India, March 23 -- The UMass Amherst College of Engineering has announced the 10 recipients of its 2024 Outstanding Alumni Awards (OAA) representing each of the college's five departments.

Visionary leaders in their field, the six 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 year's Distinguished Alumni Award honorees are:

Ron Kraus '94, mechanical engineering, awarded by biomedical engineering, Syner-G BioPharma Group

Carrie Lavallee '03, civil Engineering, MassDOT Highway

Imona Om...