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Weisenberg Named ASME Fluids Engineering Division Graduate Scholar of the Year

Sofy Weisenberg honored as ASME Fluids Engineering Graduate Scholar for her high-performance computing ventricular catheter design.
MABE Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Mechanical engineering student Andrew Orekhov of Morristown, Tennessee, was one of four students awarded a 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Orekhov is interested in robotics for surgery and rehabilitation. He will be researching control techniques for flexible robotic systems in minimally invasive surgery applications. Read more about the fellowship
Department Invites Campus to Attend Senior Design Expo

The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering will host its first senior design expo at Thompson-Boling Arena on April 21, and it is inviting the campus community to attenThe expo, which will be held on the concourse of the arena beginning at 1 p.m., will give seniors a chance to show off some of what they’ve…
Forbes Ranks UT in Top 20 Places to Work in Higher Education

Forbes magazine has named the University of Tennessee in the top 20 places to work in higher education in the United States.
Going the Extra Mile: College of Engineering Spotlights Irick, Melcher

UT’s new Experience Learning showcases Butch Irick & Chuck Melcher, merging hands-on teaching, research and outreach for engineering students.
UT Receives 2016 Camaro for EcoCAR 3 Competition

UT’s EcoCAR 3 team recently received its 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, which they will disassemble and rebuild as a hybrid as part of the EcoCAR 3 national competition.
MABE Faculty Worked on R&D 100 Award Winning Projects

The 2015 R&D 100 Award winners were recently announced and two of MABE’s newest faculty members, Associate Professor Chad Duty and Assistant Professor Brett Compton, worked on two of the award-winning projects. The R&D 100 Awards, sponsored by R&D magazine, are given out each year to recognize advances in the most innovative technologies that will…
Alumni Spotlight: Bob Swann Returns to Graduate School after Retirement

After retiring, Bob Swan returned to the University of Tennessee to pursue a graduate degree in mechanical engineering.
Mench and Sarles Receive UTRF Awards

MABE faculty members Matthew Mench and Andy Sarles were amongst the recipients of UT Research Foundation’s Innovation Awards.
White House Innovation Forum Takes on Tennessee Flavor

More than 10% of attendees at the White House Forum on Connecting Regional Innovation Ecosystems to Labs were from Tennessee.