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Anwesh Yerneni
This summer, senior Anwesh Yerneni of our Chemical Engineering Department completed a highly coveted internship at Tesla, Inc. in Palo Alto, California, in which he worked on several high-profile research projects aimed at improving Tesla’s automotive batteries, the key to the automaker’s groundbreaking electric cars. Yerneni served on Tesla’s Cell Engineering Team doing research based on the company’s own in-house chemical engineering.
Researchers at UMass Amherst College of Engineering are developing a multi-purpose radar system that can detect very small drone aircraft and also serve as a severe weather warning system for airports and urban settings. The project is funded with an 18-month, $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
Maciej Ciesielski
Professor Maciej Ciesielski of our Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has been invited to meet the President of Poland, Mr. Andrej Duda, on Wednesday, September 20, as part of a "round table" with a selected group of 20-to-25 prominent scientists of Polish origin now working in the scientific community of the United States. The round table will take place at 1:00 p.m. at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City.
