Much has changed about our college and the UT campus since I started here as an electrical engineering student in 1975. When I returned in 2013 as a faculty member, the Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building had just opened. Today, we also have the John D. Tickle building and just broke…

Tickle College of Engineering alumnus Gabriel Balas was selected to lead the Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB).
Katie Schuman is working on applying the principles of the human brain and turning those principles into the next generation of supercomputers.
The UT Board of Trustees approved the naming of the Heath Integrated Business and Engineering Program in recognition of alumnus Ralph Heath.
Leslie Benmark was named the recipient of the 2018 Nathan W. Dougherty Award at the college’s Faculty and Staff Awards Dinner.
The University of Tennessee Board of Directors voted to rename the college the John D. Tickle College of Engineering.
When Hash Hashemian, then a recent nuclear engineering graduate, and then-department head Tom Kerlin co-founded Analysis and Measurement Services in 1977, their main goal was to provide the nuclear energy industry with a reliable source of testing and problem solving. In the years since, AMS has become a globally recognized leader in nuclear energy and…
A recent night of recognition for outstanding achievement for the College of Engineering culminated with James B. Porter Jr. receiving the Nathan W. Dougherty Award—the college’s highest honor—at the Holiday Inn World’s Fair on Thursday, April 9, 2015, during the college’s annual Faculty and Staff Awards Dinner. College faculty, staff, and current and former Board…
With a career that spans more than 70 countries and more than two decades, she is hoping to instill some of the leadership qualities and responsibility her time in the military taught her.
2014 Faculty & Staff Awards Winners Named The University of Tennessee College of Engineering gave its most prestigious honor—the Nathan W. Dougherty Award—to industrial engineering graduate W. Dwight Kessel at the college’s annual Faculty and Staff Awards Dinner, held on Thursday, April 3, 2014, at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Knoxville. The awards dinner was…