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On a Scientific Mission to Mars
UT engineering students led by UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Materials Steve Zinkle are working on overcoming these challenges by peering into “exotic” materials that can withstand extreme environments—as in those created by nuclear-powered thermal propulsion. That’s because one promising approach to get a rocket to Mars and back in a shorter time is by…
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Grant Rigney is UT’s Eighth Rhodes Scholar
Grant Rigney, senior in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has recently been named a 2019 Rhodes Scholars, the eighth in UT’s history.
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Detecting Danger
Nicole McFarlane, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is working on new sensors for diabetics to check their glucose levels.
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Finding the Best Solution
Jim Ostrowski has built a career out of using mathematics and advanced computations and theories to find the solution to having too many solutions.
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Engineering Vols Share a Silicon Valley Experience
A select group of upperclassmen and graduate students met with alumni working in the Silicon Valley.
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Making Space for Makers
The origins of the Innovation and Collaboration Studios trace themselves back to the creation of the Engineering Fundamentals Program.
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Engineering Double Agents
Alumni and students often have passions that parallel their engineering disciplines and follow those passions to great heights.
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Ions: The Good and The Bad
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair William Weber’s work in the Ion Beam Materials Laboratory studies the way ion beams behave as part of a career spanning four decades.
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Built to Last
Students from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering worked with Clayton Homes on a plan to increase manufacturing using LEAN manufacturing.
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Built for the Future
“This building is the latest sign of both our growth and our university’s commitment to providing the best experience possible for our students,” said Dean Wayne Davis. “We will be able to enhance the educational journey of our honors students and our freshmen, and we will finally be able to have our nuclear engineering department…