Faculty

Faculty, Staff, and Students Honored at MAE Awards Banquet

On April 30, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering hosted its annual awards banquet to celebrate the achievements of its outstanding faculty, staff, and students.
UT Selected for EcoCAR Innovation Challenge

niversity of Tennessee has been selected to participate in the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge, a four-year collegiate competition aimed at developing next-generation, energy-efficient and intelligent mobility solutions using emerging technologies. Administered by Argonne National Laboratory, the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge is the 15th installment of the Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC) series. The challenge aspires to push innovation and develop the future automotive workforce. UT was one of 20 universities from across North America selected for the latest…
Trinh, Zhang Awarded Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards

Professors Cong Trinh and Feng-Yuan Zhang have received Chancellor’s Innovation Fund awards for projects involving the biomanufacturing of natural butyl acetate and the development of a new electrode technology.
Biomimetics Progress Gains International Attention

Sarles Speaks in Switzerland Three years ago, Andy Sarles embarked on a $4 million grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research to push the frontiers of biotechnological integration. “Our main goal is to understand how to design new types of sensing and computing technologies from material interfaces that can process information the same way the cells in…
Advancing Hydrogen Generation and Energy Storage Through Next-Generation Electrolyzers

MAE Professor Feng-Yuan Zhang and Research Assistant Professor Weitian Wang are re-engineering the proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer to its electrode core.
TerMaath Awarded AIAA ICME Prize for Groundbreaking Research

Associate Professor Stephanie TerMaath was part of a multi-disciplinary project that received the 2026 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Prize for groundbreaking work on adhesively bonded composite and metallic joints, which are critical for naval and aerospace applications. The AIAA ICME Prize is a biennial award given to the best aerospace-focused ICME project. TerMaath was honored at the AIAA SciTech award ceremony in January for…
Singh Named Associate Editor of ASME Journal

Assistant Professor Prashant Singh has been named an associate editor for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications. The bimonthly journal focuses on the dissemination of information of permanent interest in applied thermal sciences and engineering, emphasizing new and emerging technologies, significant questions, pressing problems and concerns, and new methods and approaches that can be applied to industrial…
Compton Highlights Physics Priorities of Direct-Ink Writing in Top Journal

Writing the Future of 3D Printing Stewart McCorkle Faculty Fellow Brett G. Compton coauthored a comprehensive review on the physics of direct-ink writing (DIW), a highly versatile type of 3D printing, which was published on January 5th in Volume 58 of the journal Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is the world’s most impactful research journal covering fluid physics…
Kanhere Acquires Critical Analysis Tool Through Raffle Win

Assistant Professor Sagar Kanghere acquired a state-of-the-art thermal analysis tool to accelerate research in polymers and composites.
Baccarella Elected AIAA Associate Fellow

Assistant Profesor Damiano Baccarella was elected to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow: Class of 2026