
Connor Murphy was born with a genetic disease that inspired him to study engineering at the University of Tennessee. Murphy was just awarded a graduate research fellowship from NSF.

New Y-12 Collaboration Has ‘Transformational’ Potential A new enhanced collaboration between the University of Tennessee and Y-12 National Security Complex will lead to career-enhancing opportunities for Tickle College of Engineering students and provide access to world-class facilities at a level never seen before at UT. Officials with UT and Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages and operates…

UT alumnus James Weber was selected to join the department’s Hall of Fame for his expertise in hypersonics.
The Southeastern Advanced Machine Tools Network hosted its first annual symposium at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) held its annual awards banquet on Thursday, April 24, to honor the department’s outstanding alumni, students, staff, and faculty. It was a momentous event as it marked the last banquet with the mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical programs celebrating together. Biomedical becomes its own independent department in…

Norman Rivera and Peyton Whitehead work for Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based company that recently completed a lunar landing mission.
Prashant Singh has been selected to receive the 2025 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer.
MABE students and professors were recognized with an Outstanding Paper Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ground Testing Technical Committee.

Kenneth D. Kihm received the Distinguished Engineering Project Achievement Award at the 70th anniversary of the National Engineers’ Council.
Asters has been accepted into the fourth cohort of the Transform accelerator for data science and AI startups by the University of Chicago.