UT’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter is hosting its third annual spring event, “Tomorrow’s Engineers Today,” which gives middle school girls a chance to come to campus for a day and get hands-on experience in various types of engineering.
Jon Hathaway, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, recently earned a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his work in sustainable urban water management.
Jon Hathaway, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, was selected by the NSF for an Early CAREER Award.
Kelli Grissom, Kristin Miranda, and Katherine Krouse—who are majoring in civil, industrial, and chemical engineering, respectively—received the news at the TSPE’s banquet, which helped raise funds for area educators in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
A commitment to the environment led University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering graduate Susan E. Stutz-McDonald to a career pursuing ways of making the air, water, and land better for all.
Nancy Love will give her presentation, “At the Confluence: Nutrients, Trace Chemicals, and Sustainability in the Urban Water Sector,” in Room 622 of the Min Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building.
The perception shift of gravity she felt was very normal to her and natural without having any gravity. “Gravity is not your friend,” when having to adapt to zero G when reentering the atmosphere from space.
Imagine, then, if your trip had lasted a year, and you weren’t just out of town but out of this world. Literally.
Three UT researchers—Maik Lang, assistant professor of nuclear engineering; Haidong Zhou, assistant professor of physics; and Jacob Shamblin, a graduate research assistant in nuclear engineering and physics—studied an important class of complex metal oxides.
A class of UT nuclear engineering students recently got the educational opportunity of a lifetime, thanks to the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. Y-12 invited students from one of Howard Hall’s classes to the complex, one of the top nuclear facilities in the world, for what is known as a tabletop simulation.
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