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Sundar
Krishnamurty
Professor Sundar Krishnamurty – the head of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, director of the Center for e-Design, and associate director of the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring – has been named the second Ronnie & Eugene Isenberg Distinguished Professor in Engineering. The Isenberg professorship was created in 2003 at UMass Amherst to enhance interdisciplinary teaching and research among the fields of management, engineering, and science.
College of Engineering Dean Sanjay Raman has announced that faculty members Joseph Bardin, Song Gao, Carlton L. Ho, P.E., Matthew A. Lackner, Jenna Marquard, Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi, Hossein Pishro-Nik, Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, and Michael Zink have all been promoted to Full Professor.
The UMass Board of Trustees has approved three additional tenure appointments in the College of engineering for Chaitra Gopalappa and Jae-Hwang Lee of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department, along with Sarah Perry of the Chemical Engineering Department.
Anna Goldstein
Anna Goldstein, a senior research fellow in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, commented in an article by David Roberts on Vox based on the theme that getting to net-zero carbon emissions will require rapid, radical innovation.
