Category Archives: Student Success

Cutting-Edge Partnership
A new enhanced collaboration between UT and Y-12 National Security Complex will lead to career-enhancing opportunities for Tickle College of Engineering students.

MABE Students Benefit from Spark Scholars Internships
MABE students gain hands-on experience through the Spark Scholar Program, including internships at Elemental Composites that bridge classroom learning with real-world impact.
TCE Students Attend Posters at the Capitol Event
Jackie Liu and Jai Mehta represented the Tickle College of Engineering at the Posters at the Capitol event on April 2nd in Nashville.

Patel Provides the Student Voice on UT System Board
Lisa Patel, a junior biomedical engineering major, is serving as the student trustee on the University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees for this academic year. It’s a role she’s always wanted.

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.