Faculty
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Hometown Legacy
Lynne Parker, a former student, professor, and leader at UT, has been named the 2025 Nathan W. Dougherty Award winner, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Tickle College of Engineering.
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TCE Representatives Honored at Academic Banquet
Five faculty members and one student from the Tickle College of Engineering were honored at the spring Academic Honors Banquet.
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Asle Zaeem Named MSE Department Head
Mohsen Asle Zaeem has been named the new department head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Tickle College of Engineering.
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Lasting Legacy
After 42 years at the University of Tennessee, Richard Bennett is retiring. Bennett worked in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and engineering fundamentals program.
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Innovative Awards
Four projects spearheaded by Tickle College of Engineering faculty and graduate students have been selected as awardees for this year’s UT Chancellor’s Innovation Fund.
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Fusion Funding
Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Materials and Professor Steve Zinkle is the lead principal investigator of a Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives proposal that will receive $20 million in funding over four years.
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Parker Returns to White House as Executive Director
Lynn Parker, Associate Vice Chancellor Emerita, will serve as the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
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Distinguished Fellows
Professors Sergei Kalinin and Chuck Melcher have been named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), which is the highest distinction awarded solely to inventors.
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Year’s Best Innovator
Vaidya Honored as UTRF’s Innovator of the Year Uday Vaidya, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Advanced Composites Manufacturing Professor, was honored as the Innovator of the Year at the 2024 UT Research Foundation’s Innovation Awards. Vaidya’s pioneering leadership in advanced composites and materials has transformed lightweight, high-performing materials, driving innovation across industries. Vaidya’s work has fostered…
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Building Bridges to England
The University of Tennessee and the University of Sheffield recently signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate research collaborations and promote student and staff exchanges between the institutions.