College of Engineering Dean Wayne Davis has had more than four decades of success at UT since his arrival on campus as a graduate student in 1971. In recognition of his contributions as a researcher, teacher, and leader, he has been awarded one of the highest honors an engineering educator can receive: election as a…

Chirp. Chirp. Chirp. What’s that sound? If you are standing at an intersection in the heart of a major US city, it’s most likely an accessible pedestrian signal—a device that provides visually impaired people with audible cues about the status of a walk signal. Obviously the repetitive sounds are better than nothing, but they can’t…

Part of the mission that CURENT—the Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks—undertook when it was founded was to engage the next generation of students in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. One sign of that effort’s incredible success returns to campus next week as the Adventures in STEM camp welcomes…

The UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Joint Institute for Advanced Materials has named Veerle Keppens as its new director. Keppens, current head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in UT’s College of Engineering, brings a knowledge of advanced materials—substances with properties that go beyond the norm in one or more aspects, such…

From his work compiling an annual list of the world’s fastest computers to his research expanding the boundaries of supercomputing, Professor Jack Dongarra is an icon of the supercomputing world. Now, in recognition of those efforts, Dongarra—who directs UT’s Innovative Computing Laboratory—has picked up a pair of vastly different but equally impressive awards. The Association…

As director of the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition—part of the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment—Jonathan Overly has helped usher in a number of improvements to the region’s eco-infrastructure, from car charging stations to alternative fuel vehicles. Those efforts have earned recognition from the state’s highest office, as Governor Bill Haslam has named the…

Mark Whorton has been named the new executive director of the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma. He will begin on July 18. Whorton currently is the chief technologist of Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama, and president of Teledyne Optech Inc. in Kiln, Mississippi. His expertise is in modeling, designing, and analyzing control systems for…

Although the kids may be out of school for the summer, the opportunity to learn hasn’t taken a vacation. With the Volkswagen-sponsored Engineering VOLunteers for Tenth Graders, or eVOL10, now under way at UT’s College of Engineering, students in high school and middle school are getting a chance to take a deeper look into future…