KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee
dedicated its second new engineering building in as
many years Friday before a crowd of more than
500 onlookers.
“Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought
I’d have enough money to give away to help this
university the way we have,” said John D. Tickle, for
whom the building is named, in remarks to the
crowd.
Tickle, president and owner of Bristol, Va.,-based
fiber glass company Strongwell, was the primary
donor to the $23.1 million, 110,000-square-foot
building that now bears his name. Tickle was a
1965 industrial engineering graduate at UT, and
that program along with civil and environmental
engineering will be housed in the new facility.
The building, which sits on Neyland Drive with a
view overlooking Fort Loudoun Lake, also has a
pedestrian bridge connecting the building to The
Hill. The bridge is made of fiber glass-reinforced I-
beams also manufactured and donated by
Strongwell.
The facility has 24 laboratories, three conventional
classrooms, one lecture hall and three student work
spaces and 63 faculty and graduate student offices.
There is also a large, garage-like room used for
structural testing and asphalt road resurface testing.
In March 2012, UT dedicated the $37.5 million Min
Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Building. Both were funded through a combination
of private gifts and state money.
More details as they develop online and in
Saturday’s News Sentinel.
dedicated its second new engineering building in as
many years Friday before a crowd of more than
500 onlookers.
“Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought
I’d have enough money to give away to help this
university the way we have,” said John D. Tickle, for
whom the building is named, in remarks to the
crowd.
Tickle, president and owner of Bristol, Va.,-based
fiber glass company Strongwell, was the primary
donor to the $23.1 million, 110,000-square-foot
building that now bears his name. Tickle was a
1965 industrial engineering graduate at UT, and
that program along with civil and environmental
engineering will be housed in the new facility.
The building, which sits on Neyland Drive with a
view overlooking Fort Loudoun Lake, also has a
pedestrian bridge connecting the building to The
Hill. The bridge is made of fiber glass-reinforced I-
beams also manufactured and donated by
Strongwell.
The facility has 24 laboratories, three conventional
classrooms, one lecture hall and three student work
spaces and 63 faculty and graduate student offices.
There is also a large, garage-like room used for
structural testing and asphalt road resurface testing.
In March 2012, UT dedicated the $37.5 million Min
Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Building. Both were funded through a combination
of private gifts and state money.
More details as they develop online and in
Saturday’s News Sentinel.
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