Along with about twenty-five students from UT and Alabama, it was an amazing three weeks in the Alps. We stayed in Austria with field trips to Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Austria is amazing!
As classes in Knoxville drew to an end and our classmates graduated, all of the students in Torino were still busy attending lectures and labs. The Italian class schedule instead requires students to continue attending classes until mid-June.
Going abroad has never really appealed to me. It takes time, money, and willingness to do touristy things, all things that a college guy like me tries to avoid.That being said, I decided to try it out for a short time by going on a week-long faculty-led trip to Madrid, Spain.
While at the Instituto Nacional Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA), our group was allowed to see numerous things which would otherwise be unavailable to most people and most students for that matter. The INTA program is much akin to the US’s NASA, primarily working on aeronautics design and testing as well as research based on findings from…
COE students Zachary Wood, Kevin Gayler, and Jason McDonald participated in the trip to Madrid, Spain, from May 11-18, 2013, at the end of the spring semester. The Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) served as the provider for the trip.
The Grand Challenge Scholars Program is an initiative of the National Academy of Engineering which includes curricular and extracurricular programs meant to prepare students to be the generation that solves the grand challenges facing society. UT is one of only thirteen universities to have a Grand Challenge Scholar Program recognized by the National Academy of…
The College of Engineering Spring 2013 graduation ceremony took place on Wednesday, May 8, with over 284 engineering graduates participating in the ceremony. A group of approximately 2,600 parents, friends and relatives attended the event, which took place in Thompson-Boling Arena on the UT-Knoxville campus at 11:30 a.m.
TCE alumnus Dwight Hutchins was the keynote speaker for the college’s Spring 2013 Commencement Ceremony.
The University of Tennessee College of Engineering has named Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu as the new Governor’s Chair in Advanced Manufacturing, effective July 1, 2013. He will also be a professor based in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) at UT and will have a joint professorship with the Department of Materials…
Dr. John E. Kobza, previously the Interim Department Chair of Industrial Engineering and Senior Associate Dean at the Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be the new professor and department head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). Dr. Matthew M. Mench, the UT Condra…
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