
Alex Ballard is graduating from UT this week with his degree in mechanical engineering. He will be joining the Wisconsin Air National Guard to begin training with the 115th Fighter Wing to fly F-35 fighter jets.

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.

Sophomore Benjamin Atkins has been building rockets since childhood. His passion led him to the University of Tennessee, where he has immersed himself in the aerospace culture.

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…

Seeking to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers at UT to dream big, Joshua Dobbs sponsored a group of students from the Tickle College of Engineering to attend the Artemis II rocket launch.

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.

Meg Buckner (BS/MAE ’24) received the Future Technology Leader Award from the Engineers’ Council during National Engineers Week in Sherman Oaks, California in late February.

Amy Kurr has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Trailblazer Award, which is the highest doctoral student honor conferred by the University of Tennessee. Kurr is pursuing her PhD through the Bredesen Center in Energy Science and Engineering with a focus on polymer engineering. Her research within the Center for Renewable Carbon at the UT Institute of Agriculture focuses on the degradation and decomposition of electrical…

Christian Isaacs (BS/ME ’22; MS/ME ‘25), a fourth-year PhD student in mechanical engineering, has been selected for a prestigious internship at NASA Ames Research Center, where he will be working in the Arc Jet Complex on the second-generation miniature arc-jet research chamber (mARCII). Located in Moffett Field, California, which is 40 miles south of San Francisco, NASA Ames Research Center has led NASA in conducting…

In need of support for a senior design project in hypersonics, UT found an instrumental partner in Lockheed Martin. The relationship has the potential to become a national model for workforce development in the field.