
“A lot of our engineering alumni, and alumni across UT are familiar with the car,” said Tickle College of Engineering Dean Wayne Davis, who took classes at Estabrook as a student in the early 1970s.

Since a lot of the University of Puerto Rico’s work in biology and microbiology depended on a steady supply of power, destruction of the power grid brought activity to virtual standstill.

“There are a lot of good things that can be accomplished when groups of people work together,” said Duty. “The sky is the limit.”

A drone is the first device Zhao, graduate students Reza Abiri and Soheil Borhani, and undergraduate Justin Kilmarx, have demonstrated the ability to pilot using brainwaves, and they are amazing spectators who have the opportunity to see them make the drone fly without a normal hand-held controller.

Under CEE guidance, The Tennessee Water Resources Research Center and the Town of Farragut are working together to identify, locate, and assess the different stormwater structures that are owned by the town. The multi-year project is a phased effort that will canvas Farragut’s different residential communities.

“I think it’s cool that we are influencing these guys who then influence the next generation of military personnel,” said Hall. “I think this is the sort of thing a land grant university ought to be doing.”

The college has made a dramatic impact on NASA’s mission and we would like to share some of the highlights in celebration of Randy Bresnik’s safe return to Earth.

“I’ve been in love with the water all my life and have been diving for most of it. Once I saw them at work I decided right there on the spot that I was going to be a Navy diver,” Weber said.

“At some point, we may get to a place where autonomous vehicle operation is the norm,” said Clarke. “But I think it’s going to take a while for us to get there.”