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This coming Monday, March 9, Susan Troiler-McKinstry will be on campus to discuss switching in wurtzite ferroelectrics. Get more details at the link below 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4bqmghq

This Thursday, Mar. 5, Sujoy Roy from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will be on campus to discuss quantifying and extracting multi-scale information from nanoscale heterogeneity using coherent X-rays. Learn more at the link below! ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/4aKfbYT

Babak Anasori, Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, will be on campus this Thursday (Feb. 26) to discuss the composition–structure relationships in MXenes. Learn more at the link below 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4tLR1Vb

Tomorrow, Jin Hu, Associate Professor of Physics from the University of Arkansas, will be on campus to discuss his team's recent efforts to design, discover, and engineer topological and magnetic materials. Learn more at the link below! ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/4rUEBIK

Another #EngineeringVols success story: Jocelyn Hess, an MSE student set to graduate in May, was recently spotlighted for her research and experience across UT, ORNL, and labs in Germany. Read about her work and international collaborations below! 🔗 bit.ly/4sYIq1d

Congratulations to Professor Philip Rack on being the recipient of the Collaborative Leadership Award at the inaugural Collaborative Leadership Summit. Learn more at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/3LngqTx

Congratulations to #EngineeringVol Jocelyn Hess on receiving two awards at the Society of Plastic Engineering Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition! Hess was honored with the 2025 Graduate Award and 2025 Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. bit.ly/41XxIw0

MSE is proud to welcome Assistant Professor Weinan Xu and Assistant Teaching Professor Matthew Cothrine to our department this fall, bringing with them a range of expertise in various areas. Learn more about Xu and Cothrine at the link below! #TeamTCE 🔗 bit.ly/45Ml2dH

West Point cadet James Ross served an internship with MSE Professor Katharine Page’s group for the second straight summer at the Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (IAMM). #EngineeringVols 🔗 bit.ly/41kVr93

.@UTKnoxville recently hosted the biannual meeting of the Manufacturing and Materials Joining Innovation Center, where students, faculty, and industry members gather to hear updates on current research projects and discuss the state of the field. 🔗 bit.ly/45lc8Ue

MSE is excited to congratulate #EngineeringVol Megan Gillespie on winning a first-place in the Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramics Society Best Poster Awards! Click the link to learn more about Gillespie's research! 🔗 bit.ly/45AMBW8

🎉 Big congrats to #EngineeringVols Sheryl Sanchez for winning best poster at the Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science Workshop! Read more about her research and this achievement at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/46FC12f

Assistant Professor Mahshid Ahmadi is advancing next-generation solar technology by researching twisted 2D semiconductors, helping to unlock new possibilities for high-efficiency, flexible solar cells. Read more at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/4kNDtE1

Congrats to PhD student Marlena Alexander for winning 1st place in the student poster contest at the American Ceramics Society’s recent ACerS ICACC conference! Learn more about her research at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/439AFcw

Congratulations to Team Sword Washington, one of our senior design teams, for placing in the Top 6 nationally at the Cast in Steel 2025 competition! Led by Prof. Dustin Gilmer, the team represented TCE and showcased their impressive skill in materials science and engineering.

🎉 Proud moment for our department at the 2025 EURēCA Awards Ceremony! One of our senior design teams earned 2nd place in the Design category for their project, Near-Net Forming of Ceramics for Nuclear Energy Technologies, sponsored by BWXT. Congratulations #EngineeringVols!

Congratulations to the 21 incredible MSE #EngineeringVols for representing UT at this spring’s Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA) Poster Competition! Read about all our representatives below! 👇 🔗 bit.ly/3YKWPQX

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been recognized as 21st in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 rankings of top graduate schools among public colleges of engineering, marking the highest ranking in the department's history! 🔗 bit.ly/43GYBWJ

Capturing energy from the sun using next-generation semiconductors designed by artificial intelligence sounds like the plot of the next hit science fiction series. For PhD student Sheryl Sanchez, it’s a goal within reach. Learn more below! 🔗 bit.ly/3G3ViPl

A unique collaboration between TCE and @ArtUTK is helping address the U.S. casting and forging workforce shortage by hosting the METAL program, which was created to train a new generation of metallurgical professionals. 🔗: bit.ly/4hnLnlx