Students from the Tickle College of Engineering, the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Geography submitted an entry to NASA’s contest “Amateur Radio on the International Space Station,” highlighting some of the space-related innovations occurring at UT.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering awarded 13 outstanding freshman students with a scholarship as part of funding from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  In addition to the NRC scholarship, the department was able to supplement the scholarship with a Pasqua Scholarship. “The department has very similar goals and values as the NRC and therefore was…

“Our role will be to work with researchers and partners to identify areas of need in advanced manufacturing, particularly with lightweight materials,” said Duty.

According to data gathered through surveys in Tennessee, the people least likely to use seat belts are men aged 18 to 32—especially those who drive pickups.

“Little Systers provides a resource for girls who may not have female role models in these types of career paths,” said Morgan Dyar, a senior majoring in electrical engineering.

Mark Dean spent over three decades at IBM, where he helped shape the future of computing, developing the company’s original PC and its color monitor, the Industry Standard Architecture bus (which allowed other devices to plug into IBM PCs), and other major innovations. Now the John Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UT, Dean says,…

For the second year in a row, the prestigious National Academy of Engineering has elected a researcher affiliated with UT to its ranks. Professor Emeritus Bimal Bose was selected for the class of 2017. “This honor has come to me very late in my career, but I am thrilled with the news,” said Bose, who…

One of the highest priorities for both national and international security organizations is facing the threat of a nuclear disaster due to radioactive materials falling into the wrong hands. The need to anticipate and answer the possible challenges in such scenarios is a key part of some of the research being conducted in the Tickle…

An assistant professor of nuclear engineering, Jamie Coble came to UT as a faculty member in 2013 after working at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Coble has earned several honors and serves on prestigious organizations such as the American Nuclear Society for her work helping to improve the safety, reliability, and performance of nuclear reactors. She…