Connor Murphy was born with a genetic disease that inspired him to study engineering at the University of Tennessee. Murphy was just awarded a graduate research fellowship from NSF.

The Department held its annual awards banquet on Thursday, April 24, to honor the department’s outstanding alumni, students, staff, and faculty.

MABE Assistant Professor Prashant Singh has been selected to receive the 2025 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer.  

Bryan Good received an award from the American Heart Association allowing him to create the first models of ischemic stroke incorporating clinical patient data.

MABE students and professors were recognized with an Outstanding Paper Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ground Testing Technical Committee.  

Kenneth D. Kihm received the Distinguished Engineering Project Achievement Award on February 21st in Los Angeles at the 70th anniversary of the National Engineers’ Council. 

Associate Professor Andrew Dickerson’s research paper on maple samaras has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 

InnoCrate won the American Composites Manufacturing Association’s Award for Composites Excellence at the 2024 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo.

Aniirudh Ramesh (PhD mechanical engineering ’25) was awarded first place at the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s fall 2024 Vol Court.  

With a new, dedicated lab space, Zhenbo Wang is researching how to give autonomous drones the ability to safely maneuver through advanced air mobility systems.