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Neel Patel: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Winter Break in Guatemala
For the week of December 14, 2014, eight students from the University of Tennessee, College of Engineering, went to Guatemala for an alternative winter break. We were led by Judith Mallory, the International Coordinator for the College of Engineering, and the trip was coordinated through Utopia Volunteers. The reason I signed up to go to…
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Trip Report: Alternative Winter Break in Guatemala
The group flew into the Guatemala City Airport and boarded a van for the four-hour journey west to Quetzaltenango, the country’s second-largest city. The van’s Cuban driver, Rudy, gave his own impressions of a country that was foreign to him, as well. It was not uncommon to see people walking very closely to the highway,…
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Tyler Leek: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Winter Break in Guatemala
With the help of a local contractor, our team of student-engineers constructed six stoves for families that could not afford proper a proper cook stove over the course of four days. Each morning we had the chance to meet a new family and learn their individual stories. At times there was a significant language barrier,…
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Engineering Students Revolutionize Transportation for Disadvantaged
The ability to maneuver through daily activities could become easier for people facing any number of challenges thanks to innovative research from the College of Engineering.
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Computing Pioneer Dean Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Dean, the Fisher Distinguished Professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, holds three of IBM’s original nine patents for personal computers, including one for the technology that allows multiple devices to be plugged into a computer at the same time.
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Dean Wayne T. Davis Serves as Honorary Coach During Vanderbilt Game
College of Engineering Dean Wayne T. Davis joined Dr. William Neilson, head of the Department of Economics in the UT College of Business; and Doug Renalds, the assistant director of the Student Success Center, as the UT Vols’ honorary coaches for the November 23, 2013, football game against Vanderbilt University.
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New Positions Highlight Eastman’s $2M Engineering Commitment to UT
Yan Xu, of the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Matthew Young, of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, received the designation as part of the company’s $2 million-plus commitment to the college.
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UT’s Parker Selected as National Science Foundation Division Director
However, when that institution is the National Science Foundation and the professor can continue working with their school—as is the case with UT’s Lynne Parker—it is a double bonus for the university.
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Knoxville News Sentinel: UT student looking at whether surgery helps children with CP
The surgery could improve the child’s mobility by correcting the way the muscles move. Or it could make the child even more likely to lose balance and fall while tripping.
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Chemical, Materials Engineering Students Have Strong Showing
The seven—seniors Aston Thompson, Christian Wilson, Chris Bruneau and Chris Ludtka and sophomores Mary McBride and Melanie Lindsey from CBE and sophomore Samantha Medina of MSE—are all part of the Zawodzinski Group, a group dedicated to electrochemical and energy storage research run by Governor’s Chair Thomas Zawodzinski.
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