Global Experiences

With the help of a local contractor, our team of student-engineers constructed six stoves for families that could not afford proper a proper cook stove over the course of four days. Each morning we had the chance to meet a new family and learn their individual stories. At times there was a significant language barrier,…

After a week of hard work studying circuits and learning about the origins of computation, some of us took a day trip to the spectacular Cliffs of Dover. We left early that morning from London, ensuring we had plenty of time to explore the cliffs and town. We ended up finding an “alternate” route to…

When we finally arrived, it was Monday afternoon, August 11, and we were all exhausted from the long flight. A man named Maryan, who did not speak one word of English, picked us up from the airport, and drove us to the village where we were staying, Valea Screzii, founded by the organization Pro Vita.

My trip to Valea Screzii, Romania was my first visit to Europe and was definitely an unforgettable experience. Once we arrived in the village I felt a similarity to home. We were surrounded by mountains everywhere we looked and it reminded me of the Smoky Mountains back in Tennessee.

By the time we got to Romania, it was past midday and fairly warm. We found the driver to take us to our lodgings, piled into an old van, and drove off. We landed in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. It was hot, dirty, the traffic terrible, and advertisements and graffiti littered the buildings. It…

For the week of August 10, 2014, four students from the University of Tennessee College of Engineering went to a village in Romania to help with the construction of a High School dormitory. The four students were Robert Minneci, Jonathan Jones, Kelli Grissom, and I. Jon and I are chemical engineering students, Robert is studying…

The group stayed two hours outside of Bucharest in a rural village called Valea Screzii in the Transylvania region. The village was founded by an NGO called Pro Vita, formed by an Orthodox priest, in order to help orphans, single mothers, the elderly, and intellectually disabled adults.

J.J. Thomson announced the discovery of the electron in his 1897 lecture in this room. The Christmas Lecture program, begun by Michael Faraday and continuing through today, is the oldest continuous science education program for young people.

The college is very pleased to be able to respond to the increased demand for College of Engineering faculty-led study abroad programs with increased fellowship support this year.

One important reason that I decided to study at the University of Savoy is due to the Institut Savoisien d’Études Françaises pour Étrangers (ISEFE). The University of Savoy is one of the only French Universities to include a program as such that attracts trained faculty specifically to teach and share to foreign students and professionals…