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Transportation Solutions to Move Your World
The Center for Transportation Research (CTR) has been a nationally and internationally recognized research entity at The University of Tennessee since 1972. Today, CTR has over $10M in sponsored programs, providing increased opportunities for students and researchers. Considering the breadth of our transportation system, the quality of newly graduated transportation students must be of the highest caliber. CTR supports the Tickle College of Engineering’s mission to supply well-educated transportation students to a growing field of transportation professionals.
CTR’s Kevin Heaslip Leads New NSF Partnership
TEAM TN is a partnership with the National Science Foundation and is an alliance of academics, industry, and technical societies, led by The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. TEAM TN seeks to place Tennessee in the vanguard of transportation electrification and digitization while reducing reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and creating a more equitable transportation system. TEAM TN will create a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem where advanced industries and Tennessee communities thrive and will include a large and diverse array of innovation assets.
News
- From Bike Lanes to Freight Trains, CA Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin (’22) Thinks in ConnectionsIn February of 2022, as the country was still recovering from the supply chain shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Toks Omishakin as the state’s fourth… Read more: From Bike Lanes to Freight Trains, CA Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin (’22) Thinks in Connections
- 9/28/24 – Soddy Daisy Fall FestivalCTR’s Teen Safe Driving Program, #GetConvinced, will be bringing their activities and demonstrations to Soddy Daisy’s Fall Festival on the 28th of September. Feel free to bring the whole family… Read more: 9/28/24 – Soddy Daisy Fall Festival
- Bai leads $5M Grant from DOE-VTO to Produce Smaller, More Efficient Motor Drive Systems for Electric VehiclesKevin Bai, associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), shares a principle-investigator role in a collaboration with the ABB Group’s US Research Center to… Read more: Bai leads $5M Grant from DOE-VTO to Produce Smaller, More Efficient Motor Drive Systems for Electric Vehicles