Engineering Facilities
Anderson Tower
Anderson Tower is named in honor of the College of Engineering’s first dean, F. Paul Anderson. It opened in 1967 and houses the departments of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Engineering Computing Services and the Robert E. Shaver Engineering Library are also located in the tower. It connects to the Raymond Building and the Robotics Building. Anderson Tower contains classrooms, faculty offices and teaching and research laboratories. UK’s computer science department was founded in 1966. It was among the first departments of its kind in the nation, and has been recognized for excellence in research and education.
Ralph G. Anderson Building
The Ralph G. Anderson Building was completed in 2002 and is home to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It contains 60,000 square feet of useable space, and includes instructional labs, research facilities, computer labs, a student commons area and administrative offices. The Anderson Building completed the university’s initiative to develop a modern engineering complex. The Department of Mechanical Engineering has a long tradition of innovation. In the early part of the 20th century, the faculty was widely known as pioneers in the field of air conditioning. One of those pioneers was Margaret Ingels, a 1916 mechanical engineering graduate from UK who was the second woman in the U.S. to earn an engineering degree, and the first to earn a graduate degree in engineering.
ASTeCC Building
The Advanced Science and Technology Commercialization Center, better known as ASTeCC, is the University of Kentucky’s showplace for multidisciplinary research, technology transfer and new business startups. ASTeCC is a combination faculty research facility and commercialization center. The ASTeCC building, located in the heart of the UK campus, features two types of lab space — faculty labs and labs for business startups that have a connection to UK faculty or staff, or that have licensed UK intellectual property. Faculty with labs in ASTeCC represent colleges throughout the university, and faculty all across campus use ASTeCC as a hub for tech-transfer activities. The $17 million, 80,000-square-foot ASTeCC building opened its doors in 1994. The project was funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the Small Business Administration.
Charles E. Barnhart Building
The Charles E. Barnhart Building, formerly known as the Agricultural Engineering Building, houses offices of the College of Agriculture, and is located near the corner of Cooper Drive and South Limestone. Agricultural departments that call the Barnhart Building home include Agricultural Engineering, International Programs in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Community and Economic Development among others. Barnhart is a former dean of the College of Agriculture.
Center for Aluminum Technology
The College of Engineering’s Center for Aluminum Technology was established in September 1999 as a multidisciplinary center providing research and educational services to the aluminum industry in the United States. The Center supports and conducts research and development, provides technical assistance to the aluminum industry, assists with training and retaining an educated workforce, and promotes and participates in the expanding use of aluminum. The Center provides research opportunities for the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, along with non-degree students from community colleges and technical schools.
Davis Marksbury Building
The Davis Marksbury Building, built in 2010, represents Phase II of UK’s Digital Village and contains nearly 25,000 square feet of space for research activity conducted by faculty in the UK Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, all of which are part of the UK College of Engineering. It was UK’s first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) – certified Gold project by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Electrical Engineering Annex
The Electrical Engineering Annex, formerly the Mining Engineering Laboratory, contains research laboratories and offices for electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science faculty members. The building was erected in 1907.
James F. Hardymon Building
The Hardymon Building houses the Alliance for Networking Excellence, dedicated to excellence in computer networking education, research and innovation; the Laboratory for Advanced Networking, a primary research facility; and office space for UK’s Information Technology unit. James F. Hardymon, an alumnus of the UK College of Engineering, is a former chairman and chief executive officer of Textron Corporation and currently serves on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.
Mining and Mineral Resources Building
The Mining and Mineral Resources Building was dedicated in 1988 and contains mining engineering facilities for research and instruction that are among the most modern in the nation. The building also houses the Kentucky Geological Survey, the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences coal group. Among the research facilities in the building are ventilation tunnels used to gather information about air flow through mines and a mine electricity laboratory.
Oliver H. Raymond Building
The Oliver H. Raymond Building was completed in 1994 and is home to the civil engineering department. The Raymond Building includes civil engineering classrooms, laboratories and computing facilities. It is also the home of administrative offices and laboratories of the Kentucky Transportation Center, which provides research expertise for improving the state’s transportation system.
Robotics Building (CRMS Building)
Established in 1986 by the Commonwealth of Kentucky as the Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, the Center for Manufacturing is the premier source of manufacturing technological assistance for Kentucky’s industries, providing service to approximately 350 companies, entrepreneurs, and agencies annually. The center conducts manufacturing research, transfers manufacturing technology to industry, and supports educational efforts in manufacturing.
S. J. “Sam” Whalen Building
The Whalen Building houses the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science, the Kentucky Transportation Center’s Environmental Analysis section, and several research laboratories for the Department of Chemical Engineering. The building is named for S. J. “Sam” Whalen, a 1949 UK graduate in metallurgical engineering and a member of the College of Engineering’s Hall of Distinction.
Center for Aluminum Technology
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