College of Engineering Students Win All Four Prizes in the UMass Tech Challenge
The competition, focused on technology innovation, is open to all UMass students; competitors pitch their ideas to a panel of judges for $15,000 in prize money.
Nianqiang Wu and Qiangfei Xia Make Annual List of World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers
List of “Highly Cited Researchers” places Wu and Xia among global researchers “who have demonstrated exceptional influence through their published papers.”
College of Engineering Hosts Largest Career Fair in the College’s History
On Thursday, September 28th, in the Campus Center Auditorium, the College of Engineering hosted the Engineering Career Fair.
BME’s Joyita Dutta and Colleague Obtain NIH Award for Pioneering Research to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease
By the end of this study, the UMass researchers will create a forecasting framework capable of predicting the onset of Alzheimer’s years before symptoms arise.
ChE’s Omar Abdelrahman Wins AIChE “35-Under-35 Award”
The honor recognizes 35 outstanding AIChE members under the age of 35 who have made significant contributions to the field of chemical engineering and AIChE.
ECE’s Amir Arbabi Plays Key Role in Impressive $5-million Grant from Healey-Driscoll Administration
Arbabi is a UMass Amherst co-principal investigator for the project to establish the first open-access R&D facility for advanced optical components in the U.S.
Blazing a Trail for Massachusetts in Advanced Metaoptics
UMass Amherst and industry partner EMA are accelerating development and adoption of critical emerging metalense technology in the commonwealth.
ECE Alum Eric Swanson Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation Alongside Two Colleagues
The invention of optical coherence tomography has transformed ophthalmology by allowing rapid detection of ophthalmic diseases.
ECE’s Tongping Liu and Colleagues Win Best Paper Award at Prestigious IEEE Conference
Their paper presents a pioneering software tool called “MemTrace” that conveniently analyzes dynamic-memory-management behavior in autonomous-driving software.
Two College of Engineering Faculty Members Receive Manning/IALS Innovation Awards
Govind Srimathveeravalli of MIE and Neil Forbes of ChE have received awards of up to $100,000 each to pursue translational research.