COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
WE’RE ALL CONNECTED
At the University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, we’re not just solving for x. We’re part of a bigger equation— and our community reflects that. Our students view each other as collaborators, not competitors. Our professors partner with students to help them achieve their goals. And everything we teach has meaningful applications throughout our community and around the globe. No matter the problem, and no matter the answer, we’re always solving for humankind.
SOLVING FOR OUR PLANET’S FUTURE We’re asking real-world questions in Vermont that point toward better ways for the entire planet. From our local groundwater to our national electric grid, we’re all connected. For our college’s faculty, that’s more than a simple truth. It’s a call to action, driving research in the lab and in the field to find cleaner, greener, safer ways.
HERE’S WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
>| Building a smart electric grid with new algorithms to smooth out the supply of renewable electricity.
>| Applying advanced mathematics to find elusive, toxic methane leaks in underground wells.
>| Monitoring stream bank erosion to better understand and control phosphorous pollution, critical to the health of Lake Champlain.
Where sustainable meets smart.
>| Building sophisticated sensor systems— including ground-penetrating radar— to help cities remotely monitor and map water pipes and gas lines, to prevent failures and waste.
Assistant Professor Appala Raju Badireddy is an expert in environmental nanotechnology, exploring high-tech sustainable solutions in the treatment and reuse of water.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program provides stipends for students to engage in research working directly with CEMS faculty. The most important quality you bring is your eagerness to learn.
SOLVING FOR HUMAN HEALTH Malaria and Chagas disease. They make millions of people sick. Our researchers and students apply new modeling techniques to attack these ancient killers. Working side-by-side with global partners, they’re making fundamental breakthroughs— using advanced mathematics and our on-campus supercomputers—in understanding how these diseases spread and where best to stop them. This work is one example of the many ways UVM CEMS crosses disciplines with medicine and the health and life sciences to find innovative approaches to vexing problems.
Professor Donna Rizzo is a disease modeling expert, with research applications from medical imaging to groundwater contamination. She often instructs with practical lessons from her “past life” working as an engineer in the field. A 2014 recipient of UVM’s top teaching award, she says, “I’m always trying to foster a place where people feel comfortable asking questions.”
At UVM, we leverage a rare proximity of our Larner College of Medicine, medical center, engineering building, and new STEM Center, all within a couple of minutes’ walk. Location creates opportunity. Our biomedical engineering program prepares students for one of the fastest growing corners of the field. Increasing numbers of technologies and applications to medical equipment and devices will require the services of biomedical engineers. UVM students and faculty are working together to create new biomaterials capable of healing punctured lungs and treating cancer, and applying sensor technology to study body mechanics with the goal of better rehabilitation and outcomes for joint replacement patients.
During her time in the Biomedical Engineering program Sierra McConnell ‘19 has built an EKG machine from scratch and designed a working spirometer. McConnell has also ventured out of the lab and into the biomedical workforce. Through her internship with Technical Services Partnership, a division of UVM focused on medical technology, she authored a report on cybersecurity recommendations for medical devices that she presented to the cybersecurity board at UVM. The experience gave her a solid foundation into “how engineers play a crucial role in the safe delivery of medical care to patients.”
SOLVING FOR A COMPLEX WORLD In this emerging world driven by Big Data, UVM faculty are using the power of mathematics to find new answers. And because we’re committed to teaching, as well as research, our students get to learn from and collaborate with leaders in the field. The MassMutual Center of Excellence for Complex Systems and Data Science initiates research projects and programs aimed at better understanding human wellness through data analytics, as well as programming to cultivate a strong pipeline of data science talent. The new center provides students with the opportunity to gain deeper insights into data assets, publish their findings, and ultimately identify trends in health and wellness to help people live healthier lives.
Leading the world’s understanding of evolutionary robotics. Josh Bongard is building machines that learn, digging deep into the nature of cognition.
Understanding crime networks to better fight them. Math can help take down a kingpin. Puck Rombach’s work with network theory suggests better law enforcement strategies in the fight against organized crime.
Reliably integrating renewable energy. The research of Mads Almassalkhi, Jeff Frolik, and Paul Hines led to the founding of the new company, Packetized Energy. The startup is building off of years of R&D in the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering department and commercializes advanced energy management technology for transforming the way the world uses and stores electricity.
GOING BEYOND “We want everyone to feel welcome here in NSBE. Everyone,” says Elyon Eyimife, an electrical engineering major and the vice-president of UVM’s National Society of Black Engineers(NSBE). “And as the UVM community works to increase the diversity on campus, I feel like our club has something to give: a comfortable space. We want to welcome everyone and we want our club members to really be part of this community, to make a good home here.” No matter your passion, you’ll find a club or research that helps you connect with friends and gain years of real work experience before you graduate.
find the value around you
SOME OF OUR STUDENT CLUBS >
Mentored by faculty and working collaboratively with peers, our students put skill and innovation to the test and on display at annual events such as Engineering Design Night, the Computer Science Fair, and a campus-wide research fair. Projects run the gamut from mining for ice on the moon with NASA to designing a better golf club. It’s another chance for students to build their resumes and networks before graduation.
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Alternative Energy Racing Organization (AERO)
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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Baja - Society of Automotive Engineers
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Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
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CS Crew
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Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
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Engineering World Health (EWH)
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Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Math Club
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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The Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
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The Society of Women in Computer Science (SWiCS)
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Statistics and Data Science Club
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Tau Beta Pi
Many of our faculty do unique research for NASA and our students intern with the agency over the summer. In 2018, UVM was one of just 11 university teams chosen to design systems and technologies that enhance the agency’s ability to explore deep space. Students find opportunities to work with NASA thanks to support from the Vermont Space Grant Consortium.
WHAT COMES AFTER
your career
The thing about “what comes after” is this—“after” starts now. Your courses, many of them with a service-learning focus, connect you with real-world applications. Your professors, who welcome you to their research teams, are your first professional mentors. Your friends, working on group projects or joining forces in student clubs and competitions, are your first colleagues. Your new home in Burlington, a hub for technology and innovation, is ripe with internship opportunities. It all adds up to making post-college life a part of everyday college life. Our Career Readiness Program will help you graduate with a broad array of experiences, a keen sense of your interests and strengths, and a path for where you want to go with your degree.
BURLINGTON, A HOTBED FOR START-UPS AND ESTABLISHED COMPANIES LIKE BURTON SNOWBOARDS, PROVIDES STUDENTS AMPLE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES.
ALUMNI SUCCESS Milo Werner ‘02 is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with portfolio companies on the productization and industrialization of new hardware technologies. The civil and environmental engineering grad has also held leadership roles at Fitbit and Tesla Motors.
A statistics major at UVM, Zack Scott ’99 has built a career on the leading edge of sports analytics as the Boston Red Sox’s vice president for baseball research and development.
% 97
of our graduates are employed or continuing their education six months after graduation
After earning her bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from UVM in 2015, Flora Su completed her Master’s of Engineering at MIT in 2018. She currently is an engineer with the multidisciplinary consulting firm GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
BURLINGTON, VERMONT
AN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
Long a home to the entrepreneurial spirit, Burlington is becoming known as a center for emerging technologies,
“Top 10 Tech Hub”
—Forbes
promising start-ups,and a thriving maker culture at the intersection of science, technology and art. Local companies like NRG Systems, Microstrain and Dealer.com are leaders in their respective fields of wind energy, robotics, and automotive e-commerce.
TO MARKET. The idea for inTACT — a set of tactile graphics drawing tools that brings learning, creativity and fun to the blind
“10 Most Inventive States”
—CNN Money
and visually impaired — grew out of a senior engineering design project by mechanical engineering major Joshua Coffee ‘11. Today, Coffee is president of the company that he cofounded with his former professors, and in 2015, they won a $1 million tech transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health.
“Silicon Valley in Vermont”
—The Atlantic
On campus, we’re turning up the dial on opportunities to innovate. Students:
>| Live in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship learning community.
>| Submit an idea to the Catamount Innovation Fund, which supports student entrepreneurs with resources to build their business venture.
>| Intern at the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, UVM’s co-working space.
Cullen Jemison ’19, a major in electrical engineering and minor in computer science, won the LaunchVT Collegiate competition as a first-year student. In his senior year, Jemison is the president of the Alternative Energy Racing Organization (AERO).
HIGH-TECH HOME BASE You’re joining UVM at an incredibly exciting time for STEM students. We’ve transformed our facilities with a renovation of our home in Votey Hall and the addition of a brand new, stateof-the-art STEM complex, the largest construction project in our 226-year history.
Here, you’ll learn in next generation classrooms, designed for active learning. You’ll do research in newly renovated teaching labs, with opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in nanotechnology, wearable sensors, and app development. And you’ll seamlessly bridge the disciplines, sharing space with faculty across the STEM fields to tackle the world’s problems collaboratively.
COLLEGE OF
THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING
INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING PRO GR AMS
ABET – Accredited Programs B.S. Civil Engineering B.S. Electrical Engineering B.S. Environmental Engineering B.S. Mechanicial Engineering
Engineering
MATHEMATICAL B.A. Engineering B.S. Engineering
B.S. Engineering Management
ABET – Accreditation Expected in 2020 B.S. Biomedical Engineering
SCIENCES D E PA RT M E N T O F CO M P U T E R S C I E N C E
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
B.S. Computer Science
B.S. Mathematical Sciences, Major in Mathematics
B.S. Computer Science and Information Systems
B.S. Mathematical Sciences, Major in Statistics
D E PA RT M E N T O F CO M P U T E R S C I E N C E A N D D E PA RT M E N T O F M AT H E M AT I C S A N D STAT I ST I C S
ACCELER ATED MA STER’S
B.S. Major in Data Science
CEMS’ Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) allows talented undergraduates to complete a Master of Science degree in one additional year in the following areas: Civil and Environmental Engineering Complex Systems and Data Science Computer Science Electrical Engineering
Engineering Management Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Statistics Biomedical Engineering
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WHY UVM?
We appreciate the many views and backgrounds that our students bring to the classroom and our open and active curricula allows for numerous pathways toward desired learning outcomes. Graduate and undergraduate students work on cutting edge research with our faculty. Our partners have recognized this, and 97% of our students have jobs or are enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduating from UVM. We invite you to visit and experience our historic and beautiful campus. See for yourself all that Burlington and UVM CEMS have to offer. Check out our interdisciplinary majors, our undergraduate research programs, our student organizations, and the many ways you can engage with UVM and Vermont’s civic-minded community.
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