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Mar 28, 2024
How Congestion Pricing Is Shaping the Future of Transportation
CEE Professor Peter Furth explains the benefits of congestion pricing, which aims to reduce traffic and pollution by charging fees to drive in metropolitan areas. It has been deployed in London, Stockholm, and Singapore and is scheduled to begin in June in sections of New York City.
Mar 27, 2024
Exploring Dissipation Engineering in Hybrid Magnonic Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, in collaboration with Boston University, was awarded a $420,000 NSF grant for “Harnessing Magnonic Nonreciprocity Through Dissipation Engineering.” They will investigate the principals of energy dissipation in magnonic systems and engineering approaches for manipulating dissipations.
Mar 27, 2024
Potential Causes of Baltimore Bridge Collapse From a Structural Engineering Perspective
CEE CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar explains the potential causes of the catastrophic Baltimore bridge collapse in which several people died, and the risks posed by older bridges and large commercial shipping vessels.
Mar 26, 2024
Willits Elected to AIMBE Board of Directors
ChE Professor and Chair Rebecca Willits was elected to serve as the secretary/treasurer on the board of directors for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for 2024-2026. Willits is also a Fellow of AMBIE and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Mar 25, 2024
Three Faculty Selected as AIMBE Fellows
Bouvé/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong, and ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu were selected as Class of 2024 Fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Mar 22, 2024
Four Years on: The Career Costs for Scientists Battling Long COVID
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes was featured in the Nature article “Four Years on: The Career Costs for Scientists Battling Long COVID” for her experiences dealing with long COVID.
Mar 21, 2024
Field Experts Discuss the Monitoring of Microplastics in the Massachusetts Bay
At a full-day workshop, CEE/MES Associate Professor Loretta Fernandez, and members of research organizations, academia, and industry discussed microplastics in local water systems and proposed solutions to prevent potential health impacts as the plastics degrade.
Mar 20, 2024
Securing Health Care Infrastructure Against Potentially Devastating Cyberattacks
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu advises the health care industry to more effectively protect its infrastructure from hackers who can infiltrate medical devices such as cancer radiation therapy machines.