Steve Borden led the response effort to rebuild the roadway system in upper East TN in the wake of Hurricane Helene. His team included three other CEE graduates.

Department Head Chris Cox received the American Society of Civil Engineers Knoxville Branch’s Daryl Armentrout Award for Distinguished Service.

UT is collaborating with the City of Knoxville and a local nonprofit partner to plant trees and cultivate greater awareness of urban forestry careers.

A multidisciplinary team is using their individual expertises to develop a decision support tool for row crop producers facing short-term weather extremes.

PhD student Allison Rewalt has been selected for the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Pedestrians, ultimately striving for bus stop safety.

CEE Professor Christopher Cherry and EECS Associate Professor Hector Pulgar have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2025-26 academic year.

Three professors at UT Knoxville and their collaborators at NTT DATA were awarded $500K to create a public-facing disaster management and preparedness platform.

Haochen Li is developing a deep learning empowered flood hazard forecasting system for the East TN area that is more accurate than current flood risk models.

Saurav Parajuli published a paper about his pedestrian safety in South Asia research, addressing a need for data in low-income countries to prevent fatalities. 

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.