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Lockheed Martin Helps UT Launch Successful Hypersonics Senior Design Projects
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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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UT Hypersonics Team Captures National Title
The University of Tennessee’s Student Space Technology Association’s (SSTA) Hypersonics Team was crowned a national winner at the 2025 Undergraduate Hypersonic Flight Design Competition, run by the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH). UT beat out a field of several university teams to advance to the semifinal round of eight schools from which UT was selected…
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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…
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Digital Twin Research Recognized at APS Annual Meeting
PhD student Bipin Tiwari, advised by Associate Professor Omer San, won the award for adaptable neural surrogate methods that support digital twin development for reentry vehicles.
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Professional Disc Golfer Graduates with Honors
Harper Thompson balanced his career as a professional disc golfer while studying mechanical engineering at the University of Tennessee. He’s graduating in December with his degree.
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Personal Experience Guides Graduate Student’s Research
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.