Student Life

The purpose of the national INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Awards is to recognize achievements of student chapters and to motivate them to perform well.

The Minute Pitch involves a 60 second presentation in which each student participant presents an innovative entrepreneurial idea to a panel of expert judges.

The awards will support their honors thesis research in the Advanced Polymer Engineering Lab under the guidance of Assistant Professor Yanfei Xu.

The college’s career fair included 107 participating companies, agencies, and institutions and was attended by more than 1,900 UMass Amherst students.

UMass Amherst will host several career fairs this fall, offering engineering students opportunities to connect with employers.

The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) awards assistantships to graduate students with “the most successful, relevant translational research projects.”

Rising senior recognized by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund for her academic achievement, leadership, and professional promise.

Onyeukwu’s research as a CSSI Fellow will focus on how vehicle technologies and advanced automation devices shape the safety of road users and driver behavior.

Competing against more than 140 university teams from around the world, the UMass Amherst Rocket Team finished 12th overall in its first appearance at IREC.

Hang’s research adapts paper lateral flow test strips for more effective point-of-care usage and develops them as more sensitive, next-generation biosensors.

Their award-winning research examines environmental justice and health disparities through an analysis of “forever chemicals” as they affect Latino communities.

The goal of these two nationwide ASME competitions was to design, engineer, build, and demonstrate prototypes that solve significant pre-determined challenges.