Faculty

The award recognizes excellence in teaching and honors individual faculty members at the College of Engineering for exceptional instructional accomplishments.

Zhang is working to develop a mechanically switchable nanodevice for targeted drug therapy for ailments such as stroke, thrombosis, and viral infection.

The grant funds a high-quality “liquid biopsy” technique that allows for far greater sampling of potentially malignant tissue than the standard needle biopsy.

Manwell is the founding director of the UMass Amherst Wind Energy Center and a pioneering researcher, author, and teacher in the field of wind energy.

Roberts, MIE’s expert on driver-vehicle interactions, gives professional advice related to the WalletHub rating of “2023’s Best & Worst States to Drive in.”

Siyuan Rao of BME, Wen Chen of MIE, and Fatima Anwar of ECE each win the National Science Foundation’s most esteemed award for young researchers.

The College of Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Scott Civjan, civil and environmental engineering, to the role of Associate Dean.

The College of Engineering is pleased to honor Associate Professor James Rinderle as he retires from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department.

Xu’s paper stresses the possibilities and inspiring opportunities for future applications of thermally conductive polymers with metal-like thermal conductivity.