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Having trouble viewing this e-mail? View it in your browser.<http://www.engr.utk.edu/news/atcoe/atcoe_05_17_13.html> [The University of Tennessee, Knoxville]<http://www.utk.edu> [@COE newsletter of the UT College of Engineering]<http://www.engr.utk.edu/> [175th Year of Engineering] 175 Years of Engineering<http://www.engr.utk.edu/175/> For the week of May 17, 2013 @COE<http://www.engr.utk.edu/news/atcoe/index.html> is published every two weeks during the summer months. The next edition will be distributed on Friday, May 31. Please send submissions to Randall Brown in the Engineering Communications Office at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by noon on the Thursdays before distribution. [Sudarsanam Suresh Babu] Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu COE names new Governor's Chair in advanced manufacturing The University of Tennessee College of Engineering has named Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu as the new Governor's Chair in Advanced Manufacturing, effective July 1, 2013. He will also be a professor based in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE) at UT and will have a joint professorship with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). As a Governor's Chair, he will also have an appointment in the Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate and in the Advanced Manufacturing Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Babu, a former professor in the Welding Engineering Program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU), directed a National Science Foundation Industry and University Cooperative Research (IUCRC) center centered on materials joining for energy applications. Read more >><http://www.engr.utk.edu/news/releases/babu_mabe_governors_chair.html> FACULTY & STAFF NEWS [Jason Hayward] Dr. Jason Hayward Hayward receives DOE Early Career Research Award Dr. Jason Hayward, UCOR Faculty Fellow in Nuclear Engineering, has received the US Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Award. A UT professor whose research on neutron imaging could improve medical imaging and high-mileage electric vehicles, Hayward will receive $750,000 over five years starting in July. The award is granted to researchers in universities and the department’s national laboratories. It supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the department’s Office of Science. Read more >><http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2013/05/10/professor-receives-department-energys-early-career-award/> [Howard Hall] Dr. Howard Hall Hall named Distinguished Alumni at College of Charleston Dr Howard Hall, Governor's Chair Professor in Global Nuclear Security, was named the 2013 College of Charleston<http://www.cofc.edu/> Distinguished Alumni of the Honors College. Hall will attend the college's commencement this week in Charleston, South Carolina. Hall says that when he was in the program it involved only about a dozen students, and it now has more than 1,000. STUDENT NEWS [Crushing] An image from the animation of the DEM simulation in the paper by Mehmit Cil and Dr. Khalid Alshibli CEE student and professor earn notice for recent paper A paper authored by Mehmet Cil, PhD student in civil engineering, and advisor Dr. Khalid Alshibli has been recently published in Geotechnique Letters, an archive journal published by the British Institution of Civil Engineers. Titled "3D Assessment of Fracture of Sand Particles Using Discrete Element Method," it has been selected by the Journal Advisory Panel among the best papers published in volume 2, 2012<http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/info/EditorsPickGeoletters>. The paper focuses on using the discrete element method (DEM) to model fracture behavior of silica sand and compare the model predictions with 3D computed tomography images of sand. An animation of the DEM simulation of particle fracture was also chosen to be displayed as the featured image of the month on the journal's home page<http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/serial/geolett>. Read more about the paper >><http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/geolett.12.00024> [KSEA] CEE grad student earns KSEA scholarship Taekwan Yoon, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering studying with Dr. Chris Cherry, earned one of twenty national scholarships offered by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association<http://www.ksea.org/> (KSEA). Yoon will receive the certificate and scholarship at the UKC 2013 conference in New Jersey, August 7-11, 2013<http://ukc.ksea.org/UKC2013/index.php>. The KUSCO-KSEA scholarships are for graduate students in the US of Korean heritage, or any graduate student in the US whose work is related to Korea-US science and technology cooperation. [Vincent Kandagor] Vincent Kandagor Grad student wins best poster at AFSC Vincent Kandagor, a fourth-year PhD student with the Bredesen Center Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education<http://bredesencenter.utk.edu/index.php>, and affiliated with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, recently won the Best Poster Award at the American Filtration Society Conference<http://spring.afssociety.org/>, held May 6-9, 2013, in Bloomington, Minnesota. Kandagor's major is energy science and engineering. His winning poster was titled "Momolayer Polymeric Coating to Enhance the Performance and Service Lfe of Membranes for High Temperature Biomass Pretreatment." The prize was $500. Recent engineering grad plans to tackle the Appalachian Trail Ryan Ankabrandt, who just received his MS degree in civil engineering at the May commencement, will travel to Maine to begin a hike of the entire Appalachian Trail. The trail begins on Mount Katahdin (Baxter State Park) in Maine and extends 2,200 miles to Springer Mountain (Amicalola Falls State Park) in northern Georgia. The trek is expected to take approximately five months. EVENTS [Tao Lowe] Dr. Tao Lowe IBME presents biomaterials seminar Dr. Tao L. Lowe, an sssociate professor of pharmaceutical sciences and biomedical engineering with the UT Health Science Center, will speak on "Craft Materials to Overcome Biological Barriers and Regenerate Tissues" 1:00-2:00 p.m. Thursday, May 23, in Room 319 of Perkins Hall. The seminar will be presented by the Institute of Biomedical Engineering<http://ibme.utk.edu>. Read more >><http://www.engr.utk.edu/enews/seminars/tao_lowe_seminar.html> CURENT offers renewable energy lesson for elementary-school students and hosts Science Summer Camp for middle-school girls [CURENT]A goal of the CURENT<http://curent.utk.edu> research center is to better integrate renewable energy into the grid, and that includes solar power. The center recently took that message to Sequoyah Elementary School and gave seventy fifth grade students a fun lesson in solar energy. The science classes listened to a brief presentation on solar energy from UT graduate student Terence Randall. Afterwards, they got to work building their own solar-powered cars. Read more >><http://curent.utk.edu/news/press-releases/sequoyah-elementary-students-get-a-lesson-in-renewable-energy/> CURENT<http://curent.utk.edu> and NIMBioS<http://www.nimbios.org/> have teamed up with 4-H this year to create another fun and educational summer day program for middle school-aged girls. "Adventures in STEM" will be June 3-7, 2013, in the Min H. Kao Building. Students will be immersed in a week full of hands-on activities, lab visits, and team projects in UT labs and classrooms that expose the exciting challenges of being a scientist or researcher. Read more >><http://curent.utk.edu/education/pre-college/adventures-in-stem-camp/> NSF science & engineering challenge is open [NSF]The National Science Foundation (NSF) presents the Tenth Anniversary International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, open for submissions through September 30, 2013. Judges appointed by NSF and the journal Science will select winners in five categories: photography, illustration, posters & graphics, games & apps, and video. The winning entries will appear in a special section of Science (with one entry chosen for the front cover) and be hosted at ScienceMag.org<http://www.sciencemag.org> and NSF.gov<http://www.nsf.gov>. In addition, each winner will receive a one-year online subscription to Science and a certificate of appreciation. Enter here >><https://nsf-scivis.skild.com/skild2/nsf2013/loginPage.action> Read more >><http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/challenge.jsp> STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES Alternative summer-break trip offered for engineering students [Cusco] "Alternative Summer Break in Peru," based in Cusco, is scheduled for August 10-17, 2013. It includes dormitory accommodations with three meals per day; an engineering-related service project in the mornings; cultural activities in the afternoon, including a Peru city tour. Approximate cost is $1,550 plus air fare. Approximately 50% of participants' time will be spent on an engineering-related service project, with the remaining time devoted to cultural activities and free time. The project will take place in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Activity examples during the service project include constructing a canopy tower in the Amazon, building a structure over an oxbow lake as part of a wetland monitoring project, construction of biogarden roofs, and construction of a catamaran. For the cultural portion of the trip, participants will visit Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, tour an off-the-grid eco lodge, and explore the Amazon rainforest. A limited number of scholarships are available for these trips, in amounts up to $500 each. If interested, contact Judith Mallory at 865-974-9234 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Call for papers for CISPEE The First International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE)<http://www.isep.ipp.pt/cispee/> will take place in Porto, Portugal, on October 31 and November 1 with the theme "Education in Engineering: Challenges for Innovation." The deadlines for submission of full papers is June 2, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent on July 21, 2013. Read more >><http://www.isep.ipp.pt/cispee/> Design Thinking and Innovation class offered this summer The course "Design Thinking and Innovation" (IDS 425, Section 502) will be offered during the second summer section July 8-August 9. The course will be team instructed by Tom Graves, from the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Business College, and David Matthews from the College of Architecture and Design. Students will experience creativity, innovation, and solve real-world problems in a project-based collaborative, multidisciplinary learning environment applicable for all majors at all levels. This course provides a team-based approach to Design Thinking and innovation. Through collaborative activities that emphasize creative problem solving skills the students will learn and apply various proven techniques that can be used in their future classes and careers and complete implementable projects that explore new-idea evaluation, feasibility analysis, prototyping, and iterative thinking. The class will meet from 9:00 a.m.-noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Room 229 of the Art and Architecture Building. [Engineering Professional Practice] Stay up-to-date with Engineering Professional Practice information and events by clicking the “Like” button on the program’s Facebook page<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Knoxville-TN/Engineering-Professional-Practice/151569844861353>, following the program on Twitter<http://twitter.com/UTprofpractice>, visiting its website at www.coop.utk.edu<http://www.coop.utk.edu>, or calling 865-974-5323. Students, please note: If you receive a co-op or internship offer, please contact Engineering Professional Practice for help with paperwork and any preparations you may need – [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 865-974-5323, or 310 Perkins Hall. Featured co-op student: Garrett Massman [Garrett Massman]Our student this week is Garrett Massman, at left and below, an electrical engineering major who accepted a co-op at Siemens Medical Solutions located in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Massman describes the department he worked in and what his main responsibilities were. “I work in PET Sustaining, and I deal mostly with equipment failures," he said. "If any electrical component of the PET scanner fails either on the testing floor or in the field, it is returned to our group for troubleshooting and evaluation. Much of my time is spent running tests on the equipment: this includes putting them on custom functional test sets, testing the components on a fully enabled PET gantry, and even digging around inside a board with an oscilloscope in search of faulty signals. After a part is evaluated, various forms are filled out and the component is sent on its way. Outside of sustaining, I also worked with some of the teams up and coming projects, which included writing VHDL to control LEDs on a system and testing various supplier cables for quality.” [Garrett Massman]The most valuable benefit Massman received during his co-op assignment was developing an appreciation for group work. "A system as complicated as PET could not be built by one person, and good communication skills is a necessity when it comes to creating a good design. Everybody has their strengths and weaknesses, and working in a group can accentuate both. Above anything, treat others with respect and do a good job when they need it. They could be your boss one day!” Students may read more about their peers' co-op experiences by logging into their Engineering Professional Practice profile via www.coop.utk.edu<http://www.coop.utk.edu>, clicking “Resource Library” (on the left margin) and selecting “Students at Work–In Their Own Words.” For information on engineering co-op and internships, contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 865-974-5323. [VolsTeach] What else can you do with your major? You can now receive your degree and a secondary education teaching license with VolsTeach. The VolsTeach program is available to Math and Science majors who wish to expand their career options by earning a secondary education teaching license. Given the current economy VolsTeach offers one degree with two career paths which will make you more competitive in the future job market. VolsTeach provides: * early and frequent field experiences * personal guidance by Master Teachers and program advisors * the opportunity to have paid exclusive internships during regular and summer terms * a comfortable learning environment that will further enhance your professional skill set [VolsTeach]<http://www.engr.utk.edu/news/atcoe/pdf/VolsTeachFA12flyer.pdf>This is your opportunity to be a part of the program. VolsTeach is open to freshmen, sophomores and juniors who are ready to start a journey that will give them a chance to connect with the community. Become a part of this exciting venture by signing up for the Fall Step 1 course now. Click on the flyer at left for registration information. For more information contact VolsTeach Coach, Jada Johnson at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit the program's Facebook page, VolsTeach, for current events, and the program's website, http://volsteach.utk.edu. [Career Services]<http://www.career.utk.edu> Career Services News Attention: Seniors & Graduate Students Graduating in May 2013 Don’t forget to complete the Post-Graduation Survey. Congratulations from all of us in the UT Career Services Office upon your upcoming graduation! It has been our pleasure to work with many of you, and we wish you the best in your life and new endeavors! In order to keep Career Services’ records up-to-date and provide the best service to you, please take a moment to fill out the Post-Graduation Survey via HIRE-A-VOL. To complete the survey log in to your Hire-A-Vol student or alumni account: *Log into MY UTK at http://www.utk.edu and search under Academic Links for the HIRE-A-VOL link *Under Your Profile on the HIRE-A-VOL Homepage, click on View/Edit your Profile *Click on Employment & Continued Education On the survey page, please click on Add An Employment Reporting or View Details under Continued Education and fill out your placement information.** Please be aware that your data is confidential and will not be shared with other departments. This data is collected in an aggregate/anonymous manner and is used for purposes that include salary averages, geographic preference, benchmarking and reporting to ranking organization. **If you have any difficulties accessing our survey, you may also e-mail your placement data to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Please include your name, e-mail address, employment status (Still seeking, Graduate School, Internship/Summer Job, Out of Job Market, Employed), Company or Grad School, Salary/Wage, Location of new job or Grad School. ________________________________ Fall 2013 Important Recruiting Dates: Career Services Kick-Off Cookout, 11:00-2:00 p.m. Thursday, August 29, outside Dunford Hall. Stop by for free hotdogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers and more! All provided by our Corporate Sponsors. Part-Time Job Fair, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 4, UC Ballroom. Looking for a part-time on-campus or off-campus job? Consider attending this event to learn more about opportunities in the area. Engineering Career Success Week: September 16th-September 19, TBA-Watch the Career Services website at www.career.utk.edu<http://www.career.utk.edu> for a list of scheduled events. Logistics Fair (for IE and ME majors interested in operations positions), 4:00-6:00 p.m. Monday, September 23, Thompson-Boling Arena. Fall Job Fair, 2:00-6:00 Tuesday, September 24, Thompson-Boling Arena. Open to all majors, all levels, students and alumni. Donald Asher’s Applying for Highly Competitive Graduate Schools Presentation, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 2, UC Auditorium. Social Impact Fair, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 9, UC Ballroom. Find about jobs that make the difference. ________________________________ For more information, contact April Gonzalez , Career Services Consultant, College of Engineering at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 865-974-5435. Check out www.career.utk.edu<http://www.career.utk.edu> for a list of all upcoming events. [Multicultural Student Life]The Office of Multicultural Student Life offers these academic services<http://multicultural.utk.edu/as_home.php>. Vols Success Seminars: During the Spring semester, in collaboration with the Student Success Center and other campus departments, Vols Success Seminars will be offered to all UT students. This series of workshops is designed to equip all students with the knowledge and resources to be successful, inside and outside of the classroom at the UT. Students can register in advance for each workshop at multicultural.utk.edu<http://multicultural.utk.edu/> or studentsuccess.utk.edu<http://studentsuccess.utk.edu>. View the Vols Success Seminars Spring 2013 calendar >><http://multicultural.utk.edu/docs/VolsSuccess.pdf> CONTACT US <http://www.engr.utk.edu/>Office of Engineering Communications<http://www.engr.utk.edu/news/oec.html> 207 Perkins Hall | Knoxville, TN 37996-0184 E-mail: Send submissions for @COE to Randall Brown, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: 865-974-0533 | Fax: 865-946-2560 Big Orange. 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