Arlene A. Garrison
Director, Measurement & Control Engineering Center
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Dr. Arlene A. Garrison is the director of the Measurement & Control Engineering Center (MCEC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In this capacity, she supervises a research program involving six academic departments at three universities with a multidisciplinary approach to industrial process control. MCEC is an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center supported by industrial partners as well as the National Science Foundation.

As part of an educational research project funded by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Garrison has developed activities for elementary Hands-On Science, held teacher workshops in three states, and initiated a K-12 Science/Engineering outreach program.

Garrison is active in professional societies and the community. She currently represents the East Tennessee Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) as councilor and serves on the ACS National Women’s Committee. She has served on the Board of Managers and is currently president of the Coblentz Society, an international organization for spectroscopists. Garrison serves on the National Research Council Assessment Panel for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chemical Science and Technology Division, and on the Organizing Committees for the International Forum on Process Analytical Chemistry and the Southeast Regional Meeting of the ACS.

Recently, Garrison was named a "Community Hero" as part of a competition sponsored by the United Way. With 32 others selected from the East Tennessee area, she was privileged to carry the Olympic Torch in June 1996 as it passed through Knox County.


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