UT is the lead organization on a DOE-funded project reusing waste plastic as a high-quality asphalt modifier, helping the environment & creating durable roadways.

In Haochen Li’s Ψ (Psi) Lab, undergrad Jeffrey Lind is simulating improvements to the unique Wells turbine, which captures wave energy from bidirectional winds.

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.

Zhou awarded $1.5 million to develop an innovative technique called Monolnsu that will insulate and seal a home’s exterior to reduce energy consumption by buildings.

Enexor BioEnergy and CEE’s Dayakar Penumadu have teamed up to design and build a combustion engine that can burn waste products with zero carbon emissions.

Doctoral student Debalina Ghosh developed a new concrete formula that both quickens the drying time of precast concrete and has a reduced carbon footprint.

Professor Qiang He and Assistant Professor Shuai Li received a RAPID Award to research disease-resistant infrastructure to mitigate the spread of infectious pathogens.

The failure of concrete in any form of construction is troubling enough, but add in the ‘failure-is-not-an-option’ component of nuclear […]

Terry Hazen, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology, was recently profiled on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory website. The profile […]

CEE professor Dayakar Penumadu will lead a joint investigation with ORNL and RMX Technologies to demonstrate standard modulus carbon fiber from textile PAN.