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Faculty Profile: Stephanie TerMaath
Stephanie TerMaath, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE), may be a relatively new faculty member, but she has already made a remarkable impact during her years at the UT Tickle College of Engineering. TerMaath recently received a $510,000 research grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young…
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College of Engineering, Haslam College of Business Work with IBM to Tackle Big Data
UT and IBM have announced a new computational lab and education initiative devoted to analytics that will enable the university to store large amounts of unstructured data in a security-rich environment while providing students and researchers the processing systems necessary to analyze it. Established with technology donated by IBM, the “Advanced Analytics Lab, IBM Enabled”…
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Wearable Sensors Could Improve Treatment for Motor-Skill Impairments
Every year in the United States almost 800,000 people suffer a stroke, an affliction which results in blood flow being cut off from the brain. Strokes can impair mobility, speech, and cognition, and the recovery process and the ability to return to normal life can be daunting for survivors and their families. New research being…
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UT Hosted Industrial Advisory Board in Conjunction with Ma2JIC
About one year ago the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, became the newest site of the Manufacturing and Materials Joining Innovation Center (Ma2JIC). Ma2JIC is a NSF funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), established six years ago with Colorado School of Mines, Lehigh University, Ohio State University (OSU), and the University of Wisconsin as the original…
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UT Research Reveals Certain Pollutants Worse Than Thought
Nitrous oxide pollution typically conjures up images of acid rain or a smokestack belching out industrial byproduct. While that might be the poster child for such pollution, the reality is that manufacturing sources produce only about 10 percent of the nitrogren-based pollution. The real culprit is something much more down to earth—literally. Agricultural sources contribute…
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Student Reports: Engineering in Hamburg, 2016
Hamburg For our study abroad experience, we mainly spent our time in Hamburg, Germany. We studied reliability and business excellence and learned about lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. We spent two or three mornings a week in a classroom setting and had the opportunity to tour facilities and other cities in Germany the other days…
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UT, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Release New Biodiversity Web Application
UT’s Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and School of Art have partnered with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Inventory and Monitoring Branch to create a new web application, Species Mapper. Everyone from park managers to school groups can use Species Mapper to explore suitable habitats for species for more…
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UT Materials Science Gets ‘Lift’ From Columbus McKinnon
Materials science deals with some of the smallest substances on earth, items that are frequently not even one billionth of a meter in size. Oddly, studying materials at such a tiny scale can require some massive equipment—which presents the issue of moving it around the lab space. Thankfully for UT’s Department of Materials Science and…
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Student Reports: Engineering in London, 2016
London Museum of Water and Steam When planning my Engineering in London trip, family and friends often asked me, “Why London?” or “What do you gain from taking classes over there?” My response to those type of questions usually consisted of regurgitated variation of, “well, the industrial revolution began in London blah, blah, blah…” Before…
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Cuba Trip Was Eye-Opening Experience for UT Group
The Cold War was already relegated to history by the time even the oldest students on a recent UT study abroad trip were born. Even so, the strain on US–Cuba relations for the past few decades has stuck around as a reminder of those darker times. Now, thanks to a thawing diplomatic climate, those students…
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