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Student Reports: Engineering in London, 2014
After a week of hard work studying circuits and learning about the origins of computation, some of us took a day trip to the spectacular Cliffs of Dover. We left early that morning from London, ensuring we had plenty of time to explore the cliffs and town. We ended up finding an “alternate” route to…
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Journal Highlights UT Lab, ORNL Connections
The strong relationship between UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory was on display once again recently, this time thanks to the scientific journal Nuclear Instruments a Physics Research, which focused on the Ion Beam Materials Laboratory—operated jointly by UT and ORNL through Governor’s Chair funds.
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Students Benefit From College of Engineering’s British Connection
Professors Roger Parsons, of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, and Michael Berry, of the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, led a group of budding UT engineers for a few weeks of study and work in the United Kingdom.
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Jonathan Jones: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Summer Break in Romania
When we finally arrived, it was Monday afternoon, August 11, and we were all exhausted from the long flight. A man named Maryan, who did not speak one word of English, picked us up from the airport, and drove us to the village where we were staying, Valea Screzii, founded by the organization Pro Vita.
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Kelli Grissom: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Summer Break in Romania
My trip to Valea Screzii, Romania was my first visit to Europe and was definitely an unforgettable experience. Once we arrived in the village I felt a similarity to home. We were surrounded by mountains everywhere we looked and it reminded me of the Smoky Mountains back in Tennessee.
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Robert Minneci: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Summer Break in Romania
By the time we got to Romania, it was past midday and fairly warm. We found the driver to take us to our lodgings, piled into an old van, and drove off. We landed in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. It was hot, dirty, the traffic terrible, and advertisements and graffiti littered the buildings. It…
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Bryan Eldreth: Student Report from 2014 Alternative Summer Break in Romania
For the week of August 10, 2014, four students from the University of Tennessee College of Engineering went to a village in Romania to help with the construction of a High School dormitory. The four students were Robert Minneci, Jonathan Jones, Kelli Grissom, and I. Jon and I are chemical engineering students, Robert is studying…
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Trip Report – Alternative Summer Break in Romania
The group stayed two hours outside of Bucharest in a rural village called Valea Screzii in the Transylvania region. The village was founded by an NGO called Pro Vita, formed by an Orthodox priest, in order to help orphans, single mothers, the elderly, and intellectually disabled adults.
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Engineering Students Get Close-Up View of German Industry
For a group of students from the College of Engineering those talks will include discussing a trip to Germany, a trip that was anything but a vacation.
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Three Engineering Professors on “World’s Most Influential” List
Since having your work recognized by your peers has long been considered a top honor for those in higher education, a trio of College of Engineering professors recently became academic all-stars.
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