@BuMechE

Official Twitter page for BU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #BUMechE for all tweets related to the department!

 Boston, MA
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Joined January 2017
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#BUGivingDay is TODAY! If you believe in educating the next generation of Societal Engineers who are driven to create solutions to the problems that matter most to people and their communities, please help make an impact by making your gift NOW: give.bu.edu/campaigns/54596/…
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Andy Griffin (ENG'00, MET'06), Jenny Gruber (ENG'99'99), and Denise Schier (ENG'81) will give $6,000 if 200 donors give in the next 17 hours, so make sure to get those donations in!
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We're currently at 60 donors, 24% of our goal!
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BU’s team makes it to the next stage of AIAA’s Design, Build, Fly Competition—the first in BU history! They hope to raise further funds to support the team’s travel to the competition. If you would like to contribute, please visit the link below! give.bu.edu/aiaa-design-buil…

AIAA Design, Build, Fly (DBF)

Join me and make a gift to this crowdfunding project.

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If any companies donate, your logo will be displayed on the aircraft!
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Success! BU Telescope Lands on the Moon Aboard NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1. In a historic first for BU, the LEXI telescope is operating from the lunar surface and will image Earth’s magnetic shield. Read more about it here: bu.edu/articles/2025/nasa-la…

Success! BU Telescope Lands on the Moon Aboard NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1

In a historic first for BU, the LEXI telescope is operating from the lunar surface and will image Earth’s magnetic shield

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The payload carrying the LEXI launched last night at 1:11am and is on its way to the moon! Read more about it here: nasa.gov/news-release/liftof…

Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight - NASA

A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft, where

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The LEXI was created by Professor Brian Walsh and his team here at MechE. “LEXI will image, for the first time, the boundary of Earth’s magnetic field,” Walsh says. Read more about the LEXI here: bu.edu/articles/2025/bu-nasa…

NASA Moon Mission Will Use BU X-Ray Telescope to Study Earth’s Magnetic Field

NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission will carry the first Boston University-engineered device to land on a celestial body—the LEXI telescope that will image Earth’s protective shield

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Exciting news! The lander with the LEXI is set to launch into space Jan 15 at 1:11amEST! Congrats to Professor Brian Walsh and his team. Read more about LEXI in this article : science.nasa.gov/science-res…

NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere - NASA Science

Editor’s Note, Feb. 25, 2025: The LEXI telescope was turned on successfully shortly after launch on Jan. 16. The instrument has operated for several hours

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More info about the launch can be found here: blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2025/…

NASA Science, Tech Launching to Moon in Mid-January - NASA

NASA, SpaceX, and Firefly Aerospace are targeting 1:11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15, for the launch of Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, the next delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial...

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Jon Hirschtick, from PTC, had some nice things to say about RASTIC! Read more below. linkedin.com/posts/jonhirsch…

Perhaps the most modern hands-on robotics facility I have seen in a university: Boston University's...

Perhaps the most modern hands-on robotics facility I have seen in a university: Boston University's new RASTIC BU Robotics & Autonomous Teaching and Innovation Center. Led by Kenn Sebesta it is...

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POMA@ASA_POMA22 Oct 2024
The impact of non-monotonic relaxation on numerical accuracy and stability of viscoelastic finite elements: doi.org/10.1121/2.0001910 @BuMechE #acoustics
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For their senior design project, a team of MechE students created a compact air quality sensor pack that can be attached to the front of a bicycle from Bluebikes, Boston’s public rental network. Read more about it here: bu.edu/eng/2024/06/06/air-qu…
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Thank you very much to @BU_Tweets @BUexperts for putting this article and video together! It was great working with you!
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Meet MAMA BEAR, @BUCollegeofENG’s autonomous robot developed by @KABrownLab and his team! From record-breaking energy absorption to new helmet padding for US Army soldiers, its innovations are paving the way for safer tech—and it's just the beginning. ➡️ spr.ly/6004dskZ8
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Another Blue Ghost Mission 1 payload successfully integrated on our lander! Developed by @BU_Tweets, @NASAGoddard & @JohnsHopkins, Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) will capture X-ray images to study how space weather and other cosmic forces affect our planet.
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Congrats to Professor Xin Zhang for receiving the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award! Read more about it here: bu.edu/eng/2024/05/17/zhang-…
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Congratulations to our 2025 FRP award recipients who are working to solve complex problems in healthcare, natural disasters, high-performance computing, and autonomous self-driving labs for accelerating scientific discovery. ➡️tinyurl.com/yc3d8wh5
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Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Bifano for receiving BU's Innovator of the Year award!
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Assistant Professor Sean Lubner (@BuMechE,@BU_MSE) receives Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award spr.ly/6015bocrH
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Meet our alumna Brynna Freitag (’19)! She came to Boston University to pursue a Master of Science (MS) degree in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, she works at Apple as a product design engineer. Read more about her here: bu.edu/eng/2024/04/18/meet-o…
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