Student Life
MIE Students Bring Floating Wind Innovation from Amherst to France
A team of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering undergraduates designed an offshore floating wind structure for their Senior Design Project.
MIE Ph.D. Students Sindhoora Prakash and Yukti Kathuria Win the TAG Master Modeler Competition
The competition requires the application of the INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional Framework to give nonprofits solutions to support addiction recovery.
Commencement 2024 Recap
The College of Engineering Class of 2024 was honored with commencement ceremonies and activities on May 17 and 18.
ChE’s Graduate Student Timothy Onuh Learns How to Advocate for Engineering Research Policy “on the Hill”
Onuh’s passion for supporting environmental causes began while earning his B.Sc. in Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, in 2018.
MIE’s Xiaoyu Zhang Earns Prestigious Princeton Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Princeton Fellow is designated as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and receives funding of nearly $100,000 per year.
Tiana Naylor: 2024 Jack Welch Scholar
Tiana Naylor, a biomedical engineering major with a minor in computer science, graduates as a 2024 Jack Welch Scholar.
George Olisedeme-Akpu Receives 21st Century Leader Award
George F. Olisedeme-Akpu, a senior mechanical engineering major, has received a 21st Century Leader
Award.
CEE Student Raul Vera Wins Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award
Vera’s paper, “The Ongoing Water Crisis in the Nile Basin,” recommends seven key actions that would decrease the water loss and water demand in that region.
UMass Aeronautics Team Soars to New Heights in International Competition
The team spent months designing and building a five-foot-long, remote-controlled aircraft capable of performing commercial, welfare, and military missions.
MacNaughton Selected as Class of 2024 Student Speaker
Isabella MacNaughton has been selected as the Class of 2024 student speaker for this year’s Senior Recognition Ceremony, on May 18th in the Mullins Center.
University of Massachusetts Amherst Students Named 2024 Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholars
Angelina Caggiano and Peter Swenson have been accepted to the Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholar Program.
CEE’s Efthymia Kostopoulou Wins Yet Two More Scholarships from the Boston and Rhode Island Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS)
Kostopoulou received an Ann Hershfang Graduate Scholarship and a Jannet Walker-Ford Leadership Legacy Scholarship from WTS chapters in Boston and Rhode Island.