Category Archives: Students
UT Research Team Creating Innovative, Eco-Friendly Concrete Mixtures
A group from CEE is working with the Tennessee Department of Transportation to develop new concrete mixtures that will be more eco-friendly and cost efficient.
Hightower, Whitehouse Awarded Prestigious Eisenhower Fellowships
UT graduate students Ashley Hightower and Grace Whitehouse both received prestigious Eisenhower fellowship grants to help fund their research in the transportation field. Hightower received the maximum amount awarded.
Waste Makes Haste: Sewage and Swift Action Helped Control the Spread of Covid-19
PhD student Ye Li’s work with wastewater during the Covid-19 pandemic helped keep UT safe—and just revealed new opportunities for studying the virus’s spread.
2023–2024 CEE Student Scholarship Reception
The department celebrated its 2023–2024 student scholarship recipients with a reception in the Zeanah Engineering Complex.
Napper Shares Research on Better Building Materials in Posters at the Capitol Event
Caleb Napper, a senior in civil engineering, recently presented his poster along with 10 other UT students at the Posters at the Capitol event.
CEE Students, Brakewood Earn William Millar Award for Paper
UT’s Candace Brakewood led a team that won the Transportation Research Board’s William Millar Award, the second year in a row a team from her group has done so.
UT ASCE Student Chapter is Celebrating 100 Years!
This April, UT’s ASCE Student chapter will celebrate 100 years of membership. Were you a member of ASCE as a student and would like to share your memories?
CEE Welcomes New Initiates to Chi Epsilon
Five UT undergraduates were recently inducted into Chi Epsilon, the national honor society for civil engineering.
Fly-by Inspections
Khalid Alshibli led graduate students on how to use remote controlled drones to capture thermal images of steam pipes that help power UT’s infrastructure.
UT’s Strong Showing at TSITE Summer Meeting
Members of UT’s Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter received several awards and scholarships at the TSITE Summer Meeting.