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Trip Report: Alternative Spring Break in Peru
Six students from the Tickle College of Engineering (TCE) embarked on an adventure to Peru from August 10-20, 2013. The trip was concentrated in the city of Cuzco as well as in the Manu Biosphere Reserve in the Amazon Rainforest, both designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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Mark Nichols: Student Report from 2013 Alternative Summer Break in Peru
My Peruvian adventure began in the Lima airport, a very intimidating place if you speak little Spanish (like me). The minute I reached the main terminal, I was swarmed by taxi drivers insisting that I needed a cab. After politely saying “no” and receiving the boarding pass for my connecting flight to Cuzco, I headed…
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Nathan Siler: Student Report from 2013 Alternative Summer Break in Peru
I had a lovely time in Peru and got to experience many new things. This is a small report covering the highlights of my time during the trip.
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Systers: Women in EECS to Host “Bazinga” Building Party in Min Kao
Systers: Women in EECS is a new group formed to recruit, mentor, and retain women in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. The group will celebrate the new semester and promote its formation with the “Bazinga!” building party 1:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 20, on the…
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Personal Computer Inventor to Join College of Engineering Faculty
Dean arrives at UT from IBM, where he most recently served as chief technology officer for IBM Middle East and Africa, based in Dubai.
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Student Reports: Alysse Ness, United Kingdom and Belgium, 2012
Today we hiked to the summit of Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the United Kingdom! It is located in the Scottish Highlands and stands at 4,409 feet. We started the hike around 10:30 a.m. and it took us nearly six hours to finish.
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Professor Helps Design Software for the Next Generation of Supercomputer
The next generation of supercomputers, called exascale (a quintillion floating point operations per second), holds promise for solving some of the most demanding problems in numerical modeling. But as scientists worldwide, including Dongarra, work to develop the hardware for these machines, the software to run them remains elusive.
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Professor Jack Dongarra Announces New Supercomputer Benchmark
Since 1993, Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at UT has led the ranking of the world’s top 500 supercomputers. The much-celebrated bi-annual TOP500 list is compiled using Dongarra’s benchmark system, called Linpack. It is the most widely recognized and discussed metric for ranking high-performance computing systems.
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Solar Nanotechnology Expert Named as Governor’s Chair
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, an authority in the physics of functional materials, has been named the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair. He has also been appointed as deputy director for science and technology at ORNL.
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UT Center for Transportation Research and STEMspark Hub Host STEM Summer Workshop for Tennessee Teachers
These educators deliver STEM content of science, technology, engineering, and math along with social studies and language arts to 4th-8th graders in Tennessee public and private schools. This STEM Teacher Workshop is a joint endeavor of STEMspark and UT’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR); both have contributed funds for this work.
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