MAM Alum Powers Performance at McLaren Racing
by Sarah Redmond. Abhiemanyu Sukumaran ’24 (ME) landed his dream job as a Performance Analysis Engineer at McLaren Racing after serving as president of UConn Formula SAE for two years. When Abhiemanyu Sukumaran ’24 (ENG) attended his first virtual meeting for UConn Formula SAE, he had no idea it would redefine his future. What began […]
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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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