Category: Research

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that four of our faculty received a total of $52,771 in Rural Reimagined grants. The Center for Rural Innovation’s, Rural Reimagined Grand Challenge Faculty Grant Program aims to transform rural communities across the state through collaborations with TN Tech faculty and students.

“We are proud of the continued innovation and community involvement of the faculty in our College,” stated Dean Roberts. “These awards allow teaching staff to continue their vital research that enriches our region.”

Principal investigators include Dr. Erica Bower (Sociology and Political Science) “Uniting, Empowering, and Engaging our Upper Cumberland Community to Reduce Mental Health Issues and Substance Misuse,” Dr. Helen Hunt (English) “We Persist: A Women and Gender Studies Seminar in Livingston, Tennessee,” Dr. Ed Lisic (Chemistry) “Increasing Young Student Interest in STEM Education Through Games and Apps,” and Dr. Lauren Michel (Earth Sciences) “Establishment of the Upper Cumberland Climate History Project.”

Congratulations to all and a huge thank you to the Center for Rural Innovation for making these grants possible!

The sixth generation of wireless networks promises mobile experiences and applications beyond imagination.

Until something blocks the signal, that is.

And that’s the challenge facing today’s researchers – people like Tennessee Tech Assistant Professor Muhammad Ismail – who are delving into this futuristic technology and discovering ways to maneuver around the obstacles associated with the smaller, higher-frequency signals to reap benefits like higher speeds and lower lag.

Read more: https://www.tntech.edu/engineering/news/articles/general/2022.12.08-dr-ismail-keeping-connected-research-project-aims-to-maintain-6g-connectivity-despitemobility.php

Tennessee Tech computer science senior Makayla Haggerty has a vision – one that would benefit people with impaired vision.

Sara Owens, a sophomore in the same major, aims to simplify a time-consuming verification task for Python programmers.

Both students had the opportunity to indulge their interests through summer research projects as recipients of the university’s Creative Inquiry Summer Experience grant program.

“It has given me real-life work experience that will help me get a job when I graduate,” Haggerty said of the program, which provides monetary assistance up to $4,000, including a $3,500 stipend, for summer internships that help undergraduate students develop research and creative inquiry skills.

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The Office of Sustainability is happy to share our new survey on the Bike Program and B.I.K.E. Club!

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This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will feature work from Physics major Luke Parsons. In his talk Data Analysis of Neutron Capture on 134Xe, Luke will describe his work analyzing gamma ray spectra that provide important information needed to eliminate backgrounds in very sensitive experiments designed to better understand a fundamental particle called the neutrino. Luke will also talk about how germanium detectors, like those used to collect his data, are made and characterized. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210. (Snacks will be served starting at 3:30pm.) These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!

This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will feature work from Electrical Engineering major Luke Chapman. In his talk Nitrogen Vacancy Optically-Detected Magnetometry for Characterization of Systematic Effects in Precision Ultracold Neutron Experiments, Luke will describe his work over the summer building a magnetic field measurement device using a solid state quantum system. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210. (Snacks will be served starting at 3:30pm.) These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!

This week we’ll have two presentations in the Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar. In his talk Beam Chamber Construction and Generator Shaft Alignment, Physics major Caleb Eldridge will describe his work developing TTU’s ion beam lab over the summer. Computer Science and Physics major Imran Mohammed will then present his investigation of 3D printing for vacuum applications in his talk Vacuum Compatibility of 3D Printer Materials. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210. (Snacks will be served starting at 3:30pm.) These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!

This week’s Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar will feature work from Physics Major Richard Mitchell. His talk, Integral Method for Fitting Nuclear Decay Chains, will present updates on his development of a new technique for determining radioactive half-lives from complex, low-statistics data sets. The seminar will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210. (Snacks will be served starting at 3:30pm.) These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!