Not too long ago, the idea that people would be able to print a drivable car would have seemed absurd, yet that’s now reality thanks to innovations in advanced manufacturing. Advanced manufacturing is just what the name implies—any form of building, producing, or even weaving products using techniques and materials that previously didn’t exist. The…

With a history dating back more than 175 years, UT’s College of Engineering is no stranger to bringing new ideas and concepts to all of its students and visitors. What makes a current group of college visitors somewhat different is that they are faculty from another university—Southeast University in China. Read More »

[twothirds] An interdisciplinary team of faculty members at the University of Tennessee has been awarded a $399,793 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The team comprising of Drs. Asad Khattak, Subhadeep Chakraborty, and Shashi Nambisan was selected by NSF’s Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation for their research proposal titled “Study of Driving…

Dr. Stephen J. Paddison, the Gibson Endowed Professor of Engineering, and three colleagues were recently awarded $1.4 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue a collaborative research project aimed at discovering design rules for polymeric based materials that exhibit high hydroxide ion (OH-) transport. “This is an investigation that we have wanted to…

The role of UT’s College of Engineering in studying advanced materials recently got a major boost with the National Science Foundation backing UT to join the Manufacturing and Materials Joining Innovation Center, or Ma2JIC. Established at The Ohio State University, Ma2JIC’s mission was developed with input from industries, national laboratories, and academia, and has been…

The International Journal of Nuclear Security—a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles and research related to all aspects of nuclear security—is now available online and free to the public. The new journal is produced in collaboration by three units at UT: the Department of Nuclear Engineering, the Department of English, and the Institute for Nuclear…

The College of Engineering has become the first in the world to use a synthetic cadaver created by SynDaver Labs. The SynDaver Synthetic Human was originally designed as a surgical simulator and has become the most elaborate and sophisticated full-body synthetic cadaver on the market, finding a quick role in medical schools. Read More »

The latest national success for the Department of Nuclear Engineering came recently when the American Nuclear Society (ANS) chose UT’s student chapter to receive the prestigious Samuel Glasstone Award for the best student chapter, a first for the university. “I think this shows that we are becoming a recognized leader for what we do,” said Assistant…

The College of Engineering recently got some good news, as R&D Magazine named two research groups to its list of finalists for the R&D 100. The joint UT-Y12 Lithium Indium Diselenide Thermal Neutron Imager (LTNI) project includes Assistant Professor Eric Lukosi and Y-12 Joint Assistant Professor Ashley Stowe, both of nuclear engineering, while the joint UT-Oak…

A new T bus route has been added to UT’s Parking and Transit schedule to help connect members of the campus community to Pellissippi State Community College’s Hardin Valley campus and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. UT hopes to attract people affiliated with UT, ORNL, and Pellissippi State Community College to offer the new route as…