Category Archives: Research Highlights

As the depth and breadth of the Tickle College of Engineering’s faculty quality and capabilities of our facilities have grown, the college’s research portfolio has diversified. From developing alternative treatments for heart-valve disease to improving nuclear safety and efficiency, some of the more recent TCE research ventures include:

UT to Get Cutting-Edge Supercomputer Under Landmark Award with IBM

September 12, 2019 Faculty, Press Releases, Research Highlights IBM, Mark Dean, Michela Taufer, Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Supercomputing

UT’s Tickle College of Engineering has announced an agreement with IBM that includes the award of high-performance computing hardware […]

Device Aims to Reduce Hospital Expenses Related to IV Drug Use

August 5, 2019 Faculty, Featured, Press Releases, Research Highlights Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, Matthew Mench

Matthew Mench worked with hospitals on TEL BOXX to help with the opioid epidemic.

UT’s Metallurgical Expertise Ranked First in US, Sixth in World

August 2, 2019 Press Releases, Research Highlights Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgy, Rankings, Veerle Keppens

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering recently picked up a major recognition as the Academic Ranking of World Universities […]

Faculty Receive Nearly $2.4 Million in Research Grants

July 18, 2019 Faculty, In The News, Research Highlights Jamie Coble, Maik Lang, Nuclear Energy University Program, research grants, Richard Wood

Three Department of Nuclear Engineering faculty members recently received funding from the US DoE’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), which […]

Zhuravleva Earns NSF CAREER Award for Novel Crystal Growth

July 3, 2019 Faculty, Press Releases, Research Highlights, Women in Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Jason Hayward, Mariya Zhuravelva

Getting a job after college is just a mundane next step in life for many. For Mariya Zhuravleva, assistant professor […]

UTRF Inventor Spotlight: Zhili Zhang Sets Lasers to Hypersonic

June 27, 2019 Faculty, Press Releases, Research Highlights Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Zhili Zhang

Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it – unless you’re Associate Professor Zhili Zhang, of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. Zhang […]

Doctoral Student Eric O'Quinn at the Spallation Neutron Source

Partners to the Core

May 20, 2019 Featured, Press Releases, Research Highlights Oak Ridge National Laboratory

UT and ORNL are both known for their nuclear engineering prowess, but their relationship is deeper and broader, impacting many areas of the institutions.