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  • Research Highlight: Wei He

    Wei He, a joint assistant professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, is carrying out exciting engineering research on materials-enabled interventions to tackle challenging medical problems. He’s doctorate is in chemistry, but her research has progressed from chemistry to engineering materials to biomedical science. She says that…

  • Research Highlight: Jeremy Holleman

    Holleman is also teaming with some unlikely partners to investigate low-power integrated circuits for biomedical devices and other wireless sensing applications—bats.

  • Research Highlight: Ramki Kalyanaraman

    In finding the right mix of materials, the UT-led team happened upon an entirely unexpected result—a magnetic material with extremely strong optical interactions that place it under consideration as a metamaterial, meaning a material with properties not found in nature.

  • Research Highlight: Yilu Liu

    Yilu Liu, Governor’s Chair for Electric Power Grids and Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Liu was elected “for her innovations in electric power grid monitoring, situational awareness, and dynamic modeling,” according to…

  • Research Highlights: Materials Science & Engineering and Nuclear Engineering

    Materials science and engineering and nuclear engineering faculty team up as part of a $30 million consortium sponsored by DOE. Howard Hall, Governor’s Chair for Global Nuclear Security and Professor, nuclear engineering (NE); Research Professor in materials science and engineering (MSE) and Director of the Scintillation Materials Research Center, Chuck Melcher; Jason Hayward, NE Associate…

  • Research Highlight: Thanos Papanicolaou

    Thanos Papanicolaou’s research is informing farmers and improving agricultural techniques designed to preserve and restore soil organic carbon (SOC) for healthier soil. Carbon is essential to soil, but it is easily depleted from intensively managed landscapes. Papanicolaou’s research focuses on ground slope and its relationship to concentrations of carbon in the soil from organic sources.…

  • Research Highlight: Fred Wang

    Wang’s research is aimed at avoiding some of those costs by utilizing existing intelligent switches and fast communication links in smart grids, improving the economic benefits and reliability of the system, and by using open source software and general purpose hardware to reduce controller and deployment cost.

  • Brian Grim: Student Report from 2016 Alternative Summer Break in Cuba

    Brian Grim: Student Report from 2016 Alternative Summer Break in Cuba

    Going on any international experience with the Tickle College of Engineering is an experience of a lifetime. It is an immersive experience that you really can’t get anywhere else and is much better than going to a foreign country on a vacation. An international experience with the College of Engineering allows you to see more…

  • Aubrey Casey: Student Report from 2016 Alternative Summer Break in Cuba

    Prior to this trip, my knowledge of Cuba was fairly limited, but when I saw a flyer I knew instinctively that it was something that I wanted and needed to do, despite the loan it required and the extra stress it added to an already challenging semester. Now, over a month away from the experience,…

  • Reed Schneider: Student Report from 2016 Alternative Summer Break in Cuba

    At the close of my sophomore year at UT, I joined a College of Engineering service trip to Cuba. Cuba, despite being one of our closest neighbors, has been a hidden country for the last four decades. Many of my friends and family are avid travelers but aside from my grandfather, who was there during…