The award is administered by 3M’s Research and Development Community in partnership with 3M’s Community Giving Program. For more than twenty-five years, the award has been given to help outstanding new faculty achieve tenure, remain in a teaching position, and conduct research. Sarles was recognized for his project entitled, “Liquid-infused, mechanically activated porous materials for…

The United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering recently awarded awarded Thomas Zawodzinski, the Governor’s Chair Professor in Electrical Energy Storage, and Stephen J. Paddison, the Gibson Endowed Chair in Engineering at UT, Distinguished Visiting Fellowships. Both professors serve in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Read More »

Maik Lang, an assistant nuclear engineering professor, is part of a team of researchers that has studied how specific properties of materials involved in nuclear energy production, and their performance, can change their response to radiation.

The award recognizes people thirty years old and younger who have shown outstanding abilities and leadership in engineering and who DiscoverE feels are bringing a new perspective to their particular field and having a definitive impact on the world.

The autumn of 1956 had seen the forcible integration of Clinton High School, the first Tennessee school to do so, under the watchful eye of the National Guard.

UT alumni Charley and Lynn Hodges established the endowment in honor of Burdette’s service and commitment to UT, in particular the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and its students.

It’s not every day that you get to talk to the president of the United States about his choice in ties, but that is exactly what happened to me just a few weeks ago.

All told, 427 students visited with potential employers, besting the mark of 416 set in 2013. Those students lined up more than 700 interviews for paid internship and co-op positions from the fifty-six companies in attendance.

Housed in the College of Engineering, the center has signed about 55 corporate partners and will soon host its nineteenth annual Maintenance and Reliability Conference, MARCON, February 23–26 at the Knoxville Convention Center.

One of the key holdups in the march toward more efficient sustainable energy could soon be answered thanks, in part, to UT researchers.