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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 is separating from the Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Department (MABE) and will become its own independent department in August 2025.


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, 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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Assistant Professor Andrew Dickerson’s fluid dynamics lab explores microplastic movement by studying how tiny water-walking insects are pushed underwater by raindrops.


Three mechanical engineering grads are having success in their metal engineering start-up where they do custom machining, machine design, structural and sheet metal fabrication, industrial piping, and general millwright work.