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Engage Engineering Fundamentals Lecturer Spotlight: Amy Biegalski

Amy Biegalski—or “Dr. B,” as she is known to her students—came to UT because of her love of teaching and her love of the outdoors. She enjoys teaching Engineering Fundamentals (EF) classes at UT because of the “enthusiasm, energy, and dedication” of the students. According to Dr. B, EF is vitally important because it introduces…
Makers Club Helping Turn Student Ideas Into Reality

A recently formed club at UT has provided students with an outlet to bring their ideas to life via a mix of traditional and cutting-edge manufacturing methods. The Makers Club began last semester with the goal of bringing together students and faculty interested in the makers movement, a group united by the idea of people…
Million-Dollar Idea Helps Fulfill Tennessee Promise

A new program designed to help Tennessee’s community college students better navigate the transition to the University of Tennessee has gained $1 million in support and recognition from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Following the establishment of the Tennessee Promise program, which provides two years of free community college to the state’s students, faculty…
Fall Engineering Fundamentals Projects

EF 152 fall semester teams participated in a semester-long team project developing and building an innovative new toy. The students’ work was showcased in a November Toy Fair where they were reviewed and ranked by professors and peers in different categories based on their product prototype, marketing videos, and poster talks. Toys ranged from Apps,…
EF 230 Projects Featured on Instructables Site

As part of the documentation for student projects from Amy Biegalski’s EF 230 class, students can create an “Instructable.” Instructables.com is a website for sharing step-by-step instructions for DIY projects. Six student teams were awarded a spot on the site’s featured page. EF 230 students have two large projects. One is to use an Arduino or Raspberry Pi…
Ladies Night in the Innovation and Collaboration Studio

This year, we hosted our first workshop series geared towards teaching basic workshop and maker skills to ladies in the EF program. The intention of the program was to give Engineering Fundamentals program ladies a safe place to learn hands-on skills, meet other ladies in the program, and build something for their personal use. Over…
The Math Behind Vols Perfect Play

Pierce Anderson, a freshman in the college, ran the math behind Josh Dobbs’ improbable last-second game-winning touchdown pass to Jauan Jennings. “I decided to calculate the optimal velocity for the pass for a few reasons,” Anderson said. “Primarily, we were learning about projectile motion in EF 151 at the time of the game, so it…
Students in the Engage LLC Visit ORNL and MABEline

The 2015-2016 school year was very exciting in the Engage/RISER LLC. This year, approximately 189 students lived in the Engage/RISER LLC in Morrill Hall. Our advisory board, consisting of student RA’s, EF faculty, and staff, as well as representatives from UT Housing planned a number of great events for students to participate in. Over two semesters,…
McCord Invited to Prestigious National Academy of Engineering Event

A member of the Tickle College of Engineering faculty will have a chance to shape engineering education, thanks to an invitation from the National Academy of Engineering, the premier engineering group in the United States. Rachel McCord, a lecturer in the college’s Engineering Fundamentals Division, was selected to attend the NAE’s seventh Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium…
Schleter Presents Two Papers at FYEE

Will Schleter presented two papers at the First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) conference, August 7-8, at Texas A&M University. One paper was “Effectively Using Online Homework,” and presented some of the recent enhancement to our online homework system and an assessment of their effectiveness. Some of the enhancements discussed included linking to previous semesters of…