NSF grants $1.2 million to cope with complexities in manufacturing systems October 1998 Collaborative Team Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the NSF October 2003 ENG faculty developing sensors that stay in touch October 2003 Christos Cassandras to lead team in researching “control and optimization” of sensors November 2003 BU, UMass to collaborate on sensors networks Mass High Tech, January 2004 Sensor Network Consortium Launched December 2004 NSF grants $2M for EFRI project on Autonomously Reconfigurable Systems September 2007 Research Focuses on Getting Wireless Networks to Fix Themselves September 2007 Tough Questions on Electric Energy Management June 2009 BU Team to Advance Surveillance Capabilities in Autonomous Vehicles October 2009 New Models for Optimizing Mission Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Science Daily, April 2010 Systems Engineering Team Aims to Boost UAV Autonomy May 2010 Christos Cassandras Named President-Elect of the IEEE Control Systems Society November 2010 How Systems Engineers are Designing a Better World Engineering Magazine, Fall 2010 Valet Parking: The App August 2011 BU “Smart Parking” on New England Cable News NECN, September 23, 2011 “Smart Parking” on BUniverse October 2011 Career Focus: Systems Engineering IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer, November 2011 Control Systems Society President’s Interview Control Systems Magazine, December 2011 Christos Cassandras Receives IEEE Control Systems Technology Award January 2012 Smarter Cities: A Roadmap for the Future March 2013 The Too-Smart City Boston Globe, May 19, 2013 If Boston Were Smart BU Today, October 28, 2013