Press Releases

“Don’t be afraid to take a chance on the unknown.” That was the message from keynote speaker Ken Huntsman as the College of Engineering said farewell to another group of graduates during spring 2015 commencement at Thompson-Boling Arena on Friday, May 8. Huntsman, who earned his master’s degree in computer science at UT in 1977,…

For a university to land even one graduate in a given year at NASA is a nice accomplishment. For one department to have three graduates head to the nation’s space agency doesn’t just speak volumes, it yells them. This summer, the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering will see three of its own—Justine Barry,…

[twothirds] Members of the UT Department of Nuclear Engineering’s computational fuel management group traveled to Nashville to conduct a workshop on the NESTLE 3D nodal core simulator at the Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, held April 19-23, 2015. The team led…

Rita Gray, academic coordinator of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received the Knoxville Chapter of International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) Professional Member of the Year Award, given annually during Administrative Professionals Week. The recipient is selected by the members based on the following criteria: attendance and participation at chapter meetings and events,…

This year’s NEUP scholarships winners are James Brackett, Carl Britt, Dane de Wet, Rachel Gaudet, Adam Hasse, Travis Laboissiere-Hickman, Peyton Lara, Eric Nelius, Saya Rutherford, Whitney Smith, Alyxandria Wszolek.

Tickle, who graduated from UT with a degree in industrial engineering in 1965, has supported UT so significantly that a pair of structures and a major wing in a third building—the John D. Tickle Engineering Building, the John and Ann Tickle Small Animal Hospital, and a room in the Anderson Training Center—all bear his name.

You might notice a colorful change to Knoxville Area Transit buses thanks to some artistic Knox County high-schoolers and UT’s Center for Transportation Research.

Led by UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the group has built a number of relationships and recently welcomed one such partner, the American Composites Manufacturers Association, or ACMA, to campus.

These awards come with cash prizes, given by the Office of Research and the Tickle College of Engineering. There were thirty-eight total engineering entries from all 8 engineering departments, representing the excellent work of our students.

Highlighted by speakers such as Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President Lorraine Martin and Pratt and Whitney Military Engines President Bennett Croswell, the conference gave students a chance to hear from and talk to seasoned professionals in engineering and related fields.