Postdoctoral Researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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