CECS Year in Review 21–22

2021-22

YEAR IN REVIEW

Message from the Dean Greetings from the Beautiful Campus at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga!

It has been the tradition of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to serve the greater Chattanooga community and beyond as an instrument of upward mobility. The College of Engineering and Computer Science at UTC is continuing to fulfill that mission for our students and their families for generations to come. It is with immense joy that the college witnesses the success of our graduates each year. The latest figure shows 92% of our graduates secured their professional jobs or graduate school positions within six months of graduating.

The success of our graduates reflects what has been happening at the college. Despite the challenges we faced with the pandemic, it was another exciting year of progress and advancement for the college. I am delighted to share with you some of the highlights of the past year’s accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff in this annual review.

After a pause last year, the student enrollment again reached the record high 1,646 students, the external research funding figure broke the historic record once again for the five consecutive years, and, with the help of our corporate partners, the internship program witnessed more of our students, 71.2% of our graduates, gaining technical skills at our partnering companies by the time they graduated. The pandemic threw a curve ball to student activities and programs administered at the college, but as you will be glad to see,

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students showed that nothing can stop them from thriving. From placing in the top 10 teams in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition, to providing solutions to wastewater challenges cities around the nation face, to winning the best paper award at an international conference, to hosting community events to encourage, engage, and support the people of the greater Chattanooga region, our students excelled.

The faculty and staff also continued to overcome the additional challenges that came along with the pandemic by being innovative and working cooperatively. The Student Success Center expanded student support functions with professional development programs and the residential college program.

It was satisfying to see UTC playing an important part in training cybersecurity professionals through a National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security sponsored cybersecurity program. It was an historic achievement of a team of faculty members with partners in the city to be selected to receive $4.1 million grant from the Department of Transportation as part of the Chattanooga Smart City Program. We celebrated together as a faculty member received the prestigious Career Award from National Science Foundation (NSF) and Ralph R. Teetor educator award, as the faculty team from the college, working with other institutions, contributed toward making

our nation competitive in hypersonic vehicles research, and as a faculty-led research team made a humanoid robot to take a step using an operator’s brainwaves.

Over the summer, our faculty teams also led three NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates and NSF Research Experience for Teachers programs to expand opportunities for college students and local high school teachers to gain new research tools in solving problems we face in our society.

These are just a few examples of what our faculty and students accomplished over the past year. It has been a challenging year, for sure, with uncertainties with the pandemic, the economy, and a war in Ukraine but our students, faculty, and staff showed what it takes to be resilient and focused, enabling the college to continue to be the instrument of upward mobility for our students.

The college is pressing on toward the mark to becoming a premier college of engineering and computer science. I invite you to join us on this amazing journey.

Gratefully,

Dean

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor: Sara Jackson Art Director: Bryan Wootan Contributing Writers: Shawn Ryan, Chuck Wasserstrom, Sara Jackson, Irene J Hillman Photography: Angela Foster, Bryan Wootan, Laura Wootan

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Student Clubs and Organizations ......................................... 4

College Welcomes New Outreach Coordinator.............. 27

Get On Board Day ....................................................................... 4

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Joe Owino..........................................28

Welcome Week.............................................................................. 4

CECS Awards Ceremony..........................................................30

Student Internships...................................................................... 5

History is Made: Chattanooga, UTC, and CECS................31

Career Fair....................................................................................... 6

Community Expo Day...............................................................32

Whitewater Rafting...................................................................... 7

Peas in a Pod................................................................................33

Student Spotlight: Arielle Scalioni.......................................... 8

Industry Visits...............................................................................33

Student Spotlight: Josh Tyler................................................. 10

Volkswagen Collaborates with UTC.....................................34

Student Spotlight: Cole Strange ...........................................12

Electrical Engineering Student Research..........................34

Mechatronics Student Presents at NCUR...........................12

Marble Rollercoaster Competition.......................................35

Speaker Series...............................................................................13

Civil Engineering Professor Appears on the News........35

CECS vs RCOB Field Games................................................... 14

High School Students Tackle Engineering Projects....... 37

CECS Students Place First in the 2022 ASCE

Why We Give: Jim, Bruce, and Steve Rogers...................38

Mid-South Region Student Symposium..............................16

Meritorious Faculty Engagement.........................................39

James Moreland Scholarship...................................................17

Alumnus Recognition: Albert Woodard............................ 40

Civil Engineering at WERC.......................................................18

Research Experience Leads to Awareness,

Mechanical Engineering ASEE-SE Winners.......................18

Participation...................................................................................41

New Engineering Management Certificate Program.....18

Engineering a Solution for Powerline Maintenance........41

CECS Gets Top Prize in FLY Pitch Competition...............18

Major External Awards..............................................................42

NSF Award......................................................................................19

‘First Destination’ Survey Results.........................................42

Solar Decathlon Team - Worldwide Winners....................19

CECS Advisory Board...............................................................42

Cyberforce and Capture-the-Flag Competitions.............19

By the Numbers...........................................................................43

CECS Joins National CyberWatch Center..........................19

Degrees Offered at the College............................................43

New Faculty and Staff.............................................................. 20 Trevor Elliott: Ralph Teetor Educational Award...............21 UTC Introduces Nationwide Program to Train Cybersecurity Professionals....................................................22 Technology Symposium...........................................................24 Research Seeks Rapid Method to Detect Food Contaminants...............................................................................25 Research Seeks Dissolving Metal Implants for Broken Bones...............................................................................26 << 2021-22 YEAR IN REVIEW >>

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Student Clubs and Organizations ACM – Association for Computing Machinery AGC – Association of General Contractors AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AISC – American Institute of Steel Construction AlChE – American Institute of Chemical Engineers ASCE – American Society of Civil Engineers ASHRAE – American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers CECS Student Ambassadors Chem-E-Car – Competition Team Concrete Canoe Team Engineering Management Team Construction Management Team IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Mechatronics Club MocSec Cyber Defense NSBE – National Society of Black Engineers SEDS – Students for the Exploration and Development of Space SME – Society of Manufacturing Engineers Solar Decathlon – Competition Team Steel Bridge Team SWE – Society of Women Engineers Tau Beta Pi – Engineering Honor Society UTC ChattSat – Satellite Club UTC Racing Mocs – Competition Team UTC Rocket Mocs – Competition Team

Get On Board Day Get On Board Day is held early in the fall semester to encourage new and existing CECS students to sign up for various College of Engineering and Computer Science-based student clubs, organizations, and competition teams. The event is held in the outside breezeway and common areas of the Engineering and Computer Science Building, and is popular not only for clubs sharing valuable information on student involvement, but also for students receiving free food and T-shirts! Support for the event is provided by active student clubs and organizations, as well as faculty club advisors.

Welcome Week: Full STEM Ahead Full STEM Ahead is a UTC Welcome Week event where the CECS introduces new Mocs to all that the college has to offer. The event, typically held at the pavilion by Chamberlain Field, includes hands-on demonstrations from student organizations such as the Chem-E Car club, the Concrete Canoe Club, and the UTC Racing Mocs. Faculty support for this year’s event is provided by Dr. Trevor Elliott, Dr. Erkan Kaplanoglu, Dr. Bradley Harris, Dr. Abdul Ofoli, Dr. Zach Ruble, and Dr. Sree Sreenivas.

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UTC Students, Small Businesses Benefitting from Truist Initiative Olivia Morris has a year left before she’s set to graduate from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Majoring in computer science, she was a bit apprehensive about the looming prospect of job hunting. She had plenty of know-how from her courses in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, but she wanted some hands-on experience for her resume.

As an intern in the new Truist Small-Business Intern Initiative, she’s no longer so nervous. She has gained that experience through her work at Tachyon HPC, a company that designs software systems to deal with the transfer of large data files across the web.

This experience “has given me the chance to learn more than I could in my college classes, along with a real job experience pertaining to my major. This was something I was concerned about,” Morris said.

She and sophomore Andrew Hale are the first UTC students selected for the Truist program, which focuses on women and minority students seeking engineering or computer science internships. A partnership with small Andrew Hale, a sophomore in the UTC College of businesses within 40 miles of the UTC campus, the initiative is funded by a $125,000 gift from Engineering and Computer Science, interned this past the Truist Foundation. summer with tool manufacturer Scenic Industries, thanks Through the initiative, Truist wants to the new Truist Small-Business Intern Initiative. “to inspire and build better lives and communities,” said Jim Vaughn, Senior Vice President at Truist and a member of the CECS advisory board.

Funding from the financial services company offers students the chance to gain workforce experience and showcases the benefits of larger companies supporting smaller companies.

“When we think about career development, we ask, ‘What’s the Monday after graduation looking like for our students?’” said Irene Hillman, director of the CECS Center for Student Success. “We want them to move into roles where their strengths are utilized, their purpose is being honored, and they feel happy when they go to work.”

Hale, who is majoring in mechanical engineering, interned with tool manufacturer Scenic Industries. He wants a career designing computer management systems that help companies meet quality standards for their products.

“The main focus of my internship was helping the company improve upon their quality systems as well as develop new ones,” he said. “I’m taking the wants/needs of management and working within those parameters to create a system that, hopefully, meets and/or exceeds their expectations.”

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Career Fair

In a world affected by a pandemic, virtual events quickly became normalized. Virtual platforms quickly filled the void for matching prospective employees and companies, and CECS utilized the Handshake platform to host both fall and spring Career Fairs. The 2021-22 fairs boasted an average of over 439 oneon-one sessions between recruiters and students looking for internships, co-ops, and full-time positions. With an average of over 230 students attending bi-annual CECS fairs, this major event has attracted employers from our tech-heavy region as well as from numerous out-of-state employers that typically would be unable to attend career fairs in Tennessee.

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What Does Whitewater Rafting Have to Do With the Residential College Experience?

The CECS Residential Learning College (RLC) provides students with a unique, inclusive residential experience that takes education outside of the classroom and allows students to learn where they live. Students reside in a community with other like-minded students. Students gather together often for dinners, rafting trips, and community service projects.

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The RLC is composed of all classes, freshmen through seniors, and located in the University of Chattanooga Foundation (UCF) residence hall. The RLC takes advantage of UTC’s newest lab/community space, the Collaboratory, located in the bottom floor of UCF.

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Trailblazing Arielle Scalioni Building a Civil Engineering Career Arielle Scalioni’s path to a bachelor’s degree began in an Amazon rainforest, helping build a church that doubles as a medical clinic.

“I spent a month there after high school. It really helped me see the effect you could have in helping construct all these infrastructures for communities,” said Scalioni, who received her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering as part of UTC’s spring ‘22 commencement ceremonies.

“That helped me choose civil engineering as my major.”

But this is not “the shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line” story. Scalioni’s path is full of twists and turns.

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Arielle’s journey

Arielle Scalioni was a featured student speaker at the 2022 Scholarship Luncheon.

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Scalioni and her family emigrated to the U.S. when she was 4 years old.

Her parents, Carlos and Arlete, moved a lot in search of better opportunities for the family, eventually arriving in Harrison, Tennessee, around eight years ago.

Scalioni spent the bulk of her formative years in Massachusetts, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, but her mother suggested she should have an experience outside of the country.

“I’m a third-culture kid,” she explained. “That’s part of our blood. We’ve always liked to move and experience new places.

“Having moved from Brazil to the U.S., I moved back there to study in a boarding school for high school. I then decided to take a break because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to study in college.”

It wasn’t a break in the true sense of the word, though. Scalioni enrolled at the Wildwood (Georgia) College of Health and Evangelism, now known as the Wildwood Center for Health Evangelism—a missionary school with an emphasis on health.

Scalioni soon found herself heading back to Brazil on a missionary trip to the Amazon rainforest, working with an organization called Salva-Vidas Amazônia—part of the Missões Noroeste ministry in Brazil.

Participating in the building of the church created an inspirational lightbulb moment.

“The villages there are very disconnected and you have to travel by river to each village,” she said, “and we were there to build a church. The church is not just a place where people would be able to go and worship. It’s where they would be able to come together for community events, and whenever people go there as part of traveling medical clinics, it’s a place that could be their hub.

“When I saw how excited the people were to see that church being built and that it would bring them a lot of joy in the future, I realized that I could be doing this at a larger scale if I got an engineering degree.”

“Ever since I was really young, I liked to take things apart and see how they worked,” Scalioni said, “and in engineering, you need to have a basis in STEM, which is math, physics and science.

“I get a lot of that from my dad. Even though he didn’t get a college degree, he has always been an entrepreneur, and he taught me to be curious and to have that curiosity to know how things work and how things come together.”

When Scalioni returned to the area, she learned of the engineering partnership between Chattanooga State Community College and UTC. After taking care of her prerequisites, she transferred to the University.

She originally started down an electrical engineering road “because I thought it could be a place where, as a woman, I could be more accepted,” she said. “A lot of people, when they think about civil engineering, think mainly construction and that you’re out in the field.”

While she didn’t immediately envision herself as a civil engineer, she soon found that career could be an option.

“When I started taking more focused classes with female engineering professors, I realized it was a lot broader than I thought,” she said. “That female presence, especially in civil engineering, excited me.”

She also landed an electrical engineering internship with Black & Veatch, a worldwide engineering firm with more than 65 U.S. locations— including Chattanooga. Despite being an electric engineering intern, Black & Veatch gave Scalioni the chance to shadow civil engineers.

“That’s where I saw that civil engineering was more the field for me,” Scalioni said. “It brought me back to the thoughts that I had in the Amazon when I was helping build that church for the community.”

Arielle Scalioni participated in the 2022 Engineering Technology Symposium at the Chattanooga Public Library.

Switching from electrical to civil engineering meant more time in school, and Scalioni spent a total of six years between Chattanooga State and UTC. But she said the extra time was worth it: a full-time position at Black & Veatch awaits following graduation.

“I’m so excited that I’m graduating with a major that suits me best,” she said. “It’s brought me a lot of joy. It’s brought me a lot of happiness.”

When Scalioni graduated, she became the first in her family to receive a degree.

“I’m a first-generation student, so college and furthering my education has always been a goal for myself and my family,” she said. “My parents worked hard to give us a better life here. It means a lot to get an education, to be able to get a job and give back to them what they’ve given to me.”

Her mom recently told her that every success felt like a success for both of them.

“I think that’s so true because I’m only able to be here and be able to study because of the support that they’ve been able to give me throughout my college education.”

She has become a trailblazer of sorts in her own family. Her sister, Tabata, is now studying computer science at UTC. Scalioni also wants to be a role model for Latina women engineers.

“We are seeing a lot more women in engineering, especially civil, than we did before,” she said, “so I see that it’s getting better, but people who aren’t American, who weren’t born here, who are from different ethnicities, I do see that I can help inspire a lot of young women—especially those who aren’t exposed to STEM fields.

“I do hope that I could help other young girls see that it’s an option. I see that as a responsibility, too.”

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Josh Tyler: Hard Work Leads to High Rewards When Josh Tyler graduated with his master’s degree in electrical engineering, he was a bouncy bit of energy.

“I’m going to walk with the pep in my step,” he said.

Energy doesn’t seem to be a problem for Tyler.

Academically, he hasn’t stopped walking since arriving at UTC in fall semester 2017.

He earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering in spring 2020 and started pursuing a master’s degree later that fall.

With a master’s degree in hand, he began work on a Ph.D. in computational engineering in fall 2022, figuring it will take three years to finish.

Along with nine graduate hours of coursework in Spring ‘22, he worked 20 hours a week as a research assistant for Donald Reising, UC Foundation associate professor in electrical engineering.

“He is a great student to work with because of his passion and willingness to take on any task no matter how complex it may seem. He has been an invaluable asset within my research group,” Reising said.

So what was Tyler’s summer like? Some downtime? A breather? The beach maybe?

Yeah, right.

Curious and creative

Despite his ironclad drive to succeed, Tyler admitted there were moments of doubt after he entered the master’s program.

“Initially, there was some of that imposter syndrome. ‘Do I belong here? Am I an effective researcher?’ but now it’s a big relief seeing the body of work that I’ve been able to accomplish here at UTC.” So effective and impressive, in fact, Tyler was selected as the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s Outstanding Graduate Student for 2022.

This year he also had two research papers accepted by the prestigious Institute of

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Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Global Communications for its Conference on Communications. It’s an honor rarely given to students, Reising said.

“Josh is a very hard worker and is very driven by his curiosity. He is also creative,” Reising said.

“Much of his research contributions are based upon ideas that he has had. I only pointed him in a general direction and kept him on task. Other than that, it has been all him.”

Future plans

Being flattened by the unrelenting workload hasn’t been a problem, Tyler said. Coursework is coursework, but being a research assistant is an act of creativity.

“There’s some people that look at it as a job. It’s very much an art to me. I want to see the results.

My being as dedicated to seeing the results is because of my own personal interest in it.”

His personal interest and path to the future is radio frequency engineering, a method to protect a computer network or radio system from being hacked. It’s now being used by the military, but it may be a decade or more before it’s in widespread usage, Tyler said.

“This is still very leading-edge research work,” he said.

UTC DNA

High-quality work with a distinct connection to UTC seems to run in the Tyler family’s DNA. His father, Thomas, earned a master’s in computer science at UTC in 2004 and his mother, Nancy, earned one in accountancy in 1998. His sister, Rachel, is enrolling at the University in the fall, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in secondary education with a focus on history.

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In another case of academic synchronicity, his father was the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s Outstanding Graduate Student in 2004.

“Both of my parents are astronomically brilliant and growing up in that culture has been an invaluable blessing for me,” Tyler said.

“I had shoes to fill, and luckily I’ve been able to fill them. I’m graduating with pretty much no feeling of missing out on anything. No regrets.

Everything’s pretty much how I set it. I came in with goals, and I’ve pretty much accomplished them. Every single one.”

After enrolling at UTC, Josh Tyler has been on a nonstop academic journey.

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Former Chattanooga Mocs Offensive Lineman and New England Patriots First-Round Draft Pick Cole Strange Wins Southern Conference Male Athlete of the Year Chattanooga Mocs offensive lineman Cole Strange had a special year. It ends with the Bob Waters Southern Conference Male Athlete of the Year Award. He’s the third male and 11th Moc all-time to win the league’s top honors voted on by league athletics directors and a media representative from each institution.

“Cole is the complete package on and off the field,” Coach Rusty Wright said. “If you watched him week-in and week-out, you saw it. Incredible work ethic to go with talent and a passion for the game. He is exactly the kind of player you want on your team.

“There is no more deserving individual for this honor.”

That last point is especially key. Other than David Jean-Baptiste’s thrilling buzzer-beater to capture the SoCon Basketball Championship, it’s arguable nothing else brought as much notoriety to the league than this 2021-22 moment.

He’s the first NFL first-round selection in school history. He’s the first from the SoCon since 1974.

“We’re extremely proud of Cole’s accomplishments,” Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Mark Wharton said. “It’s a long list and as you read them, you see the talent and effort he displayed every day on the football field was equally matched in the classroom.

“Congratulations on an amazing and well-earned accomplishment.”

Strange earned his undergraduate degree in psychology in December 2020.

He began work immediately in a demanding master’s program, Engineering Management. He carried a 3.8 GPA in the endeavor during two playing seasons in spring and fall 2021.

Mechatronics Student Presents at NCUR The National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) celebrated in April 2022 with a

virtual research symposium, with over 3,200 students, faculty, and administrators in attendance.

NCUR creates a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement, provides models of exemplary research, scholarship, and creative activity, and helps to improve the state of undergraduate education. Garrett Groom, a senior mechatronics major, presented on “Hand Gestures Controlled Hip-Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis”; Garrett also presented his research to the CECS Advisory Board at their spring ’22 meeting.

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2021-22 Top researchers and industry leaders shared their ideas and experiences at the annual UTC CECS Speaker Series. Launched in 2016 to inspire innovation and collaboration, the series is free and open to the public. While on campus, speakers are invited to tour the college and meet one-on-one with faculty and students.

Quantum Communications and Networking at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Dr. Nick Peters - Section Head - Quantum Information Science Section

An Entrepreneur’s Journey in the Oil Business Richard Clark - Kosmos Energy Senior Vice President and Head of Gulf of Mexico business unit

A Non-profit, Affordable Housing and Habitat for Humanity Jens Christiansen - President and CEO - Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area

Rydberg Atom-Based Sensors: The Quest for Fundamentally New SI-Traceable Measurement Techniques Dr. Christopher Holloway - RF Fields Group Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TVA’s implementation efforts and experiences with installing time-series devices and the applications utilized in transmission operations to ensure a reliable grid Tim Fritch - TVA - Manager of Reliability Analysis A Program Runs Through It: Observations from an Accidental Career Dr. Andy Novobilski - Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Delta State University

Dr. Nick Peters

Dr. Christopher Holloway

Tim Fritch

Dr. Andy Novobilski

Dr. Fareena Saqib

Scott Turnbow

Richard Clark

Jens Christiansen

Hardware Architectures for Side Channel Analysis Countermeasures Dr. Fareena Saqib - Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte Engineered for Success Scott Turnbow - Vice President of Civil Projects and Equipment Support Services for TVA

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CECS VS RCOB

Fierce ‘Battle’ Between Engineering and Business Students Teams from the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) and Gary W. Rollins College of Business (RCOB) faced off this spring on Chamberlain Field for the first Field Games. The “heated” competition included egg and three-legged races, cup stacking, cornhole, tug of war, and a lot of laughs. In the photos below, CECS is in the yellow and RCOB is in the blue shirts.

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CECS Students Place First in the 2022 ASCE Mid-South Region Student Symposium Placing first in the Innovation Contest hosted at the 2022 ASCE Mid-South Region Student Symposium, UTC civil engineering students Isabel Oleson, Lauren Brownfield, and Linen Cooper (pictured left to right) decided to investigate the usage of reclaimed wastewater via two different treatment methods. The group settled on graphene oxide and a UV photocatalytic treatment approach using a slurry-based reactor consisting of titanium dioxide, graphene oxide, and silver. They found that the reclaimed wastewater improved overall agricultural yields and crop quality, as well as increased the available freshwater supply for irrigation. Graphene oxide improved the effectiveness of the filtration and treatment processes, decreasing the need for additional chemical treatment. A slurry-based treatment system during the UV photocatalysis stage ensured proper mixing and circulation of the effluent which prevented the need for increased UV exposure to initiate the reactions.

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James Moreland Scholarship Helps Minority Engineering Students James R. Moreland, who graduated from Howard High School in 1962, and worked for E.I. DuPont for approximately 30 years, never graduated from college, but he’s helping students graduate from UTC. In the 2021-22 academic year, the James Moreland Minority Engineering Scholarship assisted more than 20 students enrolled in the UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science. For the 2022-23 academic year, the scholarship is set to assist over 25 students for four years.

The scholarship is a last-dollar scholarship to ensure coverage of tuition and fees.

With students amassing debt to pay for tuition and fees, this takes some of the financial burden off of young adults who will be new to the professional workforce.

Increasing the number of minority students is one of the goals in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said Sara Jackson, chief of staff for the college.

A longtime friend of Moreland’s, Tennessee Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, was instrumental in securing funds for the scholarship named after Moreland, who didn’t enroll in college because he didn’t have the money.

For decades, Moreland has been a key presence in East Chattanooga.

A member of Olivet Baptist Church and former president of the Avondale Neighborhood Association, he has been an advocate for community improvements and, among other successes, helped obtain city funds to build a new recreation center in the neighborhood.

Terek McReynolds, the recipient of a James Moreland Minority Engineering Scholarship, graduated from UTC.

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New Certificate Program

Engineering Management and Technology Department offers a new Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSS GB) certification program as part of the Engineering Management Design course. Drs. Abrha, Kim, and Varol, who hold certified black belts in Lean and Six Sigma, have developed the LSS Green Belt program at UTC. The plan is to extend the certificate opportunity to other students including non-degree seeking students and industry partners in the near future.

2022 ASEE-SE Student Poster Winners & Thomas C. Evans Best Paper Award

Civil Engineering Team WERCs It!

The Civil Engineering Environmental Team competed at the New Mexico State University Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) competition. They finished in 1st place in the flash talk among 21 teams.

Team participants are Kyle Branning, Hunter Cross, Riley Ellis, Carmen Harvey, and Beau Neidich. Dr. Jejal Bathi is the faculty mentor.

Two members of the team, Carmen Harvey and Beau Neidich, presented at the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2022 Conference, held in Atlanta in June 2022, on two separate topics: Current Status of Green Infrastructure in DOT Projects and Field Assessment of Bioretention Performance for Parking Lot Runoff Control. Other research topics the UTC team presented included Bioretention Performance Monitoring and Cyber-Physical Security of Stormwater Smart Controls.

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Congratulations to Jim Young and Peter Woods, who won the ASEE-SE’s best freshman/ sophomore poster as well as the overall poster on March 15, 2022. Both young men put in a great deal of work on their abstract, poster, and poster speech. Additionally, Dr. Cecelia Wigal is the 2022 winner of the Thomas C. Evans Best Paper award for her work, “Teaching the Design Process in a HyFlex Environment” published in Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice Vol. 21(10) 2021. Dr. Wigal is the first faculty member from UTC to win this prestigious award, schools represented in the past include Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt University, The Citadel, and The University of Florida.

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Fly Pitch for Researchers – CECS Gets Top Prize

Dr. Hamdy Ibrahim, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Ahmed Korra, a mechanical engineering graduate student, won the Research Dialogues Fly Pitch for Researchers competition for their project, “Dissolving and patient-specific fixation implants for broken bones.” The third place went to Dr. Farah Kandah, associate professor of computer science, and his student Brennan Huber. The annual Fly Pitch for Researchers competition is new this year, and open to all UTC faculty, staff, and grad students to pitch their ideas that have the potential to be commercialized or licensed. The top prize, to be used for supplies, travel, student support, and other expenses, is $20,000.

Worldwide Winners

NSF Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued an award on behalf of the NSF Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention for principal investigator (PI) Dr. Hong Qin’s Phase I (Development) Project entitled, “Develop and Evaluate Computational Frameworks to Predict and Prevent Future Coronavirus Pandemics.”

The award has been funded at $1 million. Other members of the team are co-PIs John Choy, Liqun Zhang, Letu Qingge, and Ziwei Ma.

The UTC Solar Decathlon team won the semifinal competition, becoming one of top 10 teams worldwide. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition that challenges college students worldwide to design and build high-performance, lowcarbon buildings that mitigate climate change and improve our quality of life through greater affordability, resilience, and energy efficiency.

Winning teams are those that best blend architectural and engineering excellence with innovation. The engineering students on the team are: Kaid Black, Chase Berta, Blaine Lindsey, and Daron Lyons, in the chemical engineering program, and Chelsie Ewing, graduate student in the engineering management/construction management program.

Cyberforce and Capture-the-Flag Competitions

The UTC Cyberforce student team, composed of Chase Carroll, Alex McCormack, Alex Tetzlaff, Derek Anderson, Gabriel Edwards, and Zachary Bianucci, participated in the 2021 Cyberforce Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy on November 13, 2021. The team finished 21st out of 120 teams. Notably, the UTC team placed first in three sub-categories: C-Suit Panel, Service, and Green Team Surveys. Another UTC team, made of Allyson Adam, Kirsten Hanson, and McKenzie Mack (all computer science students), participated at the annual MAGIC Capturethe-Flag, organized by UTC InfoSec Center, and finished in 7th place out of 23 teams.

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Safe and Secure: CECS Joins National CyberWatch Center

National CyberWatch Center (https://www.nationalcyberwatch.org/) is an NSF funded nationwide cybersecurity education center. National CyberWatch Center has a deep culture of collaboration, coordinating a broad national network of students, schools, individuals, and businesses. In 2022, CECS proudly joined this network, which provides resources to its member institutions including National Cybersecurity Student Association (NCSA), the nation’s largest association of cybersecurity students, which directly benefits the MocSec student organization. NCSA supports the cybersecurity educational programs of academic institutions, inspires career awareness, and encourages creative efforts to increase the number of graduates in the field.

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Welcome to the College of Engineering and Computer Science, New Faculty and Staff

Murat Barisik

Arash Ghasemi

Gokhan Erdemir

Yukan Yuan

Rahul Bhosale

Bryan Strickland Lecturer, Construction Management

Advising Coordinator, Center for Student Success

Lisa Tarr

Jacob Davis

Matthew Totton

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Zack Ridder

Academic Advisor, Center for Student Success

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Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Partnership Administrator, Dean’s Office

Associate Professor, Mechatronics

CECS Tech

Asaf Varol

Lecturer, Mechatronics

Sarah Alsobrooks

CECS Tech

Faculty: Exceptional Engineering Educator

by Shawn Ryan

Trevor Elliott, UC Foundation associate professor in mechanical engineering, has been chosen as a recipient of a 2022 Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award.

The international award recognizes exemplary teaching by younger engineering educators worldwide. Past winners include faculty from Harvard University, Rutgers University, The Ohio State University, and dozens of others.

“Reflecting the firm belief of its donor that early career engineering educators are the most effective link between engineering students and their future careers, the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Fund’s major program is focused on these engineering educators. Its objective is to provide an engineering atmosphere where these teachers can meet and exchange views with practicing engineers,” according to the organization’s website.

Elliott began his teaching career at UTC in 2012 as an adjunct professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He said he’s honored to be chosen for an award given to only five to eight educators each year and said it is “a true blessing that all of my supervisors have been the best and most quality people to work for and with.”

James Newman, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, said winning the Teetor award “places Dr. Elliott in an elite class and brings international recognition to the Mechanical Engineering Department, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.”

“We are all very proud of Dr. Elliott and appreciative of his unwavering commitment to teaching, research, and development of our students,” Newman said.

Elliott earned both his bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering at UTC and has been connected to the University in one way or another since 2000, when he was a part-time student worker.

The Teetor award is not his first professional recognition.

In 2020, he was one of 132 people nationwide selected to be a 2021 associate fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

That same year, he authored a research proposal that won $542,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation. The proposal focused on 3D printing and developing a deeper understanding of how that manufacturing process works and how to make it more efficient.

During the first surge of COVID-19 in 2020, Elliott and UTC engineering students worked on concepts to make filters for masks similar to the N95 respirator masks which, at the time, were in short supply nationwide for healthcare workers.

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UTC Introduces Nationwide Program to Train Cybersecurity Professionals

by Shawn Ryan

Dr. Mengjun Xie of the Computer Science and Engineering Deparment speaks during the official launch of the Cybersecurity Workforce Certification Training program.

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A grant of almost $9.8 million from the U.S. National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security is funding a program at UTC to address the growing cybersecurity needs worldwide.

The new Cybersecurity Workforce Certification Training (CWCT) is focused on preparing military veterans and firstresponders—police, firefighters, EMTS, and others—to transition to careers in cybersecurity, said Mengjun Xie, UC Foundation associate professor in computer science and engineering.

The program also is open to anyone with an interest in cybersecurity work, regardless of background, Xie said.

“We believe the pedagogy used and the training methods developed in the program will quickly become national standards in preparing those, throughout the nation, who are seeking to transition to cybersecurity careers,” said Dean Pack.

The program is a collaboration between UTC, Purdue University Northwest, Ivy Tech Community College, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

CECS and the Center for Professional Education are combining their efforts to offer the program, monitoring student progress, and issuing certificates, once graduates complete the 10-week course.

By 2025, global cybercrime will cost business and institutions $10.5 trillion per year, according to MSN Money. Cyberhacking is so pervasive, said CWCT coordinator Steve Reiter, it’s not so much an issue of blocking it entirely but dealing with the aftermath.

Of roughly 6,700 cybersecurity jobs open in Tennessee, about 300 are in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia, said Reiter, a former chief information officer at Fortune 500 companies Hewlett-Packard and Tennco. With that demand, the program is attracting interest from across the country and applications are exceeding expectations with 4,300 applicants from all 50 states.

“We’re breaking new ground,” said Joe Ferguson, chair of the CECS Advisory Board.

“This is a big deal.”

The CWCT program is divided into three focus areas—digital forensics, system administration, and artificial intelligence.

After a system has been hacked, digital forensics kicks in and tries to backtrack the source of the hacking and how it was done.

System administration covers the computer and software demands, employee guidance, purchase orders, and other managerial functions. UTC will lead the training in this area.

Artificial intelligence is the most technically oriented and takes a broad, worldwide view on the growth and development of technological capabilities and how those affect cybercrime both now and in the future.

System administration covers the fundamentals of computer systems, networks and cybersecurity, cyber infrastructure development, and security protection as well as such areas as employee direction and office management. UTC will lead the program in this area, which has the highest

enrollment of the three training branches.

H. Charles Kimbrough, a veteran from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army, is enrolled in the CWCT and describes the program as a “game-changer.”

“Training of this magnitude, provided in this manner, is truly a game-changer for our country and all those who are fortunate to sit in the virtual classrooms in order to become cybersecurity professionals.”

For more information: www.cwct.us www.cyberseek.org threatmap.checkpoint.com

Cybersecurity Key Points • More than 597,000 U.S. jobs are now open in cybersecurity.

• About 6,700 cybersecurity jobs are open in Tennessee and about 300 in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia.

• Employment demand is expected to grow 22-24% in the next five years.

• Nationally, a cybersecurity professional with five to eight years of experience earns about $99,000 a year.

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The 2022 Technology Symposium hybrid event, held on April 14th at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library, was a triumph of resilience. After skipping 2020, and having a virtual-only event in 2021, it was refreshing to see so many people participating in person. The online version also gave an opportunity for others who could not be in person to participate in the event. One observer stated, “I was very impressed with the students’ knowledge and interest. . .but even more, I was impressed by their enthusiasm.” Congratulations to the awards winners and much gratitude to those who worked tirelessly to bring this event to fruition.

Award winners are: Graduate Research 1st Place: Unmanned Aerial Technologies - Ayman Gumaa, Milan Artis, Kirklin Norman, Martin Geraldson, Corbin Cawood, and John Draper 2nd Place: Calibration and Validation of Microscopic and Mesoscopic Traffic simulation model - Mehdi Khaleghian, Dr. Seyedmehdi Khaleghian, Dr. Mina Sartipi 3rd Place: ReLF: Scalable Remote Live Forensics for Android - Ruipeng Zhang and Dr. Mengjun Xie Senior Capstone

1st Place: MLK & Market Intersection: Delay & Emissions Analysis - Cameron Wagner, Bryce Coffey, Will Brasfield, and Branden Peterson 2nd Place: Concrete Canoe – Moc Speed - Jacob Dalrymple, Toren Beck, Josh Booker, Niko Dabney, and Yuan Yuchang 3rd Place: Talent Development Initiative (TDI) - Jacob Baker, Haley Carhart, Jackson Giles, Nathan Nowell, Chuck Priputin, Thomas Raines, and Alex Tetzlaff

Undergraduate Research

1st Place: Stability Analysis of Aptamer - Thrombin Binding via Molecular Simulations - Pooja Karunanithi, Dr. Michael Danquah 2nd Place: Radiation Effects in Embedded Systems - Adam Peterson, Delwyn Sam, Jaekeon Kim, and Stephen Lawrence 3rd Place: RadFX: Radiation Effects Testing - Ben Austin, Evan Friedmann, Jacob Goss, Isaih Hughes, Matthew Jones, Joanna Myers, Joshua Samuel, Emily Turner, and Matthew Willie

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Community Research Project

Using Pavement Design to Teach Math and Science - Juney Shober and Pascale Haug - Hamilton County Schools

High School Research Project

3D Printed Elbow Assistive Device Controlled by Mobile App - Jerald Arden Freeman, Eric Chen, and Riley Brown - STEM School Chattanooga

Best Overall Design, Electrical Engineering: Solar Splash and Drone Control via EEG Signals - George H. Coleman, James D. Keef, Benjamin L. Lowrance, Coleman P. Mitchell, Kenneth Skinner, Dr. Abdul Ofoli, Garrett Travis, Berkay Dean, and Luke Neal Best Overall Design, Civil Engineering: Design of an Affordable and Sustainable House for Rural Nigeria - Abbey Burton, Shalyn Landes, Arielle Scalioni, and Ogheneruona Uwusiaba Best Overall Design, Computer Science and Engineering: NIDaaS: Netword Intrustion Detection as a Service in Clouds - Chen Xu, Dr. Mengjun Xie, Dr. Li Yang, and Ruipeng Zhang Best Overall Design, Engineering Management and Technology: Computer Vision in Manufacturing - Tytton Elkins, Dylan Parker, Allen Nesmith, and Dr. Erkan Kaplanoglu Best Overall Design, Mechanical Engineering: Steam Power Plan Designs Nelson Rainey and Dr. Yunye Shi Best Overall Design, Chemical Engineering: Design and Investment Proposal for a Microbrewery - Hammam Albarnawi, Hunter Bolton, Tyler Johnson, and Dr. Bradley Harris

Research Seeks Rapid Method to Detect Food Contaminants

by Shawn Ryan

Checking food products for contaminants is required for companies in the business, but it’s also a no-brainer even without the laws.

Customer illness is hardly great advertising.

To make sure everything is in good shape, samples are taken routinely from production lines, then sent for testing at in-house labs, or ones outside the plant. Even with in-house labs, results can take a week. Time may stretch even longer for commercial labs.

Wouldn’t it be better if test results were immediate?

Michael Danquah and a UTC research team are trying to find a way.

Associate dean and UC Foundation chemical engineering professor Michael Danquah and three University faculty members—UC Foundation associate professor Dalei Wu and assistant professor Kahlid Tantawi, both experts in mechatronics, and Henry Spratt, a professor and microbiologist—are working on brand new methods that give instantaneous results on whether contaminants are present in food products.

It’s a two-pronged approach.

“The monitoring process is not only going to be based on a single approach,” Danquah said.

“We are going to use a multimodal approach of monitoring, having an electrochemical component and also an optical component.”

The team recently received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research. Collaborators at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Virginia Commonwealth University received $150,000 of the funding, Danquah said.

“This is actually going to fill a gap in the industrial operation and provide the industry with a better, more robust, more rapid, real-time way of assessing pathogens,” Danquah said.

The primary goal is to make food safer for the public, but the new testing methods also

will save money for the companies, preventing expensive recalls on their products, he said.

The first step in the research is developing a unique probe with a biological molecule—called an aptasensor—that will bond with proteins on the surface of the pathogen, Danquah explained.

The connection creates an electrochemical reaction that is picked up by the probe. An alert signal is immediately sent to monitoring equipment over a wireless network.

“We can use a lot from that kind of signal,” Danquah said.

In the second detection method, the probe is able to “see” light from the electrochemical reaction.

“The biochip will have a glass surface, so immediately when there is a binding to the surface protein, we can monitor that as well,” Danquah said.

The NSF grant runs for three years, and the hope is to develop a prototype of the aptasensor, which may lead to more grants to continue the research.

Danquah also hopes the food-processing industries will be interested in the research.

“The beauty of having the industry involved is they can also help us to test the technology as we develop it.”

E. coli is one of the most common contaminants found in food.

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Research Seeks Dissolving Metal Implants for Broken Bones

by Shawn Ryan

For decades, metal screws and plates have been surgically implanted to secure broken bones, holding them in place while they heal.

But the metals used—usually titanium or stainless steel—don’t dissolve once their work is done, staying in the body for the life of the patient.

In some cases, the body attacks the metal as a foreign object, causing infection and pain. In these cases, the implants must be removed surgically.

“It’s very stiff material that’s in the body and is not needed,” explained Hamdy Ibrahim, assistant professor in mechanical engineering.

To address the problem, Ibrahim is researching the use of metal alloys such as magnesium and zinc for the implants. They break down and are absorbed by the body, making way for new bone in their place and preventing the need for another invasive surgery to remove them.

Titanium and stainless-steel implants still are stronger than the alloys now being studied, he said. With the current level of research and testing, biodegradable alloys are suitable for hands, feet, or facial bones, Ibrahim said, but they’re not strong enough to handle the workload of big bones such as legs or arms.

“There are many goals. One of them is to keep increasing the strength.

That’s the ultimate goal, for sure,” he said.

Alloys have their own issues, though.

“It’s not straightforward: ‘Let’s put it in the body, it’s going to work,’” he said. “There are some issues with magnesium and zinc alloys. They either degrade very fast as the bone heals or they don’t have enough strength.”

Alloys that degrade too quickly may release potentially dangerous corrosion products into the body as they dissolve.

“That’s one of the areas I’m working on,” Ibrahim said.

“First off, starting the degradation, and second, slowing it and controlling it. Treating the material in different manufacturing processes to reduce or control the corrosion rate.”

Without finding solutions to these issues, you’re basically taking the problems with metal implants and replacing them with a different set of problems with alloys, he said.

“We don’t want the alloy to stay permanently. Otherwise, we are contradicting ourselves.”

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College Welcomes New Outreach Coordinator

CECS Outreach Coordinator Mary Margaret Sullivan To get connected with Mary Margaret for Outreach Collaboraoration, reach her at: mary-m-sullivan@utc.edu 423-425-2395

As part of the University plan to expand outreach and recruitment efforts in the community, CECS added an Outreach Coordinator position to the staff in 2018. In the autumn of 2021, CECS welcomed new Outreach Coordinator Mary Margaret Sullivan, formerly of the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy.

Mary Margaret grew up on a university campus and witnessed firsthand how much her mother enjoyed working in student affairs. “I saw how much she loved being there and the unique and creative opportunities a university campus offered,” she said. She is passionate about connecting people, and as outreach coordinator, she has created a target list of schools in the area that contain a high population of minorities and females. She envisions having three or four targeted evets per academic year with each of these schools.

Mary Margaret also mentions her plan to increase partnerships across the University. She is impressed with the way UTC works seamlessly across various sectors. She plans to build relationships with the athletics department, the Challenger Center, the Center for Global Education, and other UTC programs.

Mary Margaret also plans to increase camp opportunities in the summer to gain exposure for CECS in the community and foster relationships with students at an early age. This summer, the first “Peas in a Pod” cooking camp for rising 1st -6th graders was launched. Through this week-long event, students discovered STEAM concepts while learning basic cooking techniques. Mary Margaret says “I hope to build additional models of the camp in future summers while also integrating more camp opportunities for high school students.”

From left, Mary Margaret Sullivan, Scrappy and Deyana Siddiqui at the Education Equal Opportunity Group (EEOG) event hosted by the Division of Diversity and Engagement.

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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Joe Owino In every vocation, there is a list of giants. If one were to go into say, baseball, the list is one that’s practically universal: Lou Gehrig, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente.

If one were in UTC’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, that list is equally as cemented: Ed Foster, Jim Henry, Tennessee Jones, Gary McDonald, and Joe Owino.

Dr. Owino grew up in a large family in Kisumu, Kenya. Neither his father nor mother attended school, but his father worked hard to become a chief. Chief Owino observed the social and materials chasms between those who had education and those who did not, and was particularly adamant his children obtain a quality education. Initially, Dr. Owino wanted to become a pilot for Kenya Air. But when he and his brother strategized about the future, Dr. Owino decided engineering would give him a wider variety of vocational opportunities.

Driven by his father’s encouragement, Dr. Owino came to the United States and obtained civil engineering degrees; his bachelor’s from the University of District of Columbia and his master’s from Howard University. He then held positions with Shell Oil, Inc., and spent several years in industry before obtaining a position with the University of Nairobi. Upon obtaining his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Owino came to UTC and has happily remained in Chattanooga with his wife of 40 years. Together, the Owinos raised a son and a daughter, both of whom have continued to heed the encouragement of Chief Owino and obtain robust educations.

If encountering Dr. Owino for the first time, one notices his presence immediately. He is a man of imposing physical stature, maintaining athletic skill by spending spare time on the soccer field as an official. He is, at times, quiet with a gift for listening to others and focusing on the exact genesis of a question. He is also sometimes extremely vocal, encouraging students to believe in themselves.

What elevates Dr. Owino to the ranks of giants: four years, he has been chosen as the Teacher of the Year in Engineering; five years, he has achieved outstanding performance by a faculty member; in the year 2003, he was chosen for a UC Foundation Associate Professorship; he has taught 19

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different courses; he has served on 12 graduate student thesis committees; he has captured over $950,000 in research awards. Even more impactful is his deeply held philosophy that students can overcome and attain extraordinary things. His skill in the classroom, in assisting the success of all students, is legendary. As he considers the possibility of retirement, he insists that he will always teach, and he will always maintain interaction with students because that is what has made his career worthwhile.

It is clear that the observations Chief Owino made about the value of education affected his sons, daughters, and all descending generations of the Owino family. Education as the great equalizer is the driving force behind Dr. Owino’s long and successful career. As the Civil and Chemical Engineering Department Head, he is firmly cemented on the best list any teacher aspires to - the many hearts and minds of students whose lives have been changed for the better.

I have been very fortunate to have Joe as a valued colleague and friend over the past 23 years. Joe often goes the “extra mile” in helping his students. I have seen Joe teach many “extra help sessions” on weeknights, on Friday afternoons, on Saturdays, and even on Sunday evenings to help students.

— Dr. Gary McDonald

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Two Awards Ceremonies, One Year Award

During the 2021-22 academic year, there was much to celebrate as pandemic protocols eased and the college could finally celebrate accomplishments together. This was the first time that two awards ceremonies were held in one year. The redoubled efforts of coordination and enthusiasm for creating a time and space to mark the accomplishments of students, faculty, and staff made these ceremonies extra special.

In the fall semester, the much anticipated annual CECS Awards Ceremony, which typically occurs at the end of spring, occurred on the evening of Oct. 21. This gave alumni, students, family, faculty, staff, and friends the opportunity to gather in celebration of milestones from the previous academic year.

UTC alumna Marjorie Parsons served as the keynote speaker and December ‘21 graduates Jose Bueno and Karina Jensen were the student emcees.

In the spring semester, the Awards Ceremony was held on April 4. UTC alumnus and Trustee Albert Woodard served as the keynote speaker, with May graduates Allison Anders and Robert Steele serving as student emcees.

Congratulations to all award winners!

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2021-22

Outstanding Graduate Students

Evan Gildernew, Pablo Ubiratan, Pereira Macedo, Moataz Abdalla, Mohammad Aman Ullah Amin

Hamza Aljarash, Kasturi Barkataki, Chelsie Ewing, Timothy Johnston, Dumbiri Odia, Noman Saied, Andrew Turgeson, Joshua Tyler

Outstanding Senior Award

Tom Herschberg

Delwyn Sam

CECS Experiential Learning Awards

Michael Coleman, Erin Watson

Jennifer Bolling, Ajasia Harris

Outstanding Undergraduate Research

Berkay Dean

Outstanding Organization Award for Community Engagement

Mechatronics Club

Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Teaching Award

Joseph Owino

Bradley Harris

Outstanding Tenured/Tenuretrack Faculty Teaching Award

Mbakisya Onyango

Trevor Elliott

Outstanding Lecturer/Adjunct Teaching Award

Don Warrington

Paul Baggett

Outstanding Faculty Research and Creative Achievement Award

Daniel Loveless

Michael Danquah

Outstanding UTC Service Award

Joe Dumas

Bradley Harris

Outstanding Faculty Advising Award

Paul Baggett

Joe Dumas

Administrative Staff Member of the Year

Andrea James

Christy Waldrep

Professional Staff Member of the Year

Chris Thornton

Karl Fletcher

Student Success Center Staff Member of the Year

Nicole Wake

Lisa Tarr

UTC, CECS Making History in Chattanooga Chattanooga will be home to the nation’s largest electric vehicle “living testbed,” thanks to $9.2 million received by the city and UTC scientists with municipal, private industry, and research partners. Chattanooga is the only Tennessee site awarded one of the 10 U.S. DOT grants totaling $45.2 million.

All funded projects involve the use of advanced intelligent transportation systems technologies that will improve mobility and safety, provide multimodal transportation options, and support underserved communities, according to DOT. The $4.5-million from the U.S. DOT grant award—the single-largest of its kind in UTC history, will be complemented by another $4.7 million from industry partners, UTC, Chattanooga city government, and EPB. The proposal was submitted by Chattanooga’s Smart City program and its development was led by Dr. Osama Osman, former UTC CECS civil engineering assistant professor and Chief Scientist and Smart Transportation Thrust Lead for UTC’s Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP), and CUIP Founding Director Dr. Mina Sartipi, a Guerry Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Co-PIs also include Dr. Ignatius Fomunung of the civil and chemical department, Dr. Vahid Disfani of the electrical engineering department, and Austin Harris, CUIP testbed manager.

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Community Expo Day

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The inaugural Community Expo Day was held at the Engineering and Computer Science Building on Jan. 19, 2022.

UTC students and local community members shared past and present community service experiences. Some students joined CECS clubs and organizations while others chose to sign up to volunteer with various community organizations. Many attendees were able to volunteer right on the spot by making birdhouses for Habitat for Humanity.

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Peas in a Pod

Peas in a Pod, the first-ever CECS/ Challenger Center summer camp, encouraged students in first through sixth grades to explore science, engineering, arts, culture, and several other topics through cooking techniques and food itself. In groups of four to six, campers ingested the information in 30-minute bites.

Irene Hillman, director of the CECS Center for Student Success and one of the Peas in a Pod instructors, explained that the fun and wonder of science was the main focus of the camp.

Children are “natural scientists, full of curiosity and creativity. We hope to harness that to help them embrace engineering and technology.”

Industry Visits

Industry tours provide insight on how companies function and provide students with useful information related to the practical aspects of an engineering or computer science degree. With an aim to go beyond academics, these visits are arranged to develop knowledge of the students in industry methods, processes, and practices. Moreover, it increases students’ practical awareness of various industry sectors and acquaints students with up-to-date technologies. Industry visits play a crucial role in increasing networking opportunities while building a good relationship with companies. For students, such trips open doors for corporate training and internships, which in turn increases students’ employability.

CECS students had the opportunity to attend multiple industry visits during the 2021-22 academic year. Companies included: Mohawk Industries, Branch Technologies, Plastic Omnium, American Water, Komatsu, Transcard, and BlueCross BlueShield.

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Volkswagen Collaborates with UTC to Broaden Skillsets of 14 Team Members As Volkswagen transforms its Chattanooga factory to become the company’s North American hub for Electric Vehicle Assembly, a key priority is upskilling new and current employees for EV-related positions.

To support these efforts, their onsite training facility—the Volkswagen Academy— worked with UTC’s College of Engineering and the Center for professional education to offer three new, customized courses for foundational mechatronics.

The 14 Volkswagen team members enrolled in the courses had recently taken on new roles and responsibilities. These team members participated in this professional development to enhance their knowledge and understanding of mechatronics and pneumatics.

Dr. Erkan Kaplanoglu, Chattanooga Manufacturers Association Associate Professor in the Engineering and Management Department served as the instructor for all three two-week-long courses including Introduction to

Electrical Engineering Student is a Published Author Congratulations to Electrical Engineering alumnus Shailesh Wasti for publishing a book chapter. The book chapter is based on his master’s thesis at UTC before joining Pennsylvania State University as a Ph.D. student in fall 2021. The chapter illustrates a deep mathematical platform to test algorithm stability, enabling faster and more stable design processes for distributed optimization and control algorithms.

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Mechatronics, Introduction to Pneumatics, and Introduction to Electropneumatics.

“The courses deepened their fundamental understanding of the technology they use in the factory,” said Kaplanoglu. “On a day-to-day basis, these employees complete tasks such as changing a switch or checking a sensor.

Through this supplemental education, they better understand the role those components play within the bigger system. It is important to have this level of understanding in order to effectively troubleshoot equipment issues, should they arise.”

The courses consisted of a mix between lectures and handson instruction, which enabled the participants to directly apply their learning in real-world scenarios.

“The class was extremely helpful on getting a better understanding of pneumatics as a whole,” said equipment operator Spencer Charlesworth.

“The skills I learned will be useful for my future at Volkswagen.”

Chattanooga Infrastructure Needs

by Shawn Ryan

Local Students Design Roller Coasters for All the Marbles No one was losing their marbles, although that was a constant danger.

Eighteen teams from 11 schools in Hamilton County participated in the first Marble Rollercoaster competition in March.

The event, hosted by CECS, called on teams of four to design a track built to fit a marble, construct it, then compete against each other.

Along with other criteria, the rollercoaster had to include a loop or a jump.

It all had to be done in 90 minutes.

Teams were instructed not to do any preplanning or design work before coming to Maclellan Gym for the competition. All materials for building the tracks were in the gym when students arrived.

The tracks had to meet these criteria: The marble must travel to the end of the coaster with no help. The coaster must be at least one meter tall. It must include either a loop or a jump. The start and finish locations of the coaster must be clearly marked. Only the supplied materials could be used to build the coaster.

Coasters were judged on how many times the marble made it all the way through and how

fast it completed each run. The creativity of the rollercoaster design also was rated.

“The inaugural event is hosted at UTC to celebrate the work of engineers and promote the engineering discipline as part of the events held in the greater Chattanooga area during the National Engineers Week,” said CECS Dean Daniel Pack.

“Seeing the faces of young students designing and working diligently to create their marble roller coasters is delightful, knowing that they will have opportunities in constructing a great future for the nation.”

On Jan. 26, Civil Engineering’s Dr. Ignatius Fomunung was interviewed by the local ABC affiliate on Hamilton County’s needs for infrastructure improvements. According to the piece, Hamilton County needs $3.4 billion in repairs, especially given the 14% population growth the area has seen in the past decade.

Dr. Fomunung states, “The costs accrue to drivers as they have to visit the repair shops more.” According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), poor road conditions cost individual Tennessee drivers an average of $209 annually.

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Hand-in-Hand, Arm-in-Arm: High School Students Tackle Engineering Projects “In theory, it should work,” Kayla King says.

“Yeah, it’s the ‘in theory’ part I don’t like,” Mason Harvey replies.

It’s not “in theory” that six students from the STEM School Chattanooga had four weeks to design and build a prosthetic hand to replace a hand no longer there or an exoskeleton to fit over a severely damaged arm. Nor is it “in theory” that the students are confident they can do it.

“I’ve done robotics since fourth grade, so I’ve been used to designing different things and building them,” said junior Gerald Arden Freeman, one of the three students working on the exoskeleton.

At the start of the students’ eight-week internship, associate professor Erkan Kaplanoglu wondered if the biomechatronics project might be too difficult to grasp for high school students—even those from the STEM School Chattanooga. But he now admits he was wrong. The students—two seniors, four juniors—are sponges, eager to absorb whatever information he can throw their way, he said. They want to learn.

“It doesn’t matter if they’re Einstein or Newton if they’re not motivated,” he said.

The students were selected by the STEM School Principal Tony Donen, Counselor Anna Millard, and Science Teacher Shannon Siegle. The six were chosen for their strong academics, technical skills, and ability to work as teammates, Millard said.

The goal of the internship is for the students to come out of it with university-level experience as well as knowledge that can be applied in the real world, she said.

Kaplanoglu’s goals are much the same.

“I am hoping they learn the basic knowledge about biomechatronics, which aims to eliminate the health and lifestyle problems that affect individuals with physical disabilities, and the design steps in this regard,” he said.

For the work, students were divided into groups of three. In the College of Engineering and Computer Science Building, the tables for both teams are scattered with various wires, computer chips, 3D-printed pieces and other pieces of tech. Each group has a computer loaded with software that flips, spins, and rotates their hand or exoskeleton design into whatever position is needed.

At his table, Harvey turns his own hand over to look at his palm then at his computer screen then back at his palm then back at the screen. He’s in the prosthetic-hand group and has a 3D-printed palm, a square block now laying on the table. He’s figuring out the proper size for the tiny motor—a servo—to fit into the palm to control the movement of the fingers.

“The biggest issue is fitting a good-sized servo in it. I’m sizing it to my hand, so this servo takes up a quarter of my hand. It gave me about as much room as I’d expect,” he said, pointing at the one on the computer screen.

“We’re actually going to have a different palm design where the motors are going to be inside it, so we’ll hopefully cut down on weight, and it’ll make everything a bit more compact.”

Junior Riley Brown is on the team building an exoskeleton and, while biomechatronics might not seem to fit her goals since she is interested in a career in neurology, she explained, there’s a connection.

The exoskeleton will attach to the arm

by Shawn Ryan

muscles and respond to their nerve impulses.

Electromyography (EMG), one of the diagnostic tools of neurology, assesses the health of muscles and the nerve cells that control them. It can reveal nerve dysfunction, muscle dysfunction or problems with nerve-to-muscle signal transmission.

“What we’re doing can be related to the study of the brain, like using different EMG or controls,” she said. “Ours isn’t specifically doing that, but I thought biomechatronics was something cool, and I’d like to try it out to see if maybe this would be something that I’d like to do.”

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Why We Give: Jim, Bruce, and Steve Rogers

by Chuck Wasserstrom

Brotherly Love

Several months after his father passed away in 2012, Jim Rogers, Jr. had an idea: What could he and his brothers, Bruce and Steve, do to honor their dad’s legacy?

“Our dad was extremely fond of the University of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He loved the University,” Jim Jr. says. “I thought the best way we could remember him, and for others to remember him going forward, was to set up a scholarship.”

The late Jim Rogers was a 1955 University of Chattanooga graduate, earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics, and a former adjunct professor in the UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science. To honor his contributions as a professional engineer, community volunteer and teacher, his sons created the James W. Rogers Endowed Scholarship.

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“We all felt that it would be something that he would really have loved to have known that we had done for him,” Jim Jr. says. “This is just a way to remember him and his love and his involvement with the University and teaching.”

As part of the scholarship, the brothers specified that recipients “embody a servant spirit, displaying initiative and service in the best interests of the University, their fellow students, and the local community.”

Steve, the youngest of the three, said their dad would have wanted to meet scholarship recipients.

“He would have taken the time to get to know them personally,” Steve says. “I meet people all the time that, as soon as they find out I’m Jim Rogers’ son, they tell me, ‘Oh, your dad helped me out with this and he lived a life of service.

He was just an impressive person.’”

After serving as a U.S. Air Force pilot and graduating from the University, Jim Rogers spent his professional engineering career at Combustion Engineering, an American-based, multi-national engineering firm that developed nuclear steam supply power systems in the United States.

He retired in 1984 to pursue his twin interests of teaching and volunteering.

He worked as an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at the University for 13 years and was an active member of the UTC Alumni Council. “He loved working in that capacity with Jayne Holder, supporting various events around the campus and interacting with students,” Bruce recalls.

He also volunteered without fanfare with several Chattanooga-area charities, most notably the Chambliss Children’s Home and the local Ronald McDonald House.

“He worked as an engineer for 26 years and then volunteered for the next 27,” Steve says. “I don’t know how he ever got started with this, but he decided to work within the community; he would go around and pick up food every day. He’d fill up a van full of food and drive around, dropping food off at places in need of support. It was amazing what he did.”

All three Rogers brothers followed in their father’s engineering footsteps and University footsteps, graduating from UTC with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering: Jim Jr. in 1974, Bruce in 1979 and Steve in 1990.

Interestingly enough, during Steve’s freshman year, his father was his instructor for an engineering graphics course.

“I had him at 8 o’clock in the morning, three days a week,” Steve says, “and it was neat to see our father as a teacher instead of just as a father.

He was a great teacher; he really was.

“I’ve run into people that had him as their teacher talk about how great he was and how he was willing to spend time in his office working one-on-one with students having trouble. These were the same kinds of stories I heard with the work he did with the food service.”

That spirit of service inspired the brothers to feature a service component as a scholarship requirement.

“One of the things we wanted was for students to have a service mindset,” Bruce says. “We hope the recipients will learn a little bit about who Jim Rogers was and the service he did.

Maybe that will make a difference 30 or 40 years down the road and they’ll decide to give back or pay it forward.”

Bruce then cites thank-you letters he and his brothers have received from scholarship recipients.

“Reading the notes, you can imagine yourself as that 18- or 19-year-old trying to make ends meet,” he says. “To read about what their education aim is and how the scholarship is helping them along just brings a smile to your face.”

The brothers say their father was never in it for personal glory. As Steve says, it would have been meaningful to him to know that students benefit from scholarship assistance.

“I think he would be thrilled to be associated with something that’s helping students along the way,” Bruce adds.

“I think it would be really heartfelt to him,” Jim Jr. says. “He had a big heart for everybody.”

Faculty Recognition

Dr. Don Reising

Dr. Hong Qin, Promoted to Professor of Computer Science and Engineering UC Foundation Professors: an honor given to professors by leadership who wish to strengthen the ties between outstanding junior faculty and the university Dr. Donald R. Reising, Electrical Engineering — New Dr. Mengjun Xie, Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Michael Danquah, Chemical Engineering Dr. Trevor Elliott, Mechanical Engineering Dr. Dalei Wu, Computer Science and Engineering Guerry Professors: created in 1961 by the Guerry family. The professorships are among the most prestigious professorships awarded at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Dr. Li Yang, Computer Science and Engineering — Renewed Dr. Michael Danquah, Chemical Engineering Dr. Daniel Loveless, Electrical Engineering Dr. Mina Sartipi, Computer Science and Engineering << 2021-22 YEAR IN REVIEW >>

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For Albert Woodard, Award is ‘Recognition of Lifelong Work’

by Chuck Wasserstrom

Albert Woodard is no stranger to being honored by his alma mater.

Woodard, a 1974 UTC graduate with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, has spent his professional career devoted to expanding the use of technology in healthcare and public health.

The Chattanooga native was named the Outstanding Young Alumnus of the UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science in 1982, becoming the first person to achieve that honor within 10 years of graduating from the institution.

In May 2017, he provided the commencement address at the University’s undergraduate ceremony at McKenzie Arena.

In 2019, he was inducted into the Gary W. Rollins College of Business Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.

The cherry on top came when Woodard received the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award at the UTC Office of Development and Alumni Affairs’ Legends and Leaders Award dinner on April 7, 2022.

The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest annual commendation presented to a UTC graduate. This award recognizes alumni who demonstrate extraordinary service to their alma mater, their field and their community.

“I think it’s a tribute to the lifelong work,” Woodard said. “I’m at that stage of life that you reflect back and say to yourself, ‘Did my life have meaning?

Did I make a contribution?’ And I think that’s what makes this so exciting.

“This is a recognition of lifelong work, pursuit of excellence, and not being satisfied with what you’ve done—and always being challenged to do more and maintain that hunger and dedication.”

Following graduation, Woodard joined IBM—where he implemented computer systems in hospitals—before launching his own information technology firm, Business Computer Applications (BCA).

At BCA, one of the nation’s largest minority-owned software development companies, Woodard helped create the country’s first electronic medical record system and the world’s largest telemedicine system outside the U.S. Department of Defense.

After BCA’s federal health business was sold to Acentia, Inc. in 2014, Woodard and several other BCA executives spun off a newly created healthcare software operation, KaZee, Inc. Under Woodard’s leadership as chairman of the board and chief executive officer, KaZee has become

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Albert Woodard, right, at a December 2021 celebration of a gift from Truist in support of the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s internship program.

a leading provider of healthcare IT products and services to the correctional healthcare industry.

Woodard, who lives in the Atlanta area, serves on the UC Foundation Board of Trustees and the CECS Advisory Board. Those obligations bring him back to UTC several times a month.

“I’ve been fortunate,” he said, “and the one thing I’m about is helping students.

“Whether that’s contributions of time or money or whatever role I have to play that will inspire young people to continue to try to pursue happiness, achieve their goals, and make life wonderful for themselves, I take those responsibilities seriously.”

Research Experience Leads to Awareness, Participation The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds a large number of research opportunities, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). NSF also supports Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science. Both the REU and RET programs are designed to enhance scientific disciplinary knowledge and translate research experiences into broadened awareness and participation in computing and engineering pathways.

At UTC, Computer Science and Engineering’s Dr. Hong Qin organized one REU with co-PI Dr. Yingfeng Wang, one teacher coding bootcamp and one high-school coding bootcamp over the summer months. The REU iCompBio 2022 had 14 participating students, the K-12 Teacher Python Coding Bootcamp hosted 17 Chattanooga area high school teachers, and the High School Student Data Analysis Bootcamp trained 9 students from the region (see photo).

Drs. Loveless and Reising from the Department of Electrical Engineering hosted an REU on small satellite electronics, called ChattSat REU. The 10-week long program hosted 9 students coming from around the country. Dr. Ahmed also from the Electrical Engineering Department and Dr. Onyango from the Civil and Chemical Engineering Department led the Smart Cities RET program, working with 9 area teachers. Dr. Harris from the Department of Civil and Chemical Engineering Department led the Providing Research Experiences and Practicum on Cyber-Physical Systems (PREP-CPS) for six regional community college faculty to increase their research skills and practical knowledge of CPS, to enhance self-efficacy in creating/implementing laboratory-based experiments, and to bridge the preparedness gap between what is exhibited by community college transfer students and what is expected by university engineering faculty.

Dr. Hong Qin, (left) with the students from the Computer Science REU cohort.

Engineering a Solution for Powerline Maintenance On the ground at EPB’s six-acre Falling Water substation in Middle Valley, Zach Ruble holds a controller. The senior researcher in electrical engineering at the UTC is not flying the drone; it is flying itself according to a pre-loaded program. Dr. Ruble is making sure that if the program has a glitch, the drone doesn’t fry itself by flying into a powerline, smash itself into the ground, or make some other life-ending maneuver.

The drone must fly on its own. Eventually, it will soar piece by piece over the 600 square miles of powerlines, looking for wear and tear to insulators on top of poles, worn lines attached to those insulators, even rot in wooden poles holding everything.

“You can imagine a human going through the 600-mile coverage area to see whether there was any problem or not and how costly that could be and how effective that might be, “ says CECS Dean Daniel Pack. “There are some areas where it is very difficult for humans to approach to check the health of the lines.”

“The primary issue we are addressing is how to conduct field inspections more efficiently and more effectively,” says Jim Glass, manager of Smart Grid Development at EPB. “This is a challenge not only for EPB but for electric utilities across the country.

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Major External Awards Fiscal Year 2022

Awards totaling at least $1,000,000 as primary investigator Hong Qin, Computer Science and Engineering Mina Sartipi, Computer Science and Engineering

Awards totaling at least $500,000 as primary investigator Michael Danquah, Civil and Chemical Engineering Daniel Loveless, Electrical Engineering Kidambi Sreenivas, Mechanical Engineering

Awards totaling at least $100,000 as primary investigator Mbakisya Onyango, Civil and Chemical Engineering Daniel Pack, Electrical Engineering Sungwoo Yang, Civil and Chemical Engineering

First Destination Survey Results 92%

Within 6 months of graduation employment full-time

4%

Advanced degree

55%

Received jobs before graduation

71%

Completed an internship while at UTC

79%

Thrived while at UTC

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College of Engineering and Computer Science ADVISORY BOARD

EXECUTIVE ADVISORY BOARD: Joe Ferguson Mack McCarley Mike McGauley Daniel Pack Jim Vaughn

ADVISORY BOARD: Rowena Belcher Joe Brown Richard Clark Jeff Cornett Daniel Deas Steven Douglas Bo Drake Todd Gardenhire Leslie Gower Tom Griscom Patsy Hazlewood Jimmy Lail John Loudermilk David Marckel John McNeely Tremaine Powell Bill Raines Elaine Swafford Tim Rausch Sid Verma David Wade Charles Wood Albert Woodard

Chairman, Electric Power Board (retired) President, PDM Associates Chairman, Fidelity Trust Company Dean, UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science Market President, Truist

Tennessee Valley Authority Executive (retired) Vice President, Engineering and Quality Education, Miller Industries Alumnus, SVP and President, Gulf of Mexico, Kosmos Energy Alumnus, Industry Partnerships and Development, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Novonix Vice President, Operations Support, Tennessee Valley Authority VP Economic and Workforce Development, Chattanooga State Community College Alumnus, Tennessee Senate District 10, Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Executive Director, Associated General Contractors of East Tennessee Alumnus, former Executive Editor and Publisher, former White House Strategist, Q Strategies Member, Tennessee House of Representatives, District 27 Vice President, Raines Brothers Inc. Chief Operating Officer, Birla Carbon Blue Cross Blue Shield Senior Vice President, Avertium Dean of Engineering and IT, Chattanooga State Community College President and CEO, The Raines Group Director, Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy Chief Nuclear Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority ASTEC President, Electric Power Board VP Economic Development, Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce Alumnus, Founder and Chairman, Kazee, Inc., Healthcare Software and Technology Firm

By the Numbers

Degrees

TOTAL AWARD DOLLARS RECEIVED

$4

$2

1,600

1,646

1,608

1,627

1,606

1,584

$9,010,030

$7,489,362

Million

$5,156,220

$6

Million

Engineering

TOTAL ENROLLMENT 1,700

$4,354,188

$8

Million

$4,516,728

$10

1,500

Million

1,400

Million

0

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

64.9% of CECS students receiving (grants and scholarships) NUMBER OF FACULTY AND STAFF 2021-22

STUDENT-TO-FACULTY RATIO

(Undergraduate and Graduate)

26:1

55 Faculty 29 Staff

Bachelor of Science n Chemical Engineering (B.S.Ch.E.) n Civil Engineering (B.S.C.E.) n Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E.) n Mechanical Engineering (B.S.M.E.) Master of Science (M.S.) n Engineering: Automotive Systems n Engineering: Chemical n Engineering: Civil n Engineering: Electrical n Engineering: Mechanical Ph.D. Programs n Computational Science with concentrations in - Computational and Applied Mathematics - Computational Engineering - Computer Science

Computer Science and Engineering Bachelor of Science n

DEGREES AWARDED 2022

- Computer Engineering - Cyber Security - Data Science - Software Systems - STEM Education

GRAD TO UNDERGRAD FALL 2022 Undergrad 88%

Bachelor’s 275 Master’s 69

Computer Science (B.S.), with concentrations in:

Grad 12%

n

Computer Engineering (B.S.)

Minor n Computer Science

MALE TO FEMALE FALL 2022 Male 83%

Female 17%

STUDENT DIVERSITY FALL 2022 White 71%

(non-Hispanic)

Black, Asian, American Indian, Hispanic 29%

Master of Science (M.S.) n

Computer Science with concentrations in

- Computer Science - Data Science - Information Security and Assurance n Data Analytics - jointly administered with Gary W. Rollins College of Business

Engineering Management and Technology Bachelor of Science n

Engineering Technology Management (B.S.), with concentrations in - Construction Management - Engineering Management

n

Mechatronics Engineering Technology (B.A.S.)

Minor n n

Construction Management Engineering Management

Master of Science (M.S.) n

Engineering Management with concentrations in - Construction Management - Engineering Management

Certificate Programs Post-Baccalaureate Certificates n Engineering: Power System Protection Smart Grid Smart Power Distribution Sustainable Electric Energy n Engineering Management:

Construction Management Fundamentals of Engineering Management Leadership and Ethics Logistics and Supply Chain Management Power Systems Management Project and Technology Management Quality Management Undergraduate Certificates n Advanced Information Systems Security n Information Systems Security

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