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Our students organizations compete nationally in competitions from building steel bridges to designing prosthetic limbs. The concrete canoe team scored an impressive win at this year’s regional competition organized by the New England student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Learn more about our clubs and organizations.

Hear From Our Students, Alumni & More

  • Brianna Atwood
    Plastics Engineering

    Brianna Atwood came to UMass Lowell to study plastics engineering – but she’s done so much more. The honors student started a volunteer program that connects UML students with a local school. She has also participated in the professional co-op program, working on fire-resistant seals for airplanes.

  • Ariel Shramko
    Environmental Engineering

    Ariel Shramko is growing food for Earth and beyond.

  • Joshua Walsh
    Environmental Engineering

    An honors seminar led Joshua Walsh to design a drinking water system and solar grid for a center in Haiti.

  • Jack Goutier
    Electrical Engineering

    For electrical engineering major Jack Goutier of Attleboro, failure was part of the job during his six-month product safety co-op at Bose Corp.

  • Pablo Ruiz
    Mechanical Engineering and Computer Engineering

    Pablo Ruiz returned to school for a second bachelor’s degree, and he’s going on for his master’s degree, too.

  • Julia Measmer
    Biomedical Engineering

    Julia Measmer’s experiments with spinach led to research with a professor.

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  • Said Siddiqui, John Ohrn and Amelia Halloran crowd around a computer screen.

    13 UMass Lowell Students Join SAIC for Summer Internship Program

    Thirteen UMass Lowell undergraduate students are participating in a paid summer internship program with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a global leader in technology integration and a partner in the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor.
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  • Gallium oxide film and components in a tray

    Professor Wins Prestigious Award for Space Research

    One of the newest members of the university’s electrical engineering faculty, Assistant Professor Anhar Bhuiyan, has won a prestigious seed grant to support his research into better materials for the components that power satellites and unmanned spacecraft.
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  • A man in a graduation cap and gown has a white cord attached to his shoulder by a man in a baseball cap and sunglasses.

    UML’s 2025 Commencement is One for the Ages

    There was a 65-year age gap between the oldest member of UMass Lowell’s Class of 2025, 83-year-old John Doherty, and the youngest members, 18-year-old twins Franzi and Edward Hoene, but the graduates were united by a love of learning and a desire to grow.