More than 25 faculty members from EECS are taking part in the university’s new cluster hiring initiatives program for research to solve complex problems.

Faculty members, staff, and students from our department were honored at the 2025 Gonzalez Family Awards Banquet. See the names of winners.

Rachael Bevill Burns was selected to lead a Max Planck Partner Group at the University of Tennessee, resulting in funding and international collaboration.

 In addition to immersing themselves in engineering history, this year’s EIL students will get to work in state-of-the-art labs at the University of Sheffield.

UT’s AT&T 5G Lab, led by EECS Professor Aly Fathy, was recently featured in a video posted to the AT&T Business website that highlight’s the lab’s capabilities.

Eonix, a start-up dedicated to making non-flammable lithium-ion batteries, challenged Vols to adapt their newest battery to consumer e-bikes in this year’s ISD.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Gregory Peterson has been named a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Jian Liu received a $300,000 NSF grant to design software for a network of low-cost, self-powered devices that will sense exactly what trees need in real time.

Catherine Schuman is helping develop an open access neuromorphic computing platform to democratize NMC research, taking the field to its fullest potential.

Lynn Parker, Associate Vice Chancellor Emerita, will serve as the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.