Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university

Public university

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 located in Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville, Tennessee

Cookeville is a city in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 23,923 at the 2000 census. of Cookeville's population was 30,435, and the combined total of those living in Cookeville's in 2010 was 65,014. It is the county seat of Putnam County and home to Tennessee...

, US

United States

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, a city approximately seventy miles (110 km) east of Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (1915), and before that as Dixie College, the name under which it was founded as a private institution in 1909. It places special emphasis on undergraduate education

Undergraduate education

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 in fields related to engineering

Engineering

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 and technology, although degrees in education

Education

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, liberal arts

Liberal arts

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, agriculture

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, nursing

Nursing

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, and other fields of study can be pursued as well. Additionally, there are graduate

Graduate school

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 offerings in engineering, education, business

Master of Business Administration

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, and the liberal arts. It is operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents

Tennessee Board of Regents

The Tennessee Board of Regents is one of the two systems of public higher education in Tennessee. The TBR was authorized by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly passed in 1972...

, and its athletic teams compete in the Ohio Valley Conference

Ohio Valley Conference

The Ohio Valley Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision , the lower of two levels of Division I...

.

Tennessee Tech is ranked among the Top 8 Public Schools in the South

Southern United States

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 in U.S. News & World Report

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's 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, & 2012 editions of "America's Best Colleges." It was also ranked among the Top Public Schools in the South in the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 college guides. The Princeton Review also listed TTU as a "Best College Value" in 2006 and 2007. TTU is one of "America's 100 Best College Buys" as reported by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. in 2006.

As of the 2011 fall semester, Tennessee Tech enrolls over 11,768 students (9,920 undergraduate and 1,848 graduate students), and its campus

Campus

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 has 87 buildings on 235 acres (0.95 km²) centered along Dixie Avenue in north Cookeville. The average class size is twenty six students and the student to faculty ratio is 18:1. Less than one percent of all classes are taught by teaching assistants with the rest of the classes being taught by professors. The ethnic breakdown of the undergraduate student population is: 88.2% White/Caucasian, 4.1% African American, 1.5% Asian/Pacific Islander, 1.3% Hispanic, 0.3% American Indian/Alaskan Native, and 4.6% Other.

Educational or Administrative

• Roaden University Center (RUC)
• Bartoo Hall (Department of Curriculum and Instruction)
• Brown Hall (Mechanical
  Mechanical engineering
  Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
  
  , Electrical
  Electrical engineering
  Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
  
  , and Computer Engineering
  Computer engineering
  Computer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...
  
  )
• Bruner Hall (Mathematics
  Mathematics education
  In contemporary education, mathematics education is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, along with the associated scholarly research....
  
  , Physics
  Physics
  Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
  
  , and Computer Science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  )
• Bryan Fine Arts (Music
  Music education
  Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
  
   and Art
  Art education
  Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...
  
  )
• Clement Hall (Basic Engineering)
• Derryberry Hall (Administration)
• Henderson Hall (English literature
  English literature
  English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
  
  , History
  History
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  )
• Johnson Hall (Business - named after past Business School Dean, Louis Johnson)
• Kittrell Hall (Earth Sciences)
• Lewis Hall (Industrial Technology
  Industrial technology
  Industrial technology is the field concerned with the application of basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of industrial engineers and managers...
  
  )
• T.J. Farr Building (Education, Psychology
  Psychology
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  , and Honors Program)
• Foster Hall (Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
  
  )
• Matthews Daniel Hall (Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, & Political Science )
• Pennebaker Hall (Biology
  Biology
  Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
  
  )
• Prescott Hall (Chemical
  Chemical engineering
  Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
  
  , Civil
  Civil engineering
  Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
  
  , and Industrial Engineering
  Industrial engineering
  Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
  
  )
• South Hall (Agriculture and Human Ecology
  Human ecology
  Human ecology is the subdiscipline of ecology that focuses on humans. More broadly, it is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The term 'human ecology' first appeared in a sociological study in 1921...
  
  )
• The Hooper Eblen Center ("The Hoop")
• Volpe Library (named after past TTU President Angelo Volpe)
• Whitson-Hester School of Nursing

Traditional halls

• Browning Hall (Men's)
• Cooper Hall (Coed)
• Crawford Hall (Women's)
• Dunn Hall (Coed)
• Ellington Hall (Coed)
• Evins Hall (Men's)
• Jobe Hall (Business)
• Maddox Hall (Engineering)
• McCord Hall (Engineering)
• MS Cooper Hall (International students)
• Murphy Hall (Honors)
• Pinkerton Hall (Coed)
• Warf Hall (Coed)

Departments

• Accounting & Law
  Law
  Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
  
  
• Agriculture
  Agriculture
  Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
  
  
• Biology
  Biology
  Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
  
  
• Chemical Engineering
  Chemical engineering
  Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
  
  
• Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
  
  
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Computer Science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
  
• Decision Sciences & Management
• Earth Sciences
• Economics, Finance, and Marketing
• Education
  Education
  Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
  
  
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• English & Communications
• Foreign Languages
• History
  History
  History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
  
  
• Human Ecology
  Human ecology
  Human ecology is the subdiscipline of ecology that focuses on humans. More broadly, it is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The term 'human ecology' first appeared in a sociological study in 1921...
  
  
• Industrial & Systems Engineering
  Industrial engineering
  Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
  
  
• Manufacturing & Industrial Technology
• Mathematics
  Mathematics
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
  
  
• Mechanical Engineering
  Mechanical engineering
  Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
  
  
• Music & Art
• Nursing
  Nursing
  Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....
  
  
• Physics
  Physics
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• Psychology
• Sociology, Philosophy, & Political Science
• Web Design
• World Cultures & Business

Programs

• Cooperative Education
• Distance MBA
• Honors
• Military Science

Research Centers

• Center for Energy Systems Research (CESR)
• Center for Manufacturing Research (CMR)
• Center for the Management Utilization & Protection of Water Resources
• Center for Teaching & Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM)
• Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit (TNCFRU)

Athletics

The Golden Eagles compete in the Ohio Valley Conference

Ohio Valley Conference

The Ohio Valley Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in the Football Championship Subdivision , the lower of two levels of Division I...

 in the following sports:

Women's

• Basketball
• Softball
• Soccer
• Volleyball
• Cross Country
• Track
• Tennis
• Golf

Honors Societies

• Alpha Kappa Delta
  Alpha Kappa Delta
  Alpha Kappa Delta is an international sociology honor society.Founded in 1920 by Emory S. Bogardus, of the University of Southern California sociology department, the name is derived from the Greek anthrôpos meaning mankind, katamanthanô, meaning to examine closely or acquire knowledge, and...
  
   - Sociology
• Alpha Kappa Psi
  Alpha Kappa Psi
  ΑΚΨ is the oldest and largest professional business fraternity. The Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity was founded on October 5, 1904 at New York University, and was incorporated on May 20, 1905...
  
   - Business
• Alpha Lambda Delta
  Alpha Lambda Delta
  Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for students who have achieved a 3.5 GPA or higher and are in the top 20% of their class during their first year or term of higher education.-History:...
  
   - Freshman
• Alpha Mu Gamma
  Alpha Mu Gamma
  Alpha Mu Gamma is a national collegiate foreign language honor society founded at Los Angeles City College in 1931. More than three hundred charters have been granted to chapters in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands...
  
   - Foreign Languages
• Alpha Psi Omega
  Alpha Psi Omega
  Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society is an American recognition honor society recognizing participants in collegiate theatre. The Alpha Cast was founded at Fairmont State College on August 12, 1925 by professor Paul F...
  
   - Theatre
• Beta Alpha Psi
  Beta Alpha Psi
  ΒΑΨ is a national honors business organization for highly successful accounting, finance and information systems students and professionals. It was founded on February 12, 1919 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently headquartered in Durham, North Carolina...
  
   - Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems
• Beta Beta Beta - Biology
• Beta Gamma Sigma
  Beta Gamma Sigma
  Beta Gamma Sigma or ΒΓΣ is an honor society for business students and scholars. Founded in 1913 at the University of Wisconsin, it has over 650,000 members, selected from over 500 chapters in AACSB-accredited business schools...
  
   - Business
• Chi Epsilon
  Chi Epsilon
  Chi Epsilon is the national civil engineering honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students who have exemplified the "principles of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability...in the civil engineering profession." There are currently 136 chapters, of which 130...
  
   - Civil Engineering
• Delta Tau Alpha - Agriculture
• Eta Kappa Nu
  Eta Kappa Nu
  Eta Kappa Nu is the electrical and computer engineering honor society of the IEEE, founded in October 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The organization currently has around 200 student chapters and about 3,000,000 members and is headquartered in Chicago,...
  
   - Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
• Kappa Delta Pi
  Kappa Delta Pi
  Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, was founded in 1911 and was one of the first discipline-specific honor societies. Its membership is limited to the top 20 percent of those entering the field of education. Kappa Delta Pi claims over 600 chapters across North America and...
  
   - Education
• Kappa Mu Epsilon
  Kappa Mu Epsilon
  Kappa Mu Epsilon is a mathematics honor society founded in 1930 to focus on the needs of undergraduate mathematics students. There are now over 100 chapters at various American universities and colleges, primarily at mid-sized public universities or smaller private institutions...
  
   - Mathematics
• Kappa Omicron Nu - Human Ecology
• Mortar Board
  Mortar Board
  Mortar Board is an American national honor society whose purpose is to recognize outstanding students dedicated to the values of scholarship, leadership, and service. The Cornell University Der Hexenkreis chapter, founded in 1892, is the oldest and predates the national society's founding in 1918...
  
   - Senior
• Omega Chi Epsilon
  Omega Chi Epsilon
  Omega Chi Epsilon is an American honor society for chemical engineering students. The first chapter was formed at the University of Illinois in 1931. The second chapter was formed at the Iowa State University in 1932. The organization is a member of the Association of College Honor...
  
   - Chemical Engineering
• Omicron Delta Epsilon
  Omicron Delta Epsilon
  Omicron Delta Epsilon is an international honor society in the field of economics. Resulting from the merger of Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon, ODE was founded in 1963 . Its board of trustees includes well-known economists such as Robert Lucas, Kenneth Arrow, and Robert Solow...
  
   - Economics
• Omicron Delta Kappa
  Omicron Delta Kappa
  Omicron Delta Kappa, or ΟΔΚ, also known as The Circle, or more commonly ODK, is a national leadership honor society. It was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, by 15 student and faculty leaders. Chapters, known as Circles, are located on over 300...
  
   - Leadership
• Order of Omega
  Order of Omega
  The Order of Omega is an undergraduate Greek society recognizing "fraternity men and women who have attained a high standard of leadership in inter-fraternity activities." It functions as an adjunct to traditional fraternal organizations, rather than a social or professional group in se...
  
   - Greek system
• Phi Alpha Theta
  Phi Alpha Theta
  Phi Alpha Theta is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history.The society is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies and has over 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters.-...
  
   - History
• Phi Kappa Phi
  Phi Kappa Phi
  The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society established 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to area of study and to promote the "unity and democracy of education"...
  
   - Scholastic
• Pi Kappa Delta
  Pi Kappa Delta
  Pi Kappa Delta is a Forensics Honor Society for undergraduate university students and a professional organization for graduates, typically university Speech and Debate Coaches....
  
   - Speech and Debate
• Pi Sigma Alpha
  Pi sigma alpha
  Pi Sigma Alpha , the National Political Science Honor Society, is the only honor society for college and university students of political science in the United States. Its purpose is to recognize and promote high academic achievement in the field of political science...
  
   - Political Science
• Pi Tau Sigma
  Pi Tau Sigma
  Pi Tau Sigma is an International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. Pi Tau Sigma's core values are:*Integrity ,*Service , and...
  
   - Mechanical Engineering
• Psi Chi
  Psi Chi
  Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. With over 1,050 chapters, Psi Chi is one of the largest honor societies in the United States...
  
   - Psychology
• Scabbard and Blade
  Scabbard and Blade
  Scabbard and Blade is a college military honor society founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1904. Although membership is open to R.O.T.C. cadets and midshipmen of all military services, the society is modeled after the U.S. Army and its chapters are called companies and are organized into...
  
   - ROTC
• Sigma Pi Sigma
  Sigma Pi Sigma
  Sigma Pi Sigma is the National Physics Honor Society. It strives to promote physics at all stages, to promote fraternity between those who excel at physics, and to promote service among its members. It is closely associated with the Society of Physics Students .- External links :*...
  
   - Physics
• Sigma Tau Delta
  Sigma Tau Delta
  Sigma Tau Delta is an international collegiate honor society for students of English. It presently has over 800 active chapters located in Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and 1 chapter in the Middle East , with more than 1,000 faculty sponsors...
  
   - English
• Sigma Theta Tau
  Sigma Theta Tau
  The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International exists to improve the health of people by increasing the scientific base of nursing research...
  
   - Nursing
• Tau Beta Pi
  Tau Beta Pi
  The Tau Beta Pi Association is the oldest engineering honor society in the United States and the second oldest collegiate honor society in America. It honors engineering students who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to personal and professional integrity...
  
   - Engineering

Religious Organizations

• Baptist Collegiate Ministries
• Campus Outreach
  Campus Outreach
  Campus Outreach is a network of interdenominational Christian organizations, focusing on evangelizing and discipling college students worldwide under the mission statement "Glorifying God by Building Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World."...
  
  
• Canterbury Club
• Chi Alpha
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes
  Fellowship of Christian Athletes
  The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a non-profit interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1954 and that has been based in Kansas City, Missouri since 1956. It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity. Although established by evangelical Protestants, the concept has...
  
  
• Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
  InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is an inter-denominational, evangelical Christian, student-led ministry which for the past 70 years has been dedicated to establishing witnessing communities on U.S. college and university campuses...
  
  
• LDS Student Association
  LDS Student Association
  LDS Student Association is an organization affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which offers Latter-day Saint university and college students and others social, religious, and recreational activities.The LDSSA was established in 1960, and today a chapter of the LDSSA...
  
  
• Newman Campus Ministry
  Catholic campus ministry
  Catholic Campus Ministry is a term used to describe an organization at a college or university that is the presence of the Roman Catholic Church on campus...
  
  
• Presbyterian Student Association
• Reformed University Fellowship
  Reformed University Fellowship
  Reformed University Fellowship, or RUF, is the campus ministry organization of the Presbyterian Church in America . RUF has experienced rapid growth the past few years, and currently has 110 chapters at different college campuses spread over 27 US States, Mexico, and Canada...
  
  
• Servants of Christ
• University Christian Student Center
• Wesley Foundation
  Wesley Foundation
  A Wesley Foundation is a United Methodist campus ministry sponsored in full or in part by the United Methodist Church on a non-church owned and operated campus...
  
  

Fraternities

• Alpha Gamma Sigma
  Alpha Gamma Sigma (fraternity)
  Alpha Gamma Sigma is a national social and professional agricultural fraternity that exists on eight campuses. It is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference...
  
  
• Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha
  Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...
  
  
• Kappa Alpha Order
  Kappa Alpha Order
  Kappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 124 active chapters, 3 provisional chapters, and 2 commissions...
  
  
• Kappa Sigma
  Kappa Sigma
  Kappa Sigma , commonly nicknamed Kappa Sig, is an international fraternity with currently 282 active chapters and colonies in North America. Kappa Sigma has initiated more than 240,000 men on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada. Today, the Fraternity has over 175,000 living...
  
  
• Kappa Kappa Psi
  Kappa Kappa Psi
  Kappa Kappa Psi is a fraternity for college and university band members. It was founded on November 27, 1919 at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College in Stillwater, Oklahoma. William Scroggs, now regarded as the "Founder," together with "Mr. Kappa Kappa Psi" A...
  
  
• Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma
  Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I...
  
  
• Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta
  Phi Delta Theta , also known as Phi Delt, is an international fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. The fraternity has about 169 active chapters and colonies in over 43 U.S...
  
  
• Phi Gamma Delta
  Phi Gamma Delta
  The international fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social fraternity with 120 chapters and 18 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, USA...
  
  
• Pi Kappa Alpha
  Pi Kappa Alpha
  Pi Kappa Alpha is a Greek social fraternity with over 230 chapters and colonies and over 250,000 lifetime initiates in the United States and Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Pi Kappa Phi
  Pi Kappa Phi
  Pi Kappa Phi is an American social fraternity. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr. on December 10, 1904 at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
  
  
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon
  Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South...
  
  
• Sigma Chi
  Sigma Chi
  Sigma Chi is the largest and one of the oldest college Greek-letter secret and social fraternities in North America with 244 active chapters and more than . Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon...
  
  
• Sigma Phi Epsilon
  Sigma Phi Epsilon
  Sigma Phi Epsilon , commonly nicknamed SigEp or SPE, is a social college fraternity for male college students in the United States. It was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College , and its national headquarters remains in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded on three principles: Virtue,...
  
  
• Tau Kappa Epsilon
  Tau Kappa Epsilon
  Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...
  
  

Sororities

• Alpha Delta Pi
  Alpha Delta Pi
  Alpha Delta Pi is a fraternity founded on May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The Executive office for this sorority is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Alpha Delta Pi is one of the two "Macon Magnolias," a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Phi Mu...
  
  
• Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha
  Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
  
  
• Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma
  Delta Gamma is one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio.-History:...
  
  
• Delta Sigma Theta
  Delta Sigma Theta
  Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University...
  
  
• Kappa Delta
  Kappa Delta
  Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the university...
  
  
• Mu Phi Epsilon
  Mu Phi Epsilon
  Mu Phi Epsilon is a co-ed international professional music fraternity and honor society. It boasts over 75,000 members in 128 collegiate chapters and 74 alumni chapters in the US and abroad.-History:...
  
  
• Omega Phi Alpha
  Omega Phi Alpha
  Omega Phi Alpha is an American national service sorority. It was founded in 1967 at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio...
  
  
• Phi Mu
  Phi Mu
  Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The organization was founded as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same year...
  
  
• Zeta Phi Beta
  Zeta Phi Beta
  Zeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.Zeta Phi Beta is organized into 800+ chapters, in eight intercontinental regions including the USA, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean...
  
  

Chemistry

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduate Affiliates Network
• Chem-Med Club
• Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society
• The Institute for Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Experimental Studies (TILNICES)

Engineering

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is a professional organization for chemical engineers.AIChE was established in 1908 with the purpose of establishing chemical engineers as a profession independent from chemists and mechanical engineers.As of 2010, AIChE had over 40,000 members,...
  
  
• American Society of Civil Engineers
  American Society of Civil Engineers
  The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. ASCE's vision is to have engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward...
  
  
• Institute of Transportation Engineers
  Institute of Transportation Engineers
  The Institute of Transportation Engineers or ITE is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs. ITE was founded in 1930 as the Institute of Traffic Engineers and its first president was Ernest P...
  
  
• TTU Aviation Society
• TTU Mini Baja Team

Notable faculty

• Joseph Hermann
  Joseph Hermann
  Joseph W. Hermann is a leading American wind band conductor and educator and is currently Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee...
  
   - Director of Bands; President of the American Bandmasters Association.
• Phillip Barham
  Phillip Barham
  Phillip Wayne Barham is a classical and jazz saxophonist and professor of saxophone at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.-Biography:Barham was born in Dowagiac, Michigan...
  
   - Professor of Saxophone; Internationally recognized saxophone performer and pedagogue.
• Michael M. Gunter
  Michael M. Gunter
  Michael M. Gunter is an authority on Kurds in Turkey and Iraq and has written seven books on the Kurdish struggle. He is frequently consulted by media members for analysis and comment on breaking news in the Middle East. Gunter has written more than 75 articles in scholarly journals and books...
  
   - Received his PhD from Kent State in International Affairs and was a Fulbright lecturer; Authority on the Kurds and the Middle East.
• R. Winston Morris
  R. Winston Morris
  South Carolinian Ralph Winston Morris , known for his signature "soul patch", is the professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is editor of The Tuba Source Book and the Euphonium Source Book...
  
   - Professor of Tuba; Legendary innovator in the fields of tuba performance, education, and chamber music.

Notable alumni

• Rodney Atkins
  Rodney Atkins
  Rodney Allan Atkins is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart that year, but did not release an album until 2003's Honesty, which included the number 4 hit "Honesty ".If You're Going Through Hell, his second...
  
   - Country singer
• Jimmy Bedford
  Jimmy Bedford
  James Howard "Jimmy" Bedford was responsible for overseeing the production of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey and ensuring the consistent flavor of the product in his 20 years serving as the distillery's sixth master distiller.-Early life:Bedford was born on January 30, 1940 in Franklin County,...
  
   (1940-2009), class of 1962, sixth master distiller at Jack Daniel's
  Jack Daniel's
  Jack Daniel's is a brand of sour mash Tennessee whiskey that is among the world's best-selling liquors. It is known for its square bottles and black label. As of November, 2007, one blogger was claiming that it was the best-selling whiskey in the world. It is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee by...
  
  
• Beth Boden, Rockford Thunder shortstop
  Shortstop
  Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...
  
  
• Roger K. Crouch
  Roger K. Crouch
  -External links:*...
  
   - An American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   Space Shuttle
  Space Shuttle
  The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...
  
   missions in 1997
• Stephanie Fischer - Rockford Thunder infielder
  Infielder
  An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field.-Standard arrangement of positions:In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns playing offensive and defensive roles...
  
  
• Mike Hennigan - American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player for the Detroit Lions
  Detroit Lions
  The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
  
   and New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   in the NFL
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
  
• Barbara McConnell
  Barbara McConnell
  Barbara Wright McConnell is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and in the cabinet of former Governor James Florio....
  
   - Former member of the New Jersey General Assembly
  New Jersey General Assembly
  The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...
  
  
• Frank Omiyale
  Frank Omiyale
  Frank Tayo Omiyale [OH-mee-Yahle] is an American football offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
  
   - Professional football player for the Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   in the NFL
• David Simmons - class of 1974, former member of Florida House of Representatives, member of Florida Senate
• Ken Sparks
  Ken Sparks
  Ken Sparks is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Carson–Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, a position he has held since 1980, and is the winningest football coach in NCAA Division II history...
  
  , Football coach at Carson-Newman College
  Carson-Newman College
  Carson–Newman College is a historically Baptist liberal arts college located in Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States. Enrollment as of 2006-2007 was about 2,050. The college's students come from 44 U.S. states and 30 other countries. Studies are offered in approximately 90 different academic...
  
  
• Scott Stallings
  Scott Stallings
  Scott Stallings is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Stallings was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and was an all-state golfer and a four-year member of the Dean's List...
  
   - professional golfer, 2006 All-American, two-time OVC Player of the Year
• General Carl Stiner
  Carl Stiner
  Carl Wade Stiner is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations Command from 1990 to 1993.-Military career:...
  
   - Commander United States Special Operations Command
  United States Special Operations Command
  The United States Special Operations Command is the Unified Combatant Command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Commands of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States Armed Forces. The command is part of the Department of Defense...
  
   from June 1990 to May 1993
• Harry Stonecipher
  Harry Stonecipher
  Harry C. Stonecipher is a former President and Chief Executive of American aerospace companies McDonnell Douglas and, later, Boeing. Stonecipher orchestrated the merger between McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, and was widely credited with the resurgence of Boeing...
  
   - Former CEO
  Chief executive officer
  A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
  
   of Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  , McDonnell Douglas
  McDonnell Douglas
  McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It formed from a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967. McDonnell Douglas was based at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport...
  
  , and Sundstrand
• Barry Wilmore (born 1962) - NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   astronaut and United States Navy test pilot
• Jim Youngblood
  Jim Youngblood
  Jimmy Lee Youngblood is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins...
  
   (born 1950) - former professional American football player for the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL
• Lonnie Warwick
  Lonnie Warwick
  Lonnie Warwick in Raleigh, West Virginia) is a former professional American football player. He played 10 seasons in the National Football League, with the Minnesota Vikings and Atlanta Falcons. He started in Super Bowl IV....
  
   - former professional American football player for the Minnesota Vikings
  Minnesota Vikings
  The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
  
   and Atlanta Falcons
  Atlanta Falcons
  The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  

Campus lore

• "Dammit the Dog": a former university president once said "dammit" to a dog in front of a crowd. He covered by saying that was the dog's name. The dog has his own tombstone, an operable fire hydrant, on TTU campus opposite Derryberry Hall.
• T.J. Farr Building is one of the few buildings on campus not called "Hall." It is said this is because when you say "Farr Hall" in the South
  Southern American English
  Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from Southern and Eastern Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and from the Atlantic coast to most of Texas and Oklahoma.The Southern dialects make...
  
  , people think you're referring to something other than an academic building, namely a Fire Hall
  Fire station
  A fire station is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus , personal protective equipment, fire hose, fire extinguishers, and other fire extinguishing equipment...
  
  .
• The golden eagle atop Derryberry Hall was stolen by students from a hotel in Monteagle, Tennessee
  Monteagle, Tennessee
  Monteagle is a town in Franklin, Grundy, and Marion counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Cumberland Plateau region of the southeastern part of the state...
  
  . After being retrieved by the owner of the hotel many different times, the hotel owner later donated the statue to the university. The governor officially pardoned the students involved.
• The "Blizzard" is a tradition which started in 1984 when students celebrated the first successful shot made by Tennessee Tech in a basketball game against MTSU by throwing showers of "Tech Squares" (toilet paper) into the air. Since MTSU moved to the Sun Belt Conference, the Blizzard is now performed against Austin Peay State University
  Austin Peay State University
  Austin Peay State University is a four-year public university located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools .-History:...
  
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The Tennessee Tech Hymn

The quiet hills stand steadfast 'round walls of russet brown.

On halls serene and campus green the smoky hills look down

And steadfast may I cherish what thou hast giv'n to me.

Oh Alma Mater Tennessee Tech, God prosper thee.

Deep purple stand the mountains and golden sets the sun.

We proudly wear these colors fair until our goal is won

We pledge thee faithful service, our love and loyalty.

Oh Alma Mater Tennessee Tech, God prosper thee.

Words and music by Joan Derryberry.

External links

• Tennessee Technological University
• TTUSports.com
• Appalachian Center for Craft
• Virtual Tours of TTU Campus
• http://orgs.tntech.edu/percussionstudio