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The UMass Amherst College of Engineering is proud to announce the recipients of its 2023 Outstanding Alumni Awards (OAA). Awardees represent the colleges five departments and include five distinguished alumni and five outstanding young alumni.

Visionary leaders in their field, recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award have reached exceptional levels of professional and personal achievement. This award recognizes distinguished leadership, service, teaching, innovation and other exemplary accomplishments that positively impact society and the engineering profession. This years Distinguished Alumni Award honorees are:

Emerging leaders in the early stages of their careers, recipients of Outstanding Young Alumni Award are generally no more than ten years out from receiving their UMass engineering Ph.D. or no more than fifteen years out from receiving their UMass engineering undergraduate degree. This award recognizes outstanding professional and personal achievements and highlights the recipients ambitions and potential to positively impact UMass, the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world.

This years Outstanding Young Alumni Award honorees are:

These gifted alumni bring tremendous pride and distinction to the College of Engineering and the broader UMass community.

Several recipients of this years awards remained in Massachusetts after graduating from UMass, and have established themselves as engineering leaders within the Commonwealth. Arnaz Malhi serves as director of strategicoperations technical development at Moderna, the Cambridge-based biotechnology company; Andrew C. Sousa is the manager of hardware engineering for American Robotics, a Boston-area commercial developer of drone systems; and, in his role as a Principal for Boston-based Thornton Tomasetti, Peter J. Quigley is currently working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MITs Plasma Science and Fusion Center to develop SPARC, a compact, high-field, net fusion energy device.

In addition, several of this years recipients maintain close ties to the College of Engineering. For example, Nilesh Shah serves as the chair of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Chemical Engineering Department. And Paul Banks met his wife Nancywho is also an engineerwhile they were students together at UMass. He has served on the MIE Industry Advisory Board for 15 years and currently serves as its co-chair. In addition, he has hired over 25 UMass Amherst graduates over the course of growing his company, B2Q Associates, an Andover, Massachusetts-based independent engineering consulting firm that specializes in the design of high-tech and industrial projects.

The OAA recipients will be celebrated during an invitation-only event in the Old Chapel on Thursday, May 11.

Learn more about their accomplishments at: https://www.umass.edu/engineering/OAA-2023

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