UT and AT&T are collaborating on new research surrounding 5G technology, with faculty in the Tickle College of Engineering playing key roles.

Learning thermodynamics and circuits and seeing and touring different historical engineering sites, combined with building friendships and connections with my professors and classmates, has made this study abroad an experience that I will never forget.

EECS Assistant Professor of Computer Science Amir Sadovnik, in collaboration with UT faculty members in Humanities and English, has been awarded a new grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a set of interdisciplinary undergraduate courses integrating the humanities and computer science.

For his research in incorporating phase transition materials into electronics applications, Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Ahmedullah Aziz has received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation from the Association of Computing Machinery.

Bai’s research employs a new approach to electric vehicle applications, using what are called hybrid switching modules. His team’s designs utilize both the more expensive gallium nitride devices and the less expensive silicon devices in tandem, resulting in greater operating efficiency without hiking up the cost.

Included in that group are two University of Tennessee alumni from what is now the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lynne Parker (’83) and Mark Dean (’79). In addition to their shared ties to the department, both later served as interim deans of the Tickle College of Engineering, giving UT a strong connection to the new task force.

Mench, a Chancellor’s Professor, the Condra Chair of Excellence, and a professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, has served as interim dean since February. Mench joined UT in 2010 after serving as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

A team of UT electrical engineering and computer science students used machine learning to predict feedback in a popular Reddit forum to identify jerks.

Professor Hairong Qi is using her experience and research on the evolution of computer vision to guide the UT EcoCAR team through the integration of Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAVs) technology, integrating cameras and radar onto their vehicle.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has announced the addition of an online Master of Science degree program in computer science. The new program represents the latest chapter in the university’s collaboration with Noodle, the country’s fastest-growing online learning network.