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UT Alumnus W. Dwight Kessel Receives Dougherty Award
The Dougherty Award was established by the college in 1957 to pay tribute to Dr. Nathan Washington Dougherty, dean of the College of Engineering from 1940-1956. The award honors engineers whose accomplishments have brought acclaim to the university.
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Kessel Named Dougherty Award Winner by UT College of Engineering
The acclaim is far from the first for Kessel, as several buildings or spaces—including the auditorium at UT’s Science and Engineering Research Facility—already bear his name. He and his wife, Gloria, also established a scholarship in his name in the Department of Industrial Engineering at UT.
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Sam Hensley: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Spring Break in Jamaica
For Spring Break 2014, I took a trip to Mandeville, Jamaica, with a number of fellow UT students and Judith Mallory, our trip organizer and leader. We went to experience the culture, learn about the way of life of another group of people, and build a new restroom for some school children in the community.…
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Emily Stout: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Spring Break in Jamaica
When my friends heard I was travelling to Jamaica for spring break, so many of them replied with, “Wow! I’m so jealous! It’s beautiful there; you’ll have so much fun!” I understood what they meant—they were picturing warm sandy beaches and the cool turquoise ocean on the edges of the island. However, that wasn’t the…
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Max Pridgen: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Spring Break in Jamaica
By the second day, we had already adjusted to the lifestyle. We were fed another huge meal and shipped off to work. Percy quickly gave us tasks, calling us by our appearance (beard guy, blonde girl) in an accent that only a few of us could understand. The trenches for the bathroom foundation had already…
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Trip Report: Alternative Spring Break in Jamaica
Joining students on the project from as far away as Germany, Israel, Denmark, and Austria, the group set about the construction of a bathroom (known in Jamaica as an “Ablutions Block”) at the Richmond Primary school, established in the 1850s, to replace an aging and dangerous pit latrine system.
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Patrick Davis: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Spring Break in Jamaica
When I first heard that I was going to Jamaica to do some construction work, I had little idea what to expect. I expected there to be construction work, and I expected there to be Jamaicans, but everything else was shrouded in mystery.
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Diversity of Programs, UT on Display for Breakfast of Champions
“The big goal is to raise awareness of engineering opportunities at Tennessee for these students,” said Engineering Diversity Program Director Travis Griffin. “A major part of that is showing them the kinds of things that they will be working on and the kind of people they will be working with.”
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Dongarra Calls for Renewed Focus on Research into High-end Math
“Exascale computing (capable of one quintillion floating point operations per second) will enable us to solve problems in ways that are not feasible today and will result in significant scientific breakthroughs,” said Dongarra, of the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Graduate Programs in Engineering, Business Nationally Ranked by U.S. News and World Report
One of the fastest growing graduate programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has again risen in the 2015 U.S. News and World Report graduate rankings released today. UT’s graduate program in nuclear engineering now ranks fifth among all universities in the nation.
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