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DeSmidt’s Collaborative Efforts Results in NASA Award

Hans DeSmidt’s team has been honored by receiving the NASA Agency Honor Award for their contributions to vertical flight technology.
UT-Led Hydrogen Research Earns $2 Million Grant

UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are part of a team whose breakthrough in fuel cell and hydrogen technology recently was awarded $2 million in funding from the US Department of Energy. Hydrogen is increasingly recognized as a potential energy carrier with growing applications in vehicles, grid modernization, energy storage, fuel production, metal refining, and…
Crouch Receives Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Award

Dustin Crouch was selected as a scholar for The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Program
UT/IACMI Beam Team Collaborate on Composites for Friendship Bell Park

Uday Vaidya and his team of UT students created the carbon fiber composite beams for the new Friendship Bell Peace Pavilion in Oak Ridge. The team produced the beams over a period of three months from a concept that utilized several manufacturing technologies, including overbraiding carbon fiber and vacuum infusion molding. Vaidya is the UT/ORNL…
UTSI 2018 Summer Research Intern Program Concludes

UTSI hosted their Summer Research Intern Program where students performed research, presented their findings, and wrote reports.
Going Full Throttle

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a plane traveling at hypersonic speed! Anyone familiar with the fictional exploits of Superman knows that part of his super powers is that he is “faster than a speeding bullet.” Thanks to research being done in part by the University of Tennessee’s John Schmisseur, it will soon be…
Croswell and Van Hooser Join MABE Hall of Fame

Bennett Croswell and Katherine Van Hooser have been inducted into our department’s distinguished Hall of Fame.
Lipscomb Academy visits UTSI

Lipscomb Academy students explored ceramics and glass tech as part of the Glass MATE program promoting careers in materials science.
Flandro Announced as 2018 Distinguished Alumni

Gary Flandro is the recipient of the California University of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.
MABE Honors Top Students and Faculty at Banquet

At our annual awards banquet, our top students and faculty members were honored for their exceptional contributions.