As any college football fan knows, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) takes sports seriously, with numerous gridiron rivalries. An engineering professor at the University of Tennessee has come up with a way to transfer some of that competitive spirit to the world of manufacturing.
The school recently hosted the inaugural SEC Machining Competition, with four teams going head-to-head on the factory floor of the Machine Tool Research Center at the new Manufacturing and Design Enterprise building in Knoxville.