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Dove Honored with AIAA Ground Testing Best Paper Award
MAE graduate student Drew Dove was the lead author for a paper that received the 2025 Ground Testing Best Paper Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Baruah Places Second at Campus Postdoc Symposium
MAE postdoctoral researcher Sweta Baruah presented her work on advanced manufacturing at the 3rd Annual University of Tennessee Postdoc Research Symposium, winning second place.
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After UT Graduation, Ballard Prepared to Join Air National Guard
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.
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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.
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Building Rockets Launches a Passion for Aerospace Studies
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.
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Dobbs Gives Students ‘Life Changing’ Launch Experience
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.
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Kurr Honored with Trailblazer Award
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…
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Isaacs Selected for Reputable NASA Ames Internship
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…
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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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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…