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UTSI Celebrates 2025 Service Award Recipients Campus Achievements
The University of Tennessee Space Institute recently held its annual Service Awards Celebration to recognize faculty and staff who reached an employment milestone in the previous calendar year. Specialty awards were also presented. In addition, the Student Government Association, the Employee Relations Committee, and recent graduates were acknowledged at this year’s celebration. The recipients for…
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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).
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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.
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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…
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Professor Highlights, Spring 2021
Peng Zhao joins the department as an associate professor of mechanical engineering and Damiano Baccarella is awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award.