For the week of April 28, 2017
News on the Tickle College of Engineering, Faculty, Speakers, Students, Opportunities and Events
Note: The last @TCE of the semester will be distributed next week on May 5. Distribution will resume every other week during the summer semester.
The @TCE e-newsletter is published each Friday during the UT semester. Please send submissions to Randall
Brown in the Engineering Communications Office at [log in to unmask] by noon on the Thursdays before distribution.
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TCE Students Show
Off Research at EUReCA
Seventy six students from the Tickle College of Engineering presented their research and design posters at the 2017 EUReCA Awards in
April. This is a record number for the college and an increase over the 46 who participated last year. The judges were impressed with the overall quality of the posters presented.
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ExxonMobil Foundation
Gift Will Impact Across UT, TCE
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The ExxonMobil Foundation presented its Educational Matching Grant check to UT on April 20, 2017. The $214,350 check represents
gifts made in support of UT by ExxonMobil employees, which are subsequently matched 300% by the ExxonMobil Foundation. Many allocations throughout the Tickle College of Engineering benefit from this matching grant program, including the College Fund for Tickle
Engineering, the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Fund, and many endowments that support academic programs or scholarships. From left above are: Assistant Professor Colin Sumrall, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Professor Paul D. Frymier,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Andrea Gerrity (BS Engr Sci ’90), Interdependent Projects Process Manager, ExxonMobil; Dean Wayne T. Davis; Professor Mary Collins Holcomb, Haslam College of Business; and Rickey McCallum,
associate director of corporate and foundations relations.
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Hazen Speaks at DOE
Conference
Terry Hazen, Governor’s Chair Professor for Environmental Biotechnology, delivered an invited plenary talk for more than 500 scientists
at the Bolger Conference Center in Potomac, Maryland, on April 25 during the 2017 DOE TES/SBR Joint Investigators Meeting. Hazen spoke on the “ENIGMA Project: Lab to Field and Back — Environmental System Microbiome.”
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Simpson Receives
FLC Award
John Simpson, a research professor with the Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, received a national Federal Laboratory
Consortium award for excellence in government technology transfer. The award was presented Wednesday, April 26, at the 2017 FLC Annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The award is based on work he did as a senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab
and is a result of a licensed patent of a superhydrophobic optical think film. This patent was licensed by Samsung, and will likely be incorporated into their smart phone and other display technologies in the near future.
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Prescott Gives Seminar
Aaron Prescott, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will speak on "Characterizing Signal Transduction
Networks Using Computer Simulations and Machine Learning" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, in Room 416 of the Dougherty Engineering Building.
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UTSI Graduate Students
Win Presentation Competition
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The University of Tennessee Space Institute held its second annual "Susan and Jimmy Wu Student Presentation Competition"
on April 7, 2017. Fourteen graduate students participated in the competition, each giving a 10-minute presentation, followed by a 5-minute Q&A from observers and judges. The winners received travel awards. E. Lara Lash won the PhD category and received a $2,000
travel award. Charles Bond and Adam Harris tied in the master's degree category, each receiving a $500 travel award. The competition was an open forum, where the graduate students presented their research in a competition-based format.
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Reception Scheduled
for UTSI Graduates
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will host a reception for graduates in the auditorium of the Academic Building from 3– 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 8, 2017. Ron Litchford, principal technologist for Propulsion, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA, will be the guest speaker.
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ORNL-PSCC Shuttle
Summer Schedule Announced
The ORNL-PSCC shuttle will operate from Tuesday, May 30, through Friday, August 11, 2017, to compliment summer class schedules.
The shuttle does not operate on holidays, administrative days, or school breaks.
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Student News and Opportunity
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Co-op Students Earn
First Place in Virtual Hackathon
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UT students Simon Boka and John Burns, along with Phillip Little (Clemson) and Andrew Bathon (ETSU), won first place in
the 2017 OSI Users Conference Visualization Virtual Hackathon. The co-op students work on the OSIsoftInterface and AF Development Teams in Johnson City,
Tennessee. The team submitted "Project-Operation-PI-Tango-Doom-3D," – a proof-of-concept for determining if Google's new Augmented Reality project, Google Tango, would be useful and applicable to consumers of PI and its systems. The Virtual Hackathon was the
first of its kind at this year’s User Conference and lasted for the three weeks leading up to the Conference. From left above are Andrew Bathon, Phillip Little, and UT students John Burns and Simon Boka.
Engineering
Professional Practice
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Gautam Receives Chancellor’s
2017 Citation
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of Tennessee Space Institute graduate student Ghaneshwar Gautam was recently awarded the Chancellor's 2017 citation for "Extraordinary Professional Promise" at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet. This honor is awarded to students who demonstrate professional
promise in their work, for instance, outstanding research contributions.
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First Destination
Survey: Where Are You Going First?
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The First Destination Survey helps UT's Center for Career Development create a "big picture" of Vol students' post-graduation
plans. This data is collected to note salary averages, geographic preferences, benchmarking, to report to ranking organizations, and to assess areas of improvement—all of which are helpful for prospective students, current students, new alumni, and employers.
This survey is completely confidential and information is collected in an aggregate/anonymous manner and is given in compliance with federal and state regulations.
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Applying for 2017
Fulbright, Rhodes, and Others
The UT Post-Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships Campus Pre-Application is live. Deadline is May 8, 2017. UT students—undergrads,
recent grads, and grad students—interested in applying in 2017 for the Fulbright, UK
& Ireland Scholarships (Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, Gates Cambridge), Schwarzman, or the new Knight-Hennessy
program must first complete a brief online pre-application found here.
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Engineering Mentor
Program
The Engineering Mentor Program (EMP) looks for current first year and incoming students to become mentees and current second, third,
and fourth+ year students to become mentors. Mentees choose their own personal mentor based off a profile developed from the application process. The mentor helps their mentees by being a source of information and answering questions that sometimes aren’t
discussed in orientation or class. For mentors, EMP provides an opportunity to be that guidance for one’s underclassmen counterparts that they themselves may have needed when they started out in engineering.
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Talent Connect Opportunity
Talent Connect 2017 is a program designed to familiarize college students from around the southeastern United States with the Johnson
City, Tennessee, area, its top employers, and the limitless career paths available there. The program's main goal is to recruit the top graduates in various engineering (mechanical, mechatronics, robotics, industrial, electrical, etc.), business, and finance
fields for the northeast Tennessee regional workforce. Prospective students will not only be given a chance to become familiar with the beautiful Johnson City Tennessee area but also have the opportunity to explore employment options with top local companies
such as NN, Inc., AO Smith, General Shale, Nuclear Fuel Services, Snap-On, and many more.
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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, visiting its website at www.coop.utk.edu, or calling 865-974-5323.
Featured Student: Spencer Miller
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Tennessee, who worked as a co-op student at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport.
Miller worked specifically in the Control Systems Support Department in the PLC/ Hardware Group. The main focus was supporting the hardware and software on the control systems and supporting the programmable logic controllers at Eastman.
His main responsibilities included installing a cooling system on an electrical cabinet, collecting PLC software inventory for the entire plant site, uploading and categorizing a large amount of PLC manuals to the company website, creating and wiring a relay
simulation, adding electronic badge access to two of our group's buildings, and changing the wiring for the outside lights in the building.
Miller was also given the opportunity to shadow fellow employees, giving him an opportunity to learn from them and grow from their experiences. A big challenge he faced during his assignment was little knowledge of technical electric. This limited the complexity
of the assignments he was able to do but by shadowing other employees, it was possible to gain the basics of industrial electrical skills and knowledge.
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],
865-974-5323, or 110 Perkins Hall.
Students may read more about their peers' co-op experiences by logging into their Engineering Professional Practice profile via 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] or
865-974-5323.
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