Min H. Kao and Mark Dean have been selected as the inaugural inductees of the department’s Alumni Hall of Fame.
Alumnus Rick Kuhlman shares his engineering career journey and how his start up brings new ideas to an “old-school industry.”
EECS alumnus Mounir Laroussi (PhD ’88) was awarded the 2026 Will Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases by the American Physical Society.
Throughout his highly varied career spanning academia and industry, EECS PhD alum Mike McCollum has drawn on the agility and confidence he developed at UT.
Thanks to their strong foundation in hardware and research, 14 of Professor Ben Blalock’s alumni are now engineers at the Knoxville branch of Texas Instruments.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young credits studying engineering at the UT with “making him a better man” and preparing him for his roles in leadership.
LT Frank Calicura spent two years away from his submarine deployment with the Navy to complete Tickle College of Engineering’s dual-degree MS-MBA program.
UT alumna Yang Song launched a company called Spatia that uses generative artificial intelligence for interior, architectural, and landscape design.
Recent alumnus Owen Queen has been named 2024 Knight Hennessy Scholar, one of the world’s most prestigious post-graduate fellowships.
The Till family is made up of several engineers, including electrical and mechanical, and most of them attended the University of Tennessee.