The 2015 R&D 100 Award winners were recently announced and Associate Professor Chad Duty and Assistant Professor Brett Compton—two of the newest faculty members in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering—worked on two of the award-winning projects.

The cover of the November issue of MRS Bulletin featured work by Dr. Brett Compton, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE). The cover depicts a 3D-printed, carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy honeycomb structure from Compton’s postdoctoral work at Harvard University.

UT’s College of Engineering and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute are developing a computing system that mimics the nervous system to design a chip that would allow computers to operate at an even faster rate and calculate more complicated processing than simple binary-based computing.

On Friday, January 15, UT’s EcoCAR 3 team, above, welcomed sponsors and supporters to the Starting Line Ceremony to unveil their 2016 Chevrolet Camaro that they are rebuilding to be a hybrid vehicle. Tickle College of Engineering Dean Wayne Davis, College of Communication & Information Dean Michael Wirth, and Haslam College of Business Dean Stephen…

Teams from around the region recently came to UT’s College of Engineering as part of the international kickoff of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics’ 2016 season.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering, already tied as the No. 4 public nuclear engineering program in the country, welcomed Richard Wood as a full-time professor in January.

Following the College of Engineering’s successful fall slate of Distinguished Lecture Series events, the spring slate of speakers will cover topics ranging from sustainability to space exploration and anything in between.

The White House Forum on Connecting Regional Innovation Ecosystems to Federal and National Labs was an opportunity for political, educational and scientific leaders to discuss ways that economic growth benefits from research facilities.

The program funds projects that might otherwise be mired at a particular point of the development process, providing resources to help the research progress. For the past ten years Science Alliance, through the JDRD program, has helped numerous faculty and staff of both institutions pursue their goals.