These educators deliver STEM content of science, technology, engineering, and math along with social studies and language arts to 4th-8th graders in Tennessee public and private schools. This STEM Teacher Workshop is a joint endeavor of STEMspark and UT’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR); both have contributed funds for this work.
The Tennessee Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Innovation Network and Battelle are sponsoring the UT College of Engineering’s Engineering Volunteers for Ninth Graders (eVOL9) June 23-28, 2013, at the UT Knoxville campus.
TCE students and faculty are one week into the 2013 Engineering in London program. The weather has been cooperating in a most non-London-like way, and our students are excited about adventures planned for their first free weekend.
Aqua-Chem Inc. and the University of Tennessee’s Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering are teaming up to assist Aqua-Chem in continuous process improvements. The university will have a diverse group of twenty-eight students, representing six countries, descend on Aqua-Chem from July 2-26, 2013, to look at continuous improvement opportunities in the areas of: Warehouse, Materials,…
Dr. Wes Hines, head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, led twelve students on a tour of nuclear facilities in Prague, Czech Republic, during a mini-term program abroad in May of 2013. The students also participated in a reactor-physics training program for which they will receive upper-division laboratory credit in the nuclear engineering program.
With the expansion of the College of Engineering’s faculty-led engineering programs this summer, our application pool has greatly increased, and the College is very pleased to be able to respond to this demand and support a larger number of students for programs this year.
The College of Engineering has announced the initial student exchange between the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) and the Politecnico de Torino in Turin, Italy, this spring.
During the last mini-term, a group of students from the College of Engineering did a three-credit faculty-led study-abroad class on “Sustainable Energy Engineering” in the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is one of the leading countries to have invested greatly in sustainability.
Two trips organized by the College of Engineering (COE) allowed participating students to experience engineering internationally during the spring of 2013. COE International Coordinator Judith Mallory oversaw an “Alternative Spring Break” in Cartago, Costa Rica, and an end-of-semester visit to Madrid, Spain.
We arrived in Prague just before 11:00 a.m. local time. At this point we had been traveling for over twenty hours straight, and we were tired. But the excitement in the group was palpable. Some of the students had never been out of the southeastern United States, much less all the way to Europe. Spring…
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