With the race on to close the gap between demand and supply of ventilators for COVID-19 patients around the world, expertise from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has jumped into a competition to design a game-changer. The “CoVent-19 Challenge,” launched on April 1, is hosted by medical residents in anesthesia at prestigious Massachusetts General…
UTC part of effort to manufacture face shields for medical personnel
UTC Professor Trevor Elliott is doing a lot to combat Coronavirus. He’s leading the University’s effort on a massively important project — using 3D printers to help make face shields for local health care workers.
Ashwyn Sam: Full-ride Knight-Hennessy scholarship pays for three years at Stanford
Ashwyn Sam admits it: He’s kind of a procrastinator. “I like to think that I like to work slow, but it’s actually procrastination,” he says with a smile in his voice. His drive to “work slow” is why, when he decided to apply to be one of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars for 2020—a scholarship worth…
Worldwide win spells relief for hard-working rocket team
Rocket Mocs team Andrew Byrd Sean Conway Jonathan DeGuzman Mason Gregoire Alex Trotter Ashwyn Sam, advisor and member of the 2018 Rocket Mocs Dillon Grider, advisor and member of 2017 Rocket Mocs John Brand, simulation advisor Trevor Elliott, UC Foundation assistant professor of UTC mechanical engineering Rocket Mocs sponsors Miller Industries: 3D Printing of nose…
Determination and dedication: Quitting was not an option for Chris Land
Chris Land wanted to be a mechanic. It was pretty much pre-destined. “Well, my whole life I have been raised in a mechanic family. So, I’ve always been under the hood of vehicles, but I planned on being a garage mechanic or something,” he said. But pre-destiny didn’t come true in his case. “When I…
New program trains students for wide-ranging mechatronics degree
Mechatronics covers a wide range of engineering disciplines—mechanical, electrical, robotics, computer science and machine design.
Engineering graduate heads into new ‘adventure’
Chantz Yanagida graduated from UTC this spring with a degree in mechanical engineering, but the future path of his life traces back to sixth-grade, a path that includes work with local, national and international companies and organizations. He gives a lot of credit to the College of Engineering and Computer Science and its Student Success…
Teachers taught to teach STEM subjects
A partnership between UTC and Chatt State offers bachelor’s degrees with STEM education concentrations in the following:
Never giving up is only part of this story: Mocs win national student rocket competition
From the pages of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine: The introduction to the Rocket Mocs, the UTC engineering team that vaulted a student-built rocket more than 11,000 feet.
Tech Symposium offers 130 student projects to local community
Engineering and computer science students from UTC displayed 130 projects at the second Tech Symposium in the downtown library.