Accolades: Notable Accomplishments from the TCE Community

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Andrew Gallaher

Here are some recent awards, recognitions, and other accolades from our college’s faculty, students, and staff.

Moeller Receives Awards, Fellowship

Trevor Moeller, UT Space Institute associate professor and graduate program director, mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering, was nominated for the University of Tennessee President’s Award. Earlier this spring, he received the Charles and Julie Wharton Teaching Fellow Award (established in 2016) for superior teaching in the college’s annual Faculty and Staff Awards.

Moeller was also recently selected as a Faculty Fellow in the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Faculty Fellowship Program for this summer. He will spend 10 weeks working on a research project involving a low‐power electric propulsion thruster with his Marshall collaborator, Kurt Polzin.

Read more about Moeller’s President’s Award

Greene Appointed to Committee

David Greene, research professor in civil engineering, received a provisional appointment to the National Academies’ Committee to Review the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report.

ISE Recognized at IISE Annual Conference

Faculty and students from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering earned notice at the 2017 Institute of Industrial and System Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference.

Christopher P. Muir — Harold & Inge Marcus Scholarship
Danika Dorris — Best Operations Research Undergraduate Paper
Mingzhou Jin, professor and associate department head — Outstanding Advisor for the Mid-Atlantic Region

Visit the ISE website

Jingke Mo Receives Chancellor’s 2017 Citation

University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) graduate student Jingke Mo was recently awarded the Chancellor’s 2017 citation for “Extraordinary Professional Promise” at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet.

Nuclear Engineering Students Score Big with ANS and NEUP

Numerous students from the Department of Nuclear Engineering received ANS and NEUP scholarships ans fellowships this spring.

American Nuclear Society (ANS) Scholarship Recipients

Undergraduate Students

Mullin S. Green
Sophomore Undergraduate
Kalie Knecht
Undergraduate (Junior/Senior)
Austin F. Saint-Vincent
ANS Joseph Naser HFIC Division Undergraduate Scholarship
Andrew V. Volkovitskiy
Operations and Power Division Scholarship
Gavin K. Ridley
Rudy Stamm’ler Undergraduate Reactor Physics Scholarship

Graduate Students

Rachel N. Gaudet
James F. Schumar Scholarship
Jessica L. Bishop
Robert E. Uhrig Graduate Scholarship
Fan Zhang
Vogt Radiochemistry Scholarship
Austin D. Mullen
John C. Wagner
John and Muriel Landis Scholarships
Christopher J. Haseler
Washington, DC Local Section Undergraduate Scholarship

Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP) 2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients

Fellowship:

Jessica Bishop
Devon Drey

Scholarship:

Abdullah Al-Fadhili
Trey Augustine
Amanda Bachmann
Parker Forehand
Travis Greene
Christopher Haseler
Matthew Herald
Kalie Knecht
Peyton Laura
Jonathan Mitchell
Gavin Ridley
Harrison Smith
Andrew Volkovitskiy

UTSI Staff Service Awards

Several staff members of the University of Tennessee Space Institute’s (UTSI) were recognized at the institute’s Service Award Recognition Luncheon. This annual event honors faculty and staff as they reach milestones in their employment with the Space Institute.