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:

Recent UT Graduate, Researchers Earn Patent for Optics Improvement

November 5, 2019 Alumni & Friends, Faculty, Press Releases, Research Highlights Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Optics, ORNL

Key Points Optics help drive scientific exploration, from nanoscopic levels to telescopes A UT-led team has made a breakthrough allowing […]

Information regarding 3rd Annual Workshop & Symposium on Organizational and Workforce Requirements for the Future

Mayor Jacobs, CEOs Coming to UT to Discuss Workforce Development

October 17, 2019 Event, Faculty, Press Releases, Research Highlights Center for Advanced Systems Research and Education, Industrial and Systems Engineering, workforce

What the needs, skills, and demands of the workforce of the future will look like is one of the biggest […]

A Delicate Balance: Jin Aims for Global Food Sustainability

October 14, 2019 Faculty, In The News, Research Highlights Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mingzhou Jin

The interconnected global economy means that what happens in one area can have a profound effect elsewhere, affecting such important […]

Keppens Elected to University Materials Council Leadership Board

October 9, 2019 Faculty, Press Releases, Research Highlights

Established with the goal of helping academic programs and researchers in materials science share knowledge and best practices, the University […]

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 […]

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