Robert “Buddy” Moore, director of the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma, passed away Saturday, May 21, after a battle with cancer. He was 68. “Our university, our state, and indeed our scientific community at large has lost a remarkable individual,” said UT Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. “Buddy’s contributions to a number of fields will leave a…
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UT has roots dating over 100 years, to its beginning in 1905 as a part of the Department of Chemistry. Now, it has a hall of fame to help honor and share that legacy. John Prados, a UT vice president and University Professor emeritus, has been named…

Whether it is teaching a classroom of students, working on cutting-edge projects in a laboratory, mentoring young potential engineers, or helming a Tickle College of Engineering (TCE) research center, Dr. Claudia Rawn, a University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Joint Faculty member and an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering…

Read Evalynn Borrego’s report on the Cuba trip » Read Aubrey Casey’s report on the Cuba trip » Read Brian Grim’s report on the Cuba trip » Read Reed Schneider’s report on the Cuba trip » Read Meghan Treece’s report on the Cuba trip » From May 11 – 17, 2016, the TCE sponsored a trip to Havana,…
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science Ben Blalock recently collaborated with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a historical research project that is helping to allow the Mars rover “Curiosity” to explore that planet’s terrain. Blalock and team set out to design integrated circuits, or in this case, ‘quad op amp’ microchips, for…
Cherry has looked at behavioral and environmental aspects related to electric bikes, scooters, and larger electric vehicles in his research and has published articles related to the growth of electrical two-wheelers.
His research interests include helicopter and rotor dynamics, active vibration control, structural health monitoring, rotocraft propulsion, and adaptive structures.
Dr. Kivanc Ekici, an associate professor in UT’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, is intent on making turbines less prone to failure and capable of wringing ever more energy from the wind. He believes new designs for turbine blades hold the key to those gains. A wind turbine idled by a blade failure…
Dr. Zannatul Ferdous, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, leads a research team addressing one of humanity’s biggest health issues. Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s number one cause of death, with some estimates indicating that as many as one-third of the planet’s deaths in a given year are attributable…
Working with Oregon State University, Jason Hayward is working to improve the accuracy and reduce the cost of monitoring the massive amounts of plutonium that are housed in nuclear facilities. Hayward’s team hopes to use cosmic ray muons, a type of particle, to do this. “Cosmic ray muons are so highly penetrating that they have…
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