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Tickle College of Engineering to Welcome Budding Engineers from Across US
The Tickle College of Engineering will play host to more than 100 high school students over the next few weeks through its annual EVol and HITES camps with participants coming from high schools across the nation. The camps, which began in 1997, introduce younger students to broader aspects of college life, while providing upperclassmen a…
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Career Fair Makes Connection for Recent Grad Sami Hijer
Knoxville native Sami Hijer graduated as an industrial engineer in May 2017 and recently started working for Smithfield Foods in North Carolina. “I am very proud and thankful for this opportunity, and for the people and experiences that have led me to this,” said Hijer. “I have found that the first step towards achieving your…
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Trip Report: Alternative Summer Break in Ecuador
The first full day of the trip began with a quick trip to Old Town Quito, the Colonial section of the city, filled with European-inspired architecture, cathedrals, monasteries, convents, and old government buildings.
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Hannah Landau: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Summer Break in Ecuador
“But what about all the bugs?!” This was usually the first response I got when I told my friends and family I would be volunteering on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest.
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Alex Weber: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Summer Break in Ecuador
There were many fun experiences throughout the trip. I won’t bore you with the details of the entire trip, but rather fill you with the wonder that made up my most memorable experiences.
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Jake O’Brien: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Summer Break in Ecuador
I have always dreamed of traveling the world, but I never acted on all the dreams and desires that I am constantly talking about. Maybe it is because I feared traveling to an unknown place, or that I might be uncomfortable the day I got there and want to return to my nice cozy bed…
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Daniel Barry: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Summer Break in Ecuador
Moving the boulders was hard work. They were a lot heavier than expected, and the wheelbarrows we used to transport the boulders sank into the gravel paths after it started to rain.
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Devon Graham: Student Report from 2017 Alternative Summer Break in Ecuador
Naturally, I was a bit nervous and stressed in the days leading up to departure. However, all of those nerves turned out to be for nothing – the trip turned out to be better than I could have ever imagined.
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Nuclear Engineering Students Trained in Prague, Czech Republic
The students spent the first week visiting several sites throughout the Czech Republic—including a uranium mine and a yellow cake chemical factory, Temelín nuclear power plant, research institute in Řež near Prague, and the Prague Castle.
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UT-ORNL Big Data Doctorate First of Its Kind; Will Have Impact Across State
The use of big data—collecting and interpreting vast amounts of information—has rapidly grown in importance across areas ranging from health care to nuclear security. To help meet that demand UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created the Data Science and Engineering Doctorate, the only one in the United States to pair a university and national…
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