The College of Engineering Spring 2013 graduation ceremony took place on Wednesday, May 8, with over 284 engineering graduates participating in the ceremony. A group of approximately 2,600 parents, friends and relatives attended the event, which took place in Thompson-Boling Arena on the UT-Knoxville campus at 11:30 a.m.

The University of Tennessee College of Engineering has named Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu as the new Governor’s Chair in Advanced Manufacturing, effective July 1, 2013. He will also be a professor based in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) at UT and will have a joint professorship with the Department of Materials…

Dr. John E. Kobza, previously the Interim Department Chair of Industrial Engineering and Senior Associate Dean at the Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be the new professor and department head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). Dr. Matthew M. Mench, the UT Condra…

Caleb Drummer, a senior in civil engineering in UT’s Tickle College of Engineering, was one of two students out of twelve applicants to receive a $1,000 scholarship from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Tennessee.

The Gulf of Mexico may have a much greater natural ability to self-clean oil spills than previously believed, according to Terry Hazen, University of Tennessee—Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology.

My trip to Cartago, Costa Rica, was my first international trip, and it was completely amazing. Life in Cartago was so much different than what I have known in the United States.