This January, the Bredesen Center appointed Zhili Zhang as the new director of its ESE PhD program—and he has big plans for increasing enrollment and retention.

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair of Advanced Manufacturing Professor Suresh Babu has been selected as the recipient of the William Irrgang Memorial Award by the American Welding Society. 

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.

Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering professor Tony Schmitz was part of a research team that was honored with an R&D 100 award.