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Engineers Day to Welcome 1,500 High School Students to Campus
The annual daylong celebration of engineering will feature events at various engineering locations on the Hill and in Thompson-Boling Arena.
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Research Highlight: Xueping Li
Xueping Li, an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), believes that the primary role of industrial engineers is to make things better. Born in Sichuan, a southwest province of China, Li lived there until he moved with his family at the age of twelve to the Liaoning province in northern…
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Board Votes to Name the John D. Tickle College of Engineering
The University of Tennessee Board of Directors voted to rename the college the John D. Tickle College of Engineering.
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Faculty Profile: Jamie Coble
“We attract some of the best nuclear engineering students at both the undergraduate and graduate level,” Coble commented. “With our close proximity to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TVA, and the Southern Company, we’re uniquely positioned to offer students a lot of opportunities for research and industry internships.”
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Governor’s Chair Vaidya Named Composites Person of the Year
When UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory welcomed Uday Vaidya as a Governor’s Chair in 2015 they felt they were getting one of the top composites experts in the field. Now it’s official. The Society of Plastics Engineers recently named Vaidya as their 2016 Composites Person of the Year at their annual Automotive Composites Conference and…
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UT Society of Women Engineers Chapter Hosting Next Generation of Researchers
To help ensure that the next generation of researchers is as diverse as the topics they study, the UT chapter of the Society of Women Engineers is hosting an event to spark and nurture interest in STEM fields among high school girls. Tomorrow’s Engineers Today will bring together girls from around East Tennessee on October…
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2016 Innovation Awards
The UT Research Foundation recently handed out its 2016 Innovation Awards, and the Tickle College of Engineering enjoyed a major presence at the ceremony.
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Five Faculty Receive NSF Career Awards
Five members of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tickle College of Engineering faculty received National Science Foundation career awards.
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Research Highlight: Garrett Rose
Memristors – a combination of the words memory and resistor – are devices that allow for increasingly faster, more complicated processing than simple binary- based computing.
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Research Highlights: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Energy Department Awards $2.9 Million to the University of Tennessee’s Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to Advance Master’s and Doctoral Training in Power Electronics. The training curricula in power electronics – which control or convert electrical energy into usable power – will include cutting-edge wide bandgap semiconductors that can operate…
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