Category Archives: Accolades

Accolades: Atomic Wings, Beautiful Blades, Many Awards

 March 22, 2019 Accolades, Faculty, Student Success, Women in Engineering Civil Engineering, engineering education, Nuclear Engineering

Hines Does Atomic Wings Nuclear Engineering Department Head Wes Hines spoke about jobs in the nuclear energy field at the […]

Accolades: Meteorology Managed, Scholarships Snagged, Traffic Bowl Won

 March 8, 2019 Accolades, Faculty, Student Success Civil Engineering, Transportation

Meteorologically Speaking with Joshua Fu John D. Tickle Professor Joshua Fu, above, was invited to speak at the Expert Meeting […]

Engineering Vol Helps Governor Declare Limb Loss Awareness Month

 March 4, 2019 Accolades, Student Success, Women in Engineering awareness, governor, limb loss

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee recently issued a proclamation declaring April as Limb Loss Awareness Month in the state of Tennessee. Engineering […]

Accolades: Sarles is in the Spotlight, Taufer is One to Watch, T&T is in business, Busch is in the Band

 March 4, 2019 Accolades, Faculty, Research Highlights, Student Success entrepreneurship, Pride of the Southland Band, research

Sarles Shines in the UTRF Inventor Spotlight Most people don’t walk around thinking about their bodies as a marvel of […]

Mark Dean is the Star of First Grader’s Living History Show

 February 25, 2019 Accolades, Engineering Diversity Programs, Faculty computer science, inspiration, Mark Dean

Malachi Samuel of Houston, Texas, delivered his first-grade living history presentation as Interim Dean and Computing Pioneer Mark Dean. From […]

Accolades: Boggs Brings It for Road Safety, Minneci Minimizes Material Stress

 February 15, 2019 Accolades, Student Success, Women in Engineering Additive Manufacturing, Autonomous Vehicles, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, road safety, Transportation

Boggs Named Outstanding Student for Road Safety Transportation engineering doctoral student Alexandra “Ali” Boggs was recently honored by the Collaborative […]

Accolades: Hines keeps busy, CEE staff gets down to business, faculty and students earn awards & patents

 February 8, 2019 Accolades, Faculty, Research Highlights, Staff, Student Success, Women in Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Nuclear Engineering

Wes Hines Stays Busy Nuclear engineering Department Head Wes Hines, above, is celebrating a number of successes just weeks into […]

Accolades: Super(conductor) Award for Zamperini, Burks-Jelks Speaks for MLK Day, Bennett Makes Journal Cover

 February 1, 2019 Accolades, Staff, Student Success, Women in Engineering Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute

Zamperini Brings Home Super(conductor) Award Shawn Zamperini, graduate research assistant in nuclear engineering, earned best presentation at the 2019 ITER […]

Taufer to Receive 2019 IBM Faculty Award

 January 28, 2019 Accolades, Faculty, Press Releases, Women in Engineering Bredesen Center, computer science, high performance computing, IBM, Innovative Computing Laboratory, Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor Michela Taufer has been selected to receive a 2019 IBM Faculty Award for $20,000. This highly competitive award recognizes […]

Team YNOT Mentors Its Way to International Recognition

 January 25, 2019 Accolades, Student Success Cook Grand Challenges Honors Program, Industrial and Systems Engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics

UT’s Team YNOT is currently ranked second in the world in the 2019 Vex U Competitive Robotics Program’s autonomous-programming and […]