{"id":476,"date":"2025-03-25T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/?p=476"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:02:43","slug":"branson-wins-the-department-of-mechanical-engineerings-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/2025\/03\/25\/branson-wins-the-department-of-mechanical-engineerings-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Branson wins the Department of Mechanical Engineering&#8217;s Innovation Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our own student, Branson Blaylock, won this year&#8217;s Innovation Award in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Tennessee Tech. The Innovation Award is given to undergraduate students who disseminate, commercialize or publish intellectual property created in the course of their research, creative activity, or experiential learning. As one of College of Engineering&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/ssc\/engineering\/awards.php\">Eminence Awards<\/a>, the Innovation Award was granted to only one ME student this year. Congratulations, Branson!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/04\/innovation-award-Blaylock-2025-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/04\/innovation-award-Blaylock-2025-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/04\/innovation-award-Blaylock-2025-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/04\/innovation-award-Blaylock-2025-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/04\/innovation-award-Blaylock-2025-1536x1153.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2025\/04\/innovation-award-Blaylock-2025-2048x1537.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own student, Branson Blaylock, won this year&#8217;s Innovation Award in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Tennessee Tech. The Innovation Award is given to undergraduate students who disseminate, commercialize or publish intellectual property created in the course of their research, creative activity, or experiential learning. As one of College of Engineering&#8217;s Eminence Awards, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/2025\/03\/25\/branson-wins-the-department-of-mechanical-engineerings-innovation-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Branson wins the Department of Mechanical Engineering&#8217;s Innovation Award!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/fsml\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}