The UMass Amherst News Office reports that a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a three-year, $486,524 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project to enhance privacy in smart buildings and homes. The project is under the direction of David Irwin of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Prashant Shenoy of the College of Information and Computer Sciences.

As more smart grids and buildings are fitted with digital electric meters, Web-enabled appliances and lighting, programmable outlets...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering have designed an invention that would make it feasible, practical, and economical to install life-saving seat belts on some 30,000 motor coaches nationwide that venture on the road without seat belts.

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) recently awarded $50,000 to a research team led by Principal Investigator Sundar Krishnamurty of the UMass Amherst Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department to help commercialize a patent-pending “Retrofit Seat Belt System” and make...

Two researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are aiming to create better fitting, more functional, and comfortable robotic lower limbs for amputees, especially those over 65. Principal investigator Frank Sup of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and Brian Umberger of the Kinesiology Department have received a $630,331 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop these revolutionary robotic prostheses for below-knee amputees.

The title of the UMass project is “Simulation Guided Design to Optimize the Performance of...