Professor Joshua Yang (left) and Professor Qiangfei Xia (right) are building new computer hardware with vastly improved energy-speed efficiency that can solve problems using principles similar to those used by the brain. Read more »
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CEE Ph.D. Student Julie Bliss Mullen, co-founder and CEO of Aclarity, makes Forbes all-star list.
An expert on marine renewable energy and energy producing offshore structures, named Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy
has engineered a self-assembled nanomaterial that can re-educate
immunosuppressive macrophages to act aggressively against tumors
and eat cancer cells.
Four College of Engineering researchers have tied the college record for obtaining the most CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in one year. Juan Jiménez, Stephen Nonnenmann, and Yubing Sun of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and Jun Yao of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have all received grants from the prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program.
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The College of Engineering is recognizing its 26 most accomplished, first-year, doctoral students with the distinction of Dean’s Fellows for 2018-19, a program which rewards entering Ph.D. students with financial support, academic acknowledgement, and career-making research opportunities. Since enrolling here last September, these diverse students have shown unlimited potential, as demonstrated by their impressive range of backgrounds.
Inside UMass reports that three research projects at UMass Amherst, all awarded to engineering researchers, are among 13 at colleges and universities across the state sharing $195,000 in seed funding from the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) Acorn Innovation Fund. The seed grants are for $15,000 apiece. See entire article: Faculty Receive Seed Funding as Part of MTTC Acorn Innovation Fund.
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