According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, fiberglass pool manufacturer Leisure Pools plans to increase its Knoxville work force to 1,000 in the next decade. Crucially for the UT-led Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, part of their growth will come from composite materials manufacturing.
“This award is humbling but gratifying,” said Hashemian. “It is validation of the effort we put in to preparing the nuclear workforce for the current challenges and for those yet to come.”
Now, the group is turning its attention to high school students in Knox County with its Little Systers event, carried out with the help of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ East Tennessee group and CURENT (the multimillion-dollar power grid research center at UT).
Rachel McCord, a lecturer in the college’s Engineering Fundamentals Division, was selected to attend the NAE’s seventh Frontiers of Engineering Education(FOEE) symposium in Irvine, California, October 25–28.
The college, now in its 177th year, is making the drive to secure its continued success and has raised $101 million of the target since the effort informally kicked off in 2012. The campaign also serves as a way for the college to emphasize its value to the university, the region, and the state.
Tickle is chairman of Strongwell Corporation and a 1965 graduate of UT Knoxville with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. In 2013, the 110,000-square-foot Tickle Engineering Building, funded in part by a gift from Tickle and his wife, Ann, was dedicated on the Knoxville campus.
McLurkin, an adjunct professor at Rice University, is an expert in robotics and developing algorithms that run their programming, having won the 2003 Lemelson Foundation-MIT prize for invention, been named by Time magazine as one of five leading robotics engineers, and by Black Enterprise magazine as a “Best and Brightest Under 40.”
A research team including faculty and students from the College of Engineering and the Electric Power Research Institute has been selected as a finalist for the Little Box Challenge. Sponsored by Google and the IEEE Power Electronics Society, the challenge carries a $1 million prize and seeks to improve upon the current design and size…
Dr. Matthew Mench, head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, was recently part of a twenty-person advisory team during a weeklong summer study designed to envision precious resource and energy needs over the next quarter century. The study was held at West Point Military Academy in New York and was conducted for…
College of Engineering Dean Wayne Davis has been elected to serve as secretary and treasurer of the Global Engineering Deans Council. The council brings together engineering deans from around the world and now includes more than 500 deans, representing colleges of engineering in more than thirty countries. “It is certainly an honor, both personally and professionally,…
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