The University of Maryland Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle (AMAV) team beat out 10 fellow competitors in the final round of NIST’s First Responder UAS Indoor Challenge to bring home the grand prize and $150K. They also scored four out of six Best-in-Class awards.

To address the unique challenges of flying indoors, the team developed an incredibly agile and compact drone—dubbed Gambit—that used an advanced onboard sensing system enabling it to fly without the use of GPS.
On July 30, Arnaud Trouvé will take over as chair of UMD's Department of Fire Protection Engineering. Trouvé, an internationally recognized expert in fire dynamics, joined UMD in 2001. Since then, his commitment to teaching and research excellence, energy for expanding the department, and focus on student success have played a major role in growing the international reputation of fire protection engineering at Maryland.
Research at UMD's Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) is revolutionizing the energy-guzzling inner workings of forced air that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions—like heat pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, and refrigerants—making them smaller, lighter, more efficient, and renewable. CEEE has been a research partner for top refrigeration manufacturers and international and federal agencies.
Come meet Clark School Dean Samuel Graham, Jr., and engineering faculty, staff, and students, at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference being held June 25–28, 2023 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Maryland will showcase a variety of impressive student research projects and present a technical session on the Engineering for US All (e4usa) educational program, and UMD President Darryll Pines will give a plenary talk on Monday, June 26.
UMD has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to receive approximately $3.5 million in federal funds to help improve the efficiency of cooling systems used in data centers. The award is part of a major DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) endeavor aimed at reducing the environmental impact of data centers, which include the network servers and associated equipment at many organizations.