· 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 (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)