The Institute for Future Mobility (FMI) has hired researchers to fill four of six cluster positions. The four researchers will form a collaborative community cluster led by Professor Kevin Heaslip, the Center for Transportation Research Director. Professor Heaslip: “These new hires will complement the faculty who are already part of the University of Tennessee Knoxville […]
In May of 2024, Carol Hatmaker officially retired from CTR. Carol has graciously agreed to work part-time during the next several months to aid new Business Manager Tammy Johnson with the transition. Those who have worked with Carol during her 23-year career with CTR have seen the contributions and sacrifices that Carol has made over […]
Six CTR staff members completed their undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the second quarter of 2024. Sarah La Fetra, Joseph Dunbar, Sophia Jodoin, and Elizabeth Duty graduated this spring! All four will continue their work at CTR this summer before moving on. Sarah hopes to get a permanent position in her field Joe will attend […]
As you drive to the beach this summer, you may find yourself playing road trip games based on the license plates around you. How many states’ plates do you see? How many different animals can you find? Can you find a plate in every color of the rainbow? Can you write an algorithm that recognizes, […]
CGTN’s Asieh Namdar speaks to Kevin Heaslip, Director of the Center for Transportation Research, about the ship losing power and issuing a mayday before crash. Watch the video here
Kevin 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 develop an integrated, compact drive inverter and motor for electric vehicles that would reduce both the size and cost of electric drive trains. Bai’s proposed […]
Day one of the event is in the books after presentations and “asks” from several speakers. Now, the hard work begins. Deb Crawford clearly outlined the opportunities and challenges that a group of more than 100 partners is trying to address under the auspices of the TEAM TN umbrella. Speaking Tuesday morning at the start […]
UT graduate students Ashley Hightower and Grace Whitehouse both received prestigious Eisenhower fellowship grants to help fund their research in the transportation field. Hightower received the maximum amount awarded. Read the full article here
Stanford University’s annual list of the top 2% of scientists cited by other researchers around the world was recently released, and this year’s version includes 183 faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, including the UT Institute of Agriculture. The database includes almost 205,000 scientists, engineers and mathematicians worldwide whose work has been most […]
