The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) has announced a project focused on improving wind turbine blades.
Chris Andrews, Don Miller, and Adam Stratz were chosen by the US Department of Energy from UT’s Tickle College of Engineering for the program, which provides full-time funding for the students while they participate in NNSA offices around the country.
The Tickle College of Engineering is ranked 34th among all public universities in the 2018 U.S. News and World Report undergraduate rankings released Tuesday, September 12. The college is ranked 61st in the new National Universities list, which includes public and private universities that emphasize research and offer a full range of undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs. “Engineering…
David Greene, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UT, discusses how some groups see an opportunity in a new incoming administration to weaken or eliminate the fuel efficiency standards that are currently in place.
“Maintaining US leadership in the nuclear industry is critical to our country’s economic vitality and to global efforts to combat climate change,” said Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.
The current market for “lightweighting” materials already exceeds $150 billion, with a particular need—and thus, a growing market—within aerospace and automotive industries.
ORNL, UTK, and a consortium of other universities have teamed up to conduct a large-scale, long-term experiment on ASR-affected concrete.
“This consortium will lead efforts to meet transportation safety needs throughout the United States,” said Khattak.
Kothe said such work will be a catalyst for delivery of exascale-enabling science and engineering solutions for the United States. Exascale systems are capable of one billion billion computations—1,000,000,000,000,000,000—per second.
Having most recently served as the director of the Center for Interface Dominated High Performance Materials at Ruhr-University Bochum in Bochum, Germany, George has built a reputation as an authority on alloys and metals, and the behavior and testing of both.
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