Category Archives: Student Success

UT and ThermoVerse Collaborate to Customize Room Temps
ThermoVerse is sponsoring two UT senior design teams to help develop a product that distributes and controls the heating and cooling in buildings.

Heath IBEP Students Help Alleviate Campus Parking Problems
Several engineering students were involved in creating the new VolPark app through their classes in the Heath Integrated Business and Engineering Program.

Drum Line Member Uses Engineering Resources to Fix Part
After a part for her drum carrier kept breaking, senior mechanical engineering major Anukkah Burleson took matters into her own hands by making the parts out of metal with the help of the Kao Innovation & Collaboration Studio.
Ramesh Places First in Vol Court Pitch Competition
Aniirudh Ramesh (PhD mechanical engineering ’25) was awarded first place at the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s fall 2024 Vol Court.

Blume Presents Thermomechanical Research at National Symposium
Senior mechanical engineering major Ben Blume recently presented his poster on the thermomechanical analysis of large format printed polymer composite structures at the North American Thermal Analysis Symposium held in Knoxville.

Douthwright Achieves Olympic Dream in Paris
Brooklyn Douthwright, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering, competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics as a member of Canada’s 4×100 freestyle relay team.

Outdoor Adventures Help Bond TCE Female Students
Three female engineering students recently took part in the Student Outdoor Leadership Experience, where they gained technical skills for outdoor adventures while also becoming better leaders and communicators.

Student Trip to Japan Broadens Research Horizons
Semilore Abiodun-Adeniyi and Victoria Rapalo participated in a research trip to Japan supported by Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.

ASTERS Provides Safety Solution for School Shootings
A team of researchers from UT has helped develop Active Shooter Tracking and Evacuation Routing for Survival (ASTERS), a system that uses AI and social engineering to try and keep schools safe during an on-campus shooting.

Nutter Wins Second Place Best Student Paper Award at AIAA Aviation Forum
Aerospace engineering PhD student Nicole Nutter received the 2nd place 2024 AIAA Best Student Paper Award in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at this summer’s AIAA Aviation Forum.