Students can participate in national competitions
such as the Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage® Competition. Last year our car recorded 1,142 mpg (see our awesome red vehicle in the back row).
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Light-up Earrings
On Saturday, January 31, the Diversity Programs Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will be running a “Girl Scout Adafruit Workshop” in which Scouts from western Massachusetts will be designing, engineering, and constructing wearable, electronic, programmable, light-up jewelry.
“Our main goal is to attract the girls to engineering by making sure they have a lot of fun learning about it,” explains Dr. Paula Rees, the director of the Diversity Programs Office at UMass Amherst.
The workshop will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in M5, the Electrical...
Otto
A team of four seniors from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has conceived, designed, and is currently building a camera-toting drone aircraft that can hover above a mountain biker, surfer, climber, or any of the country’s 4.88-million action athletes and videotape the performance. Named “Otto: the Personal Cameraman,” the device will be mounted on a scale-model “quadcopter” and is the brainchild and senior design project of Andrew Sousa, Seth Kielbasa, Albion Lici, and Noah Portnoy, who also receive plenty of helpful input from faculty advisor Christopher Hollot. Go to...
T.J. Lakis Mountziaris
T.J. Lakis Mountziaris, a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, will be the Distinguished Seminar Speaker for the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University in Boston on January 28. Mountziaris will be speaking on “Synthesis, Functionalization and Biological Sensing Applications of ZnSe Nanocrystals” at 312 Ell Hall on the Northeastern campus from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on January 28. Link to seminar announcement: http://www.che.neu.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/che/...
Dragoljub Beka Kosanovic
According to an article on the UMass Research Next website, Dragoljub Beka Kosanovic, the director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CEERE) in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, is one of the co-principal investigators for the new state-wide Energy Extension Initiative, funded by a $6-million grant from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. The initiative is designed to mobilize information on the latest clean energy technologies as...
Robert Hyers
Robert W. Hyers of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department is the co-investigator of the EML Thermolab, an experiment aboard the International Space Station that suspends liquid metals in a weightless environment while they cool. The Thermolab experiment seeks to improve models to help industrial casting and solidification techniques. Thermolab investigates the temperature and physical properties of industrial alloys in weightlessness in their...