College of Engineering e-News • March 2014

Big Orange Give a Success!

Thank you to all of our alumni, faculty, and friends who supported the Big Orange Give campaign last fall. UT’s first Big Orange Give—a 125-hour online giving campaign—far exceeded its goals for fundraising and expanding its network of Big Orange donors. Held during homecoming week 2013, the campaign doubled the $125,000 goal, raising $250,105 from more than 1,640 donors from all fifty states and abroad.

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Joshua Dobbs: Dual Threat Engineer

Aerospace engineering major Robert "Joshua" Dobbs is a Chancellor's Honors College student and freshman quarterback for the UT Volunteers football team. Rigorous engineering programs and steady football practice are a heavy mix, but Dobbs might be living proof that aerospace engineering and football naturally fit together.
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Bioenergy Expert Named 15th Governor's Chair

Arthur Ragauskas, an authority in bioenergy, has been named the fifteenth UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair Professor, and the eleventh Governor's Chair in the College of Engineering. He will serve as Governor’s Chair for Biorefining, based in UT's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a complementary appointment in the UT Institute of Agriculture’s Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries. He begins at UT on June 1.
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Engineering Students Explore Strongwell Corporation During Recent Visit

College of Engineering Ambassadors and several scholarship recipients used their study day on December 4, 2013, to visit the Strongwell Corporation—a major industry leader, owned by a COE alumnus—and investigate engineering outside of their traditional classwork.

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Alumni in News Sentinel’s "Forty Under 40"

Four College of Engineering alumni were featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel's 2014 "40 Under 40" spotlight of individuals younger than 40 who are making an impression in the Knoxville area through their professional and philanthropic efforts.

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AIChE Students Earn Awards at Conference

A team of students from the UT College of Engineering AIChE Student Chapter returned from the 2013 AIChE National Conference in San Francisco with a list of awards to show for their attendance. This year our AIChE Student Chapter will be traveling to Puerto Rico for the 2014 Southern Regional Conference. The team was also featured in a set of YouTube videos related to the conference’s Chem-E Car Competition.

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Making an Impact:
Spotlight on Reinbolt and Tomsovic

College of Engineering professors Jeff Reinbolt, left, an assistant professor in biomedical engineering; and Kevin Tomsovic, right, the CTI Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of research institute CURENT, earn a spotlight for their teaching, research, and service.

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