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MABE Students Compete in NASA’S Mars Ice Challenge for Second Time

UT engineering students are finalists in NASA’s Mars Ice Challenge with a machine designed to extract water from subsurface ice.
Rocketry Team Taking Part in NASA Competition

Engineering students from our department have been selected to participate in NASA’s Student Launch Competition.
UT Plans $129 Million, 228,000-Square- Foot Engineering, Research Facility

UT is set to build a $129M, 228,000-sq-ft facility with cutting-edge classrooms and research space for engineering students and faculty
UT, Harvard, Penn Team Up on Major Materials Breakthrough

A team of researchers have taken inspiration from mantis shrimp to create 3D printed reinforced materials with controlled fiber arrangements.
Boyd Venture Challenge Awards Funding to Two Student Startups

Two students from our department were awarded substantial earnings in the Boyd Venture Challenge competition for their startups.
UTSI Students Receive Awards at the 2017 AIAA Young Professionals Symposium

Students from UTSI were honored with awards at the 2017 AIAA Young Professionals Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
Astronaut Walt Cunningham Apollo: “The Golden Age of Spaceflight”

UTSI hosted Astronaut Walter Cunningham to speak about the Apollo space program and his experience going into space.
Engineering Student Earns STEM Conference Award

Engineering student Jasmine Worlds received the Student Leadership Award at the Women of Color STEM Conference.
Lady Ice Vol and MABE Senior Tackles a Male-Dominated Sport

Ice Vols goalie Mia Becker came to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a transfer from Boston University, where she played goalie for a division 1 hockey team. “I decided to transfer to a school where I could pursue engineering and still have hockey, just not as much as a time commitment, so I came…
First School Visits UTSI’s New Observatory

Fifth grade students from East Lincoln Elementary School in Tullahoma, TN visited UTSI to see the new new solar observatory.