The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) hosted its 9th Annual Wu Student Presentation Competition on April 17th. The goal of this competition is to allow graduate students to present their research work to an audience and judges to develop their presentation skills. There were six competitors this year and presentations covered disciplines in mechanical, aerospace, […]
Wu Competition 2026
Spring Undergrad Tour 2026
UTSI Hosts More Than 50 Engineering Students for Campus Research Tour In February, the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) welcomed more than 50 undergraduate students from the University of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering, Bryan College, Tennessee Technological University, and Lipscomb University. During the visit, students toured several of UTSI’s leading research facilities, including […]
Engineering Design Competition 2026
Engineer’s Week this year was February 22 – 28 and UTSI welcomed 47 bright minds from eight schools for our annual Engineering Design Competition. Students from Cascade High School, Coffee County, Community High School, Franklin County, Lincoln County, Shelbyville Central, Tullahoma High School, and Warren County put their creativity and engineering skills to the test. […]
UT Hypersonics Team Captures National Title
The University of Tennessee’s Student Space Technology Association’s (SSTA) Hypersonics Team was crowned a national winner at the 2025 Undergraduate Hypersonic Flight Design Competition, run by the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH).
How Fast is a Mach 4 Field Goal? UTSI Interns Found the Answer
Associate Professor Phillip Kreth and a team of student interns put a football and a baseball in a Mach 4 wind tunnel to help the general public conceptualize hypersonic speeds.
Prevailing Wind
UTSI Secures $17.8M Hypersonic Wind Tunnel to Accelerate TPS Development On reentry, space shuttles slam into Earth’s atmosphere at nearly Mach 25 (25 times the speed of sound). That tremendous speed heats the shuttle’s surface above 2600 degrees Fahrenheit, and subjects it to similarly extreme pressure, for up to 15 minutes. While spacecraft reentry is […]
Kreth Selected AIAA Associate Fellow
Associate Professor Phillip Kreth was selected as Class of 2025 Associate Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
UT Projects Receive State Transportation Funding
Two Engineering groups from the University of Tennessee received financial grants awarded by the Tennessee Department of Economic Community Development for transportation growth.
UTSI’s Palies Makes Stanford List of Top 2 Percent Cited in World
The Tickle College of Engineering had 73 current or former researchers make Stanford University’s list of the top 2 percent most cited in the world.
The New Wave of Flight: Acharya’s Research Boosting Scramjets, Giving Insight into Hypersonics
Ragini Acharya receives three-year grant from an Office of Naval Research to further the development of various aviation innovations.