- McDonald earns highest honor
- Ezell selected for professional honor
- Lee works toward global academic exchange in Great Britain
- National SimCenter approved to expand fuel cell research
- SimCenter: National Center for Computational Engineering established
- Kizza’s new book builds trust in computer technology
- Nursing anesthesia program partners with Mississippi medical center
- Wilson hosts research student scientist from China
- UTC professor contributes to ACSM Updated Physical Activity Guidelines
- University receives 200 acres from federal government
Research Opportunities
Research is a priority for the campus. We consider effective teaching and faculty involvement in scholarship, research, and creative activities as interdependent. Our goal is to foster your intellectual growth and application of your new knowledge. To this end, graduate faculty members involve students in their research on a regular basis.
For example, master’s students in Environmental Science study the interaction of water quality on fish and mammals; MBA students manage financial portfolios; English students explore the rhetoric of media; doctoral students in Learning and Leadership analyze assessment models; and doctoral students in Computational Engineering engage in studies of drag resistance.
The Graduate School sponsors an annual research day where students present posters and papers for critique by peers, faculty, and community experts. Awards are presented for outstanding contributions.
To enhance research efforts on campus, the University received last year over $13 million in external funding.
Read about the lastest research published and presented by our faculty.
Research and Engagement
Unique to our campus and internationally recognized for its pioneering work is the National SimCenter, a computational engineering research and education center that specializes in high-fidelity, physics-based computational modeling and simulation. SimCenter researchers use high-performance supercomputing to solve physical problems that arise in engineering analysis and design applications from any engineering discipline.
The National SimCenter is expanding and adapting its technology base to additional research areas that are vital to the nation’s long-term security and economic well being. These areas include solid and fluid mechanics, electromagnetics, energy and mass transport, chemical reactions, and materials science. The National SimCenter has also opened a new Alternative Energy Laboratory devoted to fuel-cell experiments.
Another research partner on campus advances clean transportation technologies to promote a healthy environment and energy independence through research, education and technology transfer.
The Hamilton County Center for Entrepreneurial Growth, designed to help high-tech start ups move rapidly and successfully from idea to successful implementation, is also located on UTC’s campus.
Eighth Annual Graduate Research Day
Aligning research interests with career goals inspires UTC graduate students to achieve. These students found a graduate program at UTC that challenged them, engaged them in a powerful way to network and moved them closer to realizing their professional dreams.
Students in the twenty-two master’s and doctoral degree programs were invited to submit their project, thesis, and dissertation research. Four students received awards for outstanding papers, presentations and posters in the recent Eighth Annual Graduate Research Day. Vincent Betro (Computational Engineering) and George Standifer (English) tied for the Best Paper award. Best Presentation was awarded to Stacy Huskins (Environmental Science). Candy Anderson won the Best Poster award.
Read about the research UTC graduate students presented at Research Day 2008:
- Anna Katherine Ward, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Title: Personality and Culture as Predictors of Early Expatriate Assignment Termination - Candy Anderson, Athletic Training
Title: Development of a Survey Instrument for Assessment of Clinical Practice Patterns - Carrie Ross, Biological and Environmental Science
Title: Electrical Current Generation and Organic Matter Degradation in Bacterial Metabolizing Raw Sewage - Rachel Breneman, English
Title: English 101: A Site of Liberal Indoctrination? - Jeremy Kevin Locke, English, Literature
Title: Is God Really Dead?: Finding god in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark - Katie Harbison, Public Administration
Title: The Grease Tax - Jamila Kindall, Health and Human Performance
Title: Reliability of Unilateral Zig-Zag Hop Test Times for Male and Female Basketball Players - Grace Hoomes, Special Education
Title: Video Self-Modeling for Language and Social Skills Development - Daniel Huser, Biological and Environmental Science
Title: Electrical Current Generation and Organic Matter Degradation in Bacterial Metabolizing Raw Sewage - Stacy Huskins, Environmental Science
Title: The Vascular Flora of the North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Natural Area - Shannon Hatmaker, Environmental Science
Title: Effects of Exotic Invasive Vegetation on Breeding Birds Along the North Chickamauga Creek - Jessica Leet, Environmental Science
Title: Comparison of Genetic Diversity in Mouse Populations Historically Exposed to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - Alma Cemerlic, Computer Science
Title: Network Intrusion Detection Based on Bayesian Network - Meredith Montgomery, Environmental Science
Title: Toward an Understanding of Clematis Fremontii S. Watson (Ranunculaceae) in the Southeastern United States - Vincent Betro, Computational Engineering
Title: Parallel Hierarchical 2D Unstructured Mesh Generation with General Cutting - George Standifer, English, Rhetoric and Composition
Title: Nietzschean Architectonics in Jack London’s The Iron Heel
Read about Research Day 2007.
