Category Archives: News
Fox Earns Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
BME junior Ameyla Fox was selected as a 2024 Goldwater Scholar, one of the most prestigious scholastic awards undergraduate students in the U.S can achieve.
Schmitz Reflects on First Year of $1M Gene Haas Grant
Last year’s $1M Gene Haas grant allowed the MTRC to expand its machinist training and other programs, creating a more capable domestic manufacturing workforce.
Improving the World’s Most Potent Cancer Drug
Elizabeth Barker’s new injectable hydrogel, Amygel, limits the spread of chemotherapy drugs, potentially eliminating the long-term health risks of pediatric cancer treatment.
Biomedical Engineering to Become Independent Academic Department
Biomedical Engineering is separating from the Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Department (MABE) and will become its own independent department in August 2025.
InnoCrate Introduces Composites and Manufacturing to K-12 Students
The new workforce development project, InnoCrate, is introducing manufacturing and science related technologies in a fun, hands-on, experiment-driven way to K-12 students.
Moldex3D Donation Enhances Student Experience, Job Skills
Moldex3D, an industry-leading software simulation company for plastic injection molding, provided the University of Tennessee with a generous software donation valued at $3.65 million. The donation gives UT engineering students a leg up in the job market.
Betters and Gomez Make SME 30 Under 30 List
MABE alumni Emma Betters and Michael Gomez made SME’s 30 Under 30 list in recognition of the contributions they have made to the machining industry.
Spark Scholars Program Benefits Students, Start-Ups
The Spark Scholars program has been a major success since it was launched two years ago. The student internship/training program brings together early-stage tech companies and UT undergraduate engineering students.
RevV Program Fosters Positive Outcomes for UT, Raptor Resins
Raptor Resins has worked with UT’s Fibers and Composite Manufacturing Facility, Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering (MABE) department to develop a cyanate ester resin that helped the company win a program with the Navy for radome repair. It was all made possible by the RevV voucher program.
Lab Upgrade Launches UT into Rarified Air Among Universities
The university’s 500-kW pulsed Arcjet Tunnel will be upgraded to a continuous flow facility over the next year. The $570,000 grant is sponsored by the US Army Research Office through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award.