SDASL News

Mechanical engineering senior Deborah Fowler and chemical engineering senior Erin Shaughnessey have each won a 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation.

Matthew A. Beaton, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs visited SDASL on April 18, 2017

The SDASL Lab attended the 35th International Modal Analysis Conference where nine students presented papers along with other papers and presentations by faculty.

UMass Lowell has presented its highest honor to Nobel laureate and former U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu for his contributions to the pursuits of clean energy and solutions to climate change.

Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Tina Dardeno ’14, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, is developing a non-contact, non-invasive method for monitoring the insertion and seating of cementless femoral implants in real-time.

Mechanical engineering Prof. Christopher Niezrecki and Asst. Prof. Murat Inalpolat are among the researchers from eight academic and research institutions across the state who have received grants from the Commonwealth totaling nearly $700,000 to advance offshore wind energy research and development.

Peter Avitabile was invited to participate in the committee for the doctoral defense for the thesis entitled “Experimental Dynamic Substructuring Analysis and Design Strategies for Vehicle Development” by Maarten Vincent van der Seijs at the TU Delft in the Netherlands.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Peter Avitabile recently received more than $425,000 in funding from Eglin Air Force Base to help improve the efficiency of the bunker buster’s conventional fuze.

The SDASL always makes a significant set of presentations at this international conference every year.

Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Lab and it's UMass Lowell graduates performed testing on the propulsion system for the DDG-1000.

The SDASL Lab attended the 33rd International Modal Analysis Conference where seven students presented papers along with other papers and presentations by faculty.

The SDASL Lab attended the 32nd International Modal Analysis Conference where six students presented 10 papers.

The SDASL Lab attended the 30th International Modal Analysis Conference where 10 students presented 17 papers.