MIE Alums Ian Goodine and Ethan Walko Named 2024 Activate Fellows
The cofounders of rStream are two of the 62 Activate Fellows who “drive meaningful change toward a sustainable and equitable society.”
MIE’s Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi Becomes ASME Fellow and an Associate Dean in the CoE
Modarres-Sadeghi is elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the CoE appoints him Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Operations
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’s Ana Muriel Receives 2024 IISE Transactions Service Award
Muriel serves as an associate editor of Supply Chain and Logistics for the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.
John Wiley & Sons Publishes Third Edition of Bestselling Textbook Wind Energy Explained
Lead author James Manwell of MIE has been working since 2016 on the third edition, which provides “complete and comprehensive coverage” of wind energy.
Trillium Brewing Goes Green with Help from UMass Amherst Engineers
Trillium Brewing in Canton, Massachusetts recently celebrated going solar with assistance from UMass College of Engineering faculty, alumni, and students.
The NSF and NIH Invite MIE’s Chaitra Gopalappa to Present Her Research During a Symposium on July 16
In her talk, Gopalappa will explain her “Healthy Lives for All Approach” to predict, prevent, and control diseases through systems-engineering models.
Engineering the Future of Running with a Robotic Hip Exoskeleton
UMass Amherst researchers are announcing a collaboration with footwear manufacturer PUMA to expand the application of their novel robotic hip exoskeleton.
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.
MIE’s Yubing Sun and ECE’s Jun Yao Obtain NSF Award to Create More Lifelike Brain Organoids
Neural organoids are synthetic tissues that simulate regions of our brain and provide researchers with more sophisticated knowledge of human-brain development.