Summer 2025 Quarterly Newsletter
Author: Terri Downing
Exploring Wind Energy at SENGI
The 2025 Summer Engineering Institute (SENGI) brought 63 high school students to the UMass Amherst campus for two weeks to learn more about engineering. Students participated in a mix of problem solving challenges, hands-on activities, and lectures. Every afternoon students …
Student Spotlight: Arash Khojaste, UMass Amherst
Meet the students of ARROW! Arash Khojaste, PhD student in Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst, talks about how his research addresses the challenges of the intermittent nature of wind, helping to make wind energy a more reliable sustainable energy source.
Student Spotlight: Max Raha, Northeastern University
Meet the students of ARROW! Here, Max Raha, first year PhD student in Structural Engineering at Northeastern University, talks about how he became interested in studying wind energy, how he’s applying his structural engineering background to the study of blade …
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ARROW Faculty Umberto Ciri awarded NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Umberto Ciri (University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez – Mechanical Engineering) has received the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation for his project titled: Coupled air-sea dynamics in offshore wind turbine flows with complex bathymetry. …
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Student Spotlight: Andie Painten, UMass Dartmouth
Meet the students of ARROW! Andie Painten is a Master’s student in Fisheries Oceanography and a Research Technician at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science and Technology. Andie is researching the impact of offshore wind on black sea bass.
ARROW Faculty Emmanuel Branlard’s project selected for OESI funding
The Ocean Energy and Safety Institute (OESI) awarded Dr. Emmanuel Branlard, Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst, a $304,951 grant to conduct research on the project titled, “Health monitoring of offshore wind turbines using physics-based digital …
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Student Spotlight: Ryan Cameron, UMass Amherst
ARROW student Ryan Cameron, 2nd Year PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering at UMass Amherst, discusses how his interest in wind energy developed.
Emeritus Professor Jim Manwell appointed Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at UMass Amherst
ARROW is pleased to announce that Emeritus Professor Jim Manwell will be joining the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Adjunct Professor. Manwell was the founding director of the UMass Amherst Wind Energy Center, and …
ARROW sponsors 2025 INORE Symposium
ARROW Center Director Sanjay Arwade with Jackson Wills (INORE and UMN) and Kori Groenveld (NOWRDC) at the INORE Symposium at Northeastern University on June 10, 2025. INORE, the International Network on Offshore Renewable Energy is committed to connecting early-stage researchers …