For the week of September 16, 2011

@COE is published on a weekly basis. The next edition will be sent out on Friday, Sept. 23.

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Outreach News

Two Students Share Study Abroad Stories

Catherine Julson, a senior in industrial engineering, and John Scobey, a junior in civil engineering, have returned home from their study abroad experiences in France and Spain, respectively. Julson studied abroad in France for six weeks through the IPL International Summer School, and Scobey studied Spanish language and culture in Madrid, Spain. To view their in-depth stories from their trips, click here.

College of Engineering fellowships are available for support of engineering students participating in study abroad programs. The deadline for Spring semester 2012 programs is Oct. 1, 2011. More information can be found here.

Student News

Office of Research to Host Presentation by Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly

The Office of Research is hosting a presentation by Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), to students and faculty on Monday, September 19, 2011, from 2:30-3:20 p.m. in Dougherty Engineering Building, Room 612. The presentation will focus on MDA’s mission and career opportunities.

As director of MDA, Lt. Gen. O’Reilly oversees the agency’s worldwide mission to develop a capability to defend against ballistic missile attacks. During his career, he served in both command and staff officer positions in a variety of operational units, including the 1st Cavalry Division, and as an assistant professor of physics at the United States Military Academy. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and has an M.S. degree in Physics, National Security and Strategic Studies and Business.

The MDA is a research, development and acquisition agency within the Department of Defense. MDA seeks to develop, test and field an integrated ballistic missile defense system that protects the U.S., our forward deployed forces and our friends and allies from hostile ballistic missile attack. Click here for more information about MDA.

For questions, please contact Paul Montgomery at [log in to unmask] or Jim Mazzouccolo at [log in to unmask].

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Apply to be Part of the Emerging Leader Class

The Office of Student Orientation & Leadership Development (SOLD) is now accepting applications from qualified sophomore and junior student leaders for its 2012 Emerging Leaders Class! 
 
Emerging Leaders is a three credit-hour leadership course (credit/no credit) taught every spring for a select group of sophomores and juniors interested in studying leaders, leadership theories and the application of leadership in a variety of situations. The Emerging Leaders Class will meet throughout Spring 2012 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:10 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. 

The Emerging Leaders course offers students the opportunity to:
• Network with other leaders and administrators across campus
• Participate in an off-campus leadership experience (past trips have included Florida,    Washington, D.C., Auburn University, and The University of South Carolina)
• Discover your distinctive leadership style
• Join a cadre of specialized and distinguished UT students

The deadline to submit applications is Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, by 5 p.m. Please apply online at http://sold.utk.edu/el/.

Due to the competitive nature of this leadership opportunity, the SOLD office will make its first round selection decisions based on your application materials. You will receive an email from the office indicating your application status by Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. If you are invited for an interview, please note that all Emerging Leader interviews will take place Oct. 4-6, 2011. Interview times are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. If invited to interview, please contact the SOLD office by 5 p.m. on Oct. 3 to schedule your interview time. You can reach the office via phone at 974-2313 or 974-2435 or in person by visiting either University Center office location (203A or 315F). All interviews will take place in the UC 315F SOLD office (located on the third floor of the UC).
 
Questions? Please visit http://sold.utk.edu/el/ to see a course description, application information and feedback from former Emerging Leaders. You can also email specific questions to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask].

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College of Engineering Online Store!

The University of Tennessee, College of Engineering (COE) Online Store is now live! COE students, alumni and friends can now purchase apparel and accessories that identify them not just to the University of Tennessee, but to the College of Engineering, all from their computer with just a click of a button. This is COE merchandise that can only be found at the online store. Here's the link: http://www.shgstores.com/utkce/.

Faculty News

Laboratory in John Tickle Engineering Building Named After CEE Professor

In recognition of several generous gifts from alumni and friends, in support of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Endowment for Excellence, the Hardened Concrete Laboratory in the future John Tickle Engineering Building will be named in honor of Dr. Ed Burdette, Fred N. Peebles Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  

Special thanks to: Mabel Arico, Jim & Rhonda Copley, Sharon Habibi, Bill and Sandy Hamilton, Dr. Earl and Christa Ingram, Randy and Gina Inklebarger, Raja Jubran, Dr. Lee and Nancy Marsh, Ed and Carla McDougle, Dr. Dayakar and Marie Penumadu, Travis and Laura Presley, Terry Scholes and Bob and Denise Walker.

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CEE Professors Awarded a U.S. Patent

Drs. Baoshan Huang and Xiang Shu of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering were recently awarded a U.S. patent entitled “Rubber-Modified Cementitious Substance and Method Making the Same” (US Patent #7985786, July 26, 2011). Conventional rubber-modified concrete lacks a strong chemical bonding and compatibility in modulus between rubber particles and surrounding cement mortar, which results in a significant reduction in strength. Huang and Shu’s method, namely “two-staged surface treatment," improved both the chemical bond and the modulus compatibility, and consequently significantly improved the performance of rubber-modified concrete. Another inventor of the patent is Dr. Jingyao Cao, a former post-doctoral research associate under the supervision of Huang. Huang and his team also filed another provisional patent entitled “A Novel Testing and Analysis System for Loaded Wheel Tester (LWT)” (inventors: Drs. Baoshan Huang, Xiang Shu and Hao Wu).

Advising Announcements

Spring 2012 Undergraduate Advising and Registration Reminders

The Spring timetable will be on MyUTK for viewing of course offerings Monday, Sept 26.

Spring Undergraduate Registration Dates:
• October 10 & 11 - Priority registration (student athletes, Chancellor/Haslam Honors, etc…)
• October 17 & 18 - Seniors (90 + hours earned)
• October 24 & 25 - Juniors (60 to 89 hours earned)
• November 7 & 8 - Sophomores (30 to 59 hours earned)
• November 21 & 22 - Freshmen (less than 30 hours earned)

Students taking EF 151-152 (Honors 157-158) or Physics 135-136 (Honors 137-138) and Math 141-142 (Honors 147-148) are advised in the Engineering Advising Office located in Room 202 of Estabrook Hall. Come by or call (865)974-4008 to schedule your advising appointment.

Students who have completed EF151-152/Physics 135-136 and Math 141-142 are advised by their major department. Contact your major department to schedule an appointment with your faculty advisor.

Department	Office Location	Office Phone	Office Contact
Aerospace	414 Dougherty Building	(865)974-5115	Cheryl Treece
Biomedical	414 Dougherty Building	(865)974-5115	Cheryl Treece
Biosystems	101 BEES Building	(865)974-7266	Dr. Daniel Yoder
Chemical	419 Dougherty Building	(865)974-2421	Cristina Wilson
Computer Engineering	414 Ferris Hall	(865)974-3461	Julia Elkins
Computer Science	414 Ferris Hall	(865)974-3461	Julia Elkins
Electrical	414 Ferris Hall	(865)974-3461	Julia Elkins
Industrial	202 Estabrook Hall	(865)974-4008	Angela Miller
Materials Science	434 Dougherty Building	(865)974-5335	Carla Lawrence or Susan Seymour
Mechanical	414 Dougherty Building	(865)974-5115	Cheryl Treece
Nuclear	315 Pasqua Hall	(865)974-2525	Lydia Salmon-Wright

Seminar Announcements

Materials Graduate Seminar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Monday, September 19, 2011
9 a.m. Dougherty Engineering Building Room 405
Speaker: Kevin Chou, Mechanical Engineering Department
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Diamond-coated Cutting Tool Research at The University of Alabama

Chemical-vapor-deposition grown diamond has a potential to replace costly polycrystalline diamond tools for advanced machining applications. Despite diamond coating’s superior tribological properties, the practical applications of diamond coating on cutting tools, however, remain limited by several technological challenges including adhesion strengths, residual stresses and tool geometry design. Coating delamination is the major life-limiting factor to diamond coated carbide tools in machining. The interface failure results from insufficient adhesion, deposition stresses and machining loads. Moreover, diamond coated tool behaviors are influenced by both the coating and the subsequent machining process, and the tool edge geometry strongly impacts the stress fields around the cutting edge during each process.

His group has studied diamond-coated tools for about six years with collaborations with industries, national labs, and other universities, to investigate several critical aspects of diamond-coated cutting tools. In this presentation, methodologies undertaken and results from recent studies will be discussed:
(1) Diamond coated tool fabrications and characterizations,
(2) Diamond coated tool performance with the edge radius effects,
(3) Cutting simulations with a diamond-coated tool including deposition residual stresses, and
(4) Adhesion characterizations and interface behavior modeling.

Biography: Dr. Kevin Chou is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Alabama (UA). He is also a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue University. Chou’s research/teaching interests include design and manufacturing, CAD/CAM, mechanics, tribology and materials. His current research areas include diamond-coated cutting tools, electron beam additive fabrication technology, nanotechnology enabled prosthesis supported by NSF, NASA, NIH as well as industry. His research group has published over 75 refereed articles and delivered over 60 presentations in national and international conferences. Chou is also an active member of ASME, SME and ASM-International.

Contact: Dr. Yanfei Gao, [log in to unmask]

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Materials Graduate Seminar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
1:25 p.m. Dougherty Engineering Building Room 612
Speaker: Dr. Maria Troparevsky

Tuning the Electronic and Chemical Properties of MetalNanoparticle Dimers by Modifying Their Electronic Coupling

A fundamental challenge in the field of nanotechnology is tuning the properties of nanoparticles. In particular, controlling the ability of metal nanoparticle aggregates to bind molecular species is key to tuning their catalytic activity. Although several variables have been explored to achieve this goal, none have provided a way of modifying their chemical reactivity in real time. Based on density functional theory calculations, we show that the binding energies of molecular species on metal nanoparticle dimers can be readily tuned by varying the electronic coupling between the nanoparticles. The changes in the electronic coupling can be achieved by either varying the inter-particle separation or, for a fixed inter-particle separation, by applying modest values of an electric field. We show that by applying an electric field to a weakly coupled dimer the binding energies of an oxygen molecule can be driven from negative to positive values. Our findings point to novel ways of tuning the chemical reactivity of metal nanoparticle aggregates, which will enable the dynamic control of chemical reactions.

Biography: Dr. Claudia Troparevsky got her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from University of Minnesota in 2003. Since then, she has worked in a number of research groups at the Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her recent and past work deals primarily with the theoretical modeling of the electronic, optical and chemical properties of metal and semiconducting nanoparticles. She has published about 15 papers and given numerous professional presentations. She is now a research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UT, while still having a strong collaborative effort with the Materials Theory Group of ORNL.

Contact: Dr. Peter Liaw, [log in to unmask], 974-6356

Career Services Announcements

Fall 2011 Job Fair
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011
2-6 p.m.
Thompson-Boling Arena

More than 160 companies are currently registered for the job fair and are looking to fill full-time post-graduation, short-term contract and internship positions.

Sample employers include:

• Altec Industries
• AREVA
• Avery Dennison
• Bechtel Corporation
• Belden
• BNSF Railway
• CGI
• ConAgra Foods
• Dell
• DENSO Manufacturing
• Eaton Electrical
• Enercon Services
• Gerdau
• International Paper
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• National Nuclear Security Administration
• NAVSEA-NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD
• Norfolk Southern Corporation
• Novelis
• Oak Ridge National Lab
• PolyOne Corporation
• Sargent & Lundy
• Schlumberger
• URS Corporation
• AND MORE: Log onto www.career.utk.edu

Dress professionally, and bring extra copies of your resume!

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ATTENTION INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MAJORS

Don’t forget to attend the Logistics Fair
Monday, Sept. 26, 2011
4-6 p.m.
Thompson-Boling Arena

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Upcoming Employer Information Sessions

Dell Corporation
Sept. 26, 2011, 6 p.m., University Center Shiloh Room
Find out about exciting opportunities with this company.

Microsoft Corporation
Sept. 26, 2011, 7:30 p.m., Claxton 206
Find out about exciting internship and full-time opportunities in technology (ideal for CS, Computer Engineering and EE students).

Central Intelligence Agency
Sept. 26, 2011, 7:30 p.m., UC Crest Room
Find out about exciting full-time opportunities with this agency as logistics officers (ideal for IEs).

Johnson & Johnson
Sept. 27, 2011, 7:15 p.m., UC 227
Find out about exciting full-time and internship opportunities with this company.

National Instruments
Sept. 27, 2011, 8 p.m., UC 221
Find out about exciting full-time opportunities.

Missile Defense Agency Teleconference
Oct. 4, 2011, 6 p.m., UC Shiloh Room
MDA plans to hire 30+ full-time management development associates for its agency by February 2012. This position is open to all engineering majors. Come learn about this exciting full-time post-graduation program.

Zimmer Corporation
Oct. 10, 2011, 6 p.m., UC 226
Find out about full-time post-graduation opportunities. Students must attend the information session to sign-up for interviews with Zimmer (ideal for Biomedical Engineers and MEs).

Amazon
Oct. 12, 2011, 5:30 p.m., UC Crest Room
Find out about full-time and internship opportunities for area managers (ideal for IEs and MEs).

Schlumberger
Oct. 13, 2011, 6:30 p.m., UC 223-224
Find out about exciting full-time and internship opportunities with this company.

Additional employer information sessions and events may be found in your HIRE-A-VOL account by searching under Events and Information Sessions.

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