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Zak Pasternak: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
After touring around the city, we were ready to work on our service project the next day. We built mud-brick stoves for families in a village about an hour’s drive east of Cusco in the Urubamba Valley. The stoves had chimneys which allowed the smoke to clear the room and leave through the roof.
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Nick Kivi: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
The trip was based around working in rural communities to build ceramic stoves with chimney designs. The chimneys would help alleviate the smoke that gets trapped in houses during cooking, which has caused a tremendous increase in reported lung cancer cases. By helping communities build stoves, the hope is that long-term cancer rates and other…
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Sam Brown: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
Sam Brown’s trip report about the Tickle College of Engineering Global Initiatives’ Alternative Winter Break in Cuzco, Peru, building cook stoves.
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Cody Winstead: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
Cody Winstead’s trip report about the Tickle College of Engineering Global Initiatives’ Alternative Winter Break in Cuzco, Peru, building cook stoves.
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Trip Report: Alternative Winter Break in Peru
On December 11, 2015, Tickle College of Engineering Global Initiatives embarked on its largest Alternative Winter Break to Cuzco, Peru, with twenty students.
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Former Chancellor, Astronaut in Inaugural MABE Hall of Fame at UT
The University of Tennessee reports on TN Today about the inaugural MABE Hall of Fame.
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UT Receives 2016 Camaro For EcoCAR 3 Competition
UT’s EcoCAR 3 team recently received its 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, which they will disassemble and rebuild as a hybrid as part of the EcoCAR 3 national competition.
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Third UT Faculty Member Named to National Academy of Inventors
Birdwell, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, is the third person from UT to be honored as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Materassi is Second UT Engineering NSF CAREER Recipient in a Month
The National Science Foundation has once again selected a College of Engineering faculty member for one of its highest honors, as Donatello Materassi has been chosen for an NSF CAREER award.
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CURENT’s Zhan Earns Top Student Honor from Power-Related Group
College of Engineering graduate student Lingwei Zhan recently received national recognition as he was named the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI) Outstanding Student of the Year 2015.
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