Forty-six minority engineering scholarships have been awarded thus far through a program at UTC, where a Sept. 29 celebration was held to thank Tennessee Sen. Todd Gardenhire for securing funding and former Chattanooga City Councilman James Moreland for recruiting prospective scholarship recipients.
Top of her class: Engineering graduate is first in many ways
UTC graduate Ajasia Harris also was valedictorian of the 2016 class at the Howard School.
High speed progress: UTC hails EPB’s 25 gig internet upgrade
In August, EPB announced it is taking its fiber-optic network from the 10-gig capacity it established in 2015 up to 25 gigs. The goal is expansion across the EPB coverage area with good results all over the city, and what’s good for Chattanooga is expected to be very good for UTC and its urban-environment campus.
Ukraine grad students settling in at UTC
“How is your family in Ukraine doing?” It’s the most-asked question for graduate students Arsen Martyshchuk and Nina Klimenkova, who arrived at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga last month for the start of fall semester.
STEMulating: Freeman Broadwell energizes a new class of students
From the pages of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine: Historically, Albania hasn’t offered much preparation for STEM careers. Freeman Broadwell (’16, mechanical engineering) has been working to change that ever since he moved to this country on the Adriatic Sea in 2020.
For new UTC student, ‘This scholarship will allow me to pursue the rest of my undergraduate degree’
Zennia Nesmith, an adult learner whose educational journey has brought her to UTC this fall, was 1 of 6 Tennessee students selected as recipients of the 2022 BlueCross Power of We Scholarship, funded by the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation.
If you start me up: New financial app has UTC roots
Dillon Martin, a 2017 UTC graduate with a bachelor’s degree in finance, and Justin Clark, who received a master’s in computer science from UTC in 2019, are two of the four founders of a mobile financial app called Levo Financial.
Largest federal DOT grant in UTC history to make downtown Chattanooga an electric vehicle testbed
The winning Chattanooga proposal is for a networked system that will enable electric vehicle drivers to more readily locate charging stations. Charging opportunities will be customized for drivers as a result of the system recognizing the charge level of individual electric vehicles, volume and pace of traffic and electric grid power demand to recommend charging stations and types by locations.
Students from two area high schools learn engineering design process during summer UTC program
The Upward Bound Math Science Promoting Resolve in Science and Math (PRISM) program offered various academic activities and workshops on social and emotional learning, foreign language, math and science for students from Chattanooga’s Brainerd High School and The Howard School.
Volkswagen collaborates with UTC to broaden skillsets of 14 team members
UTC and VW are training the carmaker’s employees for electric vehicle production.