Department of Energy Selects UT to Develop Cutting-Edge Classes
The US Department of Energy selected UT and Virginia Tech to receive almost $6 million in combined funding for the development of postgraduate courses and studies in power electronics.
Dongarra Honored for Leadership in High Performance Computing
Professor Jack Dongarra plays a major role in the world of supercomputing, and those efforts recently earned him national recognition.
Memphis Daily News Spotlights Engineering Team
The Memphis Daily News profiled the Google Little Box Challenge team from the College of Engineering.
China Again Holds Top Spot, Increases Presence on Supercomputing List
China increasingly has the world’s most powerful supercomputers, while the United States continues its recent trend of decreasing prominence in development of such systems. That’s one takeaway from the latest TOP500 list, the forty-sixth such worldwide ranking of systems, led in part by UT’s Jack Dongarra.
Electric Cars, New Lab Helping Bolster Green Commitment
UT has expanded its role in green technology over the past few years, adding everything from car charging stations to classes designed to tackle issues in the emerging and burgeoning field.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Gets Boost from Alumnus
UT prepared Joel Seligstein for success in Silicon Valley, and now the 2006 alumnus has given back to his alma mater.
UT Engineers Reaching Out to Little Systers in Area High Schools
Systers: Women in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is turning its attention to high school students in Knox County with its Little Systers event, carried out with the help of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ East Tennessee group.
Engineering Team a Finalist for Google’s Little Box Challenge
A research team including faculty and students from the College of Engineering and the Electric Power Research Institute has been selected as a finalist for the Little Box Challenge.
EECS Doctoral Student Earns Trio of Recognitions
Sanjib Das recently got a heavy dose of good news involving some of his research.
Engineers Developing Threat Detection Device for Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security recently awarded a grant to faculty from two College of Engineering departments who are collaborating to develop a portable nuclear or radiation detector that could be used without causing alarm to the public or alerting possible terror cells.
Dongarra Named to Key Advisory Committee for Telescope Project
Jack Dongarra, director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory, has been named to the Scientific and Engineering Advisory Committee for the Square Kilometer Array, a project to build a telescope with a total collection surface the size of one square kilometer.
Engineering Teams Up with Boeing on $2 Million NASA Project
The future of aircraft propulsion systems could be vastly improved thanks to research being conducted by the College of Engineering. NASA has tapped a joint Boeing-UT project for support, with the agency providing $2 million over four years while the aircraft company contributes a share of funding.