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2024 Macebearer

The Macebearer is the highest faculty honor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is symbolic of the faculty’s commitment of service to students, to scholarship, and to society.

Wesley Hines

Wesley Hines

Wesley Hines is a Chancellor’s Professor and the head of the Nuclear Engineering Department, where he has been for 29 years. He has also served as Interim Associate Dean for Research in the Tickle College of Engineering and as Interim Vice Chancellor for Research. Hines has authored more than 350 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and advanced statistical techniques applied to process diagnostics, condition-based maintenance, and prognostics.

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