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McCord Invited to Prestigious National Academy of Engineering Event
Rachel McCord, a lecturer in the college’s Engineering Fundamentals Division, was selected to attend the NAE’s seventh Frontiers of Engineering Education(FOEE) symposium in Irvine, California, October 25–28.
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College of Engineering to Announce $150 Million Fundraising Goal
The college, now in its 177th year, is making the drive to secure its continued success and has raised $101 million of the target since the effort informally kicked off in 2012. The campaign also serves as a way for the college to emphasize its value to the university, the region, and the state.
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Governor Haslam Appoints UT Alumnus John Tickle to Board of Trustees
Tickle is chairman of Strongwell Corporation and a 1965 graduate of UT Knoxville with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. In 2013, the 110,000-square-foot Tickle Engineering Building, funded in part by a gift from Tickle and his wife, Ann, was dedicated on the Knoxville campus.
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McLurkin to Deliver Presentation on Future of Robotics
McLurkin, an adjunct professor at Rice University, is an expert in robotics and developing algorithms that run their programming, having won the 2003 Lemelson Foundation-MIT prize for invention, been named by Time magazine as one of five leading robotics engineers, and by Black Enterprise magazine as a “Best and Brightest Under 40.”
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Engineering Team a Finalist for Google’s Little Box Challenge
A research team including faculty and students from the College of Engineering and the Electric Power Research Institute has been selected as a finalist for the Little Box Challenge. Sponsored by Google and the IEEE Power Electronics Society, the challenge carries a $1 million prize and seeks to improve upon the current design and size…
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Mench Participates in US Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment
Dr. Matthew Mench, head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, was recently part of a twenty-person advisory team during a weeklong summer study designed to envision precious resource and energy needs over the next quarter century. The study was held at West Point Military Academy in New York and was conducted for…
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Davis Elected Secretary of Global Engineering Deans Council
College of Engineering Dean Wayne Davis has been elected to serve as secretary and treasurer of the Global Engineering Deans Council. The council brings together engineering deans from around the world and now includes more than 500 deans, representing colleges of engineering in more than thirty countries. “It is certainly an honor, both personally and professionally,…
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Engineering Teams Up with Boeing on $2 Million NASA Project
The future of aircraft propulsion systems could be vastly improved thanks to research being conducted by the College of Engineering. NASA has tapped a joint Boeing-UT project for support, with the agency providing $2 million over four years while the aircraft company contributes a share of funding. Read More »
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Engineers Developing Threat Detection Device for Homeland Security
The image of someone walking around with a backpack, listening to music via headphones while playing on a cell phone, has become so common that it would never seem out of place except to the most tech-removed person. Even if that person happened to instead be monitoring the crowd for possible terror threats. And that’s…
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Dongarra Named to Key Advisory Committee for Telescope Project
Jack Dongarra, director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at UT, is no stranger to massive technology. In this case, it’s the type of technology that makes his recent selection for a key research advisory panel remarkable: A massive radio telescope. Dongarra has been named to the Scientific and Engineering Advisory Committee for the Square Kilometer…
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