UT’s EcoCAR 3 team recently received its 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, which they will disassemble and rebuild as a hybrid as part of the EcoCAR 3 national competition.

The competition represents the next generation of automotive professionals who are training across engineering, communications, and business disciplines. Through this program, UT’s EcoCAR 3 team experiences a real-world vehicle development and launch process, from computer-aided design to developing marketing collateral.

In 2009, at the age of 60 and after spending 6 years in retirement, MABE alumnus Bob Swann did something most retirees would never consider doing—he enrolled in graduate school at the University of Tennessee (UT). Two years later he received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering.

The UT Research Foundation recently handed out its 2016 Innovation Awards, and the College of Engineering enjoyed a major presence at the ceremony.
Chief among the honors is the Wheeley Award, given annually in memory of B. Otto and Kathleen Wheeley in recognition of UT faculty members who have shown the ability to “excel in the commercialization of university-based research.”

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, a graduate of the University of Tennessee Space Institute, had a pair of highly visible media appearances over the weekend.

The first moment for Commander Kelly came via the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

In response to the growing importance of auto manufacturing in the state of Tennessee, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Engineering announced that it is developing a graduate-level automotive engineering concentration that will begin in fall 2016. The importance of the automotive industry is highlighted by a study conducted by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank that analyzed the climate of automobile production in Tennessee in 2013.

Guide Glass is a wearable device that helps blind or visually impaired people navigate both indoors and outdoors. A small camera, computer, and sensors work together to recognize an object and calculate its position and its movement. This data is then translated into text and then language to provide warnings to the person wearing the device. Professor Jindong Tan is writing grant proposals to receive funding right now.

On September 11, the University of Tennessee (UT) welcomed NASA astronaut and University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) graduate Barry “Butch” Wilmore to campus to speak about his recent mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and honored him with the Accomplished Alumni Award.

University of Tennessee graduate Scott Kelly can now boast that he’s spent more cumulative time away from Earth than any other American.

Friday marked a record 383rd day living in space for the NASA astronaut and commander of the current Expedition 45 space station crew.

MABE Department Head Matthew Mench has joined the editorial board of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology as Associate Editor. Previously, Mench has served as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) and as the Executive Vice President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE).

Engineering professors at Tennessee are constantly surrounded by the brilliant and the diligent.

Even their average students can solve math problems that most people can’t interpret. Their alumni help design, build and maintain everything from computers to bridges to jets to nuclear missiles.