CoE Selects Arwade, Beltramo, and Srimathveeravalli for Its Outstanding Faculty Awards

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The College of Engineering (CoE) has selected Sanjay Arwade, Peter Beltramo, and Govind Srimathveeravalli as the winners of the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Awards. These selections were made through the work of a college-level faculty selection committee.

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Sanjay Arwade, professor in civil and environmental engineering, is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award. Arwade is internationally recognized for his research on offshore wind energy and stochastic mechanics and structural reliability. Among his many professional and academic accomplishments, Arwade is the Associate Director of the UMass Amherst Wind Energy Center, he represents UMass Amherst on the Executive Council of the Partnership of Offshore Wind Energy Research, and he recently began his tenure as Director of the $11.9 Million Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW) funded by the Department of Energy and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. ARROW focuses on workforce development in offshore wind by emphasizing energy equity and workforce diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. Arwade has also received numerous awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of his research. In recognition of his outstanding teaching, he has received the College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award, the Student Centered Teaching and Learning Fellowship, and the Lilly Teaching Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute.

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Peter Beltramo, assistant professor in chemical engineering, and Govind Srimathveeravalli, assistant professor in mechanical and industrial engineering, are the co-recipients of the 2025 Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.

Beltramo focuses his research on applying fundamental principles and novel techniques to understand and engineer interfacial processes. He has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award and an American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award, and he was recently recognized as an Emerging Investigator by the journal Soft Matter. His teaching excellence has been recognized with a Lilly Teaching Fellowship, a Discovery Acton Museum Science & Engineering Communication Fellowship, and a Student-Centered Teaching and Learning Fellowship. Beltramo serves as the UMass Amherst AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) student chapter advisor, advising the ChemE Car team on the design, construction, and operation of a chemical reaction-powered car and providing guidance in the students’ preparation for regional and national competitions. He is active within the soft matter research community, serving as a symposium chair and other roles at both AIChE and ACS Colloids Conferences, and he is currently serving as a guest editor for a special issue of ACS Applied Engineering Materials.

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Srimathveeravalli focuses his research on combining principles of mechanical and biomedical engineering to develop novel technology with applications in minimally invasive cancer therapy, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. He has been recognized by an NSF CAREER Award, a National Institutes of Health R01 award, multiple Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program awards, and campus awards that include a Manning-IALS Innovation Award, an ACORN Innovation Grant, and an Armstrong Fund for Science Award. In addition to his numerous journal publications, he is the co-editor of a textbook, "Principles and Technologies for Electromagnetic Energy Based Therapies," published by Elsevier Academic Press in 2021. He was named a "Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering" by ASME in 2024. Most recently, Srimathveeravalli was inducted into the Society of Interventional Radiology, making him the first ever engineer to achieve Fellow status. He is a core faculty member of the Institute for Applied Life Sciences, the Director for the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring, and has served as a theme leader for the Center for Bioactive Delivery.