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NSF CAREER AND AFOSR/ONR YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDEES (SINCE 1996)

$60M

ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
(JULY 2024)

15

GRAD PROGRAM RANKING
(SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY, PUBLIC UNIV.)

42

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SoMAM Ph.D. Students Showcase Research on Sustainable Product Design at REMADE Institute Annual Meeting

First-year Ph.D. students Mohammad Mundiwala and Aidan Lawlor from UConn’s Reliability Engineering and Informatics Laboratory (REIL) are contributing to the development of sustainable manufacturing solutions through innovative research in product design and remanufacturing. Advised by Dr. Chao Hu, associate professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering within the College of Engineering, the […]

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Meet Dr. Daniele Vivona, Our New Assistant Professor

🎉 Welcome Dr. Daniele Vivona! 🎉 We are excited to welcome Dr. Daniele Vivona as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering and the UConn Center for Clean Energy Engineering at the University of Connecticut! Dr. Vivona’s research explores atom-level energy conversion processes to develop innovative design solutions for ion […]

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MAM Graduate Students Take Top Spot at International ASME Student Hackathon

A team of graduate students from our School of MAM’s Computational Engineering and Design (CEaD) Lab won first place in the Autodesk challenge at the ASME IDETC/CIE 2025 Student Hackathon, held August 10–17 in Anaheim, California. Ph.D. students Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah and Hoang Anh Nguyen, advised by Dr. Hongyi Xu, earned the top spot and […]

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UConn Alum Wins ASME Best Dissertation Award

UConn graduate Zihan Wang (’24 PhD) has been honored with the ASME Design Automation Best Dissertation Award for her groundbreaking research in metamaterials. Her dissertation, “Design, Performance Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis of Metamaterials,” was completed under the guidance of Dr. Hongyi Xu, Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Wang’s […]

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UConn Researchers Win Distinguished ASME Best Paper Award

Prof. Hongyi Xu and Prof. Farhad Imani A team of researchers from UConn has received the 2025 ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Best Paper Award, a national honor given to only one paper each year. The award was presented at the ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and […]

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