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Vote for UMass IGERT Offshore Wind Energy Program

Principal Investigator Erin Baker of the UMass IGERT Offshore Wind Energy Program has an urgent message for the entire College of Engineering Community: “We are in the top five vote-getters [out of over 200] in the NSF video poster contest. Please watch the video, hit the public choice button, and vote for us. If you have already voted, share this with other people to show the great work happening at UMass!” Today (May 23)  is the final day to vote. This year’s IGERT Online Video and Poster Competition is now live, and this is your last chance to interact with over 200 presenters and co-presenters from 124 NSF funded IGERT projects as they present their innovative, interdisciplinary, graduate work. To vote for the UMass Offshore Wind IGERT video – “Offshore Wind in the Caribbean” – click on: http://posterhall.org/igert2013/posters/389  

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Balasubramanian’s CAREER Award Aims to Improve Primary Care Delivery

Hari Balasubramanian of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been issued a $400,000 grant from the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The award represents the 34th NSF CAREER grant issued to faculty members from the UMass College of Engineering, and the fourth during the 2012-2013 academic year. The title of Balasubramanian’s industrial engineering NSF project is “Stochastic Models for Designing the Patient Centered Medical Home in Primary Care.” In essence, the project will streamline the delivery of primary care to patients.

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Engineering Management Minor Gives Graduates a Big Edge

This May, 23 seniors from the College of Engineering who graduated with the UMass Engineering Management Minor began their careers with a huge head start over their peers. As one of them, Adam McNair, put it, “The skills I obtained from the Engineering Management Minor allowed me to excel in my project engineering role [as an intern] at GE Aviation, and aided me in acquiring my fulltime position at ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil hires only engineers for all management positions, and the management minor gives me an invaluable edge over other engineering employees seeking a managerial career path.” In an employment market that increasingly requires engineers to possess a global view of the business world, employers look for engineers who are business savvy and understand their roles in the larger organizational structure.

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