Category Archives: Faculty
Zhou’s Team Creates Mossy Tiles to Cool Cities
After two years, three postdocs in Nick Zhou’s lab are ready to put PhantoM to its first real-world test, turning a shed into a self-sustaining moss garden.
CEE PhD Student Heads Bone Modeling Study
A team headed by PhD student Debangshu Paul incorporated goat studies and human medicine to create the first open source model predicting tibia fractures.
Rexhausen Presents Work in Puerto Rico
Postdoctoral fellow Victoria Rexhausen traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico to present her research at the 7th Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology.
Mobley Earns State Educational Award
Senior lecturer Sarah Mobley was awarded the 2024 American Society of Civil Engineers-Outstanding Engineering Educator award for the state of Tennessee.
Calderón’s Research Seeks to Ease Freight Congestion
Oriana Calderón is an expert in freight resiliency and sustainable transportation. Since product delivery is high, she’s finding solutions to ease congestion.
Water Course Improves Local Watercourse
John Schwartz’s students helped Knoxville secure a federal grant to clean up Turkey Creek. This spring, Schwartz brings a new generation of Vols to the project.
New Instron Impact Tester Upgrades Undergrad Safety, Job Readiness
An anonymous donor has gifted CEE a state-of-the-art impact tester that will increase lab safety, expand the curriculum, and enable new materials research.
NSF Grants He $760,000 for Improved Microbial Methanogenesis
After 15 years, Qiang He’s group is perfecting a novel method of creating methanogenic microbial communities, which make renewable methane from organic waste.
Molding Future Job Candidates
A donation by Moldex3D, an industry-leading plastics flow simulation program, has benefited TCE faculty and students in their research over the last year. The tool has helped students become more marketable to future employers.
Fu Accepts Prestigious International Board Position
Joshua Fu was invited by the World Meteorological Organization to join the Research Board Task Team on Artificial Intelligence for Weather Forecast.