The official Twitter account of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Knoxville, TN.

Knoxville, TN
Joined January 2014
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@UTK_TCE ranked 35th among public institutions and came in 63rd among all universities in the 2022 @usnews undergraduate rankings, released Monday. tickle.utk.edu/undergraduate…
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Join us Thursday for our next MSE Distinguished Seminar Speaker. This week, we feature Dr. Chris Wolverton from Northwestern, who will discuss materials discovery in the age of AI. Full Details ➡️ bit.ly/4zzoeW6
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MSE at UT is excited to congratulate the incoming UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Quantum Devices, Deep Jariwala, on being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society! Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4Ba1qxL
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Four Junior MSE #EngineeringVols recently travelled to Quebec City, Canada, to attend the International Materials, Applications & Technologies (IMAT) hosted by ASM International. Their project "Lil Domey V" won the award for Best Materials Innovativeness! 🏆 Congrats! 🎉
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UT researchers will use the FusionScope as part of the NSF-funded ATHENA project that accelerates materials characterization driven by agentic AIs.
Alla Slautina, a research specialist at IAMM, highlights how Quantum Design FusionScope reduces the time spent selecting measurement modes and workflows, boosting speed and confidence in evaluating new materials. Full Story ➡️ bit.ly/3U67si6
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Join us this Thursday as Cevdet Noyan, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, presents his seminar “Sampling in Powder Diffraction and Its Ramifications." Details ➡️ bit.ly/4jelAjC
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Alla Slautina, a research specialist at IAMM, highlights how Quantum Design FusionScope reduces the time spent selecting measurement modes and workflows, boosting speed and confidence in evaluating new materials. Full Story ➡️ bit.ly/3U67si6
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Join Dr. John R. Scully this Thursday as he discusses corrosion and passivation of complex concentrated alloys. 🗓️ October 1 ⏰ 2:45 P.M. 📍IAMM 147 🔗 bit.ly/4xLjNGt
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These projects will accelerate materials characterization by a factor of 30 and develop AI systems that can recognize and defend against adversarial attacks.
Weston Fulton Professor Sergei Kalinin and Associate Professor Mahshid Ahmadi are co-PIs on projects funded by the DOE's Genesis Mission, a push to advance AI-assisted research in the US. Learn more at the link below!bit.ly/479pSRT
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Congratulations to incoming UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Quantum Devices, Deep Jariwala, on being named a finalist for the 2026 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists! Full Story 🔗 bit.ly/4Agfsxv
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Weston Fulton Professor Sergei Kalinin and Associate Professor Mahshid Ahmadi are co-PIs on projects funded by the DOE's Genesis Mission, a push to advance AI-assisted research in the US. Learn more at the link below!bit.ly/479pSRT
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Join the department's own Dr. Xu this Thursday as he discusses Void Swelling Differences between BCC and FCC Metals! 🗓️ Sept. 17, 2026 ⏰ 2:45 P.M. 📍2641 Osprey Vista Way, Knoxville, TN 37920 🔗 bit.ly/4xkn1Al
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The MSE senior design team, Team Sword Washington, placed in the top five of the 2025 Cast in Steel competition! Their journey is part of a new YouTube show that highlights the competition, which you can watch below! 🗞️ bit.ly/4rcZTm4 📺 bit.ly/3SWvP16
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Join Dr. Yayoi Takamura this Thursday as she discusses how complex oxides provide a unique platform for engineering FM spin textures for next-generation spin-based devices. More info below! 🔗 bit.ly/4ieaevx
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As a former 3x collegiate national champion in Olympic-style weightlifting, Professor Katharine Page is one of six UT faculty members to receive the Athletics Professor of Excellence Award for the 2026-27 academic year! Learn more below. bit.ly/4zQSfBJ
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Join Dr. Saito, a distinguished R&D staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and a joint faculty member at UT, this Thursday as he discusses circular manufacturing through chemical upcycling of polymers. 🔗 bit.ly/4gQyjGy
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Associate Professor Mahshid Ahmadi received a $60k Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories research award to help develop an agentic AI that bridges the gap between material creation and characterization. Read the full story at the link below! 🔗 bit.ly/45T8SyP
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Alumnus Jonaaron Jones (BS/MSE ’13, MS/MSE ’15) learned about his passion for additive manufacturing while studying at UT. It launched a successful professional career that continues to soar while working in the Beehive Industry. 🐝 Learn more: bit.ly/4xeyG4E
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A Big Orange welcome to our new MSE #EngineeringVols! 🧡 We kicked off the semester with pizza, engaging conversations, and some foosball in the student lounge. Even faculty joined in on the fun!
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This Thursday, Dr. Chris Leighton, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at @UMNews, will be on campus at IAMM to present recent work on the complex oxides known as metallic delafossites. 🔗 bit.ly/3Szv9i9
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New Paper out in #MaterialsFutures | "Mechanistic transition into stress-activated dynamic recrystallization as the origin for catastrophic softening in precipitation-strengthened high-entropy alloys" (Chen & coworkers #YTU @UT_MSE) ➡️ doi.org/10.1088/2752-5724/ae…. @MaterFutures #OA
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