Our emphasis is hands-on engineering
via internships, service societies such as Engineers Without Borders, and projects in each department.
News
David Reckhow
The New England Public Radio News Network will air a recording of David Reckhow’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture – “Drinking Water in Crisis: Lead, Lignin and Legionella” – on Saturday, June 24, at 7 p.m. as part of its “Speakers Forum.” The professor of civil and environmental engineering presented his lecture on February 8 of 2017.
Erin Baker
Professor Erin Baker of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department recently published an article discussing ways to focus clean energy funding that will produce the greatest energy and environmental benefits within the constraints of a tight federal budget. Baker’s article, posted May 22 on the website of The Conversation, was also picked up by the Albany Times Union, San Francisco Chronicle, Pantagraph.com, and others. The headline of Baker’s article was “With a tight federal budget, here’s where to focus clean energy research funding.” Read Baker’s entire article in The Conversation.
Michael Knodler
Professor Michael Knodler, the director of UMass Transportation Center in the UMass Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department, is working with a team of investigators on a groundbreaking research program on unmanned aerial systems, which recently received one of the three Science and Technology Grants issued to campus faculty from the University of Massachusetts President’s Office. The UMass Unmanned Aerial System Research and Education Collaborative (or UMassAir) is being established to study unmanned aerial systems, also known as drones, and advance cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, collaborative research and education. UMassAir received $100,000 in Science and Technology funds. See President’s Office Awards $735,000 in Science and Technology Grants.
