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How can we best educate and train graduate and undergraduate students to be effective in applying mutlidisciplinary knowledge and skills to solve complex real-world problems, while retaining significant professional immersion in their respective disciplinary fields? Given the broad interdisciplinary nature of our research program, students at LMST will have an outstanding opportunity to work in an area that bridges basic research and application.
We are always looking for talented and qualified researchers as undergraduate and graduate students, Post Docs and visiting scientists. Openings for such people appear regularly. Interested parties should email to Professor Zhang and include their CV and research interests.
Post-doctoral positions available
Graduate Admission
LMST (Laboratory for Microsystems Technology)
is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, students in LMST graduate with Ph.D. degree in Mechanical
Engineering. However, applicants do not have to have the exact undergrad background. In fact, LMST welcomes
all prospective graduate student applicants who feel that they can contribute to our MEMS and nanotechnology
research. Current LMST members do have very diverse background such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, and Applied Physics etc. We encourage applications
from both MS and PhD students, although funding from the laboratory is usually biased toward PhD students.
Students who are interested in our graduate program are encouraged to follow the general Boston University
Graduate Admission. The College of Engineering Graduate Programs website is at
http://www.bu.edu/eng/admissions/grad/.
It is important, however, to state in your application your interest to pursue MEMS and Nanotechnology research
in the Mechanical Engineering Department with Professor Xin Zhang. Feel free also to contact any of the students
in the laboratory directly for a student's perspective on life in the laboratory and at City Boston.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
We believe that involving undergraduates in research is an important component of their education and maturation
process. It is also well demonstrated that undergraduates who are exposed early in their educational career to
hands-on experiences in the processing of doing research are quicker to develop motivation and more successful
in continuing in the science and engineering. Undergraduate students at BU are invited to arrange to meet
Professor Xin Zhang during her office hours to discuss possibilities for research openings. Typically,
undergraduates are in their junior or senior year of study, and spend 10-12 hours per week during the academic
year in the laboratory. Summer research opportunities also exist, pending funding sources. A variety of research
topics are usually available, ranging from computer analysis to experimental testing. A strong ability to both work
independently and collaborate with other students is probably the most important element required for undergraduate
research. For general undergraduate research opportunities, students are encouraged to take a look at
http://www.bu.edu/eng/research/ugrad/.
Professor Xin Zhang also teaches the following undergraduate courses on a regular basis.
Women@MEMS (picture taken at IEEE Solid-State Sensor & Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island)
Courses
For those students interested in MEMS/NEMS at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, the
following courses are offered by Professor Xin Zhang on a regular basis.
ME/MS 555: MEMS/NEMS - Fabrication and Materials
ME/MS 778: Micromachined Transducers ME 304: Energy and Thermodynamics
ME 305: Mechanics of Materials
