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).
News
Casey Brown
The UMass Amherst Research Next website has published an article about researchers Casey Brown, Patrick Ray and Sungwook Wi – part of the Hydrological Systems Research Group led by Brown in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department – who have received the Climate Science Service Award from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), which recognizes their contributions to developing a climate change vulnerability assessment for...
Cheryl Brooks
College of Engineering Dean Tim Anderson has announced the promotion of longtime college administrator Cheryl Brooks to a key new position as Assistant Dean for Experiential Learning and Corporate Relations. Cheryl has served as the Director of Career Planning and Student Development, running an office known familiarly as the “career center,” for the past seven years.
As Dean Anderson said, “Cheryl was the second director of the center, which helps our undergraduate and graduate students develop interviewing skills and facilitates their placement in industry, graduate school,...
Maura Maloney
Maura Maloney (University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1985), the Principal Technology Business Operations Analyst at ESPN, visited campus on February 26th along with four of her colleagues from ESPN to give a presentation on “Women in Technology Careers” as part of the UMass Amherst Information Technology TechTalk series.
Maloney fell in love with television as a work-study student while working in the Video Instructional Program at UMass Amherst and was hired by ESPN in 1991 as a Broadcast Engineer in the Transmission Department. Since 2000 she has...
Bufferbloat Team
There are few things more frustrating than being on an online real-time phone call when it suddenly gets the jitters, your caller’s voice doesn’t match up to his or her facial expressions, and your conversation doesn’t sync correctly. Likewise, gamers are infuriated when sudden lags cause them to lose at what they’ve been playing for hours. These lags and jitters are caused by a phenomenon known as “bufferbloat.”
Now there is a fix for bufferbloat founded on research conducted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst more than a decade ago. During the late 1990s and early...
Neil Forbes
Chemical Engineering (ChE) graduate student Miaomin Zhang and his advisor ChE Professor Neil S. Forbes recently published the cover article of the Journal of Controlled Release (vol 199, February 10th), which has an impact factor of 7.8. The title of the article is "Trg-deficient Salmonella colonize quiescent tumor regions by exclusively penetrating or proliferating."
For more than 12 years, the Forbes research team has been working on non-pathogenic Salmonella bacteria that can use their own self-propulsion system to venture deep into tumors and deliver cancer-...