The degree was approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting today. Holliday will receive an honorary doctorate in engineering at the December 15 commencement ceremony, where he will be the featured speaker.

Cornell University professor Dr. Thomas D. O’Rourke will present his lecture “The New Normal for Natural Disasters” at 3:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in Room 307 of the Science and Engineering Research Facility (SERF) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

A proposal submitted by a research group led by Dr. Kurt Sickafus, Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, to the 2012 Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) Integrated Research Programs (IRP) Awards has been selected for a $3.5 million award for a nuclear innovation project.

The Engineering Expo is for all engineering students seeking co-op and internship positions. This fall fifty-eight companies will be coming to campus for this fall’s event making this the largest event since 2008.

Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty members are part of a group of seventy-two of the nation’s most innovative, young engineering educators who have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s fourth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.

This fun, free event is designed to inform and motivate students from underrepresented groups in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields to understand the importance of a graduate degree. Undergraduate STEM students—particularly sophomores, juniors, and seniors—and master’s students considering a PhD pursuit are encouraged to attend.

TCE Dean Wayne T. Davis emceed the event, which included approximately 150 people. Dean Davis provided an overview of the college’s progress during the program and then introduced the keynote speaker, engineering alumnus and former Board of Advisors member Dwight Hutchins.

Ben Blalock, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and two graduate students—Stephen Terry, now an alumnus, and Robert Greenwell—designed a tiny microchip that weighs close to a paper clip and helps control the motors on the rover.

A group of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering students felt like 16-year-olds when they received the keys to a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu they are going to remodel to make more eco-friendly.