Student Life
ECE Hosts Inaugural Event in its Women’s Dinner Series
On Wednesday, September 18, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) hosted the inaugural event in its Women’s Dinner Series.
UMass Student ASCE Chapter Records Four Notable Achievements
Our American Society of Civil Engineers chapter received letters of achievement from ASCE national headquarters and scored well in two design/build competitions
Fall Career Fairs for Engineering Majors
The College and the University will be hosting several career fairs this semester.
ECE’s Yasra Chandio Qualifies as a “Rising Star” in Both Actual and Virtual Reality
The ECE Ph.D. student was named a “Rising Star” by MIT and the University of Virginia and is the lead author for several significant papers on “mixed reality.”
CEE Graduate Student Joel Freitas Receives Prestigious Scholarship from the American Concrete Institute
The $5,000 scholarship from the ACI will help support Freitas’ pioneering research on so-called “brutalist” concrete buildings of the 1950s through 1970s.
CEE Ph.D. Student Md Ashikuzzaman (Ashik) Wins Robert L. Snyder Student Award
The award from the International Centre for Diffraction Data supported students so they could attend the organization’s X-ray Conference in Denver, Colorado.
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.
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.
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.
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.