Accolades: Notable News for December 4, 2017
Coble Named Southern Company Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor Jamie Coble was awarded the inaugural Southern Company Faculty Fellow award in recognition of her outstanding performance in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. The award is renewable on a competitive basis.
The Southern Company Faculty Fellow was created by the Southern Company in coordination between the college’s Office of Development and Southern Company, represented by Kim Greene, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Greene is a UT engineering alumna. Many UT nuclear engineering graduates are employees at Southern Company and its affiliates, and the company is a major provider of co-op opportunities for Tickle College of Engineering students.
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TerMaath Named Jessie Rogers Zeanah Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor Stephanie TerMaath was named the inaugural Jessie Rogers Zeanah Faculty Fellow in recognition of her outstanding performance in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. The award is renewable on a competitive basis.
The award was created by Eric Zeanah, an industrial engineering alumnus, and named in honor of his mother, who inspired her sons to reach for their goals in education, business, and life. Zeanah is a current member of the college’s Board of Advisors and contributes often and in many ways to the college’s success.
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Alshibli Contributes Photos to Arabic Space Museum in Kuwait
Research photos taken by CEE Professor Khalid Alshibli for his geotechnical research will be used as part of a permanent visual display at a world-class space museum currently under construction in the Al-Sha’ab district of Kuwait City, Kuwait.
The photos depict macroscopic images of the lunar regolith simulant, which was created to mimic the geotechnical properties of lunar regolith, since actual lunar soil is not available to most researchers due to the small collection samples brought from Apollo missions.
Congratulations to CURENT’s 2017-2018 PES Scholar Recipients
Eleven students from CURENT partner universities received PES Scholarships for the 2017-2018 year. A total of 210 PES Scholarship recipients were selected from the 548 individuals who applied for the scholarship.
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Hairong Qi Named an IEEE Fellow
Hairong Qi was elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2018. She was recognized “for contributions to collaborative signal processing in sensor networks.”
Jiani Tan Receives A&WMA Scholarship
Environmental engineering doctoral student Jiani Tan was awarded one of two A&WMA (Air & Waste Management Association) Southern Section PhD. Scholarships for the 2017-18 academic year.
Tan was invited to speak at the Southern Section Annual Conference in Nashville on September 20-21 and gave a brief summary of her current and past research on air pollution modeling.
Fraser Earns IEEE Fellowship
Ryan Fraser received a Life Members Graduate Study Fellowship in Electrical Engineering during a ceremony on 17 November in Phoenix, Arizona. Fraser is a UT graduate research assistant pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering.