Assistant Professor Yanfei Xu of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department has been selected to serve as one of the UMass Amherst ADVANCE Faculty Fellows for 2020-2021. Xu and other ADVANCE Faculty Fellows will focus on Inclusion and Equity Amid COVID-19.
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Frank Sup (l) & Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi (r)
Principal Investigator Frank Sup and Co-Principal Investigator Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been awarded a three-year, $749,043 grant (Award number: 2024409) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Robotics Initiative to study a pioneering “Underwater Robot Gait Training System.”
Sundar
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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.
Wen Chen (MIE) is PI on a three-year, $345,470 NSF grant to investigate microscale residual stresses in additively manufactured stainless steel. Additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, could be a key technology for the manufacture of stainless-steel engineering components in automotive, aerospace, defense, biomedical, and other industries if certain “disruptive” aspects can be alleviated.
Jae-Hwang Lee
Assistant Professor Jae-Hwang Lee of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department is the principal investigator for UMass Amherst on a three-year, $700,000 project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), to develop pioneering high-performance materials required by many of the world’s most significant industries. Lee is collaborating on the NSF project with Rutgers University principal investigator Professor Jonathan Singer and co-principal investigator Assimina Pelegri.
Woodrow Winchester
Woodrow W Winchester III, a senior lecturer and director of engineering management in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department, has registered a couple of notable achievements recently. First, he was invited to be a fellow in the second cohort of the National Science Foundation-funded Aspire Alliance’s Institutional Change Network IAspire Leadership Academy. Then, Fast Company published an enlightening article written by Winchester addressing racial bias in the design of emerging technologies.
Erin Baker
Erin Baker – a professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, an associate dean in the College of Engineering, and director of the Wind Energy Fellows – was recently the subject of a May 4 article in the newsletter of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).
