2021 Engineering TIDE Accelerator Awards:
Kara Peterman (CEE) and Yanfei Xu (MIE)
21-22 Center for Teaching and Learning TIDE Ambassadors:
Jessica Boakye (CEE) and Yanfei Xu (MIE)
News
Ganesh Pai Mangalore
Ganesh Pai Mangalore, a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, has been awarded a $32,500 Link Foundation Fellowship in Modeling, Simulation, and Training. Pai Mangalore, who is a member of the research group headed by Assistant Professor Anuj K. Pradhan, will be studying how to conceptualize, develop, and evaluate a training program to help drivers realize the finer points of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), whose safety benefits are largely negated when utilized by uninformed users.
Shannon Roberts
Assistant Professor Shannon Roberts of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department has received a UMass ADVANCE Faculty Fellow position for the 2021-2022 academic year. Advance Fellows partner with the UMass ADVANCE leadership team to promote gender equity for faculty at UMass. The UMass ADVANCE program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in order to generate gender and racial equality for faculty in science and engineering.
Xian Du & Meghan Huber
Xian Du and Meghan Huber of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department have been selected to be Panel Fellows in the 2021 cohort of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation’s (CMMI) Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation (CGCA).
Paul Hirsh
Paul Hirsh, a student in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department who is working as a laboratory intern, has won a Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award. Hirsh will also be returning to the MIE department in the fall of 2021 as a graduate student. As a Scanlon recipient this year, Hirsh will receive a monetary award of $500 and a certificate documenting his meritorious service to the university.
