4+1 MS Program Informational Dinner

Join the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering as it hosts an informational session for current UMass students. At this event, you can learn more about the MIE 4+1 M.S. graduate program.

When: February 13th 2019

Where: Gunness Student Center, Marcus Hall

Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/GzzDYKvcOcIWbp9v1

Three Engineering Professors Help Craft Influential Report on Offshore Wind Energy

Inside UMass reports that three members of the College of Engineering faculty have contributed to a seminal white paper issued by the Partnership for Offshore Wind Energy Research (POWER-US). The report (“Reaching Convergence in U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Research: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Innovation”) concludes that the U.S. can tap into a vast offshore wind energy resource and better steward its marine environment by organizing large-scale research and fostering public-private partnerships.

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UMass Engineers Garner Outstanding Paper Award from Transportation Research Board

outstanding paper awardees and Transportation Research Board members

Researchers from the UMass College of Engineering and the University of Waterloo in Canada won the outstanding paper award at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on January 15. The winning paper describes their research into virtual-reality headsets to simulate and measure drivers’ hazard-anticipation performance. As the authors say, such research is desirable because virtual headsets are “several orders of magnitude less expensive” than other simulators and “could greatly extend the powers of simulation.

TransPharm Startup Will Provide Over-the-Counter Medicine 24/7/365 with Life-saving Vending Machines

Four engineering and computer science students have conceived a startup company with the goal of circulating life-saving vending machines that can dispense over-the-counter medicine 24 hours a day to anyone with a pressing ailment, such as fever, diarrhea, indigestion, or aches and pains. The team called TransPharm will be competing in at least two entrepreneurship competitions in the coming weeks, and has already been selected as a finalist in one.

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