Faculty
Center for Teaching and Learning Selects MIE’s Meghan Huber as Lilly Teaching Fellow
The Lilly Fellowship will help Huber redesign a key programming course and galvanize the growth and development of the robotics curriculum in MIE.
ECE Professor Emeritus Ting-wei Tang Passes Away
Tang served as an ECE professor for more than 35 years and co-founded the Shirley and Ting-wei Tang Endowment Lecture Series with his wife in 1999.
MIE’s Frank Sup and Erin Baker Win UMass Amherst ADVANCE Awards
Sup received an ADVANCE Peer Mentoring Award, while Baker was a member of the faculty team that won an Equitable Practices in Collaboration Award.
ChE’s Zhu "Clark" Chen Receives James M. Douglas Early Career Faculty Development Award
The purpose of the Douglas Fund is to provide an Early Career Faculty Development Award annually to an untenured faculty member in the ChE department.
CoE Selects Arwade, Beltramo, and Srimathveeravalli for Its Outstanding Faculty Awards
Three gifted faculty members receive the Outstanding Senior Faculty Award and Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
MIE’s Govind Srimathveeravalli Elected as Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology
This honor, achieved by only 15 percent of eligible SIR members, is bestowed on those who have demonstrated excellence in interventional radiology.
Ashish Kulkarni Selected for Edward S. Price Chemical Engineering Faculty Fellowship
The fellowship is based on a generous endowment established by UMass alumnus Edward S. Price ‘90.
CoE Selects ChE’s Lauren Andrews and MIE’s Jim Lagrant for the College’s 2024-2025 Outstanding Teaching Award
The COTA recognizes excellence in teaching and honors individual faculty members at each of the university’s colleges for their instructional accomplishments.
CEE’s Colin Gleason Serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Bristol in England
Gleason is working with University of Bristol Professor Paul Bates on delivering the promise of the NASA SWOT satellite’s “hydrologic revolution.”
CNBC Interviews ECE’s Taqi Raza on the Impact of Quantum Computing on Cryptography
As an expert source in a feature story, Raza advised CNBC on how Google’s new super-quantum-computer chip might affect the safety of future cryptocurrencies.
MIE’s Hari Balasubramanian and Colleagues Produce Introductory Textbook on “Healthcare Systems Engineering”
Healthcare engineering employs a systematic, data-oriented approach to designing, analyzing, and managing health systems to reduce costs and enhance care.
College of Engineering Welcomes Three Talented New Faculty Members
The CoE welcomes ChE Assistant Professor Alexandra Zagalskaya, MIE Assistant Professor Isabel Scherl, and ECE Lecturer Maitreyee Marathe to the faculty.