Category Archives: Students
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.
UT SAMPE Finishes in the Top Three at Conference
Members of UT’s Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) student chapter attended the SAMPE 2022 Conference and Exhibition.

Vols Experience Success and Engineering Fellowship in ASCE Event
CEE undergraduates placed high in four competitions at the 2022 ASCE Mid-South Student Symposium at Arkansas State University.